ROADBLOCK

Codeta set to challenge six-week closure of Somerset West routes

- BY MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

THE Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) has indicated that it will challenge the six-week closure of the four contentious routes.

This comes after the Western Cape Government took action after another flareup in taxi-related killings over a dispute between Codeta and rivals Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata).

The conflict left 10 people dead and five others injured in five days last week.

The Western Cape Department of Mobility then filed an urgent interdict at the High Court last Thursday to prohibit members of the affected taxi associations Codeta, Cata and affiliates from interfering with transport services at the Somerset West taxi rank, Somerset West Mall, and on four key routes: Route 611 (Khayelitsha Somerset West), Route 43 (Lwandle - Khayelitsha), Route M18 (Mfuleni Somerset West) and Route X19 (Nomzamo Mfuleni).