{"id":299237,"date":"2020-12-16T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299237"},"modified":"2020-12-16T07:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T05:30:51","slug":"taxi-drivers-declare-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299237","title":{"rendered":"Taxi drivers declare war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>THREATS of war are flying across Namibia after the Namibian Police launched a countrywide campaign to remove long-distance taxis, known colloquially as seven-seaters, from the country&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the Kavango West seven-seater drivers, who lost their only source of income the moment they stopped at a police checkpoint protested by blocking the only road between Oshikango and Rundu with their cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The blockade did not allow any other vehicles through and some of the drivers threatened authorities with war.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taxi drivers declare war\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/huF243MVyh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>WAR BREWING: Seven seater drivers in the Kavango West threatened authorities with war after their only source of income, their longs distance taxis were taken off the road at a police checkpoint. \u2013 Footage: Contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fought a war for a long time in the Kavango. We can easily return to doing so again,\u201d one of the drivers said in a video clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The high fatality rate associated with seven-seaters when these vehicles are involved in road accidents has led to a situation where the Roads Authority under the Ministry of Works and Transport no longer certify the vehicles as able to transport passengers over long distances.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese vehicles are designed for commuters in cities in overseas countries. The problem with the application of these vehicles in Namibia, however, means that they are loaded to capacity with people and their baggage which often lead to mechanical malfunctions or tyre failure and ultimately to fatal accidents,\u201d one traffic official at a roadblock where the campaign is underway, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After traffic officials started stopping and inspecting driver credentials many of the seven-seater taxis were taken off the road. Officials removed the license disks from the vehicles of drivers that did not have public transport permits for themselves or their taxis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The protest across Namibia follows some protest action by one of the smaller taxi unions between Rehoboth and Windhoek about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Taxi drivers declare war - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THREATS of war are flying across Namibia after the Namibian Police launched a countrywide campaign to remove long-distance taxis...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=299237\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Taxi drivers declare war - 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