Mkonza admitted that only 60% of taxi associations were run properly with executives meeting routinely and holding elective conferences every four years.
This is according to Santaco provincial chairperson Johannes Mkonza who testified before the commission of inquiry into taxi violence in Johannesburg yesterday.
"It is difficult to follow administration rules to the latter. You've got to run away and hide. When you stop on the street you have to look behind [you] because we are being attacked. While you are fearing for your life, on the other side you still have to manage an institution," Mkonza said. "They hijack the taxi ranks. These people come and collect money from taxis at the ranks, bring their vehicles on the routes and start operating," he told the commission.
One of the main drivers of conflict in the industry is the issuing of operating licences which is done by the provincial department of transport.He said taxi associations only provided a letter of recommendation when a taxi owner applied to get the licence to operate.But many taxi owners have since chosen to do a transfer of operating licensing instead of applying for a new one.
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