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Vehicles drive past an Uber pick up point
E-hailing drivers in several provinces say they’re living in fear. This is in light of increasing crimes including physical attacks and robberies.
The E-hailing Partners Council says that minibus taxi drivers also harass Bolt and Uber drivers.
The Council’s National Spokesperson Vhatuka Mbelengwa says police need to apply the law to ensure the safety of e-hailing drivers and their clients.
“Drivers are not doing well. They’re just operating because people need to survive and it is not even a new environment. It is not even a new climate. Criminality has been increasing. We have been at the frontlines, trying to speak to government for over a decade now. To say regulate because a regulated framework will be able to hold people to account. But the reality is we find ourselves in a situation where people are more likely to be robbed, women are more likely to be raped. And ongoing conflict within the transport industry between e-hailing drivers and your traditional taxi operators are going go up because they’re not being addressed or being confronted.”
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