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No penalty for drivers canceling trips to risky areas, says Bolt South Africa – Hypertext | SA News

  • Bolt South Africa has introduced changes to how it handles its drivers operating in “high-risk areas.”
  • Drivers now receive warnings when they receive trips into these potentially dangerous regions and can decline them at will.
  • This is after an ehailing driver was killed last month outside a popular mall in Soweto.

One of the country’s biggest ehailing firms, Bolt South Africa, says that it is now warning its drivers when they are driving through “high-risk areas” across the country. It also says that drivers can decline these potentially dangerous trips without penalty.

This is after deadly attacks on ehailing drivers in Soweto last month, where one driver was killed and…

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