Boksburg Taxi Rank drivers continue to protect their commuters
With public transportation and taxi ranks being the high-risk areas of contracting the virus due to big crowds, drivers and queue marshals are doing their part to keep themselves and their passengers safe.
Taxi drivers and queue marshals at the Boksburg Taxi Rank are still heeding the government’s call to sanitise their taxis and to wash their hands to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.
The Advertiser visited the Boksburg Taxi Rank recently and observed that before the passengers could be loaded into the taxi their hands were sanitised.
Sandile Mofokeng who has been working as a queue marshal for the past three months said his duty was to spray the hand sanitiser on the passengers’ hands before they board the taxi.
“I also make sure that while they are still queuing, they observe the social distancing protocols,” Mofokeng said.
One of the drivers, Mzwakhe Mthembu, shared that once the hand sanitisers run out, they have been told to go to their local Santaco offices in Kempton Park where they are given bucket loads of sanitisers.
A commuter, Tompsi Lepoto who was about to board a taxi to Holomisa informal settlement, said it was her first time she came to town since the lockdown started on March 27.
“I wanted to go to the bank and buy some grocery because since we are locked up at home, all we do is just eat. I feel safe inside the taxis because at least now they are sanitising our hands as well as inside the taxis, and we don’t sit close to each other,” Lepoto said.
Another commuter, Raymond Mazibuko who had his gloves and mask on, said he felt safe in taxis since their hands were sanitised.
Meanwhile, with the extension of the lockdown many people have found creative ways to make money from the lockdown situation.
The Advertiser noticed at the Boksburg Taxi Rank Mdu Ndlovu also cashing in on the Covid-19 pandemic by selling hand sanitisers to the commuters at R45 each.
“These hand sanitisers are currently selling like hot cakes because they are now in big demand,” Ndlovu said.
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