With heart disease on the rise in our country, taking care of your heart health and being aware of cardiovascular risk factors can potentially add years to your life as a taxi operator including your family. “Every day there are simple things we can incorporate into our lifestyle that add up to help protect the…
Ben Maredi is the new national president of the Federation for long and local distance taxi association (FELLDTA) after a special sitting of the executive committee elected him to the position recently. He is the present chairman of the Mamelodi Amalgamated Taxi Association (Mata) and deputy president of FELLDTA in Gauteng as well as Tswhane…
The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) was in the Limpopo area of Zebediela to give school uniform and launch road safety campaigns for the two schools. The partnership to donate school uniforms is conjunction with the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA). This was part of the organization’s Ndlelanhle road safety campaign’s Back To School initiative. The…
Why is it important for taxi operators to care about global issues or events beyond South Africa’s borders when local challenges already dominate our focus? The answer is simple: “we must care”. Take, for example, the recent tariffs imposed by the United States on exports from South Africa and other countries like China, Botswana, Zimbabwe,…
Female taxi operators from KwaZulu-Natal are making history—not on the roads, but in the textile sector. In March, the SANTACO Women’s Desk in the Ugu Region launched a women-owned upholstery and uniform manufacturing plant, a first for the taxi industry. “This is a historic transformative moment for the taxi industry,” said Rebecca Phala, SANTACO national…
Tebogo Moses Baloyi has opened up and speaks out against personal attacks on his names by his fellow colleagues from the Lejweleputswa Santaco regional structure in the Free state. He is an executive member of the region and is also chairman of the Welkom United Taxi Association. He says his troubles started late last year…
The Gautrain, also known as the Shilowa Express, is experiencing a faster decline in ridership than anticipated, as commuters increasingly opt for Shilowa Express alternative transport, including the persistently popular minibus taxi industry. This revelation by the Gautrain Management Company follows reports of over five million lost passengers in the past four years. Gautrain Management…
The R408-million budgetary allocation to the taxi industry, announced by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, is facing scrutiny from Mmusi Maimane, leader of Build One South Africa (BOSA). The allocation, detailed in Godongwana’s revised 2025/2026 National Budget Speech delivered on 12 March 2025, drew significant backlash as Parliament prepared to vote on the national budget early…
Budget Should Also Reflectthe Needs of Taxi Industry Budget Should Also Reflectthe Needs of Taxi Industry The importance of the national budget has taken centre stage due to Parliamentarians’ inability to agree on tax-related matters—a situation amplified by the Value Added Tax (VAT) impasse, which has caused delays in budget approval. The public interest generated…
Toyota South Africa has assured the taxi industry that more resources will be made available to continue to fund training programmes aimed at supporting the taxi operators with both business and technical skills in an effort to enhance their personal development and operations. The training programme was supposed to end 2021 but was renewed to…
With heart disease on the rise in our country, taking care of your heart health and being aware of cardiovascular risk factors can potentially add years to your life as a taxi operator including your family. “Every day there are simple things we can incorporate into our lifestyle that add up to help protect the…
Ben Maredi is the new national president of the Federation for long and local distance taxi association (FELLDTA) after a special sitting of the executive committee elected him to the position recently. He is the present chairman of the Mamelodi Amalgamated Taxi Association (Mata) and deputy president of FELLDTA in Gauteng as well as Tswhane…
The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) was in the Limpopo area of Zebediela to give school uniform and launch road safety campaigns for the two schools. The partnership to donate school uniforms is conjunction with the Transport Education Training Authority (TETA). This was part of the organization’s Ndlelanhle road safety campaign’s Back To School initiative. The…
Why is it important for taxi operators to care about global issues or events beyond South Africa’s borders when local challenges already dominate our focus? The answer is simple: “we must care”. Take, for example, the recent tariffs imposed by the United States on exports from South Africa and other countries like China, Botswana, Zimbabwe,…
Female taxi operators from KwaZulu-Natal are making history—not on the roads, but in the textile sector. In March, the SANTACO Women’s Desk in the Ugu Region launched a women-owned upholstery and uniform manufacturing plant, a first for the taxi industry. “This is a historic transformative moment for the taxi industry,” said Rebecca Phala, SANTACO national…
Tebogo Moses Baloyi has opened up and speaks out against personal attacks on his names by his fellow colleagues from the Lejweleputswa Santaco regional structure in the Free state. He is an executive member of the region and is also chairman of the Welkom United Taxi Association. He says his troubles started late last year…
The Gautrain, also known as the Shilowa Express, is experiencing a faster decline in ridership than anticipated, as commuters increasingly opt for Shilowa Express alternative transport, including the persistently popular minibus taxi industry. This revelation by the Gautrain Management Company follows reports of over five million lost passengers in the past four years. Gautrain Management…
The R408-million budgetary allocation to the taxi industry, announced by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, is facing scrutiny from Mmusi Maimane, leader of Build One South Africa (BOSA). The allocation, detailed in Godongwana’s revised 2025/2026 National Budget Speech delivered on 12 March 2025, drew significant backlash as Parliament prepared to vote on the national budget early…
Budget Should Also Reflectthe Needs of Taxi Industry Budget Should Also Reflectthe Needs of Taxi Industry The importance of the national budget has taken centre stage due to Parliamentarians’ inability to agree on tax-related matters—a situation amplified by the Value Added Tax (VAT) impasse, which has caused delays in budget approval. The public interest generated…
Toyota South Africa has assured the taxi industry that more resources will be made available to continue to fund training programmes aimed at supporting the taxi operators with both business and technical skills in an effort to enhance their personal development and operations. The training programme was supposed to end 2021 but was renewed to…
