Gun-free taxi ranks, and improvements in the issuing of new permits and operating licences are among the possible measures identified as Gauteng grapples with taxi violence. The provincial legislature’s roads and transport portfolio committee held an urgent meeting on Wednesday with taxi bosses in a bid to bring peace and stability to the troubled industry. The taxi industry committed to immediately tackle the power struggles between the leadership of its associations. Taxi violence is in the spotlight after a spate of killings‚ including the massacre of 11 people returning to Johannesburg from a funeral by gunmen in KwaZulu-Natal. A 12th victim died later in hospital. Another taxi boss was shot dead outside his house in Alexandra‚ Johannesburg‚ on Monday. "The committee received and welcomed presentations from the leadership of the taxi industry and the Gauteng department of roads and transport on what they perceive to be the major contributors of fuelling violence in the industry ...
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