While we focus on the lawlessness of drivers involved in the taxi strike in Cape Town, Gasant Abarder argues that there is much more than just meets the eye. The real villains are the ones pulling the strings on either side of the conflict. TaxiStrike…
While we focus on the lawlessness of drivers involved in the taxi strike in Cape Town, Gasant Abarder argues that there is much more than just meets the eye. The real villains are the ones pulling the strings on either side of the conflict.is among the country’s most influential media voices. Catch his weekly column here.
Elsewhere, four hours after leaving work, I was receiving messages from colleagues who were either still on the road or had just come home. The panicked chimes of a school WhatsApp group alerted parents that kids who lived in the far-flung areas of the Cape Flats couldn’t get home. They had to sleep over at classmates whose parents were kind enough to offer a bed in a time of crisis.
I have a colleague who reminded me that taxis run an indispensable service for thousands of workers to get to work and home safely. In the absence of a reliable and predictable public transport system, they ferry moms and dads, school kids and law-abiding citizens to where they need to be. A study was released a fortnight or so ago by a Cape university on the poor diets of taxi drivers, catching food on the run and how it will leave South Africa with a massive burden of lifestyle disease.
What JP didn’t appear to grasp, and what the Daily Maverick so astutely pointed out, was that the taxi strike drove home how apartheid spatial planning was very much alive in Cape Town. It is the people who were forcibly removed to the fringes of the city back in apartheid who are worst affected.
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