WC taxi task team expected to meet after spate of deadly shootings
At least 6 taxi operators from both the Cape's biggest taxi associations - CATA and CODETA - have been killed in just under a week.
Police and emergency services at the scene of a mass shooting at the Mfuleni taxi rank in Cape Town on 6 June 2025. Picture: Ntuthuzelo Nene/EWN
CAPE TOWN - The Western Cape Minibus Taxi Task Team is expected to meet on Thursday following recent deadly shootings within the taxi industry in Cape Town.
At least six taxi operators from both the Cape's biggest taxi associations, CATA and CODETA, have been killed in just under a week.
Five more taxi operators have been wounded in separate attacks in Mfuleni and Lwandle.
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CODETA spokesperson Makhosandile Tumana told EWN that he also shared the police's suspicion that a dispute over the Mfuleni to Somerset West taxi route might be the reason for all this bloodshed.
"CODETA Mfuleni is demanding to exercise its legal right of returning people from Somerset West taxi rank to Mfuleni."
Tumana added that the killings wouldn't solve anything.
"To the families of those who are affected in the senseless practice, to our commuters who were left in trauma, we are extremely sorry."
The taxi task team was formed in 2023 to discuss key issues affecting the industry following a violent taxi strike in Cape Town.