MEC pins hopes on app to ease tension

Gauteng transport MEC Kedibone Diale-Tlabela suggests that a way to ease the tension between taxi operators and e-hailers — and the issues many e-hailers have — is for Gauteng to have its own e-hailing app.

- Kyle Zeeman

Trouble between taxis and e-hailers has brewed for years but exploded last week with the death of 27-year-old e-hailing driver Siyanda Mvelase outside Maponya Mall in Soweto.

While angry community members shut down the mall and gave taxi operators seven days to stop using the premises, Diale-Tlabela said tension had eased.