The Minister of Transport, Dr. Blade Nzimande, will officially open the South African National Small Bus Operators’ (SANSBOC) Elective Conference on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at the Elangeni Hotel in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
The two-day conference will take place between 11-12 December 2018. It will be attended by 120 delegates from the nine provinces. SANSBOC voting delegages will elect new executive members to lead the institution for a five-year term during the conference.
SANSBOC is a national body comprising small bus operators championing economic opportunity interests for its members in the country. It is made up of Small Bus Operators (SBOs) from previously disadvantaged communities in the nine provinces of South Africa.
The organisation came into being on 6 December 2012 with the election of office bearers for a period of five years which ended in December 2017.
The formation of the organisation was an outcome of the negotiations between the Small Bus Operators and the Department of Transport in 2009. During that meeting SBO representatives made a clarion call to the Department to be recognised the same way the minibus taxi industry has been recognised, especially during the roll out of Integrated Public Transport Networks (IPTNs) spearheaded by provinces and cities.
Currentley, SBOs operate informally with little regulation and control of the market. They are at the periphery of the South African economic mainstream with poorly paid, unskilled and semi-skilled persons.
The majority of the SBOs operate learner transport services, private hires and unsubsidised and unscheduled long distance operations, which are more in the form of inter-provincial services and are in direct competition with the taxi industry, resulting in unhealthy competition or conflicts between the two industries.
The details of the elective conference are as follows:
Date: Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Time: 12:30
Venue: Elangeni Hotel, Durban
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