We Are Not Going

South Africa's controversial World Cup buses

We Are Not Going When South Africa's first bus rapid transit system was introduced, it was assumed that it would make everybody's lives simpler. The local taxi drivers clearly felt differently.
With one year to go until the 2010 South African World Cup, the Johannesburg government anticipated that a citywide transitway would be integral to the success of the tournament. What they had not anticipated was the backlash faced by the city's locals. Taxi drivers in Soweto were among the most outspoken critics of the Rea Vaya BRT as they saw it as nothing more but a threat to their livelihoods. They responded with a series of strikes that would bring much of the city to a standstill. But with the world's eyes on South Africa in the run in to one of sport's biggest contests, it soon became apparent that the local authorities would not take to kindly to this disorder...
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