Taxi industry ‘not a field of war’
The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) says the
taxi industry should not be a war zone.
President of Santaco, Philip Taaibosch, says the news of the drivers who were killed on Sunday come as a shock.
Unknown assailants fired a hail of bullets at a minibus carrying at least 17 taxi industry members on Saturday.
The victims are said to have been in KwaZulu-Natal to attend a colleague's funeral and were shot on their way back to Gauteng.
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Taaibosch says the industry cannot be allowed to be turned into a battlefield as its job is to service communities.
"We should refrain at all costs any acts of violence.”
Taaibosch says he feels a sense of relief at the announcement by national police commissioner Kehla Sithole that a task team has been put together to ensure the perpetrators are brought to book.
He says he will be visiting the two survivors in hospital on Wednesday.