Phambili! Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you! -----Original Message----- From: VC <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:20:36 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] SACP and YCL call for better bus services in Northern Cape
The New Age *Bus aid call by SACP and YCL* *Zandisile Luphahla, The New Age, Northern Cape, 24 July 2012* The South African Communist Party (SACP) and its youth wing, Young Communist League (YCL), say they have been engaging with Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) to bring its bus services to all of the five districts of the province. Both parties held a joint media briefing yesterday to express their concerns. Since 1994, public transport has not significantly improved for the majority of the people in the country and more so in the province, said SACP provincial secretary, Norman Shushu. He said part of their engagement with Prasa was to ask the body to establish a depot in the province where they would be operating from and servicing their buses. "This would create jobs and have positive spin-offs for the economy of the province. "We also engaged Prasa in the revitalisation of the De Aar rail juncture as part of our efforts to realise safe, affordable and accessible public transport for our people," said Shushu. He said public transport in the province was unsafe, underfunded and unreliable. "Bus services are often erratic or unavailable and most bus stations and busstops are exposed to undesirable weather conditions. Workers arrive late at work and their children are turned back from school for arriving late," he said. YCL provincial secretary, Kabelo Mohibidu, said public transport was very expensive for most workers and students. He showed concern that most public transport did not operate after hours "making it impossible for shift workers to get safely to work and back home. In many parts of our province, poor households have no access to public transport," said Mohibidu. Both SACP and YCL said they would mobilise the communities, their alliance partners, government "and most importantly, local taxi associations, in pursuit of this goal". Mohibidu said a safe, affordable and accessible public transport was of central concern to the working class and the poor. [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> *From: http://www.thenewage.co.za/57078-1015-53-Bus_aid_call_by_SACP* ** ** ** -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
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