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Original Post Date: 2007-08-14 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Violence between taxi associations over the lucrative Cape Gateway route in the Northern Suburbs won’t end until all issues are resolved, says the Western Cape Taxi Council.
Rivalry between the Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations (Codeta) and the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata) is believed to be behind the killing of a taxi driver at the Bellville taxi rank at the weekend.
The driver was killed and six people injured when two gunmen opened fire at the taxi rank on Saturday. This has brought the number of taxi-related murders to 10 in just six weeks.
In July 2006 commuters struggled to get to work after police closed Bellville taxi rank, one of the busiest in Cape Town. The closure left thousands stranded after a police officer and two bystanders were wounded.
In Saturday’s shooting, police spokesperson Elliott Sinyangana said, the gunmen wounded six people and killed a Codeta taxi driver, from Khayelitsha, before fleeing in a silver vehicle.
The council’s chairperson, Junaid Peters, said Cape Gateway route issues were still under discussion.
“We don’t think those were sorted out because the people are still in discussions. We don’t know the cause of (Saturday’s) incident because it happened individually. We can’t, we’re going into a full scale war. It’s obviously worrying for us because we don’t condone this. Until Cape Gateway is resolved the violence will continue,” said Peters.
SA National Taxi Council president Jabulani Mthembu stated on the council’s website: “Taxi operators clustered themselves into associations to strengthen protection of their property (route) rights, jealously guarding against external forces robbing what taxis had created value out of.
“The present, judging by the same history, tells that times have changed and that same associations have now to play a more critical role as the pillars of the taxi business in the country.
They should now become registered companies, centrally managing all taxi operations within their localities, subscribing to corporate and professional business ethics.
The challenge therefore stands to the differing minds to constructively engage and prove the wrongs of the leadership without presenting misleading and unfounded allegations” wrote Mthembu.