Escalating fuel prices are devastating a transport industry that had barely recovered from the restrictions imposed during COVID-19 lockdowns. Drivers and owners of minibus taxis, metered taxis and those in the e-hailing industry in South Africa are feeling the pinch.
Mokoena spends well over R3,000 a week on fuel. “To make your day’s target, you must spend money on petrol. By the time you make R1,000, you have already spent a lot of money on petrol. I have two children and a wife. I am the only one who works. I must pay school fees monthly. It is difficult to manage all these things.”Escalating fuel prices and the documented exploitation of e-hailing drivers forced them to take to the streets in March.
In an attempt to ease the pressure on consumers, financial institutions introduced a three-month payment holiday on car and home loans in late March 2020. Mokoena didn’t qualify as he was already behind on his payments. “That really impacted me. And I know that a lot of Uber drivers are really struggling. Even today, I am behind with my car payments. I am in arrears of about R8,000,” he says.
Malele says this is not enough for the minibus taxi industry considering operational, maintenance and fuel costs, loan instalments that range from R12,000 to R15,500 a month, drivers’ wages and profit for the taxi operator.
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The taxi association wants support, what about the other businesses that also need petrol for them to run a business. Or businesses that need petrol to run generators to conduct business. When will the taxi support road rules? Pay taxes, register their taxi businesses with SARS?
No taxes no help
The Taxi Mafia must be scaled down..way down..
So they’re admitting that they have an inefficient and non profitable business model that can only survive with government handouts and a blind eye when it comes to taxation? Ok
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