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 by the VAT issue, including within the taxi industry, highlights how taxi operators are now actively…
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,…
