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THE ANC and its alliance partners in Gauteng have joined the government in warning taxi operators not to derail the bus rapid transit system, due to be rolled out in Johannesburg next week.
THE ANC’s Gauteng provincial office and its alliance partners, Cosatu and SACP called for the police to take tough measures against taxi industry protesters planning to disrupt the launch of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport system on August 30.
Yesterday, the ANC, trade union federation Cosatu and the SA Communist Party issued a joint statement in which they said that the taxi industry’s proposed strike on Tuesday was an attempt “to hold our democratically elected government …to ransom.”
This comes after taxi associations decided on an indefinite strike from Tuesday in protest at Johannesburg’s launching of the system.
The SA National Taxi Council and the United Taxi Association Forum are taking the government to court to block the implementation of the BRT system. The council’s general secretary, Philip Taaibosch, said court papers would be filed by the end of this week.
The alliance said it would “like to make it categorically clear that the intended strike by the taxi industry does not have our support”.
It is planning a rally, in solidarity with the city, on Sunday.
But Taaibosch said the strike was going ahead. “The main issue is that taxi operators have been working on the routes where the buses will run … let taxi operators be part of the company that will be running the BRT.”
THE ANC and its alliance partners in Gauteng have joined the government in warning taxi operators not to derail the bus rapid transit system, due to be rolled out in Johannesburg next week.
THE ANC’s Gauteng provincial office and its alliance partners, Cosatu and SACP called for the police to take tough measures against taxi industry protesters planning to disrupt the launch of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transport system on August 30.
Yesterday, the ANC, trade union federation Cosatu and the SA Communist Party issued a joint statement in which they said that the taxi industry’s proposed strike on Tuesday was an attempt “to hold our democratically elected government …to ransom.”
This comes after taxi associations decided on an indefinite strike from Tuesday in protest at Johannesburg’s launching of the system.
The SA National Taxi Council and the United Taxi Association Forum are taking the government to court to block the implementation of the BRT system. The council’s general secretary, Philip Taaibosch, said court papers would be filed by the end of this week.
The alliance said it would “like to make it categorically clear that the intended strike by the taxi industry does not have our support”.
It is planning a rally, in solidarity with the city, on Sunday.
But Taaibosch said the strike was going ahead. “The main issue is that taxi operators have been working on the routes where the buses will run … let taxi operators be part of the company that will be running the BRT.”
