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Bullet holes on a taxi’s windscreen.
The National Taxi Alliance says rival taxi organisations, the Witwatersrand African Taxi Association (WATA) and the Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association (NANDUWE), will have no choice but to agree and abide by the ceasefire agreement reached to end the violence plaguing the industry.
The truce was facilitated by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport.
Conflict over routes between the two associations has resulted in the loss of over 50 lives.
The National Taxi Alliance and the South African National Taxi Council had a meeting with the MEC for Roads and Transport, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, to try to find a solution to the violence.
National Taxi Alliance Spokesperson Theo Malele says the agreement is best for everyone.
“The warring parties must actually smoke the peace pipe if they are to have a future in the taxi industry because should Section 91 of the National Transport Act be evoked, the likelihood of them losing their businesses are very high. Their livelihood is at stake. Those that are owing on vehicles, they won’t be able to meet their financial obligations. They won’t be able to provide employment for the people that they are employing.”
