UPDATE: #TaxiViolence started yesterday

This morning a female Johannesburg bound commuter was killed by a stray bullet while she waited in the queue to board a taxi.

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According to an eyewitness, violence among rival taxi associations started yesterday already when two tax officials were shot dead.

This morning a female Johannesburg bound commuter was killed by a stray bullet while she waited in the queue to board a taxi.

Two other passengers were critically injured.

@TopEditorInt #COSATU calls for calmness after commuters were disturbed by an erupting taxi feud around Tembisa #COSATU on Dept to intervene

— @COSATU Today (@_cosatu) July 28, 2015

And here we go again, one shot dead in Tembisa taxi violence. When will it end?

— BIGBOYTROY (@briantroy62) July 28, 2015

@RediTlhabi The Family of the slain woman have arrived at Esangweni Taxi Rank in Tembisa pic.twitter.com/N0when4q3q

— Muchindu Projects (@musamello) July 28, 2015

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Marietta Lombard

Editor-in-Chief of Caxton Joburg Metro with 26 years' experience in the community newspaper industry. I serve as Gauteng Director and deputy executive director of the Forum of Community Journalists and I am a press representative of the Press Council SA.