South Africa: Taxi Drivers Want Time to Adjust to BRT

Johannesburg — MTUTUZELI Tokota is frustrated. He is frustrated with the local taxi industry. "They are pushing. They are militant. You can't be militant on this," he says.

His frustration is understandable. Tokota, Nelson Mandela Bay's member of the mayoral committee - a city-level minister - for infrastructure, engineering and energy, is in charge of overcoming taxi opposition to implementing the planned bus rapid transit (BRT) system.

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