Taxi rivals agree peace deal

THE Western Cape government yesterday announced an end to the bloody taxi conflict that claimed the lives of at least eight mense.

- BY VOICE REPORTER

The violence erupted on Friday, 6 June, when gunmen opened fire on the Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) office at a taxi rank in Mfuleni, killing four people.

There were suspected retaliatory attacks on Cape Amalgamated Taxi Associations (Cata) members as the chaos spread to Strand.

Dispute

However, Cata and Codeta agreed to join hands with the provincial government to resolve their dispute over the lucrative Mfuleni-Somerset and Khayelitsha-Somerset routes.