SABC News reports that a taxi security guard was fatally shot, and seven others were injured during a shootout involving rival taxi groups in Nyanga on the Cape Flats.
Western Cape Police Commissioner Thembesile Patekile confirmed that 13 rifles and seven handguns were seized at the scene. Nineteen security guards have been taken in for questioning as part of the investigation by the provincial taxi task team. Patekile said the shooting was between two warring groups within the same taxi organisation. “So, they were shooting at each other, guarding different groups within the same association. The motive at this stage, we are informed that it is about money. There is bucket money or collection money that get collected in the taxi industry, which is used for various things. That’s where the gist of the matter is,” he indicated.
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