PATRICK BULGER | Taxi rankings: rushing in where others fear to tread

City of Cape Town’s tough approach to the taxi industry gives the DA a chance to show it means business, which contrasts with the ANC’s kid-gloves approach

10 August 2023 - 21:20

The ill-fated Rea Vaya bus catastrophe on Louis Botha Avenue in northeastern Johannesburg is littered with relics of a dystopian future that has yet to arrive. It may never come, which one imagines would please the minibus taxi industry. That’s if it even gives two hoots, which it probably will. ..

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