Cars stoned, residents injured as Cape Town taxi protest turns violent

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Cars stoned, residents injured as Cape Town taxi protest turns violent - The demonstration, organised by two taxi associations, Codeta and Cata, blocked several arterial roads into the city’s central business district on Thursday morning

The chairperson of the South African National Taxi Council , Nazeem Abdurahman, told the“We know [Cata and Codeta] have concerns,” said Abdurahman, but these should be raised in a law-abiding manner instead of “what is currently happening”.

The associations also want the city to change bylaws “as a matter of urgency”, particularly traffic bylaws that allow officers to impound a taxi that is operated in contravention of its approved licence or route. The associations say the bylaws do not gel with national legislation. “We view this as the practice of apartheid government, where favours were provided to certain groups and left other groups crying and bleeding,” according to the letter of demands. , to review the validity of operating licences, which currently run for seven years.

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I truly hope that geordinhl and Our_DA VFPlus WILL hold them accountable & liable for their acts of domestic terrorism.

This behaviour should not be allowed. The Gov't has mody coddled them to such an extent they do as they please ...Enough of rioters now shoot the bastards with blanks and pepper spray bombs

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