By Lungile Ntimba
The Transport Department will spend the next three to six months reviewing the Revised Taxi Recapitalisation Programme to analyse and address challenges in its implementation.
This review follows a number of issues identified by the programme, including that new vehicles are expensive.
Other challenges include issuing operating licences, an outdated administration system, illegal operations and voluntary process of scrapping.
The recapitalisation programme was initially implemented in 2007 with a mandate to improve passenger safety within taxi industry by scrapping 100,000 unsafe, unreliable and unroadworthy old taxi vehicles. They were replaced with compliant purpose-built new taxi vehicles.
The programme has been updated throughout the years.
According to a document presented by the department to Parliament’s transport committee, the aim of the latest recapitalisation plan was to ensure that everyone in the industry participated.
The document said that by resolving current concerns, the department’s proposal that minibus taxis were
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