The shutdown of Eastern Cape roads by taxi operators over four-month payment delays for scholar transport services, which caused chaos in the province yesterday, has been suspended. This after a meeting in East London between taxi council leaders and provincial transport leaders, including Oscar Mabuyane who is said to have joined telephonically.
An Eastern Cape municipality ward councillor and a prominent provincial and national leader of taxi associations, have failed in their legal bid to interdict a king from dismissing them as headmen. The Mthatha high court on Friday dismissed with costs an application brought by King Sabata Dalindyebo councillor Thembisile Gqiba and taxi boss Zola Bishop Yolelo to interdict AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo from dismissing them as headmen in the Mthatha West traditional communities.
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo on Tuesday again opposed an Mthatha court order preventing him from interfering with taxi boss Zola Bishop Yolelo and municipal ward councillor Thembisile Gqiba in exercising their duties as headmen in the Mthatha West traditional communities.
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has emerged victorious in the Mthatha high court after an urgent application brought against him by two traditional leaders, Eastern Cape taxi boss Zola Bishop Yolelo and municipal ward councillor Thembisile Gqiba, was defeated.
Road accidents put a huge strain on hospitals and other health facilities while also eating away at the Eastern Cape department of health’s budget according to MEC Nomakhosazana Meth. She was speaking to journalists after leading a massive roadblock, alongside transport & community safety MEC Xolile Nqatha, on the busy N2 near Sibangweni village outside Mthatha on Tuesday morning, as part of the official launch of this year’s Easter Arrive Alive Safety Campaign.