POLICE were called after two maxi taxi operators clashed at Vereeniging in the Vaal on Tuesday afternoon.
Two groups of maxi taxi operators started fighting at their ‘peaceful demonstration’ during an E-hailing taxi operators march to Sedibeng cluster police offices.
The mini taxi operators marched to hand over their memorandum of grievances to the police but their march ended in chaos as they fought amongst themselves.
E-hailing taxi services chairperson Abraham Mokate told Daily Sun that they came to the Police cluster offices to hand over their memorandum of grievances as police are not helping them to open criminal cases against the Sedibeng meter taxi operators who are damaging their cars every week.
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He said in just six months five of their cars were burnt by their rivals.
Mokate said that whenever they go to Vereeniging or Vanderbijlpark police station to report their cases, at times they are being assaulted by meter taxi operators.
“They are also taking our money. Police must tell them to make peace so we can work together and stop coming to report cases.” He said.
Mokate also said that he was surprised to see meter taxi operators arriving at their march and already starting a fight with their members and burning tyres to close the entrance so that their cars won’t be able to leave the parking lot.
Papa Nkomuyadla, who is the Sedibeng taxi patroller chairperson, told Daily Sun that E-hailing taxi services has taken their jobs and they are not going to allow them to work as free as they want.
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Nkomoyadla said his members came to disrupt the E-hailing march as they are not welcome to work in sedibeng unless they operate like other meter taxis in the region.
Despite the chaos, the E-hailing protesters were able to hand over their memorandum to the Sedibeng police cluster and Colonel, Jacob Langermaan, promised the taxi operators that they will get their response in seven days.
