Taxi association donates minibuses to widows from eMbalenhle
Vukta chairman pledged to help Siphiwe Luvuno and Ntwaki Hlophe, enabling them to support their families after losing their husbands, who were members of the association.
The Vukanini Taxi Association (Vukta) used its recent AGM to hand over two new minibuses to widows Siphiwe Luvuno and Ntwaki Hlophe, enabling them to support their families after losing their husbands, who were members of the association.
The association began the AGM by recognising its best drivers, owners and queue marshals across all taxi ranks. Afterwards, association chairperson Fanyana Sibanyoni announced what he called a “special award” that came from the heart.
“This award means a lot to me, and I want these women to continue where their husbands left off before they died because they were our members. We can’t just sit by and do nothing, as if nothing happened, because, at the end of the day, their families need to survive.
“As an association, we will assist these women to ensure their minibuses operate, and support them with registration and all other compliance requirements,” said Sibanyoni.
Sibanyoni and his executive committee were re-elected unopposed after their four-year term expired. In his message to members following the re-election, he confirmed that the leadership remained committed to working hard for Vukta members and creating new opportunities for their taxi business.
“As Vukta, we not only focus on our members. We also assist our community through our feeding scheme, which provides monthly groceries to community members with no income, fix schools and roads.
“Through our social programmes, we also buy school uniforms annually for needy children and help community members who lost their homes or shacks to fires.
“Working with the police, we also fight crime in our community, although we still face challenges affecting our youth. If we get the opportunity to deal with drugs in our township, our focus would be on the suppliers, not the addicts, because you can’t win the fight if you only target addicts.
“To stop drugs in our townships and towns, we must get the suppliers and hand them over to the police. Then we won’t have addicts anymore. What is shocking is that our youth are being destroyed by drugs,” Sibanyoni added.
