UBER Technologies drivers in Johannesburg are facing harassment following a protest on Friday by taxi operators who compete with the personal transportation service. Uber has been in contact with the police and deployed security to help prevent intimidation by metered taxi drivers at the Sandton City shopping mall and Sandton Gautrain station, the San Francisco-based company said yesterday. One Johannesburg woman’s Uber driver was “too scared” to pick her up after being intimidated with a gun by rival taxi drivers in the financial hub, Eyewitness News reported. There was a “small escalation” in incidents of intimidation following the small, non-violent protest on Friday, Samantha Allenberg, a spokeswoman for Uber Africa, said yesterday. Uber had been in talks with metered taxi associations since the beginning of the year to find a way to partner with them, the company said. – Bloomberg
Uber drivers face harassment
Published Jul 7, 2015
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