Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula and his Western Cape counterpart, Daylin Mitchell, are meeting with taxi operators in Brackenfell in a bid to quell a recent spike in shootings.
Together with Western Cape Member of the Executive Council responsible for Transport and Public Works, Mr Daylin Gary Mitchell we are meeting taxi industry stakeholders in Cape Town.Meeting forms part of efforts to quell taxi industry related violence in the province. pic.twitter.com/lXhtjGrLzg
— |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) July 16, 2021
In Western Cape today; the violence that has gripped the taxi-industry here in Cape Town continues to pain all of us. Working together with government and the taxi-industry stakeholders, we must find urgent solutions to end this. https://t.co/RZFm6bkuht pic.twitter.com/97dKfUQedg
— |Mr Fix (@MbalulaFikile) July 16, 2021
At least 14 people have been killed and scores of others wounded in the latest taxi violence.
In the latest incident, three people were shot dead and a five-month-old baby wounded when gunmen shot a taxi in Harare in Khayelitsha.
Mbalula is expected to address a media briefing this afternoon on the outcome of the talks.
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