Taxi strike won’t affect Benoni
According to BJ Mahlangu, Santaco regional secretary, the march will start at the Germiston taxi rank and end at the offices of the mayor and the speaker of council of Ekurhuleni metro in Germiston.
Benoni will not be affected by tomorrow’s planned taxi protest, according to the Benoni Taxi Association.
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According to an article published by the City Times’ sister publication, the Boksburg Advertiser, the Ekurhuleni Taxi Industry (ETI), under the leadership of the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) and the National Taxi Alliance will stage a protest march on March 20.
Mahlangu is quoted as saying that the ETI will present a memorandum of demands in relation to the roll-out of the Harambee Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system.
He said as the ETI they are 100 per cent behind the Harambee BRT system. However, they are now of the view that the project continues to suffer a lot of delays.
Benoni Taxi Association chairperson Dumisani Ntuli said Benoni will not be affected by the strike and that everything will run as normal.
“The strike will only affect areas like Tembisa, Kempton Park and Germiston,” he said.
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