Telta to take legal action
The executive committee of the Tembisa Local Taxi Association (Telta) has called on all its members to respect and allow the democratically elected leaders to lead them.
This follows an attempt by disgruntled members of Telta to close its offices at Oakmoor recently.
It is alleged that members stormed into the association’s offices to hand over a memorandum of grievances, but also threatened staff to close the offices with immediate effect.
After the incident, the association went to court and was granted a protection order against the concerned members.
It is believed the division in the association started when the new executive committee was elected into office on September 12, 2012.
It is also claimed that those who lost the elections started sowing division in the once united taxi association.
Speaking after an executive meeting held at the offices on Monday afternoon this week, Telta members agreed that they are going to take legal action against the disgruntled members.
Telta chairman, Mr Aubrey Tshabalala, said it is sad that people who lost elections fair and square could stoop so low and try to use anarchy to unsettle the association.
“They opened a false case against me as chairperson of the association, and we won the case. We are now going to sue them for defamation. Our lawyers are finalising the legal documents. We cannot allow people to move around spreading lies about others, ” he said.
He is calling on all the members’s to unite against those who are looking for trouble and to support the association until its term expires in 2016.
