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Imagine your child is taking a taxi driven by unlicenced, rude, unroadworthy vehicles and gangsta taxi drivers who are always killing each other everyday.
It happens in Durban also. The taxi members stop mini vans carrying school children and threaten the drivers. Even private mini vans are stopped. They also do not allow Uber etc. The purpose of the taxis were to provide transport first. Now it has become about money first.
They should stop acting like they own our roads .... true what you said what makes the situation worse is our economic challenges/ situation keeps getting worse than getting better
Not easy to tax money that is never banked, no invoices or receipts given to a paying member in the taxi. the only way to combat this... digital payments, e.g scan to pay in the taxi. But i think SARS gets there share via petrol either way, so it's an acceptable loss
The bottom line is that we are part of an open market and people must get educated about this. Localisation can not be at the expense of open and competitive bidding for business.
3:40 The taxi bosses should also offer the bus owners a deal to operate on their routes to make the things fair for everyone. They can't just take and not give anything to the other party.
Our Road Transport Agency is the 1 that does awards the routes. Even the taxis themselves they don't just operate anywhere. They got restrictions which if they are caught operating outside of their allocated routes their cars get impounded by the police. So it's only fair for them to be considered or engaged if the government is introducing an alternative transportation in their routes. Furthermore if there is another taxi association operating in certain route the government (RTA/other bodies foreseeing the allocation of route) they don't issue permission to operate on the same route to another taxi association. That's part of the rule set-up by the government, yet again they turn around issue contract to busses to operate on the very route. The government is to blame in this. It draws the battle ground between the taxis & busses by putting different rules to both parties to operate under while they both work on the same basic principle(transporting people from A to B) is just unfortunate the people who suffer are kids in all this. & the government is standing aside and watch while he's the one who started! Before this contracted existed who was transporting these kids? How where they going to school? Did they consider that person/business first?
Taxi owners should apply for tenders like everybody else and adhere to the strict regulations as the bus owners do if they are awarded the contract... Disappointed by the community for not standing up for their children I am not sure why no action was taken. However i agree that some services should be done by competent local businesses.
Yoh this really can’t be allowed , how can a small group of ppl dictate a whole province . No man , they cannot be allowed to drive kids. How many kids will die , if this happen ?
Taxi associations need to be stopped, they've got this weird belief that they are the only one entity that has the rights to provide transportation. Its not fair to everyone else to have no freedom to choose what transportation they use.
Lol, I love how the Minister was very careful to tailor his statement "We are simply not a mafia state..........Here in the Western Cape". And he's right. I lived in Joberg all my life until two years ago and I was proud of the city, but the first time I travelled to to my wife's family in Tongaat I was angry, I was angry at how nice their roads were compared to the garbage we were left with in Joberg. Honestly the Western Cape is the last true stronghold of democracy in SA, everywhere else is just a mafia state. This is how it started in Zim......
Would be interesting if (by law) the only entities allowed to transport the children, were the schools or parents themselves. That way the money stays in the school for improvements and hopefully stops the unnecessary disruptions.
Who are these people to dictate who the kids have to travel with. I hold the ANC government responsible for all of this madness. The department of transport is afraid of dealing with these thugs and i can promise you that nothing will be done.
Call me ignorant but doesn’t forcefully removing kids and holding them hostage hold grounds for kidnapping 😳 Also the gun issue around kids is a concern. So many things are wrong about this whole industry.
Absolutely brilliant reporting and interviews!! It’s such a catch 22 - local businesses must be prioritised as service providers- but why are they all too often not able to meet required service and safety standards? ? Small providers need more assistance from gov to formalise. It is not acceptable under any circumstances to use children as bargaining chips. Ever. With regards to the taxi industry and considering its violent history and current culture of absolute disregard for safety of its passengers - I have to take the WC MEC for Education’s side in this case. I am all For including the little local providers and helping them grow. I’m just not convinced that an organization that needs armed security and that can bully 5000 children into staying home from school is a “little” friendly local business that has the community’s wellbeing and future growth in mind.
