As part of her 2010 October Transport Month Programme, Eastern Cape MEC for Transport, Safety and Liaison, Ghishma Barry will officially launch the “first of its kind” Bus and Taxi Business Chamber at Dan’s Country Lodge and Events Centre outside Mthatha on Monday, 11 October 2010 at 10h00.
This is an initiative of the bus and taxi operators from Eastern Cape Peri Urban Bus Operators Association and South African National Taxi Council (EC). This chamber has been mandated to unite the public transport industry in the province and to transform the transport industry in the province to be in line with the Legislative and Policy Framework.
The chamber is designed to set-up a coordinated transport industry with major stakeholders cooperating and collaborating for rendering the best quality passenger service, which is safe, reliable and affordable to the people of the province, especially the rural communities.
Having identified the provincial scholar transport as its pilot project which was used as a litmus test of the proposed process going forward, an interim structure was formed last year in November and it consisted of 22 members, 10 from bus industry and 22 from taxi industry.
The objectives of the chamber include:
- to conduct transport industry on business principles
- to form a representative structure that will be a platform for open communication and negotiations amongst bus, taxi and other related operations
- to promote trust, transparency and integrity through continuous engagement
- to create strategies that will lead to amicable sharing of the market and economic gains thereof
- for all stakeholders to understand what open market and its forces are
- to identify business opportunities, value chain in transport industry so as to enlarge the market
- to share business information and knowledge for empowerment and personal growth of the role players
- to look at medium to long term business goals as a collective.
Enquiries:
Ncedo Kumbaca
Cell: 082 562 6023
