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South African Bus Employers' Association. 48 hour bus strike, starting, midnight Sunday, 3/28 Sabea, represents 31 bus companies, Putco in Gauteng, Mayibuye Algoa in the Eastern Cape, North West Star, Great North Transport, Remant Alton in Durban, IBL, Maluti, Gauteng Coaches, Ipeleng, and Mgqibelo.
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3/13/09 Friday,13th! Bus company Remant Alton to close doors effective immediately.Bus drivers refusing to work, unsafe for passengers, hijackings, robberies, maintenance left unchecked and no money. Will open again April 14, 09.
2/25/09 Durban, Driver and conductor shot to death in an armed robbery today on a Nu-Line bus which was on route to Newlands.
11/25/08 Taxi strike is set to hit Nelson Mandela Bay on Thursday and Friday and yet another on Monday and Tuesday, seeing thousands of commuters stranded
last week‘s taxi strike against the 2010 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system which left one person dead, motorists attacked and more than 15 Somali-owned shops looted.theherald.co.za
11/20/08 Taxi strike, 48hours Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth. Algoa Bus Company will not be operating today, said chief executive officer Sicelo Duze. “The last time there was a strike our buses were stoned and attacked for operating, so we will be staying away.” Police will be on high alert for any violence and a zero tolerance approach will be taken today and tomorrow.
10/28/08 SA. Durban buses back to normal by Thursday. blog.ecr.co.za
SA 10/27 Public transportation, THOUSANDS of commuters were left stranded, buses were stoned, people assaulted and schooling and business disrupted yesterday during a violent protest by taxi drivers in Port Elizabeth. theherald.co.za
10/24/08 Public transportation, buses, After five weeks the Durban bus strike is over. Remant Alton operations manager Paul Rush expected the service to be fully operational by Monday.90,000 back to work
10/21/08 Durban, Disabled people - forgotten casualties of the public transport strike that forced the temporary closure of bus company Remant Alton - are struggling to get around. iol.co.za
10/20/08 Durban, SA, Talks to end Durban bus strike sowetan.co.za
10/17/08 Durban Bus strike enters 5th week news.iafrica.com
10/16/08 Durban SA Durban bus strike talks deadlock again sabcnews.com
10/15/08 Durban, SA Bus drivers clash with Durban police sabcnews.com
10/14/08 Durban bus drivers’ strike drags on sowetan.co.za
10/10/08 Durban,SA Better not rely on public transportation. Now taxi. iol.co.za
10/10/08 Durban SA KZN bus strike: ANC slammed for inaction , .iol.co.za
Strike cripples bus company sowetan
10/8/08 Durban Bus company closes 'indefinitely' iol.co.za
10/5/08 S Africa, Nineteen buses, valued at R35-million, were set alight in a petrol bomb attack on Friday morning at troubled bus operator Remant Alton's Ntuzuma depot. iol.co.za
10/1/08 Durban, SA, Durban bus crisis still unresolved sabcnews.com
Taxi and train operators need to "jack up" their service in light of the strike by Remant Alton bus drivers, the Durban Chamber of Commerce said on Monday. int.iol.co.za
9/30/08 South Africa Parts of the Durban city centre resembled a dump on Monday as Durban Solid Waste workers went on the rampage, emptying dustbins into the streets and moving bins on to roads, obstructing traffic..int.iol
9/29/08 Durban could be without a bus service for at least two months after Remant Alton dismissed about 800 bus drivers for embarking on an illegal strike, the Mercury newspaper reported on Monday. iafrica.com
9/26/08 SA, Durban,Hundreds of municipal employees are on strike in Durban. They are demanding permanent positions, better wages and improved working conditions sabcnews.com
9/26/08 S.Africa Durban, Remant Alton is threatening to fire a further 700 of its striking employees, which could cripple the eThekwini Municipality's public transport system.iol.co.za
9/21/08 SA, Durban's Remant Alton bus service wild-cat strike on afternoon stranding thousands of commuters in the rain across the city iol.co.za
8/26/08 An illegal Putco bus driver's strike, which left thousands of commuters stranded on routes between Pretoria and Kwamhlanga in Mpumulanga, is over, the company said on Monday. .iol.co.za
8/25/08 Thousands of Putco bus passengers have been left stranded this morning in the KwaMhlanga area in Mpumalanga, and had to use alternative transport like taxis to get to work.sabcnews.com
8/22/08 Africa, being late for school because of a bus strike is believed to have led to a tragic accident in which a Port Elizabeth youth died and five other children were injured yesterday..theherald.co.za
7/22/08 South Africa Numsa in the Eastern Cape was urging all taxi associations, bus companies, taxi drivers and bus drivers to join the Cosatu strike and “not take a single worker to work”.The Herald online
7/18/08 South Africa, E-mail warning of "massive strike" and violence on 23 July 2008 a hoax info.gov.za
7/16/08 South Africa, Nelspruit - Over 120 000 commuters were unable to get to work in the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit on Wednesday when bus drivers participated in a national strike against food, fuel and electricity price hikes. .news24.com/News24/South_Africa
9 July 08 South Africa, Durbhan, Update.entire eThekwini region was on Wednesday devoid of the usual morning bustle as most workers heeded the call from trade union giant Cosatu to stay away to protest against rising prices..iol.co.za
19 May 08 South Africa, Bus strike, Commuters were left stranded "Members of the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union were protesting against the company's right to discipline staff members who participated in an illegal strike action on May 8," said spokesperson Vuyisile Mdoda. news24.com
13/5/08 S. Africa, Durban, Huge bus strike,. hundreds of buses downed tools, causes chaos, commuters using taxi, sowetannews
12/5/08 S. Africa bus strike, Durban's largest bus company, Remant Alton, went on strike on Monday morning.Workers demanding pay wage. sundayindependant
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