South Africa: Transport Committee says Taxi Industry issues understandable and resolvable
Taxi industry concerns are loading capacity, and billion rands that had been availed as a relief mechanism for losses incurred during lockdown
following Covid-19 outbreak
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 8, 2020/ -- The Portfolio Committee on Transport believes concerns of the taxi
industry will be resolved. The committee met the National Taxi
Association on Tuesday.
The Chairperson of the committee, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, said open defiance of level 3 regulations had concerned the committee, and that open
defiance warranted an understanding from the perspective of the taxi
industry. “The industry is willing to work with government. The issues
they are raising are both understandable and resolvable.”
The taxi industry concerns are the loading capacity, and the billion
rands that had been availed as a relief mechanism for losses incurred
during the lockdown following the Covid-19 outbreak.
Mr Zwane said the industry appreciates the negative impact the lockdown
has had on all industries. “This understanding makes the committee happy and hopeful that the government and the taxi industry will easily find
each other. Engagements are still under way on these matters.
The meeting followed the committee’s concern about the portrayal of the
only industry in the hands of community entrepreneurs as turmoil-ridden
and disorderly. The South African National Taxi Council missed last
night’s engagement, but the committee will schedule another meeting with them.
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