Myciti
MyCiti bus and truck set alight in Dunoon protest
No injuries have been reported and no arrests were made in the violent demonstration in Dunoon on Saturday night.
At the city's busiest taxi rank, drivers said that they had not been issued with sanitiser and could not afford to buy for their hundreds of passengers.
Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela says the mediator’s main task would be to get parties around the discussion table.
The bus route has not been operating since it was suspended in May last year.
The taxi driver was seriously injured following the crash, which happened in the Atlantis area on Tuesday morning.
The bus service provided transport for mainly residents in Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain into the city centre and back, but came to an end in May 2019.
The city has been struggling to get parties to sign a new deal for the past seven weeks.
For weeks the City of Cape Town, taxi associations and Golden Arrow Bus Services have been struggling to find a way forward.
Promises had been made to get the MyCiTi N2 Express bus service back on the road by June, however the suspension is still in place and enters a fifth week.
The bus service, which runs between the City centre, Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain, has been suspended since the start of June.
A contractual dispute between the City of Cape Town and the N2 Express Joint Venture operating company has left the service suspended for weeks.
The service was suspended since the contract expired in May and the city was struggling to get parties to sign a new one.
The service between the CBD, Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain was suspended since Monday morning.
Officials were negotiating with the N2 Express Joint Venture to iron out a "technical dispute" related to the service contract that expired in late May.
The City of Cape Town has failed to negotiate a new contract with a joint venture to operate the N2 express service.
A contractual dispute between the City of Cape Town and an operator led to the suspension.
Two men terrorised the 53-year-old driver on Sunday as she was driving in Table View at about 7:30pm.
Authorities are responding to two demonstrations - one in Somerset West, the other in Khayelitsha.
Demonstrators are preventing buses from leaving a depot in Blackheath.