Uber Drivers Harassed in Johannesburg Following Taxi Protest
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Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in South Africa’s most populous city 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 in northern Johannesburg, the San Francisco-based company said in a statement on its website on Monday. 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 on its website.