This is monopoly mathematics, business in a free market economy needs to stay open. We can't afford to keep caving to their greed. Now people are forced to buy cars and congestion is a result of people choosing to be free from a frankly abusive business model. A person working 15km from home is forced to take 2 taxis because these guys have a system meant to squeeze as much money as possible from the poor. They shoot long distance buses from Gauteng.
These taxi drivers need to be imprisoned and bought to justice. Arrest them and take their cars. This is a criminal organization not a company. South African justice system is a joke and banana republic thanks to the corrupt government
Hi editing team love the channel but your audio level between studioand story are not the same studio is super loud consructive critiscism thanks keep them coming!!!! love it
please read todays Daily Voice 24/04/2023 a taxi carrying 24 kids in the van had an accident where 1 school child passed away due to taxi driver driving recklessly 😢
But taxis already make a ton of money from their routes alone. Yoh ha a. The entitlement of taxi owners is something else. A friend of mine was assualted by taxi drivers for trying to hitch a ride to Klerksdorp. He didn't have enough money for taxis, so the only way he could get back home was to ask motorists on the main road. He and 2 others were forced into a taxi and he was beaten up after he kept expressing that he didn't have the money to pay them. Bloody bastards and their whole industry should be banned entirely and replaced with rail and busses.
A dark sun has risen over the Western Cape & is singeing all that we have built up over the centuries. I trust that the Da Provincial government is fully aware of the implications it holds for us & is taking all the necessary steps to monitor & stamp out this insidious cancer eating away at all of our hard earned social structures. When the mayor of Cape Town Gordan Hill Lewis talks about an additional 10 million new arrivals here to be expected, the city ratepayers are going to be hard pressed to finance the infrastructure needed to prevent the city & its environs from descending into the living hell of 1 big squatter camp. Some hard decisions will need to be taken , Not. much financial help can be expected from the ANC government for obvious reasons even though the flight from their own party ruled provinces is causing this massive population movement . Clearly our local government & businesses should be doing some hard lobbying in foreign countries to finance this urbanisation tidal wave facing us.
All South Africans i greet you all.Herewith i please just ask that no one will misunderstood my comment and the quetion im just asking myself.Mara why wana wharawhara now when the Taxi Industrie not happy with what im watching and listening now ? To my understanding the taxi Industie take us where ever we wana go,yes thy do,But if the Taxi Industriemwas licence by the Rubperts,Opeenheimer,British or any other Countrie in the wolrd,than what,Hikona all i ask let the Taxi Industrie take control as for may years possibly before i were born,The Taxi Industrie Bussiness,Finish en Klaar,just now be fair and reasonable please.ASSEBLIEF TOG,BAIE DANKIE VIR ALMAL.
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Imagine your child is taking a taxi driven by unlicenced, rude, unroadworthy vehicles and gangsta taxi drivers who are always killing each other everyday.
You forgot to mention reckless driving
It happens in Durban also. The taxi members stop mini vans carrying school children and threaten the drivers. Even private mini vans are stopped. They also do not allow Uber etc. The purpose of the taxis were to provide transport first. Now it has become about money first.
They should stop acting like they own our roads .... true what you said what makes the situation worse is our economic challenges/ situation keeps getting worse than getting better
It's strange that Sars has nothing to say about the taxi industries tax non compliance yet they target every other business.
Not easy to tax money that is never banked, no invoices or receipts given to a paying member in the taxi. the only way to combat this... digital payments, e.g scan to pay in the taxi.
But i think SARS gets there share via petrol either way, so it's an acceptable loss
The bottom line is that we are part of an open market and people must get educated about this. Localisation can not be at the expense of open and competitive bidding for business.
Wow! 😮 The taxi industry never ceases to amaze.
The codeta spokesperson's reasoning about guns being around children is that of a pigeon. Greed is the motivation here.
If I was a parent of one of those kids. I would not want my kids and less my daughter to get onto a taxi where there are general public.
