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Last week, the company announced 'a special fuel-related fare increase' from 1 August.
They said the recent crime and shooting incidents have raised safety concerns for them and police are still not ramping up their response time to cases.
The exact details of the incident, which took place earlier on Tuesday, are still sketchy.
Officials said that one of the guards was at work closing a local butchery in White City when five unknown men approached him, shot and disarmed him.
A marquee has been erected meters away from the Mdlalose Tavern where gunmen ambushed patrons shortly after midnight on Sunday.
The long-standing dispute between residents and Eskom saw the power utility disconnect some households from the grid, sparking several protests across Soweto.
Twenty-three people were shot when gunmen wielding high-calibre weapons opened fire on an unsuspecting crowd at Mdlalose’s Tavern in Nomzamo Park in Orlando East before fleeing in a quantum minibus.
Poor service delivery and power cuts made the top of the list of demands from citizens demanding change.
Twelve people were declared dead on the scene and three others succumbed to their injuries in hospital after gunmen opened fire on the crowd inside the establishment.
It’s understood nine others have been wounded in the mass shooting which took place in the early hours of Sunday morning near the Nomzamo informal settlement.
Friends and family gathered for a memorial at the park where the six-year-old fell into an uncovered manhole while playing with friends last month.
The children held onto placards with messages remembering their peer at the memorial service which was held earlier on Friday.
Kholekile Magadla was speaking at the memorial service for the six-year-old boy at the park where he had been playing with friends when he fell into the uncovered manhole last month.
The child’s body was found last Saturday at the waste water treatment plant near the Eldorado Park Cemetry following an extensive search through the sewer pipeline nearly three weeks after the incident.
Soweto owes more than R4.5 billion with only a reported 40% of residents willing to actually pay for services.
The six-year-old went missing almost three weeks ago, after allegedly falling into an open manhole while playing with friends near his Dlamini home in Soweto.
It's been 18 days since anyone last saw the little boy who is alleged to have fallen into a manhole, while playing with his friends at a park in Dlamini, Soweto, three Sundays ago.
Emergency services said the search reached the waste treatment plant where it would require the expertise of the Johannesburg Water technicians.