The City of Tshwane will pay aggrieved Menlyn Taxi Association members a whopping R1 136 000 ( one million one hundred and thirty six thousand).
This is in relation to a promise that was apparently made by the Metro to the Menlyn taxi association many years ago.
According to reports, the City of Tshwane started using routes that are designated for taxis in 2013 in the form of A Re Yeng buses.
The introduction of the A Re Yeng bus services reportedly collapsed the business of taxi drivers who were operating on the said routes.
Then in 2016 more routes designated for taxis were used by the City of Tshwane in the form of Tshwane Rapid Transport, again causing more havoc for taxi drivers.
All this was done amid promises by the City of Tshwane Metro would in due course compensate the affected Menlyn Taxi Association drivers for loss of passengers as many commuters had switched to using buses rather than taxis.
The said routes are the ones who run from the Pretoria CBD to Menlyn.
On Friday the Menlyn Taxi Association members caused chaos in the CBD in Madiba Street next to the headquarters of the Metro (Tshwane House) by blocking traffic flow and demanding immediate payment of their long-promised money.
They engaged MMC for Roads and Transport Tlangi Mogale in a meeting and thereafter the taxi association delegates emerged victorious from the meeting as they told their members that the City of Tshwane Metro had finally agreed to pay up.