Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town

An anonymous reader writes Uber's in trouble again: 34 drivers in Cape Town, South Africa have had their cars impounded after being caught driving without a metered taxi permit. Uber says that the process of getting permits is subject to delays and drivers have been left in limbo due to a moratorium on new licenses last year. Cape Town says that it's been clear all along about what Uber drivers need to operate in the city and it's making no exceptions. Uber first arrived in Cape Town in 2013.

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Re:In Cape Town? Corruption...

[Anonymous Coward]

This is also Cape Town, the only major city, and part of the only province (the Western Cape) that is not run by the corrupt ANC. If you'll look it up, you'll find that they've been receiving unqualified audits year after year, since the ANC lost control of the city. For reference, around 9% of municipalities around the country receive unqualified audits. In the Western Cape, that number is 92%

Re:Give Uber a dictionary

[mwvdlee]

People hate Uber not just because they're breaking the law, but exactly because they are amoral.

Just read their Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... and try saying with a straight face that how Uber is operating is OK.

Re:Give Uber a dictionary

[dunkelfalke]

3. Soviet communism is what trainwrecked most of eastern europe and several asian countries whose preexisting regimes favored heavy handed states anyway. Then there's the self-loathing cultures it created in places like sweden. I hardly call any of this a success.

Along with pushing literacy from 24% to 99.8%, sending a man into space, advancing the technology level from being more than 50 years behind the rest of the developed world to being maybe 10 years behind and doubling the life expectancy. No sir, totally not a success.