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News24 reports that yet another high-ranking member of the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) has been shot and killed in Cape Town, just days after the Western Cape mobility department lifted its month-long closure of conflict-ridden taxi routes.
The 32-year-old, who chaired one of CATA’s operating routes, was ambushed while travelling with his security guards on the R300 towards Somerset West on Monday morning. The vehicle was struck from multiple directions in what appears to have been a planned hit. Two adult males were wounded and transported to the hospital for treatment. No arrests have been made and Delft detectives are investigating cases of murder and attempted murder.
The latest killing comes a month after the assassinations of CATA deputy chairperson Mnikeli Mgope, who was shot in his car at the Nyanga taxi rank, and former CATA spokesperson Andile Seyamo, who was killed outside his Brown’s Farm home days later. The attack also follows close on the heels of a provincial decision not to reimpose a 30-day route closure in the Khayelitsha-Makhaza-Mfuleni corridor, an area at the centre of long-running turf battles between CATA and the Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations (Codeta).
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Velani Ludidi at News24 (subscription / trial registration required)
- Read too, Codeta denies involvement in fatal shooting of rival taxi boss, at EWN
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