Lake Victoria had been the home of bustling water ferry traffic that connected Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. But over recent decades, the ferryboats aged and the traffic dwindled. South Africa-born shipbuilder Robert Smith has set out to bring the...
Five people were killed when an SA Roadlink bus overturned on the N1 while travelling towards Bloemfontein early on Wednesday morning, the Free State transport department said. “I can confirm the bus veered off the road around 04:45. It was...
Akamba, East Africa’s oldest transport company, survived an attempt to close it down after the High Court rejected a petition seeking to wind it up. Mr Justice JM Mutava on Thursday struck down the petition filed by a section of directors of the...
Mangled wreckage from deadly head-on collisions is usually what lands South Africa’s notoriously aggressive minibus taxis in the headlines, an image some drivers are working to change. In a country with about 14000 road deaths a year – one of the...