South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is calling on Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula and law enforcement authorities to act decisively against taxi operators implicated in attacks on Autopax buses, after a driver was shot and scores of passengers injured. Yesterday at about 8pm, a City to City driver was shot at four times…
Autopax held a meeting with workers, unions and management on Monday to discuss the recent attacks on their buses. The meeting followed a tumultuous week during which workers embarked on a wildcat strike citing safety concerns after gunmen assaulted a driver and a woman sales consultant at Kokstad Station, KwaZulu-Natal on 22 September. The gunmen…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is calling for swift action from authorities after two Autopax drivers were shot at in Ixopo last night. The two Translux drivers were headed to Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape in separate buses with each carrying 56 passengers when they were shot at. One driver died…
Employees of North West Transport Investment (NTI), a provincial government owned transport service, marched to the Department of Transport in central Pretoria on Monday morning. The employees are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU). They are demanding that Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula abandon his plans to get rid of…
Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union known as SATAWU at North West Transport Investment, the NTI, are marching to the Department of Transport in Pretoria this morning to demonstrate over what they call “their displeasure” at statements allegedly made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. The NTI bus service is contesting the transport…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) members at North West Transport Investment (NTI) will march on the Department of Transport on Monday to demonstrate their displeasure at statements made by Minister Fikile Mbalula. Last month Minister Mbalula met with community members to hear their complaints about NTI’s bus service in Hammanskraal, Mabopane and…
SA’s controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Bill and its stinging demerit system – signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa this week – is the beginning of stringent road laws. “This is definitely the way to go and is not the end,” transport minister Fikile Mbalula told the Sunday Times yesterday. He…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) welcomes Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s maiden budget vote speech as presented in Parliament on Tuesday. The minister spoke extensively about his plans to address the challenges at Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) including the appointment of a permanent board of control comprised of capable, educated,…
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) has identified three key priorities for Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula to fix the country’s ailing transport system. Mabalula experienced the challenges commuters face on a daily basis in Cape Town on Tuesday. He was meant to travel by train to Langa, but due to a passenger-related incident at Nyanga Station he was…
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (SATAWU) is aghast that state-owned companies Transnet and Autopax are preventing workers from voting in tomorrow’s national election. Starting yesterday morning, Transnet has released a flurry of letters all aimed at intimating workers from exercising their constitutional right. Reporting for work yesterday morning, workers at Transnet Freight Rail…
