GOVT PULLS RANK

Western Cape top brass closes down contentious taxi routes for 30 days

- BY XOLILE MTEMBU

THE Western Cape government has announced that several key taxi routes will be closed for 30 days from Wednesday, September 17, in response to escalating violence in the industry that has claimed multiple lives.

Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku said the provincial cabinet had invoked Section 91 of the National Land Transport Act, giving it powers to impose extraordinary measures.

Sileku said: "This empowers us to impose extraordinary measures in areas where violence, unrest, and instability in the public transport sector have placed lives at risk."