The online registration process for drivers' license renewals left many motorists frustrated with some slamming the system as a failure.
Peter Dhlamini, who is the director in the department, testified at the commission on Wednesday.
Peter Dhlamini is on the stand at the commission in Parktown investigating taxi violence.
The closures will come into effect on Friday after the decision is published in the Government Gazette and the routes will be closed for six months.
Gauteng Transport MEC Ismail Vadi has announced that the routes in question will be closed if a resolution is not reached.
Transport MEC Ismael Vadi says the plant will benefit nearby communities, particularly young people in skills development.
The Gauteng Transport Department took the decision late on Wednesday, following a deadly gunfight in Brakpan, in which four people were killed.
The department had closed these for a month and was ready to close extend the closure further three months on Monday if taxi associations Wata and Nanduwe didn’t agree to a peace deal.
The Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association & Witwatersrand Taxi Association have been at loggerheads for over six months, resulting in the murder of 20 members.
Three people have already been arrested after a shootout between rival taxi associations on Tuesday.
The South African National Taxi Council says the Gauteng Transport Department is still not efficient in issuing permits to taxi drivers.
The trains are expected to be purchased over the next two to three years.
This is the first signed agreement between the local government and the taxi industry.
Drivers say officials are side-lining them by going ahead with registering & licencing of Uber drivers.
The Gauteng Transport Department has been accused of fuelling the ongoing taxi violence.
The department faced the provincial legislature’s Public Accounts Committee today.
Prasa has called for calm after its buses were stoned in Mamelodi on Thursday.
Passengers have been left stranded as the Autopax buses failed to show up in Mamelodi.
