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TAXI VIOLENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

 
The growth of the taxi industry in the early 1980s was characterised by extreme violence, much of which was masked by political conflict that swept

the country at that time. Today, despite the government efforts to regulate and clean up the industry, tensions and killings continue every year. Any effort to clean and regulate the industry will need to be supported by strong law enforcement. Until the climate of impunity is removed and organisers of the violence are prosecuted, the regulation of the industry alone will not solve the problem of violence.

Related Publications

 
ISS Presentation: Taxi Industry and BP Stations
Makubetse Sekhonyane, 9 September 2003
 
Taxi Violence: The regulation and enforcement route
Makubetse Sekhonyane, IN Nedbank ISS Crime Index Volume 5 2001, Number 4, July - August
 
Taxi-wars and the South African government (outside link)
Jackie Dugard and Makubetse Sekhonyane in Crime and Conflict, Issue No 12, Winter 1998

 

 

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