Ailing charter sector appeals for help

Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal businesswoman has taken up the cudgels for the decimated private charter passenger association to claim back millions of rand in bus licence fees from the Department of Transport.

She said small operators had to pay between R40000 and R100000 upfront for a six-month licence, and at least one Pietermaritzburg operator had paid R900000 for his vehicles before lockdown. She added that her association’s attorneys had written to the ministers with several proposals to save businesses in the sector, however, she had not received a response.

“Some of my highly paid staff have not been paid because they say they are not registered, but they are registered,” she said.“If private coach operators do not get help soon, the operators in our industry will disappear and there will be no coaches to service tourists when tourism reopens,” she said.

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