KZN school transporters accuse taxis of extortion
The South African Scholar Transporters Association in KwaZulu-Natal accuses local taxi associations of extortion.
It says the associations are demanding thousands of rands to let them operate.
Secretary-general Sihle Magubane says taxi bosses in KwaDukuza force members to pay despite their possession of valid permits.
" The only matter that has not caught our eye is that in one of the areas called KwaDukuza. They summoned all the scholar transporters and they issued a letter and that said to all scholar transporters, they must come on the 12th of this month and they must bring R3,000, of which they said in the letter they'll do permits for them."
He’s urging the provincial transport department to step in.
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" We need a regulation so we can take care of our own problems. We also need to get into that system. The vehicles that we're using are old. We cannot lie about that.
"So if the government comes forward, and regulates us, then you can introduce us through a scraping system so that we can buy suitable vehicles."
SANTACO's Sifiso Shangase says the taxi council is distancing itself, insisting that no operator has been instructed to collect fees from scholar transport drivers...
"SANTACO knows nothing about the R3,000. We can just make a follow-up."
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