Minister Mbalula should step off Twitter and address challenges in taxi industry
19 November 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, to step off Twitter and pay full attention to his department, particularly the processing of the Covid-19 relief funds to assist the taxi industry.
We condemn the violence and intimidation towards private citizens at the National Taxi Alliance (NTA) strike yesterday. We are particularly disturbed by images and video clips on social media depicting what seem like taxi marshals intimidating and damaging private properties such as cars. There has also been reports of passenger being kicked out of busses and a Tshwane Metro bus driver being intimidated with violence which resulted in the City halting all bus operations.
There was absolutely no reason why the strike could not have been peaceful and that the protest action be carried out without intimidation, damage of private property and violence.
The NTA should take full responsibility for the members’ actions and we urge law enforcement agencies to hold them to account.