Mercenary taxi drivers call government’s bluff
The government’s long-standing failure to regulate the taxi business has come home to roost
02 July 2020 - 05:00
On Sunday, the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) flipped the bird at the government, metro police officers and any of its customers who might prefer to not ride in minibus taxis stuffed to the gills, and not just in this time of Covid.
Santaco said its members’ taxis would no longer operate at 70% capacity but would instead travel full to make up for losses suffered during the lockdown...
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