How metered taxis ‘blocked’ Uber from JHB station
Johannesburg - Digital payments of minibus taxi fares are set to be rolled out to the industry across Gauteng from next year.
The card-based project - which is backed by the Gauteng provincial government and headed up by the TaxiChoice Association - will be introduced to the Johannesburg, Pretoria and Mabopane (JPM) route. 
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Gauteng minibus taxis to accept cashless fares
The new method of collection will involve commuters using what looks like a regular bank card or quick response (QR) code to pay for their taxi fare. The taxi digital fare collection system is owned and being implemented by FairPay.
TaxiChoice - the commercial arm of the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) - is currently the sole shareholder in FairPay, with Curve Group Holdings as the technology partner.
The first phase which is the JPM route is set to be rolled out in February 2017, whereby commuters will be able to load their FairPay cards via point of sale (POS) devices and via kiosks at taxi ranks.
These services are also planned to be available in selected retail stores.
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Ed Herbst: Planet SABC, rainmaker Hlaudi and bankrupting Radio Lotus
29/9/2016
“The ANC has not deployed Hlaudi.” – 
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu
And, as a
Sunday Times
editorial pointed out at the time – see below – Mthembu’s personal assistant played a singular role in the board deployment process! And that board is now doing everything in its power to keep Hlaudi’s snout steeped in gravy for as long as possible.
Sunday Times e
ditorial 22/9/2013
ANC has hijacked airwaves to gain political profit
Lindiwe Zulu reacted with outrage this week when confronted with the fact that the ANC had openly manipulated parliament in getting its preferred candidates on the SABC board. A memorandum by Zulu, dated September 4, shows how the ANC selected the candidates for whom the party’s MPs would eventually vote two weeks later.
All that needs to happen now is for President Jacob Zuma to approve the names. When confronted, Zulu was unashamed about the manipulation. In fact, she expressed her disgust at the suggestion that the ANC had effectively seized control of the SABC before the general elections next year.
“That does not necessarily mean we want to interfere as the ANC. The bottom line is that we are a governing party and, being a governing party, we have a high interest and that interest needs to be served by us being able to make sure that in all the strategic areas we have our own and we can’t be apologetic about [that]. We need to have our qualified, capable comrades in strategic structures and we are not being apologetic about our deployment.”
Cartoon courtesy of Twitter @brandanrey
But a closer look at the memo offers an astonishing insight into those who were chosen as selectors.
How do we believe Zulu’s competency claims when two Luthuli House interns — one a 24-year-old — and a personal assistant to spokesman Jackson Mthembu were allowed to make nominations?
How are we to believe that the ANC really does have the mandate of the public broadcaster — delivering an array of services to South Africans — as its best interests when the party deliberately rejected independent-minded candidates with experience in broadcasting in favour of someone like Krish Naidoo, a legal adviser to the ANC’s national disciplinary committee?
Or how will ANC MP Buti Manamela’s wife, Nomvuyo Mhlakaza, serve the interests of South Africans better than broadcast policy expert Kate Skinner?
This unashamed manipulation of parliamentary processes is nothing but the ruling party’s hijacking of the SABC before the elections.
In this context, the ridiculous policy of insisting on 70% of “happy news” by acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng makes perfect sense. Happy news, as defined by Motsoeneng, is about service delivery — access to water, electricity and housing. These are all issues that would aid the ANC in its election campaign.
Even if we give Zulu the benefit of the doubt — that the ANC’s candidates are competent — it is clear where their loyalties will lie, and that is to serve the ruling party
.
in
The Times
was headlined ‘
This related to a finding by the auditor general:
But the auditor-general’s “final management report” to the SABC, dated August 15, red-flagged the broadcaster’s financial viability.
It highlighted that irregular expenditure of R5.1bn “identified in the current and previous year, was not investigated to determine if a person was liable for the expenditure”.
The report revealed that the SABC had awarded 71 contracts worth R150.7m to “close family members, partners and associates of officials”.
Now keep in mind that at the bizarre SABC press conference on 27 September, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, advised by the fugitive from US justice
Well certainly not the “rainmakers” and miracle creators, according to James Aguma, to whom the concept of irony, not to mention shame or guilt, seems alien.
Aguma blamed the R5bn in irregular expenditure on “missing records”.
“The challenge across government is records management,” he said. “Is it my fault? I’m not sure. Is it exco? I’m not sure. But we have a strategy to deal with it.”
What next from Hlaudi? More cartoon magic at .
” and rainmaker Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the auditor general seemed inexplicably unconvinced in his “miraculous” powers:
Hlaudi Motsoeneng, newly appointed group executive for corporate affairs, said the SABC had tried in vain to dissuade the auditor-general from giving the broadcaster a qualified audit because of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
“On this one, the R5bn, we tried everything to influence them but we could not win the battle. They said: ‘On this one, no, we are giving you a qualification’.”
Became abusive
They have now been told that 90% kwaito is their decreed lot and they have decamped to other radio stations taking advertisers with them. When Motsoeneng visited the station and listened to their complaints he became abusive.
“Indians: move away from tribalism thinking. We think about the nation. We think as South Africans. This is the first radio station where I hear people opposing 90% music.”
Ya neh. Hlaudi. ..so Radio Lotus ( predominantly Indian) and 5fm are gonna be playing locally made music...interesting development this..
I find comfort, though, in the concluding sentence in Jonny Steinberg’s most recent
Business Day
article
:
If there is hope, it is that the provincial electorate appears to be tiring of its patronage politicians. That is what the municipal elections suggest very subtly. It is now for opposition parties to launch a serious campaign to take provincial SA. Already, they have waited much too long.
Ed Herbst is a retired veteran journalist who writes in his own capacity.
 
 
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