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Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said the development demonstrated the seriousness with which the parties regarded the agreement signed earlier in the week.
Some CT commuters have doubts over peace deal between feuding taxi bodies Cape Town commuters said that they were not confident of the peace deal between feuding taxi associations. FILE: Commuters queue at the Bellville taxi rank on 18 April 2018. Picture: Graig-Lee Smith/EWN 12 hours ago CAPE TOWN - Cape Town commuters said that they were not confident of the peace deal between feuding taxi associations. On Tuesday, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and MEC Daylin Mitchell took a train in Paarl to inspec...
The shooters had left the scene by then. "The motive for the attack is possibly taxi related," he said. The victim was declared dead at the scene. Khanyi said he did not want to go into details, but insisted it was a private internal matter, and had nothing to do with route rivalry. The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) also said it was not related to the current route conflict and ceasefire agreement. On Monday, the Department of Transport gave operators an ultimatum: keep the peace or risk having all route permits suspended. In total, 86 people have been killed in the dispute ov...
That’s the backdrop to the flare-up of deadly violence over the Mbekweni, Paarl, and Bellville, Cape Town B97 route between the Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations (Codeta) and Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata). But the tensions have been simmering for about three years — and ripple into other Boland communities such as Ceres and Wellington, but also Somerset West in the Strand. Route B97 has now been closed for two months — the stick to get Cata and Codeta to cease hostilities. The carrot is a series of interventions that unfolded over the past 10 days or so. Cruciall...
The Daily Vox Taxi Association Rivalry in 2021 The dispute is between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) and the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta). So far 24 people have been killed and another 29 injured. There have been significant disruptions to public transport in the Metro South-East region, Mitchell said. Two taxi ranks in Mbekweni, certain local route loading lanes at the Bellville PTI, the long-distance facility at the Bellville PTI, the “Paint City” rank in Bellville, and a Bellville informal rank are closed to minibus taxis. Visit https://t...