3:40 The taxi bosses should also offer the bus owners a deal to operate on their routes to make the things fair for everyone. They can't just take and not give anything to the other party.
Good suggestion ✊🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Our Road Transport Agency is the 1 that does awards the routes. Even the taxis themselves they don't just operate anywhere. They got restrictions which if they are caught operating outside of their allocated routes their cars get impounded by the police. So it's only fair for them to be considered or engaged if the government is introducing an alternative transportation in their routes. Furthermore if there is another taxi association operating in certain route the government (RTA/other bodies foreseeing the allocation of route) they don't issue permission to operate on the same route to another taxi association. That's part of the rule set-up by the government, yet again they turn around issue contract to busses to operate on the very route.
The government is to blame in this. It draws the battle ground between the taxis & busses by putting different rules to both parties to operate under while they both work on the same basic principle(transporting people from A to B) is just unfortunate the people who suffer are kids in all this. & the government is standing aside and watch while he's the one who started! Before this contracted existed who was transporting these kids? How where they going to school? Did they consider that person/business first?
Taxi owners should apply for tenders like everybody else and adhere to the strict regulations as the bus owners do if they are awarded the contract...
Disappointed by the community for not standing up for their children I am not sure why no action was taken.
However i agree that some services should be done by competent local businesses.
Standing up against the taxi industry, they'll target you out of all and you'll pay.
Not to mention there's no justice in this country
The taxi industry is evil and they need to brought to order. Taxis are not above the law.
We seriously need to deal with the taxis.
Yoh this really can’t be allowed , how can a small group of ppl dictate a whole province . No man , they cannot be allowed to drive kids. How many kids will die , if this happen ?
The formalisation of the taxi industry is the ONLY way to save RSA from possible chaos🙌
Ban taxis as conveyors of school children. Period.
Taxi associations need to be stopped, they've got this weird belief that they are the only one entity that has the rights to provide transportation.
Its not fair to everyone else to have no freedom to choose what transportation they use.
We the People Demand the END to minibus taxi services.
Lol, I love how the Minister was very careful to tailor his statement "We are simply not a mafia state..........Here in the Western Cape".
And he's right. I lived in Joberg all my life until two years ago and I was proud of the city, but the first time I travelled to to my wife's family in Tongaat I was angry, I was angry at how nice their roads were compared to the garbage we were left with in Joberg. Honestly the Western Cape is the last true stronghold of democracy in SA, everywhere else is just a mafia state.
This is how it started in Zim......
lol, i'm moving to cape town
Would be interesting if (by law) the only entities allowed to transport the children, were the schools or parents themselves.
That way the money stays in the school for improvements and hopefully stops the unnecessary disruptions.
We cannot be ruled by criminals
you're definitely right
Who are these people to dictate who the kids have to travel with. I hold the ANC government responsible for all of this madness. The department of transport is afraid of dealing with these thugs and i can promise you that nothing will be done.
All for money, such empty husks of people.
The taxis have no regard for laws they want their own way and leave no room for anyone else
How arrogant of the MEC not agreeing to dialogue with the locals. This is why the DA will never lead the country, as useless as the ANC is.
Oh how if it was my South Africa, there would be no taxis, only ubers and buses with trains.
Kodeta wants to eat.
All Mafia, that's the fact, it's all about money for they to lazy to go work for it
So we "demand" to be part...??
A taxi driver/owner must try this with me...
8:18 well that's stupid, what would stop them from recommending their friends? Chances are 3 people would be constantly chosen to for the tender
If the taxi violence broke up Will the kids be safe in those taxis ??
@@Lmngx13872 NO!!!
Call me ignorant but doesn’t forcefully removing kids and holding them hostage hold grounds for kidnapping 😳 Also the gun issue around kids is a concern. So many things are wrong about this whole industry.
Absolutely brilliant reporting and interviews!!
It’s such a catch 22 - local businesses must be prioritised as service providers- but why are they all too often not able to meet required service and safety standards? ? Small providers need more assistance from gov to formalise. It is not acceptable under any circumstances to use children as bargaining chips. Ever.
