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EDITOR: BETTIE GILIOMEE
IPTS: LAPHUM’ILANGA TRANSPORT SERVICES GIVE ULTIMATUM
Taxi strike looms NCEBA DLADLA
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ELSON Mandela Bay Taxi Operators belonging to Laphum’ilanga Transport Services have given the Ministers of Transport and Finance, as well as Eastern Cape Premier, Phumulo Masualle, until Wednesday,
February 8, to respond to their call for an investigation of the IPTS (Integrated Public Transport System) operations.
This was announced by Laphum’ilanga Directors and representatives of some taxi associations who are not satisfied with the direction the IPTS is taking and which
they argued is undermining the country’s supreme law - the constitution. Laphum’ilanga is the business arm and negotiating body of the taxi industry in the metro, and was formed in 2009. They claim to have worked hard since then to unite the previously divided industry and were not prepared to see it turn back
to the way it was in the past. The operators claim the IPTS office in the metro was applying a divide and rule strategy, creating mistrust and tension among taxi operators while they, as the rightful representatives of operators, were fighting for a proper, safe and reliable transport system for the
benefit of the people. “Of the ten registered associations, the metro municipality, under the new dispensation, persuaded two associations to sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with them and left in the lurch eight associations who would not be coerced,” said Julius Jonono, one of Laphum’ilanga’s directors. Continued on page 2
New shoes for Joe Slovo learners Learners from Joe Slovo Primary School in KwaDwesi have been given a muchneed ed boost just in time for the new school year. Baywest Mall in conjunction with Love Story donated R50 000 worth of new school shoes to 500 underprivileged pupils. Read more about it on page 7. At the back from left are Christopher Hutchings (Baywest Marketing manager), Thembekile Gqunta (principal), Azola Tybosch (Baywest Community Liason Officer) and Luke Watson (Love Story). In front are Zukhanye Xhorhans, Zanokuhle Mfenoleni, Ayabonga Maki, Asemahle Mplongwana and Mbali Hadebe. PHOTO: WERNER HILLS
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