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Fill up: Commuters at Baragwanath taxi rank where taxis are back to full capacity in, Soweto. Picture: Sowetan/Antonio Muchave
The College of Public Health Medicine called on the government to review the plans outlined by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his address on Sunday night, which permit taxis to carry a full load of passengers for short trips. Regulations detailing the plans have yet to be published, but the president said taxis would only have to reduce their passenger loads to 70% on long commutes.
The unregulated taxi industry transports an estimated 16.5-million passengers a day. Many operators have openly flouted the regulations previously introduced under lockdown level 3, which banned interprovincial travel and required vehicles to only carry 70% of their capacity.
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