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The scene where four killed in taxi related shooting at the Jeppestown Long Distance Taxi Rank in the Joburg CBD, March 20, 2025.
The Witwatersrand African Taxi Association(WATA) is calling on government to intervene and address taxi wars with urgency. This follows the fatal shooting of three men believed to be taxi marshals in Mofolo Central, Soweto this morning.
Johannesburg Metro Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of the shooting. Motorists have been encouraged to use alternative routes. The motive for the killing is still unknown and no one has been arrested yet.
WATA spokesperson Hamilton Miya says, “For the past ten years we’ve been living like this. We try by all means to invlove the government. We even wrote an email to the President and Ministers to intervene but moving forward we’ll put everything to the police to do their job. Police will investigate and they will update us.”
VIDEO | SABC News Reporter Calvin Dludla is at the scene where he spoke to Miya about the situation:
