ABSTRACT
Market governance is important to understanding transport in Imizamo Yethu as the minibus taxi industry is a major means of mobility for most residents. Both informal practices in the form of local sedans, and developmental governance in the form of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system of the City, are also key to these dynamics. This chapter demonstrates these tensions between forms of governance in several ways. It shows how the City attempted to license informal taxis in Imizamo Yethu in response to various externalities, in particular the use of violence by taxi owners and drivers to defend their livelihoods. The chapter also shows how both informal and formal taxis, driven by market competition, exist in tension with public transport. In order to reduce the contradictions between market and developmental goals in the transport sector, the City of Cape Town is attempting to introduce a BRT.
