When the petrol price increases, my salary decreases – KZN taxi driver
A KwaZulu-Natal taxi driver says his salary decreases every time the price of petrol goes up.
Linda Nkosi, 39, from Umzinyathi, north of Durban, told News24 on Wednesday that taxi drivers want government to lower fuel prices by 35%.
Nkosi was one of about seven taxi drivers from Qina National Public Transport Workers' Association who handed over a memorandum of grievances to an official from the premier's office in Durban.
"The price of petrol is too expensive now. It greatly affects our livelihoods as taxi drivers. When petrol goes up my salary decreases because a chunk of the money I make at the end of the day goes towards petrol," he said.
Nkosi, a driver from the Ndwedwe District Taxi Association, said he gets paid according to the money he makes each week. He added that he couldn't reveal his salary to the public.