KZN police assure residents of protection from possible violence linked to Durban taxi strike

DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal police have assured residents of protection from possible violence linked to an ongoing taxi strike in Durban.  

Taxi operators from the Durban Long Distance Association have been striking for five days after their vehicles were impounded over operational permits.  

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They blocked some roads in the Durban CBD in what KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi said was an unprotected strike.  

"What we've seen happening in the past few days on the taxi strike, it is not a legal strike, I must say. It has not been organised properly, and it is only one association, and even in that association, not all of them are involved in this strike."  

Mkhwanazi said police were on standby to enforce the law.

"As we are trying to enforce the law, we are going to make sure that anyone that breaks the law, we are going to arrest you."