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Sunday Times reports that bus passengers and drivers are putting their lives on the line as a deadly battle for lucrative long-distance routes intensifies.
Bus operator Intercape has recorded more than 150 incidents of intimidation, stoning and shootings of buses since early 2021. Since last year, it has opened cases after 61 attacks on bus coaches and 14 on its offices, 20 shootings and 31 vehicle stonings. Driver Bangikhaya Machana was shot dead as he was driving a bus out of the company’s deport in Airport Industrial, Cape Town, in April. Just days after Machana’s death, three Intercape buses were attacked in Gauteng. Police Minister Bheki Cele admitted last week that the scourge was a national problem affecting several long-distance bus companies. Intercape CEO Johann Ferreira blames the taxi industry for the attacks and is now taking the Eastern Cape government to court, alleging that its former transport MEX sided with taxi bosses. The majority of incidents have happened in the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape and Gauteng. Some taxi associations have openly tried to control the routes, even dictating the fares to be charged by busses. Bafana Maghagula of the SA National Taxi Association (Santaco) condemned any form of violence.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Philani Nombembe on page 1 of Sunday Times of 21 August 2022
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