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Golden Arrow Bus Services pleads with the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) for safety ahead of the taxi strike on Wednesday.

The Western Cape government managed to avert a taxi strike on Wednesday. SANTACO said it was happy with progress made in the meeting.

Santaco will meet leaders of the Western Cape government on Tuesday ahead of a planned strike over grievances.

The Western Cape government and the City of Cape Town have managed to convince taxi bosses to call off the mass strike action they had planned on Wednesday.

Geordin Hill-Lewis speaks on a wide variety of topical issues - highlighting the imminent extra electricity supply into Cape Town.

Santaco, the Western Cape Premier, the Cape Town Mayor, and the Mobility MEC agreed to call off the mini-bus taxi strike.

Mobility MEC Ricardo Mackenzie says the calling off of a planned taxi stayaway on Wednesday, 22 February is a sign of ‘good faith from all sides’.

The South African National Taxi Council has called off a planned 'shutdown' on Wednesday over grievances with authorities in Cape Town, citing 'progress' in talks with the provincial government.

Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers (GOTG) teams on a 10-day search-and-rescue mission to earthquake-ravaged Turkey and Syria, landed back in South Africa on Saturday morning at the Cape Town International Airport and OR Tambo International Airport.



‘My commitment to the people of our province is to get them to work and school safely and on time,’ said Ricardo Mackenzie.