Tensions between rival taxi associations in Cape Town have escalated, with five people now confirmed dead and several others injured in ongoing violence tied to a disputed taxi route between Mfuleni ...

On Wednesday morning, 17 September 2025, two nurses, Mihlahi Fonte from Somerset West Mediclinic and Tessa Mahlangu from Helderberg Hospital, found themselves stranded at the Somerset West taxi rank ...

Taxi drivers at the Bellville transport interchange in Cape Town are closing ranks amid high tension after the shooting of a driver. The fatal shooting of a Congress of Democratic Taxi Association ...

CAPE TOWN - The Western Cape Government is implementing extraordinary measures to stabilise escalating taxi violence, following more deaths and the failure of interventions. Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku ...

The protest follows a video that has gone viral, showing a traffic officer putting a taxi driver in a chokehold position, and wrestling him to the ground. CAPE TOWN - Taxi operations have resumed at ...

On Friday, 5 September, Western Cape Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku issued a notice of intent to close taxi routes in Somerset West, Mfuleni, Nomzamo and Lwandle, areas that have been plagued by renewed ...

The Western Cape government has warned rival taxi associations that route and rank closures could last up to a year if taxi violence continues. This, after the province shut down routes in Somerset ...

AMID the closure of several mini-bus taxi routes in the Cape Town metro, the Western Cape government says Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) and Metrorail will provide alternative transport options ...

In just a week, Cape Town city-owned buses have been bombed, two people have been shot dead, and tens of thousands of low-income workers walked home on Friday as the powerful ‘taxi mafia’ took a stand ...

Two women were killed on Wednesday after gunmen armed with high-calibre weapons opened fire on 10 women at the Nyanga taxi rank in Cape Town. Deputy provincial commissioner for policing Major-Gen ...

The City of Cape Town's mayco member for water and sanitation, Zahid Badroodien, told GroundUp that a sewage pipe collapsed. This is linked to previous incidents in the nearby SST informal settlement, ...