By REGINALD KANYANE
22 August 2025- The North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management, Wessels Morweng condemns violent behaviour by people targeting private vehicles claiming to be taxi industry representatives. Morweng has called on police and other law enforcement entities to deal decisively with a group of people who claim to represent taxis owners and operators by stopping private vehicles and forcing other passengers to use taxis.
“One incident was experienced by some private vehicle owners between Brits and Letlhabile this past Sunday. According to the information received, a group of people were stopping cars and where they found passengers, they forcefully removed them and placed them in taxis.
“We have cautioned those behind such illegal actions. I have heard about one incident in Brits that started Sunday, though our Provincial Regulatory Entity managed to deal with it, I am cautioning others to refrain from that.
“It’s illegal and we won’t tolerate that. Those who experienced that treatment must also open criminal cases at the nearest police stations as that actions are pure criminality,” he said.
Morweng further said they are a constitutional country not a banana republic, where everybody must just wake up and infringe on somebody’s constitutional rights. He added that the Provincial Regulatory Entity is also monitoring other roads for similar incidents and traffic officers are on high alert to assist private vehicle owners and users.
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