Public transport users weigh in on COVID-19 lockdown

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Some passengers at the Baragwanath Taxi Rank in Soweto say they’re worried about the effect the coronavirus lockdown will have on their jobs.

JOHANNESBURG/DURBAN/CAPE TOWN – Some passengers at the Baragwanath Taxi Rank in Soweto say they were worried about the effect the coronavirus lockdown would have on their jobs.

What is missing though are people to sanitise the taxis after Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula promised they'd be there. Isipingo is a buzzing industrial town where thousands of low-skilled workers earn their income to feed their families.

 

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