With the Cape Town taxi strike still fresh in the memory of South Africans and the constant flak the industry gets, Santaco Presidentto his office at Santaco House in Tshwane to chat about this and how taxi violence nearly lost him a finger or two.
In the first 30 minutes of our conversation, Motlhabane Abner Tsebe – the fifth president of the South African National Taxi Council – speaks for nearly 25 minutes. He's clearly arrived prepared. Tsebe talks on a myriad of issues in what feels like his opening address of a court statement – he's even dressed to match in a suit and tie with documents at the ready, as he sits behind his desk in his sparsely decorated office at Santaco House in Tshwane.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.