{"id":119395,"date":"2016-04-07T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=119395"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:58:56","slug":"sa-uber-drivers-protest-against-price-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/119395\/sa-uber-drivers-protest-against-price-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Uber drivers protest against price cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber drivers in South Africa have gone on strike following an\u00a0announcement by the company that it would <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/160886-uber-cuts-south-african-prices-for-winter.html\">cut UberX fares<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban by up to 20% during the winter period.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-04-06\/uber-to-cut-fares-in-south-african-cities-by-20-from-april-7-imoy8s8b\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong>, about 200 Uber drivers marched to the\u00a0company\u2019s local offices in Cape Town over the fare cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs are being cut from R7 per km to R6 per km, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Uber operates in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, and\u00a0Port Elizabeth in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Uber<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/119317\/uber-slashes-prices-for-south-africa\/\">Uber slashes prices for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/115590\/new-meter-law-to-hit-uber-taxis-in-south-africa\/\">New meter law to hit Uber taxis in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/103547\/uber-signs-r200-million-car-rental-deal-in-sa\/\">Uber signs R200 million car rental deal in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/97349\/uber-wants-to-change-sas-transport-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Uber wants to change SA\u2019s transport laws<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber drivers in South Africa have gone on strike following an announcement by the company that it would cut UberX fares in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban by up to 20% during the winter period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":115698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,6457],"class_list":["post-119395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119397,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119395\/revisions\/119397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}