The Department of Transport has gazetted the National Land Transport Amendment Act NLTAA. This means that e-hailing services like Uber and Bolt are now officially recognised as legal forms of public transport.
Taxi Body South African National Taxi Council SANTACO has argued that the delay in implementing the NLTAA created unfair competition and allowed e-hailing vehicles to operate without the same legal obligations as they do.
Now that the Act has been gazetted, e-hailing operators are expected to have operating licenses , their vehicles must be branded to indicate which company theyre affiliated with, and they must also have safety features like panic buttons.
