People's Assembly

Connecting people with their representatives

  • About us
    • Who we are
    • Source Data
    • For Representatives
  • Contact us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • menu
  • search
  • Home
  • Rep Locator
  • People
    • Find by name
    • Parliament
      • National Assembly
      • National Council of Provinces
    • Provinces
      • Eastern Cape
      • Free State
      • Gauteng
      • KwaZulu-Natal
      • Limpopo
      • Mpumalanga
      • Northern Cape
      • North West
      • Western Cape
  • Blog
  • MP Profiles
  • MP Attendance
  • Public Participation
    • Make yourself heard
    • Elections
      • Election 2014 Candidates
      • Election 2019 Candidates
    • Petitions
    • Write to a Committee
  • Hot Topics
    • Questions
    • MP Assets
    • MP Corner
    • Infographics
  • Home »
  • Questions »
  • Questions asked to the Minister of Transport

CW68E - 05 March 2010

  • ← NW667E - 05 March 2010
  • CW92E - 05 March 2010 →
  • S S Mazosiwe question
    (1) Whether the Government has engaged the banking sector, the relevant retailing car industry and taxi associations regarding the sale of panel vans to citizens who will then convert them into mini bus taxis; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details; (2) whether any policy is in place in this regard; if not, why not; if so, to what extent does such a policy involve (a) taxi associations and (b) the banking sector; (3) whether the Government will undertake an audit of the number of such taxis sold thus far; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (4) whether the Government has any information of the total number of (a) taxis currently on our roads and (b) lives lost in accidents involving taxis of this nature; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
    Source Link in context Link
  • Picture of Joel Sibusiso Ndebele
    Minister of Transport answer
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION NO 57 DATE REPLY SUBMITTED: 30 MARCH 2010 DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: FRIDAY, 5 MARCH 2010 (INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NO 4 – 2010) Mr S S Mazosiwe (ANC – EC) asked the Minister of Transport: 1) Whether the Government has engaged the banking sector, the relevant retailing car industry and taxi associations regarding the sale of panel vans to citizens who will then convert them into mini bus taxis; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details; 2) whether any policy is in place in this regard; if not, why not; if so, to what extent does such a policy involve (a) taxi associations and (b) the banking sector; 3) whether the Government will undertake an audit of the number of such taxis sold thus far; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; 4) whether the Government has any information of the total number of (a) taxis currently on our roads and (b) lives lost in accidents involving taxis of this nature; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? CW68E REPLY: The Minister of Transport: 1) The Department of Transport (DoT) has not formally discussed this matter with the banking sector or the relevant retailing car industry and taxi associations, because a technical team has been set up to deal with the illegal conversions of minibus taxis. This team consists of members representing the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA), the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) and the Banks. In terms of the National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No 93 of 1996), the conversion of goods vehicles to passenger carrying vehicles is a permissible act which requires conformance by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) and regulation by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS). This process can only be carried out by a registered Manufacturer Importer Builder (MIB). No individual citizen is authorised to conduct modifications to a vehicle. The Taxi Operator purchases the modified vehicle, ready to be used as a taxi from the dealership. The MIB follows the necessary process of getting homologation done at the SABS and then gets the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) certification from the NRCS. Thereafter the MIB converts as many vehicles that the market may require. This is the legally accepted approach. However, there are unscrupulous companies that have illegally converted vehicles without following the approved process and do not have the legal documentation that grants them permission to do these conversions. 2) This process is covered in the Road Traffic Act. 3) An audit has been conducted on the number of vehicles that have been converted and the details are attached as Annexure A. 4) (a) The total number of taxi on the road are 135 894. (b) In 2008 there were 323 taxis involved in fatal crashes and 356 were recorded for 2009 and this reflected an increase of 10% over the period. There were 457 fatalities recorded in 2008, and 432 fatalities were recorded in 2009. This indicated a decrease of 5.4% over the period.
    Source Link in context Link
  • ← NW667E - 05 March 2010
  • CW92E - 05 March 2010 →

Correct this page

Follow us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Sitemap

  • Home
  • Rep Locator
  • People
    • Find by name
    • Parliament
      • National Assembly
      • National Council of Provinces
    • Provinces
      • Eastern Cape
      • Free State
      • Gauteng
      • KwaZulu-Natal
      • Limpopo
      • Mpumalanga
      • Northern Cape
      • North West
      • Western Cape
  • Blog
  • MP Profiles
  • MP Attendance
  • Public Participation
    • Make yourself heard
    • Elections
      • Election 2014 Candidates
      • Election 2019 Candidates
    • Petitions
    • Write to a Committee
  • Hot Topics
    • Questions
    • MP Assets
    • MP Corner
    • Infographics
  • Links
  • Get the data

Contact us

People's Assembly
contact@pa.org.za

Tel: (021) 465 8885

Fax: (021) 465 8887

2nd Floor 9 Church Square Parliament Street
Cape Town 8001
South Africa

Disclaimer

The data for this site has been sourced form a range of organisations and websites and often received in formats that are hard to process. As a result, errors can occur - if you see something that you think is an error, please click on the "Correct This Page" button and let us know so that we can investigate. Please click here to read more about our source data.

  • Privacy
  • Give us feedback

This site runs on open source code written by mySociety.