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Safety first: Ramaphosa’s plan to improve the taxi industry President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that unroadworthy vehicles, unsafe driving, speeding and overloading were persistent problems in the taxi industry. So was crime on trains, taxis and buses

This week, the National Taxi Lekgotla will take place, to determine how the industry can and must play an important role in government’s ultimate objective of improving the daily experiences of commuters through the establishment of integrated rapid transport service networks in the metros, cities, towns and rural districts, said President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter to South Africans on Monday.

According to 2015 figures, around two-thirds of households who use public transport travel by minibus taxi. A quarter travel by bus and 10% by train.” A day later, commuters had to flee for their lives on a busy highway in Johannesburg when a passenger in a minibus taxi opened fire on the driver, killing him and causing the vehicle to lose control. Fortunately, none of the other passengers was injured.

“With many people living far from places of work, transport is very expensive for low-income households. A report by Statistics South Africa found that more than two-thirds of households with the lowest income spend more than 20% of their monthly household income on public transport. The survey found that transportation by taxis to be the most expensive mode of public transport, followed by trains and buses,” he said.

“We are mindful that as households make decisions on where to live, where to work and where to study based on access to transport, businesses also make decisions on expansion and investment based on the mobility of the labour force.

 

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nationalize the taxis. we know taxi's rush and overcrowd becuase they get paid per number of people they transport, so give drivers a generous and fixed salary so that they can drive responsibly. cut out the taxi owners who do no work but make money off of other people's work.

They are the primary resource because the true resources have been neglected, abandoned, vandalised and wasted by the government. Reliance on taxis is unwise, unaffordable, unpatriotic and exploitative. Get the trains and buses running properly. publictransport

“urgent attention”. Yeh right. MbalulaFikile

Leadershit as it worse, frogboilers’s diarrhoea

Let's hope the solution doesn't include bringing in 'industry partners'

So police them and get them to comply. Don’t pander to them.

They must regulate that industry to manage taxi ranks. The filth in those spaces shouldn't be the responsibility of government.

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