ABSTRACT
Popular transport struggles in South Africa were at the heart of the struggle for liberation, as is clear from the citation of Dullah Omar above. This chapter outlines the evolution of transport policy since 1994, reviews achievements in implementing the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), and evaluates public perceptions of the delivery of public transport and tarred roads and drainage. It seeks to use aspects of the RDP policy audit on public transport and a series of Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) surveys on public perceptions on the delivery of public transport in South Africa to assess the transformation in this sector. The National Transport Policy Forum (NTPF) was launched in February 1992 to bring together a range of interest groups, many of whom had been excluded from the formulation of transport policy in the past. Minibus taxis transport over 65 per cent of public transport users in South Africa.
