The Sobahlangula Human Rights Champions
said it will intensify its boycott of the increase of the Metrorail ticket
prices. Metrorail increased ticket fares
as of the 1st of July contributing the increase to operational
costs.
Sobahlangula Human Rights Champions
Secretary General Mandisi Mrwebi said it is important to understand that the
poor which are the unemployed cannot be rejected or excluded.
Mrewbi said the metro rail and management
continue to ignore us as we’ve noticed from the response they have given us.
Mrwebi said they gave us a correspondence
that they were sending to minister even though we proposed a different proposal
from the one COSATU proposed as when we addressed it was coming from COSATU and
not Metro rail.
“We reject the correspondents as they must
take into account the unemployed when they make ticket increases Mrwebi added.
Meanwhile the organisation said they are also against the expansion of the MyCiti rapid bus service to Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain.
Sobahlangula Human Rights Champions
Secretary General Mandisi Mrwebi said the service will exclude 144 000
plus people of Khayelitsha who will never afford the R16.50 fare per trip to or
from the city centre.
Mrwebi said the nature of my citi is the
same as that of metro rail the prices are very high they don’t have any
consideration for the unemployed.
“We want to pledge and add all our people
to understand that the metro rail and my citi have an obligation to serve the
poor and unemployed Mrwebi added.
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