Cape Talk, Friday morning

If you're on the N1. What is interesting, if you're leaving the Bauha area on Symphony Way and Delft Main Road, that is congested heading towards Stellenbosch Auteriel. So please allow for extra traveling time. And there's some slow-moving traffic. That's on the R300 north heading onto the N1 incoming. More eyewitness news traffic in 15 minutes. There's more EWN on air, online, and on the EWN. I wonder if that ease on the N1 and the N2 this morning has anything to do with maybe fewer people.

reporting for work this morning, yesterday, more taxi-related shootings. The consequences are being felt beyond just the taxi industry. Workers increasingly finding themselves trapped between getting to work and getting home safely. I've heard some reports of some people sleeping at their workplaces because they can't risk traveling home. Others are being dropped off at police stations by their staff transport and then they must make their own home.

There are some businesses, I'm happy to report, that are even putting their workers up for the night because they simply can't get home safely. There has been a meeting between the Western Cape Government, City of Cape Town, Santaco, and Codeta, Carter being absent from those meetings. Further meetings are being planned for early next week, trying to resolve the outstanding disputes. There's legal action planned, including an inquiry into alleged violation of taxi association.

Also, an urgent court interdict seeking to clarify on operating rights. But at the end of the line, it's people being caught in the firing line of a war between Qatar and Codeta. Are you being affected by the taxi violence? Have you had to sleep at work? Have you had to arrange alternative transport for yourself or maybe for your staff members? Are you relying on your employer or as an employee? Are you making sure workers are getting home?