Benoni residents protest new taxi rule ending touting, demanding taxis resume picking up passengers near homes.
Benoni residents protested the new taxi rule ending touting, demanding taxis return to picking up passengers near their homes.
The deputy chair of the Benoni Taxi Association, Edna Dlamini, says residents of Benoni are unhappy because the taxis are no longer touting, or picking up passengers on the road, in an effort to combat crimes that were on the rise.Several road closures were seen leading up to Etwatwa taxi rank, covered in rocks and stones.Touting is when taxis go on roads in the community, picking up people close to their homes. The end of this practice means people need to go to a taxi rank to get a taxi.
He said even private taxis were no longer allowed to tout in the area, which hurt their pockets. He disputed the reason the association gave about the crime saying, “they are using it as an excuse”.Another protester, Nkosi Nkabinde, said: “We believe that the crime was less when they were touting because now that they have stopped our mothers have to walk long distances going to the taxi rank and they are vulnerable to crime in the area.
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