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Twenty-two percent of Capetonians use minibus taxis, but the city’s transport model will reduce this
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The national taxi council is seeking legal advice to apply for an urgent interdict for the release of all its impounded vehicles
The South African National Taxi Council has called an urgent meeting after live rounds were fired in the city centre
The high court dismissed Fikile Mbalula’s leave to appeal against a court order forcing him to draw up a plan ensuring the safety of drivers and passengers
A joint operation between Cape Town’s law enforcement units and the South African Police Service sees multiple arrests
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Correcting historic faults, the minibus taxi industry must become regulated and stop overtrading
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Nearly 50 people were gunned down in another bloody week while implementation of the gunfire-detection system ShotSpotter was delayed by “administrative processes”
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Civil society organisation Western Cape Gang Watch has said that the spate of violence is the worst the Cape Flats has seen
The reopening of Route B97 without an agreement may result in a flood of illegal taxi operators and reignite taxi violence
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‘Sufficient police visibility’ planned in the suburbs of Maitland and Ndabeni.
The demonstration, organised by two taxi associations, Codeta and Cata, blocked several arterial roads into the city’s central business district on Thursday morning
Fears of renewed taxi violence are sparked after the body of a leader of the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association was found on sand dunes near Khayelitsha
Three suspects remain in custody following their arrest on charges of attempted murder and assault after eight taxis were impounded
Mbongeni Songo is facing four counts of murder and one of attempted murder. A fifth person was wounded in the same incident
Three members affiliated with taxi association Cata have been gunned down at the Joe Slovo minibus taxi rank in Cape Town
The relations of social domination are reproduced in our habitual ways of talking
But key route remains closed and affected areas halt issuing of operating licences
The flare-up of the taxi war in the Western Cape has again shown the industry’s ability to hold commuters, the state and the local economy to ransom
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But despite the calm, rival taxi associations have not yet made peace in their turf war
Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi says 120 private pharmacies were destroyed and 47 500 vaccines lost in KwaZulu-Natal
The closure of the Mbekweni/Paarl and Bellville route comes as negotiations between taxi operators fail and will affect thousands of commuters
Several vaccination sites were forced to a standstill on Monday, with healthcare workers unable to attend work because of limited public transport
Western Cape government cuts off its Blue Dot incentive payments to Cata and Codeta and financial support agreement with Santaco
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The Western Cape taxi war now threatens commuters on the Golden Arrow bus service, with talks between various stakeholders not yielding a solution
The ongoing taxi war in the Western Cape claimed the lives of three more people on Tuesday as the province braces itself for the possibility of the looting that has rocked Gauteng and KwaZulu-Nata
Forty-three people were shot dead in the first six months of this year in the Western Cape’s intractable taxi violence, while close to 100 have been arrested and 40 are on court rolls in connection with the conflict
It is clear that the democratic government has failed the taxi industry, not only now during the Covid-19 pandemic, but for decades.
The child was caught in the crossfire of an alleged shootout between two rival taxi associations
Our readers write in about taxi violence, populism, and ‘slanted’ reporting
Santaco blames the transport department’s permit issuing procedures for increased taxi violence
Rival bosses in Cape Town make up after a bloody feud that claimed the lives of 13 people and wounded commuters