🚍😠 Bus company Putco has been accused of using commuters as pawns to force the government to pay its outstanding subsidies, at the expense of their livelihoods. Full story here ⬇
On Wednesday afternoon Putco announced the immediate suspension of service until the Gauteng roads and transport department pay its outstanding monthly subsidy since March, leaving commuters stranded. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Putco cited depleted diesel reserves as the reason for pulling the brakes on its buses and that the department had been notified at least two weeks ago that the company was fast running out fuel due to the non-payment.In the the former KwaNdebele homeland in Mpumalanga, where thousands of people rely on the Putco buses for a cheaper commute between Pretoria in Gauteng mainly for work and school, is among the hardest-hit areas.
“Is that how you treat your customers? Sell them a service that you cannot provide? This is not only disturbing but also a highest display of apathy and a disgrace, to say the least,” he said. Mahlangu, a cleaner in Centurion, for instance, spends R391 on a weekly Putco bus coupon and takes two return buses using the same coupons. On Thursday, however, he had to fork out R140 for a return trip on a minibus taxi.Blame game
“Those interventions were not in place, we could not communicate prematurely without knowing the interventions… that is the reason we did not communicate in time because we were waiting for government to have some form of communication with us so that we can communicate this [to commuters],” he said.
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