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TimesLIVE reports that taxis in some areas affected by recent Western Cape taxi violence will resume operations, but only under strict conditions. This after engagement between the two warring associations resumed.
In a joint statement issued on Monday afternoon, the national department of transport and the Western Cape department of transport and public works said that after the initial collapse of a mediation process, the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata) and the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) had since agreed to an arbitration process, which was now underway. In the light of that, taxi operators with valid operating permits could resume services in their operating areas, except for B97 route Mbekweni in Paarl to Bellville which would remain closed. “All associations must instruct their members to return to service in line with the authorities issued with their operating licenses and must do so in a manner that is safe for the public… All routes will be monitored and action will be taken against associations and individual operating licence holders who are in breach of this instruction,” the statement indicates. The government committed to meet the appointed arbitrator to expedite the arbitration process and to issue an award within the shortest possible time frame. But it warned that should there be further acts of violence, all affected routes operated by the two associations would be closed for all minibus-taxi operations for a period determined by the MEC and affected operating licences would be suspended.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Belinda Pheto at TimesLIVE
- Read too, Cape Town taxi violence: Cata and Codeta reach an agreement, at The Citizen
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