JOHANNESBURG - South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) reiterates that taxis will operate normally on Tuesday despite widespread protests against illegal migration.
Several anti-illegal migration organisations have been calling for undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country.
As a result, they have planned an unofficial protest on 30 June.
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Santaco president Motlhabane Tsebe said their role is to provide transport and as such, operations will run as expected.
Our responsibility is to ensure that every person using public transport tomorrow, whether travelling to work, hospital, to school, to a funeral, to visit a family, or even to go to a march or any other lawful purpose, can access our transport safely.
To date, several metros, among those being the City of Tshwane and the City of Johannesburg has urged motorists to plan ahead as they have also issued hot spot areas for the protest.
Previously, Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi made it clear that 30 June will be treated as a normal day, urging workers to report for duty as usual.
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Kubayi was speaking at the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Migration briefing last week, where she reiterated that the planned demonstrations were not a national shutdown.
This means businesses will not shut down, and those operating in the transport sector will continue as normal.
“We do not recognise the 30th as a shutdown day or an off day. For those who are working, if you do not go to work, you are not going to get paid because you would have absconded from work,” she said at the time.