ALERT: Ekurhuleni Taxi Industry to stage protest march to the mayor’s office in Germiston
The march, set for March 20, will affect public transport across Ekurhuleni.
The Ekurhuleni Taxi Industry (ETI) under the Ekurhuleni leadership of the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) and the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) will stage a protest march to the offices of the executive mayor and the speaker of council of the metro in Germiston on March 20.
The march will start at the Germiston Taxi Rank at 10am and proceed to the Germiston Civic Centre.
The ETI will present a memorandum of demands in relation to the roll-out of the Harambee Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System.
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In a statement, the ETI said, “As the ETI, we are 100 per cent behind the Harambee BRT system. However, we are of the view that the City of Ekurhuleni under the leadership of the current executive mayor, Clr Mzwandile Masina, allows the Harambee BRT project to suffer a lot of delays that are negatively affecting the roll-out of the project and thereby denying the citizens of Ekurhuleni a better public transport service that is designed to transform the public transport network and support the economy of South Africa.
“Our primary aim for this protest march is that both the executive mayor and the city manager should be removed from their positions with immediate effect.
“We call upon President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Gauteng premier David Makhura, to act decisively and with speed to restore the faith and confidence of the citizens of Ekurhuleni in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.
On the day public transport across Ekurhuleni will be affected, and residents of Ekurhuleni are advised to make alternative transport arrangements to get to their destinations.
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