The New Age reports that, speaking at the launch of the SA National Taxi Industry Awards (Santia), Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said they will demonstrate the taxi industry’s commitment to ensure that commuters and employees were treated with dignity and respect.
She also denounced the outbreak of renewed sporadic taxi violence saying it placed commuters’ lives in danger. Santaco president Phillip Taaibosch said his organisation sought “to confer all those who will ultimately be known as champions of change with these Taxi Awards as part the industry’s unbendable drive for transformation in good service, proper entrepreneurial conduct and general behavioural change.” In the case of taxi drivers, the process will start at provincial level where winners of the respective provinces will compete for the national taxi driver of the year award. “The winner in this category will receive a fully-furnished house worth R500,000 as well as an advanced driver training course,” Taaibosch indicated.
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