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Article: Search is on to find SA's best taxi driver.(Motoring)
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- Daily News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2006
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BYLINE: Motoring Staff
The common perception is that minibus taxi operators are bad drivers. Actually they aren't, as anyone who can get away with stealing such impossibly tight gaps in traffic is actually pretty handy behind the wheel.
What they are is inconsiderate, boorish and needless risk takers, and that's why a campaign is being held to find South Africa's best taxi driver. In the process the aim is to improve the abysmal road safety record of SA's most widely used form of public transport, with millions of commuters using minibus taxis every day.
The 2007 Brandhouse #1 Taxi Driver Campaign, a Department of Transport and Brandhouse ...