The sweeping changes coming to e-hailing in South Africa

The sweeping changes coming to e-hailing in South Africa

The transport department began holding workshops on new e-hailing rules last week as government gears up to improve safety for passengers and drivers using ride-hailing transport platforms like Uber. The first workshops were held with the nine provincial regulatory bodies and the National Public Transport Regulator, according to department spokesman Collen Msibi. “Dates for the…

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Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

There is a need for 6 600 legal e-hailing and metered taxi operators in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Cape Town’s urban mobility directorate, in collaboration with the Western Cape government’s provincial regulatory entity (PRE), has initiated a two-phased process to support e-hailing and metered taxi operators. This, says the city, is to meet the…

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