As Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane was listing the terms of reference of a task team to mediate in the taxi violence in Bhisho on Tuesday, a man believed to be behind some of the taxi-related murders in the province was shot dead near East London.
Premier Oscar Mabuyane plans to establish a task team to clamp down on ongoing taxi violence in the province, after four more people were gunned down last week.
Former Uncedo Services Taxi Association president Ntsikelelo Gaehler says he was unlawfully arrested after his vehicle was allegedly shot at near Bloemfontein on Friday. This after Gaehler was stopped in a roadblock by a contingent of police shortly before entering the Bloemfontein area. However, Free State police have a different version of how events unfolded.
The Mdantsane East London Taxi Association (Melta) has been granted an urgent interim court interdict forcing the Uncedo Services Taxi Association to remove members it recently placed into positions of power at the Melta office