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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...
Gauteng Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo and representatives from the taxi bodies in the province were on the Moloto Road in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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.
Mamabolo's comments come just hours after two trucks were torched on the N12 near Daveyton in Ekurhuleni on Wednesday.
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.
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.
The Soweto hospital has been in the spotlight this week after a 16-year-old psychiatric patient was raped allegedly by another patient.
Wage negotiations between the parties deadlocked leading workers to down tools this week.
Security officers at the facility made the discovery during a routine patrol on Sunday.
Jacob Mamabolo is standing in for Bandile Masuku, who has been placed on special leave, following allegations of improper conduct involving the awarding of a personal protective equipment tender worth millions.
Jacob Mamabolo was appointed to the post on Thursday, with Bandile Masuku placed on special leave after being implicated in a personal protective equipment procurement scandal.
Speaking in Tshwane, at the Bosman taxi rank, Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo said the committee would be tasked with enforcing full compliance with the revised public transport regulations under lockdown.
MEC Jacob Mamabolo met with the South African National Taxi Council on Wednesday where they managed to reach a decision to hold off on increasing taxi fares for now.
The Alexandra, Randburg, Midrand, Sandton Taxi Association this week announced it would hike fares by up to 172% to cover losses during the lockdown as discussions continued over a government relief fund.
Dachs takes over from Jack Van Der Merwe who will be retiring at the end of February.
It's understood the scholar transport they were travelling-in overturned in Vanderbijlpark on Wednesday morning.
At least 10 people have died in recent weeks in the violence believed to be over lucrative taxi routes.
Gauteng Roads and Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo said he would ask Putco management some critical questions.
The taxi ranks were shut down in March following violence between the Witwatersrand African Taxi Association and the Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association over routes.