KZN task team investigates recent taxi-related killings
The Provincial Taxi Task Team will be be investigating several recent attacks in Durban and surrounds that have claimed several lives and have been linked to taxi violence.
A taxi driver, an 18-month-old baby girl and a 15-year-old school girl were killed on Wednesday night when gunmen in another vehicle opened fire on the minibus they were in, in Inchanga, west of Durban.
The following day, an e-hailing taxi operator and his passenger were shot dead in another drive-by shooting in Umbilo.
On that same day, a 61-old-man also believed to be a taxi operator, was shot dead in Isipingo.
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A former leader of taxi council SANTACO was also killed in Umlazi last week.
KZN Transport Department spokesperson, Kwanele Ncalane. "From the department point of view, our public transport regulator entity is on board intervening in these areas to assess what exactly is the motive for these killings and what intervention can be made to restore the situation and make sure that there are no further loss of life," he says.
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Ncalane added, :" We want to see the perpetrators of this violence arrested. And we want to warn the industry that we are going to be pulling all stops as government to make sure that we end this bloody conflict because it cannot be tolerated that we have got an industry that is run by a barrel of a gun."
