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MEC Mamabolo: Govt, taxi associations need to resolve issues over routes
At the weekend, at least four taxis were set alight and others vandalised.
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Taxi associations slammed after violence erupts in Johannesburg city centre
Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo has hit out at the taxi industry after violence erupted in the Johannesburg city centre.
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New booking system expected to ease pressure in licence renewals in Gauteng
MEC Jacob Mamabolo announced that there were now several booking avenues to ensure a smooth process in licence renewals
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Bribe to be legal: Gauteng licence renewers resort to crime as deadline looms
The province's eNaTIS system is under heavy strain and people are even choosing new modes of transport so they don't have to drive illegally. But Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo says the structure works.
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MEC Mamabolo: We have more than enough jabs but vaccine fatigue is the issue
The MEC addressed hundreds of taxi industry employees at a vaccine mobile facility at the Noord Taxi Rank in Joburg on Friday.
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‘There’s nothing to fear’: Pop-up vaccine site at taxi ranks met with enthusiasm
Public Transport and Road Infrastructure MEC Jacob Mamabolo, together with the Gauteng Department of Health officials, visited the Bara Taxi Rank on 18 August 2021 for an oversight inspection of pop-vaccination sites which are aimed at encouraging citizens to get vaccinated.
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MEC Mamabolo: Gauteng taxi industry 'trying its best' to enforce COVID-19 rules
MEC Jacob Mamabolo spent Tuesday morning interacting with officials from the taxi industry and commuters as part of the provincial government's efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the province.
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Calls for scrapping of e-tolls grow after confusion on their fate
This comes after Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo declared on SAfm on Thursday that e-tolls were in the past, and the provincial government was moving on.
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No decision on e-tolls has been made just yet - Mbalula
The Ministry said that the has not been any decision made on the future of the e-tolls.
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MEC Mamabolo calls on City of JHB to intervene in Metrobus, union dispute
On Tuesday, the bus company's court application to stop the strike by union-affiliated employees was struck from the roll with a cost order.
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Driving School Association to meet with Mamabolo over online booking system
The association wanted the system scrapped, saying it created backlogs because bookings could be made online only once a week and their businesses were struggling to secure slots.
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Transport MEC Mamabolo: Gauteng over-tolled, can’t sustain system
Last month, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula told MPs during the debate on the State of the Nation Address that government will finalise the e-tolls issue by the end of the financial year.
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Commuters on Moloto Road complying with COVID-19 restrictions - Mamabolo
Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo and representatives from the taxi bodies in the province were on the Moloto Road in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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Mamabolo commends the public for no major incidents on Gauteng roads
As the holidays end and people return to work, road blocks have been set up on the province’s major routes, with no major incidents reported yet.
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Gauteng Transport MEC Mamabolo condemns spate of violence in freight industry
Mamabolo's comments come just hours after two trucks were torched on the N12 near Daveyton in Ekurhuleni on Wednesday.
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Gauteng Health Dept says it’s working with urgency to fill vacant senior posts
The department is urgently looking for hospital CEOs, a chief financial officer, deputy director general for human resources, and a CEO for emergency medical services.
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Transport MEC worried about level of bribery in licensing system
He calls the process a nightmare, acknowledging it leaves motorists with no choice but to bribe their way through the system all the way from obtaining a drivers licence to renewing it and paying for their vehicle discs.
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Bheki Mlangeni Hospital CEO removed as Gauteng Health Dept launches probe
The Soweto hospital has been in the spotlight this week after a 16-year-old psychiatric patient was raped allegedly by another patient.
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Gautrain announces limited service for Sunday
Wage negotiations between the parties deadlocked leading workers to down tools this week.
