Peter Herring

Due to the taxi violence, Staff transport from call centres dropped staff at police stations and told them to find their way home. Some are choosing to sleep at police stations and will only go home in the morning. They are still expected to report for duty in the morning

Taxi drivers are considering not driving tomorrow due to the ongoing shootings. Nothing finalised yet

What a traumatic morning in Delft this morning. Some of these people reported for work despite this experience

Until the government puts its foot down and provides clear direction on taxi operating rights, we will always be here. The current violence can be traced back to Hermanus, where operators left one taxi association to join another about 10 months ago. We saw a similar dispute over the B97 route in 2021, where 83 people were killed. At the heart of this conflict are questions that government must answer: Who controls taxi operating permits - individual operators or associations? Are permits issued to individuals because of their association membership? And what happens to an operator's permit when they leave one association to join another? These are fundamental regulatory questions that require clear answers.

Several taxi-related shooting incidents across Cape Town today. Mfuleni, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha. In Khayelitsha the gunman boarded a taxi carrying schoolchildren. As the vehicle travelled along Japhta Masemola Rd, he shot the driver in the head while the taxi was still moving

It is tavern shootings, extortionists, taxi violence. Black-on-Black violence. Black people are always dying, always

Another video from the Delft shooting incident. Commuters are once again caught in the middle of a taxi war they know nothing about.