Investigations have revealed that hitmen are hiring top lawyers to defend themselves and that the biggest threat to political victims is from within their own parties

Twenty-two percent of Capetonians use minibus taxis, but the city’s transport model will reduce this

The national taxi council is seeking legal advice to apply for an urgent interdict for the release of all its impounded vehicles

The South African National Taxi Council has called an urgent meeting after live rounds were fired in the city centre

The high court dismissed Fikile Mbalula’s leave to appeal against a court order forcing him to draw up a plan ensuring the safety of drivers and passengers

A joint operation between Cape Town’s law enforcement units and the South African Police Service sees multiple arrests

Correcting historic faults, the minibus taxi industry must become regulated and stop overtrading

Nearly 50 people were gunned down in another bloody week while implementation of the gunfire-detection system ShotSpotter was delayed by “administrative processes”

Civil society organisation Western Cape Gang Watch has said that the spate of violence is the worst the Cape Flats has seen

The reopening of Route B97 without an agreement may result in a flood of illegal taxi operators and reignite taxi violence

‘Sufficient police visibility’ planned in the suburbs of Maitland and Ndabeni.

The demonstration, organised by two taxi associations, Codeta and Cata, blocked several arterial roads into the city’s central business district on Thursday morning

Fears of renewed taxi violence are sparked after the body of a leader of the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association was found on sand dunes near Khayelitsha

Three suspects remain in custody following their arrest on charges of attempted murder and assault after eight taxis were impounded

Mbongeni Songo is facing four counts of murder and one of attempted murder. A fifth person was wounded in the same incident

Three members affiliated with taxi association Cata have been gunned down at the Joe Slovo minibus taxi rank in Cape Town

The relations of social domination are reproduced in our habitual ways of talking

But key route remains closed and affected areas halt issuing of operating licences

The flare-up of the taxi war in the Western Cape has again shown the industry’s ability to hold commuters, the state and the local economy to ransom

But despite the calm, rival taxi associations have not yet made peace in their turf war