JOHANNESBURG - National Taxi Alliance (NTA) said on Wednesday
that the planned protest for Thursday had been postponed to give the engagement
a chance.
This comes after the NTA said
it would march to the Minister of Transport and Presidency to present a
memorandum of grievances in relation to issues and challenges affecting the
taxi industry, including but not limited to some provisions of the National
Land Transport Act, the NLTA, Matters related to operations, Integrated Public
Transport Network, IPTN’s/ BRT system, Compensation for an operator
surrendering an Operating License, Taxi Recapitalisation Programme, and Public
Transport subsidy and the entire country at large.
“The Minister would like to
assure the taxi industry and the public that the Department is fully committed
to the provision of a safe, secure, reliable and quality public transport
system,” said Minister of Transport, Joe Maswanganyi.
Maswanganyi said that the
Department would make all efforts to attend to current challenges facing the
entire public transport sector and in particular the taxi industry.