South Africa: Intercity bus service Greyhound resumes operations! [update]

update (02 April 2022): Greyhound will resume operations on 13 April 2022. The following routes are available:

• Johannesburg to Durban (direct)
• Johannesburg to Cape Town (via Bloemfontein)
• Pretoria to Cape Town (via Kimberly)
• Cape Town to Mthatha (via Garden Route)
• Mthatha to Cape Town (via Garden Route)
• Pretoria to Durban (via Empangeni)
• Cape Town to Durban (via Bloemfontein)
• Johannesburg to East London (direct)
• East London to Cape Town (via Queenstown)

South African intercity bus service Greyhound, which ceased operations in early 2021, has announced on its social media channels the resumption of services in South Africa. According to recent postings, services will resume "soon", but no more details have been published so far. Greyhound closed operations after 37 years in service in February 2021 due to declining passenger numbers and declining regulatory compliance in the bus passenger industry as well as the Covid-19 regulations in South Africa which brought domestic and regional travel to a temporary standstill.
Greyhound offered an scheduled intercity bus service covering all major cities in South Africa as well as passenger transport operations between South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Both Greyhound and Citiliner, a division of Greyhound, went on auction in September 2021. According to a comment by Greyhound's social media team on Facebook, Citiliner is no longer part of Greyhound. We'll keep you posted!

We’re back! 🥳🙌​

South Africa’s luxury coach solutions will be open for business soon. We are so proud and excited to be back on the road!​

Watch this space! 🚌😎​#Greyhound #luxurytravels #travel pic.twitter.com/TR2TVAzGj7

— Greyhound (@GreyhoundRSA) March 25, 2022

Zimbabwe: A new hop-on-hop-off bus service for Victoria Falls! [update]

update (11 November 2021): Bamba Bus just announced on facebook that it will be launching its Victoria Falls hop-on hop-off service on 01 December 2021.

update (30 September 2021): According to posting on Instagram, the Bamba Bus is now launching on 01 November 2021.

update (18 August 2021): According to a posting on their Facebook page, the Bamba Bus is "coming very soon to Vic Falls".

The town of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe will soon get a hop-on-hop-off bus service. The Bamba Bus will provide an all day services around Victoria Falls covering key leisure areas from the mighty Victoria Falls themselves, to local shopping areas and curio markets, to restaurants and bars, to lodges in the suburbs. The all day ticket will initially cost USD10 for adults and USD5 for children. Tickets are sold on board the Bamba Bus. 

The Bamba Bus will offer two different routes - "The Daily Run" (07:00 - 18:00), which covers mainly lodges, shopping areas and curio markets and the Victoria Falls, as well as "The Restaurant Run" (18:00 to midnight), which covers mainly the restaurants in Victoria Falls.  

South Africa: Intercity bus service "Greyhound" closes operations!

South African intercity bus service Greyhound, which has been in operations for the last 37 years, just announced that it will cease operations. The last day of operation will be 14 February 2021. All passengers of Greyhound and Citiliner, a division of Greyhound, who have tickets booked for services after this date will be refunded in full. For assistance with receiving refunds, customers are advised to contact Greyhound/Citiliner.
Greyhound offers an scheduled intercity bus service covering all major cities in South Africa as well as passenger transport operations between South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

South Africa: Intercape and Greyhound have reopened routes to Zimbabwe! [update]

update (17 January 2019): Greyhound just announced that services to/from Zimbabwe - as well as to Malawi - have resumed!

Intercape, one of South Africa's largest and most popular luxury coach transport service providers, has resumed services to/from Zimbabwe and Malawi on 17 January 2019. The services were suspended due to the political unrest in Zimbabwe since 14 January 2019. The services of Greyhound, another popular luxury coach transport operator in South Africa which also canceled services to/from Zimbabwe on 14 January 2019, remain canceled. We'll keep you posted!

South Africa: Greyhound & Intercape have canceled all services to/from Zimbabwe [update]

update (16 January 2019): Greyhound has canceled all trips to/from Zimbabwe until further notice. Intercape has suspended services to/from Zimbabwe and Malawi for today!

Greyhound and Intercape, two of South Africa's largest and most popular luxury coach transport service providers, have both temporarily canceled all services to/from Zimbabwe due to the current political unrest in the country. This includes all coaches departing on 15 January 2019. Intercape has also canceled all services to/from Malawi. We advise to contact Greyhound or Intercape in case your travels are affected by the cancellation of services. We'll keep you posted!

Cape Town: New MyCiTi routes to tourist highlights!

Following a comprehensive review of the MyCiTi bus service, the City of Cape Town will introduce routes to new destinations as well as more direct routes with fewer transfers, and 29 new bus stops. These changes will take effect on 27 October 2018 and include new routes to several tourist highlights in Cape Town. These routes are:

• District Six <> Civic Centre
• Upper Kloof Street <> V&A Waterfront
• Civic Centre <> V&A Waterfront Silo
• Oranjezicht <> Sea Point

MyCiti is Cape Town's bus rapid transit (BRT) service. Since its launch in May 2010 until August 2018, approximately 89,4 million passenger journeys were recorded on the MyCiTi service.

Cape Town: Travel free with MyCiti on 19 March 2017!

MyCiTi, the high-quality bus-based transit system in Cape Town, offers free transport on all routes all day long on 19 March 2017. Passengers do not need a myconnect card to travel on the bus on this day and they can make as many trips as they wish, on any bus and on any route for as long as the service is operational.

screenshot via https://myciti.org.za

Namibia: Windhoek to introduce a new modern bus system!

update (22 Nov 2016): The new modern bus system in Windhoek ("Move Windhoek") has been suspended with immediate effect due to "some operational challenges that the City is currently addressing".



The City of Windhoek is set to introduce a new modern bus system on 14 November 2016, which will replace the old bus routes (direct buses). The new bus system (Move Windhoek bus lines) will consist of 14 bus lines that will provide a frequent bus service between Windhoek's suburbs, such as Katutura, Goreagab, Havana, Okahandja Park, Kabila and Otjomuise, and the City Centre, as well as between the surrounding suburbs, such as Auasblick, Rocky Crest and others, and the City Centre. In addition, the City of Windhoek will also introduce local bus lines operating between Soweto Market and Wernhill Park, from Goreagab and Otjomuise and from Wernhill Park to Eros, Klein Windhoek and Avis as well as from Wernhill Park to Olympia, Suiderhof and Auasblick.
During the transition period, officials will be at all key bus stops in Katutura during the morning hours to direct customers to the relevant busses. Customers can interchange from one bus line into another at Wernhill transit facility in Windhoek's City Centre without paying again; therefore customers are required to retain their receipts as proof of payment. (via City of Windhoek media briefing dated 28 October 2016)
Tickets cost 6 NAD per person (cash) and 5 NAD per person if you are using the MoveWindhoek Smart Card.

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