Taxi violence

Explanation
Intense competition between taxi operators for ranking facilities and routes escalated from 1991 and acquired a political character in certain areas of the western Cape and Transvaal. Over 200 lives were lost in attacks on taxis and passengers in 1992 alone. Organisations formed to bring about peace and unity in the taxi industry failed to reach understanding or maintain agreements, and violence continued throughout the 1990s. Certain town councillors and other groups were linked to taxi violence in Cape Town. On the East Rand, taxi associations were perceived to be identified either with the IFP or the ANC.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Venda, Day 2 (04 October 1996)

He said, mother, did Muntso tell you anything that I did? Did he give you any reason why he came to see you? That was a very terrible year, we wouldn't go free to work in the taxi's, we used to walk on foot. It was just violence.

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Human Rights Violation Hearing, Sebokeng (07 August 1996)

... the main road because I thought there was transport and my intention was to go to the hostel. I stood for quite a long time there waiting for the taxi and I saw there was some violence. There was absolutely no calm. At that time a youth appeared and asked me what I was doing there. I went on ...

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Decision

... 1991 at or near Lansdowne Road, Nyanga East. The townships of Cape Town was plagued at the time by widespread violence involving conflicts in the taxi industry as well as the general political conflict at the time. Given the high political profile of the deceased, there was a belief held by ...

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