Taxi warlords do as they please

Taxi drivers are being used by their owners to illegally stop and search vehicles they suspect of carrying passengers, often leaving women and kids traumatised and fearful.
The motorist should be made aware that no person besides a traffic cop or police, in a clearly marked vehicle, is allowed to stop them.
Furthermore, if one finds himself compromised or unsafe, the law states that he is allowed to drive to the nearest police station, followed by the officers.
Coming back to the issue of taxi operators, it is about them operating like war lords, creating their own road blocks to stop and search cars. This is being overlooked by the traffic cops and SAPS.
If their concerns are of the passengers’ wellbeing and safety, they should rather concentrate their efforts on their skoro~koro taxis first to make them roadworthy.
Business is diversified across South Africa, but how come the taxi industry has been hijacked from other race groups, solely for blacks only? Why no transformation in this industry as yet?
Finally, the term “taxi boss” just makes me so cross! The term “boss” is creating a lot of havoc. The media is to take the direct blame for this. Why not report incidents with headings like “taxi owner”!
The guy with one skoro~koro taxi is “boss”, but a businessman with many enterprises worth millions is never addressed as a “boss”.
MOE ISMAIL
Verulam