Gauteng To Unveil Plan To Stop Soweto Taxi Wars
Taxi Magazine|Spring 2017

Nanduwe and rivals Wata have been at loggerheads for more than a year. MEC for community safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane and transport MEC Ismail Vadi in Gauteng will on Tuesday announce a plan of action to deal with the dangerous conflict between the two taxi associations in Soweto.

Gauteng To Unveil Plan To Stop Soweto Taxi Wars

Nanduwe and rivals Wata have been at loggerheads for more than a year.

MEC for community safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane and transport MEC Ismail Vadi in Gauteng will on Tuesday announce a plan of action to deal with the dangerous conflict between the two taxi associations in Soweto.

This comes as taxi drivers from Nancefield-Dube West Taxi Association (Nanduwe) marched to the office of the premier on Friday. They shut down traffic flow in the inner city by parking their taxis in the streets. They were demanding to be allowed to operate on their routes again.

This story is from the Spring 2017 edition of Taxi Magazine.

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