Tuesday, March 11, 2014

South Africa's dishevelled taxis move millions and the economy

Zakes Hadebe's minibus taxi has nearly half a million kilometers on the clock, a broken speedometer and a fuel gauge he struggles to keep just above empty. Yet by 8 a.m. on a recent Friday, Hadebe and his rattling Toyota had already overcome rain, traffic and an ever-rising petrol price to ferry nearly 40 commuters from South Africa's black township of Soweto to nearby Johannesburg.

South Africa's minibus taxi industry, scorned by other motorists for reckless driving and dogged by a

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