Jozi morning
I am looking foward to the day I actually go home and tell them all the news about my Jozi life, my Jozi experience.
I'm sure all you Joburgers out there are used to certain things by now, like the stuff that continues to amaze me is like not so amazing to you.
Like getting to work in the morning, my goodness. You know I get into a taxi and I think "Lord please be with me on this journey". I mean, how can I not..hehe. Let's start with the traffic, how many people actually live here? I promise the traffic starts from here all the way up to Maputo. Then the highway/ freeway...I have never seen a taxi going so fast. I was clenching my teeth! I checked the Speedometer and surprise surprise it doesn't work. Just as well that I don't know at what speed we're travelling in.
But since I'm not that good at maths here help me out, if it's roughly a 30 minute journey and we make it within 15 minutes to work , how fast were we travelling? Do not dare get into the taxi drivers way as he cuts and dives at every corner. I promise you the only time I feel safe is when we land. I say land because we fly the entire time. Joburg taxi's are the new private jets I tell you. Maybe Msholozi should consider buying one as opposed to the multi-million boeing, I promise he'd make it to wherever he's going faster.
What's your Jozi morning experience?
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Muscadecipio
These days it seems all taxi drivers went to the same school and are born by the same mother. I continue to be amazed each and every moment I take a taxi. It's ridiculous. It's like they're allowed to drive the way they do...omg 
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I am thankful to stay in a small town. 18 km from side to side along the main road. There is a traffic jam in the morning and the evening for about 30 minutes. Nothing serious, and I avoid it by driving round (through the township) or just not drivng at that time if I can.
The reason I drive through the township is that I have a part time job as a staff driver for a Caregiving agency. I have to go fetch "my" girls for work at 6:30 morning and evening, and take the alternative shift home. Hey, I suppose I am a taxi driver. What confused my is that the "real" taxi drivers do exactly what you just said. Ina small town. A place where speeding will save you maybe 2 minutes off a journey. Is there a school they go to to learn this?
Myself I pick the girls (my name for them, some of them are my own age) up at their homes and drop them the same. I've been doing this for 6 years, and threading my way through the township has given me more local knowledge that some of the inhabitants. I try to get my girls to work safely and timeously and so I drive carefully and watch for the 4 troubles - drunks, dogs, chickens and children. On a rare occasion that something has made us very late I might step it up a bit, but not as rule.
I call this respect. Respect for my pasangers, for the pedestrians, but mostly respect for the place where many people have their homes and make their lives.
Two things really piss me off. Umlungu who drive hell-for -leather through the township as if their wheels will be stolen if they stop for too long, and taxi drivers who seem to think road rules are optional just because it is the township.