Advice for Jo’burg Taxi Drivers from Cape Town
Last night I had a sense of deja vu while watching e-tv news.
There on my tv screen was Johannesburg taxi drivers – in much nicer taxi’s than Cape Town’s mind you – uttering the self same words as our local terrors of the road did not even a few weeks ago!
“We will bring_____(fill in the name of city) to a stand still” was their mantra.
As promised, Jo’burg taxi drivers hit their city in full force this morning – just like Cape Town’s did a few week’s ago – and caused disruption to rush hour traffic.
In the same way as local commuters, especially from far flung townships, were left stranded without transport to the city, so was it for Johannesburg’s local citizens.
Since we in Cape Town have experienced a very similar situation not so long ago, without presuming too much, we might have some advice to offer to give to the City of Johannesburg.
- Elect Helen Zille as your Mayor. PLEASE! I BEG you!
- Call your taxi drivers criminals – murderers and other law breakers.
- Speak to them in one syllable sentences as they don’t recognise condescension when it’s directed at them.
- If all else fails, invite the criminals to a meeting and then spring a presentation on them. They will realise what’s good for them sooner or later.
The above really does work! Our taxi drivers have sworn not to strike again in the near future.
They have instead decided to protest peacefully, presumably during their lunch hours.
It’s the presentation, I tell you!
2 Responses to “Advice for Jo’burg Taxi Drivers from Cape Town”
By Thetroublemaker on Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
Its curious, but is our much maligned taxi industry not a national treasure. Its cheap, really cheap, and its highly effective. Yes it has problems, but hell, lets face it, its one of the cheapest and effective systems in the world. These taxis will take many south africans to the places that Zille and her ilk will not include on their rapid – expensive- and government run systems. Millions of worker travel long distances from places that most people never see, with hardly any infrastructure, and they do so highly effectively. There won’t be a gautrain for my domestic, nor a rapid transport system for her daughter to get to school, and even if there was, they would never be able to afford it.