Taxis to operate for 8 hours a day during lockdown: Mbalula

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You will only be able to use public transport for eight hours a day to get essential items such as food and medicine once the national lockdown kicks in.

"All people are catered for in terms of public transport, prioritising essential services, that takes into consideration people needing to go to hospitals, to buy groceries and so on. You will be catered for between 5am and 9am, and again between 4pm and 8pm," he said.

"The number of passengers each vehicle is allowed to carry will be reduced. A vehicle licensed to carry up to 4 people will only be permitted to load 1 person. A vehicle licensed to carry up to 8 passengers will only be permitted to load a maximum of 3 passengers." "There will be no buses - only those transporting people to work, such Eskom workers and those going to hospital," said Mbalula.

 

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Well they are on lockdown until the 17th of April in pinetown. How are essential workers supposed to go to work

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