Lerato Mbhiza
Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille has welcomed the agreement reached by the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), the Western Cape government and the City of Cape Town to end the devastating taxi strike.
“On behalf of the tourism sector, I wish to express our collective relief that the taxi strike in Cape Town has been called off,” said De Lille.
The protracted violent strike also dealt a heavy blow to many industries and severely impacted the lives of residents in Cape Town with children not being able to get to school, commuters not being able to get to places of work or access to other essential services like hospitals and clinics.
Almost a dozen Golden Arrow buses were torched and other private cars attacked since the taxi strike that started on 3 August 2023 and two people lost their lives after being shot allegedly by the strikers.
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