With regards to the taxi industry and considering its violent history and current culture of absolute disregard for safety of its passengers - I have to take the WC MEC for Education’s side in this case. I am all
For including the little local providers and helping them grow. I’m just not convinced that an organization that needs armed security and that can bully 5000 children into staying home from school is a “little” friendly local business that has the community’s wellbeing and future growth in mind.
What you have said sounds good. It is so sad that no-one that has power cares enough to work for what is good.
This is monopoly mathematics, business in a free market economy needs to stay open.
We can't afford to keep caving to their greed.
Now people are forced to buy cars and congestion is a result of people choosing to be free from a frankly abusive business model.
A person working 15km from home is forced to take 2 taxis because these guys have a system meant to squeeze as much money as possible from the poor.
They shoot long distance buses from Gauteng.
The buses are owned by who? A private sector?
These taxi drivers need to be imprisoned and bought to justice. Arrest them and take their cars. This is a criminal organization not a company. South African justice system is a joke and banana republic thanks to the corrupt government
Make me president. I'll ban all taxi organisations.
So Privet vehicles will also take the public,? 50/50
I thought the DA had law and order in cpt?
What an interesting development
This is definitely a mafia state!!!
holding your own people back
Hi editing team love the channel but your audio level between studioand story are not the same studio is super loud consructive critiscism thanks keep them coming!!!! love it
Imagine if there were police doing their jobs.
But taxi kill passengers. Put passengers in danger. These are all mafia
please read todays Daily Voice 24/04/2023
a taxi carrying 24 kids in the van had an accident where 1 school child passed away due to taxi driver driving recklessly
😢
The taxi industry needs to be fair with the kids. It's not fair that our people would treat us like this. No need to be selfish. Share the makert.
People are so scared that no one even wants to comment here on UA-cam 😂
Disruption and chaos. Name of the game ne
Nationalise the taxi industry
But taxis already make a ton of money from their routes alone.
Yoh ha a. The entitlement of taxi owners is something else. A friend of mine was assualted by taxi drivers for trying to hitch a ride to Klerksdorp. He didn't have enough money for taxis, so the only way he could get back home was to ask motorists on the main road.
He and 2 others were forced into a taxi and he was beaten up after he kept expressing that he didn't have the money to pay them.
Bloody bastards and their whole industry should be banned entirely and replaced with rail and busses.
Plain thuggery
A dark sun has risen over the Western Cape & is singeing all that we have built up over the centuries.
I trust that the Da Provincial government is fully aware of the implications it holds for us & is taking all the necessary steps to monitor & stamp out this insidious cancer eating away at all of our hard earned social structures.
When the mayor of Cape Town Gordan Hill Lewis talks about an additional 10 million new arrivals here to be expected, the city ratepayers are going to be hard pressed to finance the infrastructure needed to prevent the city & its environs from descending into the living hell of 1 big squatter camp.
Some hard decisions will need to be taken , Not. much financial help can be expected from the ANC government for obvious reasons even though the flight from their own party ruled provinces is causing this massive population movement .
Clearly our local government & businesses should be doing some hard lobbying in foreign countries to finance this urbanisation tidal wave facing us.
TIA
All South Africans i greet you all.Herewith i please just ask that no one will misunderstood my comment and the quetion im just asking myself.Mara why wana wharawhara now when the Taxi Industrie not happy with what im watching and listening now ? To my understanding the taxi Industie take us where ever we wana go,yes thy do,But if the Taxi Industriemwas licence by the Rubperts,Opeenheimer,British or any other Countrie in the wolrd,than what,Hikona all i ask let the Taxi Industrie take control as for may years possibly before i were born,The Taxi Industrie Bussiness,Finish en Klaar,just now be fair and reasonable please.ASSEBLIEF TOG,BAIE DANKIE VIR ALMAL.
You two laddies your so beautiful
Law and order is top priority
The taxis always get their way in the end.
You too