SA National Taxi Council plans to march

The leadership of the SA National Taxi Council, Santaco, backed by between 18-thousand and 20-thousand taxi operators, is planning to march to the offices of Transport Minister Jeff Radebe next week to deliver a memorandum listing its grievances about the taxi permit conversion process and the taxi recapitalisation programme. Santaco's general secretary, Philip Taaibosch, confirmed to Business Report that Santaco wanted the cut-off date of the 31st of May for the conversion of taxi permits to operating licences to be extended. However, the Transport Department this week reiterated its position of no further extension of the deadline for the conversion process for taxi operators.