Eight soldiers died in a horror smash on the N3 between Montrose and Van Reenen at around 05h00 this morning. Details to the cause of the accident is still speculative, but three heavy goods trucks and an SANDF mini bus collided at high speed.
When paramedics arrived on scene they found the mangled wreckage of the [...]
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A nine-year-old girl was killed when she was run over by a minibus taxi in Geekie Road, Merrivale in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands this afternoon.
The girl had been running towards a taxi that had just dropped her outside her house. While circumstances surrounding the incident are unclear, the girl was pulled under the taxi.
When Netcare 911 [...]
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele met the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) in Pretoria on Friday, the ministry said.
“We, both as government and the taxi industry, want to move from an environment characterised by conflict to one based on trust,” the minister said in a statement.
Ndebele said he was confident a national joint working group formed at [...]
Panel vans converted to “killer taxis” must be declared unlawful, the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) said on Friday.
“It is time for the regulator to crack a whip,” NRCS acting chief executive Moses Moeletsi told a media briefing in Pretoria.
He said the NRCS had requested an urgent meeting with the transport department to prioritise [...]
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KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Bheki Cele warned Nongoma taxi operators that he would not allow them to resume operations if they failed to resolve their bloody conflicts.
“We will not allow them to start operating if they do not talk and resolve the conflict. We are protecting our people who also end up being caught up in [...]
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I must admit to being rather annoyed at reading the latest protest action from taxi drivers! Yesterday I wrote a story about the BRT system which will be kept on hold after demands from taxi associations. I even added a link to an excellent article from a columnist adding some perspective from the side of [...]
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The Arrive Alive website received the following email from a visitor. I believe this is worth sharing as it provides insight to the concerns of some taxi and bus passengers:
“I would like to write this, hoping that taxi drivers and pedestrians would read this. I am a taxi and bus user sometimes. Quite often I [...]
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The week ahead will see government addressing the taxi industry’s concerns over the R2 billion Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System. This will pose a waiting game for taxi operators who are demanding a greater role in overseeing the system. Operators are also threatening to go on strike and disrupt next month’s Confederations Cup.
The Western Cape [...]
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