TOM EATON | Rank (odour) politics: let’s hit the brakes on calling it the taxi ‘industry’
Responses to Carletonville United Taxi Association’s crackdown reveal two clichés we repeat without question
02 May 2025 - 04:30
The news that the Carletonville United Taxi Association in Gauteng will start fining drivers for poor hygiene or the condition of their taxis has once again revealed South Africa’s peculiar relationship with our paradoxically — and toxically — private public transport...
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