Taxi industry plans Cape 'shutdown' on Wednesday over scholar transport

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Santaco will meet leaders of the Western Cape government on Tuesday ahead of a planned strike over access to scholar transport routes.

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The taxi industry in Cape Town is set to go on strike on Wednesday to express its unhappiness about lack of support by the government. For more than a week now the industry has also been causing blockades across the city to air their grievances over access to scholar transport routes in Khayelitsha and surrounding areas.The South African National Taxi Council will meet leaders of the Western Cape government on Tuesday ahead of a planned strike over access to scholar transport routes.

The organisation distanced itself from reports of road blockades that saw 1,800 children in Cape Town miss school on Monday. Western Cape education MEC David Maynier said some school buses in Mfuleni were stopped and prevented from transporting pupils.suspend the illegal blockades “until such time as the matter can be heard before the court”.On Friday the department approached the Western Cape High Court to obtain an urgent interdict againstpreventing it from obstructing, interfering with and stopping the transporting of pupils in the province.

 

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Sort these thugs outs!!! They cannot hold the people who keep their mouths open ransom like this. No way in hell are they getting access to our school children. This is not Mafia land. It's like sending our kids into the lion's den. SA_Taxis Our_DA

SANTACO as an organisation, and the individual groups, as well as many of its members are behaving like a Third Force throughout the country, threatening violence and terrorizing the public! They need to be sorted out -- once and for all!

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