Taxi violence in the Western Cape is following a playbook, where control is gained by extortion, corruption and violence.
In response, municipalities issue fines and taxis are impounded. The illegal operators then decide to run to Cata or Codeta for protection and lobbying power.
“So they recruit municipal officials, they recruit political players, they recruit members of the SAPS. And that is something that has to be looked into. He said the rival local organisations would end up paying fees to their newly adopted mother bodies for protection, and also allow the mother bodies to deploy additional taxis on the routes in their town.
Ahmed added that the mother bodies and local taxi associations and leaders viewed taxi ranks as their turf and were recruiting gangsters to enforce control over ranks and interchanges.
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