Taxi owners are threatening to strike back if Metro Police doesn't stop "harrassing" them. Here's a snippet from the story that has some relevance to this thread.
Hmm. Anyone want to join taxi owners in a call to scrap traffic fines issued before 1 June? And if the metro gives the concession to taxi owners, would they then be obliged to give it across the board?The taxis were later released at no charge on Thursday after a meeting with the council. They also wanted traffic fines issued before June 1 to be scrapped.
Deputy city manager Derek Naidoo, who was present at the meeting, said the council has seen the need for a committee that would look at the interests of the taxi industry and therefore approved its formation. "I will take all the other issues raised back to council and from there we will work through each one.
full story from IOL here
I suspect a case could be made for some sort of amnesty/scrapping with the new points system of penalty and enforcement coming.
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