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Death-knell for taxis, buses this Easter

WITH each day that passes during the Covid-19 travel restrictions, the wheels are slowly coming off the long-distance transport industry.

The pandemic is wreaking havoc and the industry has had to wrestle with previously unseen hardships – from fleet owners losing buses whose monthly repayments they can no longer service, to having to contend with dwindling commuter numbers.

Normally, an Easter holiday weekend would see the Lesotho-bound taxis at

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