In amongst the videos of chaos at the central Cape Town terminal, and gunfire in Langa, it’s easy to lose sight of the root cause of what we are witnessing.
Since the start of the year, at least 82 people have been murdered in Western Cape taxi violence, and the past week has seen things worsen.
As the battle for taxi supremacy in the Western Cape (and South Africa) rages on one writer has taken aim at metered taxi services and he isn’t holding back.