Soweto commuters in limbo while rival taxi associations quarrel over routes

Soweto taxi commuters have been left stranded as they wait for two rival taxi associations to reach an agreement that will end a spate of violence in the area.

Vadi said the conflict had claimed the lives of three WATA members in January 2019 and several attacks on minibus taxis had taken place since then. On the day of the announcement to close the taxi routes, six people had been shot and 10 cars damaged. Buyile Moya lives in Orlando West, one of the hotspots of the taxi conflict, and uses taxis to get to and from work in Central Johannesburg every day. “We had to watch our backs. We didn’t know if we would get home safely every day,” she said.

Theo Malele, spokesperson for the National Taxi Alliance , which represents both associations, confirmed that the recent conflict was caused by overlapping of operating licences and routes and said “this issue has continued for far too long”. But by the time this plan was presented to Vadi he had already started the process to close down the operations.

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