{"id":39976,"date":"2025-10-05T00:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixty-six-unroadworthy-minibus-taxis-impounded-in-a-week-in-the-tsakane-germiston-and-boksburg-areas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:37:43","slug":"sixty-six-unroadworthy-minibus-taxis-impounded-in-a-week-in-the-tsakane-germiston-and-boksburg-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sixty-six-unroadworthy-minibus-taxis-impounded-in-a-week-in-the-tsakane-germiston-and-boksburg-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-six unroadworthy minibus taxis impounded in a week, in the Tsakane, Germiston and Boksburg areas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Taxi Task Team, in conjunction with Gauteng Traffic Police Officers and South African Police Service (SAPS) Officers, impounded sixty-six (66) minibus taxis in a week, in the Tsakane, Germiston and Boksburg areas.<\/p>\n<p>With the continuous operation Shanela, a joint operation was conducted with a stern focus on compliance of minibus taxis throughout the City of Ekurhuleni. Officers managed to stop x66 minibuses and upon inspection, Officers discovered a number of offences such as, operating without permits and without operator cards, while some of them overall conditions of the vehicles failed to meet the requirements of the National Road Traffic Act of 93\/1996. All sixty-six (66) of  those minibus taxis were impounded and taken to Benoni Provincial Pound.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi owners and drivers are reminded that  it is a legal requirement under the National Road Traffic Act, to ensure that their minibuses are properly registered and fitted with valid&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74793&#038;page=sixty-six-unroadworthy-minibus-taxis-impounded-in-a-week-in-the-tsakane-germiston-and-boksburg-areas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Taxi Task Team, in conjunction with Gauteng Traffic Police Officers and South African Police Service (SAPS) Officers, impounded sixty-six (66) minibus taxis in a week, in the Tsakane, Germiston and Boksburg areas. With the continuous operation Shanela, a joint operation was conducted with a stern focus on compliance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557718070_817041864610414_3759087640444736235_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[164,1888,1327,2168],"class_list":["post-39976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-gauteng","tag-taxi","tag-taxi-accident","tag-taxis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/557718070_817041864610414_3759087640444736235_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}