Taxi operators have every right to express their frustrations about their working conditions and poor state of taxi ranks in areas of their operations. Just as it’s their constitutional right to peacefully assemble and openly express their frustrations, it’s no questionthat their voices can no longer be ignored. They too have the right to fair…
Absa and CFAO automotive dealer network have partnered with the taxi industry to ensure about 500 taxi drivers from Springs Taxi Association (STA) in Ekurhuleni and other areas get their eyes tested and many others issued with prescription spectacles at no cost. This important initiative aimed at helping reduce road accidents will see TT Matlou…
Tertius Mohlala is a well known taxi operator from Limpopo who always speaks out his mind whether people around him listens or not. He says the minibus taxi sector should change its approach on how it should engage with government if their demands for a violent free environment and other conditions that would make it…
When the intermodal taxi building structure project, which includes the taxi rank as well as a retail and office block, started construction in June 2011, the residents and taxi operators of Thohoyandou ululated with pride as they welcomed the much needed development on their doorsteps. Little did they know that a project that reached practical…
Benoni Taxi Association (BTA) wants an improved and ongoing working relationship with the community of Etwatwa in Ekurhuleni in resolving issues raised in the memorandum of the grievances delivered to its leadership recently. This comes after the residents’ blocked taxis from operating in the township in a protest initiative after BTA failed to reply to…
