Taxi driver shot dead in WCape
JOHANNESBURG - A taxi driver shot dead in Vrygrond, in the Western Cape, on Tuesday, is the second person killed in taxi violence in the area, the provincial transport department said.
Transport MEC Robin Carlse said another two people had been wounded.
Carlse said the taxi driver, from the Retreat Taxi Association, told him he had been shot at on Monday.
“This morning taxi hitmen brutally murdered the driver,” he said.
“This man approached me for help and I did everything in my power to help, but it was not enough to save him from the vultures that took his life.
“I am shattered. I will not let this murder go unpunished.”
In a statement, Carlse said he had been reliably informed that a prominent member of the Vrygrond Taxi Group was linked to each of the four incidents.
He had instructed the department that no applications for licences or ranks from the Vrygrond Taxi Group would be considered or processed until the area had been free of violence for six weeks.
- Sapa
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