Vereeniging taxi operators and owners have vowed to disrupt Thursday’s Human Rights Day celebrations in Sharpeville where President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to commemorate the day.Gauteng Transport MEChas met with members of the minibus taxi industry in Vereeniging to hear their grievances.
Operators say they want the potholes fixed and construction of their taxi rank completed. Streets in the Vaal Triangle are littered with rocks and barriers preventing motorists from accessing some routes. Eskom says this is because of continued lack of capacity. The cash-strapped power utility has been battling to keep the lights on amid lower than expected power from new stations, Kusile and Medupi, as well as interrupted supplies from Mozambique’s Cahora Bassa hydroelectric plant following Cyclone Idai.Democratic Alliance Premier candidate for the Western Cape, Alan Winde is calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare Eskom’s electricity supply crisis, a national disaster.
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