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Taxi-owning cops behind violence in the transport industry – MPs

9th September 2025 Mzi Velapi 0

Parliament links taxi-owning police to e-hailing violence, and pledges to regulate industry and protect drivers.

Cape Town’s central line reopens

29th May 2025 Vincent Lali 0

R1.3 billion spent to restore rail corridor suspended in 2019 due to land occupations and vandalism.

Brewing nationwide bus strike

14th March 2024 Lilita Gcwabe 0

Numsa says a strike in the passenger bus sector is likely at the end of March.

Prasa promises trains for Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain by year-end

14th March 2024 Vincent Lali 0

Prasa promises trains to be running on Cape Town’s busiest line by the end of the year but has yet to relocate hundreds of families who built homes along the railway during the Covid lockdown.

Bus commuters knocked by fare increase

15th September 2023 Papama Mninzi 0

The cost of transport is up to half of a Khayelitsha household’s expenses and it is going ever up.

Attempts to relocate land occupiers on Cape Town railway going nowhere

12th September 2023 Asive Mabula 0

Trains on Prasa’s central line in Cape Town have not run since November 2019, allowing landless people to move on to the railway. It is now unclear when rail services on the city’s busiest line will resume.

Thousands of learners left behind by taxi strike

11th August 2023 Asive Mabula 0

The Western Cape education department says that at the height of the strike, 852,259 learners stayed home from school in the province.

Taxi drivers in South Africa want to register their trade union

4th July 2023 Tsoanelo Sefoloko 0

On the 4th of July the National Public Transport Workers Association (Qina Mshayeli) notified the department of employment and labour of their intent to register the union.

Nyanga commuters happy with resumption of train services

24th April 2023 Lihle Krwala 0

The partial re-opening of the central line in Cape Town has brought a collective sigh of relief from commuters.

Taxi blockade in Khayelitsha causes thousands of learners to miss school

15th February 2023 Vincent Lali 0

The ongoing blockade of learner transport operators in Khayelitsha has resulted in over 13,000 learners missing school since Monday.

Taxi protest in Cape Town – Photo essay

21st November 2022 Mzi Velapi Nobathembu Ndzengu 0

The protest called by Santaco left thousands stranded on the first day of the two-day action.

Station vendors suffering due to railway suspension

24th January 2020 Mzi Velapi Tandeka Bafo 0

Vendors that trade at central line stations say that the suspension of the railway service has negatively affected them.

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