Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis set a significant precedent for other authorities across the country.
The taxi industry elsewhere will now think twice before embarking on silly strikes and making outrageous demands that they be exempted from traffic rules, writes The week-long stand-off between Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and the taxi industry in the Western Cape reminded me of a scene in one of my all-time favourite epic movies -It is based on real-life events which took place at the battle of Thermopylae between Greek city-states led by King Leonidas and the Achaemenid Empire led by...