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Timeslive reports that Parliament's Police Portfolio Committee has warned that taxi violence has reached “crisis levels” in SA.
The committee was reacting to the latest incident in which 11 people linked to a Gauteng-based taxi association were gunned down while travelling in a minibus taxi between the towns of Colenso and Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. The ambush occurred when members of Ivory-Park Taxi Association were returning home after attending the funeral of a colleague in Ematimatolo. Four people were also critically wounded when gunmen opened fire on the vehicle. Committee chairperson Francois Beukman pointed out that on numerous occasions they had highlighted that in order to deal with crime effectively there was a need to eliminate illegal firearms. He went on to say that the incident was “a further indication that violence in the taxi industry has now reached crisis levels in the country and a multi-sectoral intervention strategy must be implemented to effectively deal with this scourge.”
- Read this report by Nomahlubi Jordaan in full at Timeslive
- Read too, 'We have not lost control‚' says Santaco after taxi massacre, at Timeslive
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