Renewed calls for calm as taxi tensions simmer

Plans afoot for mediation process between e-hailing drivers and minibus operators

The South African Police Service  and the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality have renewed calls for calm, with mounting tensions between taxi operators and e-hailing drivers akin to a powder keg ready to explode.

E-hailing drivers allege they have suffered violent intimidation and brutal assaults at the hands of taxi operators who, they say, have prohibited them from operating in the Bay...

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