Taxi industry
This year's taxi price increase will be higher - Santaco
South African National Taxi Council chief strategy manager Bafana Magagula says the industry has suffered a lot in the past two years.
Eyewitness News caught up with Tshepiso Makoni and Tebogo Losaba, the founders of Teboxemeka, who hope to impact the taxi industry and show their appreciation for it with their art.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula was speaking during the launch of the R1.1 billion taxi relief programme, which will see individual operators pocketing R5,000 each.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said the intervention is part of a list of priorities meant to address problems in the sector.
The Transport Department made a commitment to give the industry over R1.8 billion over a year ago.
Raneki died in a car crash near Graff Reinet, in the Eastern Cape on Friday.
Joyce Hlobo, Joyce Nkosi and Mavis Ndlela have launched an upholstery business for taxis after being in the industry for more than two decades.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on Thursday briefed MPs on mitigating the impact of the pandemic.
The incident, which police believe to be part of ongoing taxi violence, happened on Thursday night.
Gauteng Roads and Transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo has released the findings into the underlying recurring violence and fatalities in the taxi industry.
In arguing that taxi drivers should be considered essential workers when COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out, the taxi industry claimed it transports 70% of South Africa’s commuters, or more than 15 million people daily. Africa Check crunched the numbers.
The Inter-Ministerial Committee on gender-based violence (GBV) and Femicide launched the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign on Tuesday.
Thousands of taxi drivers and owners marched through the Pretoria CBD on 18 November 2020. The operators demanded that Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula pay them the COVID-19 relief funds they were promised. A memorandum of demands was handed over at the Union Buildings. #TaxiStrike
Taxi operators brought Pretoria to a standstill on 18 November 2020 as they embarked on a protest through the city. The operators marched first to the Department of Transport before making their way to the Union Buildings where they handed over a memorandum of demands to Deputy Minister in the Presidency, Thembi Siweya. Drivers and owners are demanding that Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula pay them the COVID-19 relief funds promised to them.
The National Taxi Association (NTA) on Tuesday said drivers would be marching to Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula’s office and the Presidency in Tshwane at the Union Buildings to submit a memorandum of demands.
The national taxi lekgotla was concluded over the past weekend.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said from April next year government would introduce a subsidy for the industry.
Mbalula said his department would work with Treasury and the taxi sector.
Transport Director General Alec Moemi said government committed to a plan that includes the formalisation, regulation and empowerment of the taxi industry.