Between January and July, taxi violence claimed 24 lives in KwaZulu-Natal, more than triple the number for the same period last year.
This was revealed by police minister Bheki Cele, who met taxi bosses amid heavy armed watch in Ugu on the province’s south coast on Thursday.
Cele said the deaths were a far cry from last year's five when he met taxi owners representing more than 18 associations at Ugu sports and leisure grounds. There they resolved to put together a team to stem the tide of killings motivated by profitable routes.“We need to put together a competent team from different arms of government. Where there is money that is unaccounted for, the best-placed people to deal with that is Sars,” said Cele.
Other stakeholders would include the Special Investigating Unit and transport department, he added. The ministry planned to use this intervention as a pilot project in Ugu, which was a hotbed of killings.“You have got this power that you are misusing and abusing,” he said.
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