As the mayhem unfolded in the city of Cape Town on Monday with more than 400,000 pupils unable to go to school and hospitals shutting down, transport minister Sindiswa Chikunga met with taxi bosses and city officials to broker a deal to bring an end to the violent taxi strike.
Three Golden Arrow buses were set alight early on Monday within hours of the company obtaining a high court interdict aimed at curbing violence during the taxi strike in the Western Cape.
A woman allegedly abducted from her workplace on Friday has been reunited with her family after Western Cape police traced her and arrested five suspects.