{"id":4444,"date":"2013-05-13T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2013-05-13T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T06:06:00","slug":"taxi-violence-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4444","title":{"rendered":"Taxi violence escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On May 3, a Vosloorus Taxi Association member was shot and killed during a shootout at the Windmill Park taxi rank.<\/p>\n

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According to JJ Dlamini, chairman of the association, this is now the 13th member they have lost during the ongoing taxi violence.<\/p>\n

At the recent Reiger Park Taxi Association elections, both Dlamini, as well as Andy Koza, chairman of the Reiger Park Association, stated that they wanted the violence to end.<\/p>\n

“We are busy arranging a meeting with the Reiger Park Association to discuss what can be done to prevent further violence,” says Dlamini.<\/p>\n

He adds that they regret what is happening, and would like to assure commuters that they are doing everything they can to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n

“We are unsure who is responsible for inciting violence.”<\/p>\n

For more than a year-and-a-half, the two associations have been fighting for rights over the Holomisa to Boksburg route.<\/p>\n

The Johannesburg High Court ruled that the route belongs to the Reiger Park Association.<\/p>\n

The Vosloorus Association is challenging this ruling.<\/p>\n

The associations met on March 7, and it was agreed that they would share the route until an agreement could be reached.<\/p>\n

At the time of going to print, Koza had been issued a gag order by the association’s executives, and their public relations officer was unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 3, a Vosloorus Taxi Association member was shot and killed during a shootout at the Windmill Park taxi rank. According to JJ Dlamini, chairman of the association, this is now the 13th member they have lost during the ongoing taxi violence. At the recent Reiger Park Taxi Association elections, both Dlamini, as well … Continue reading “Taxi violence escalates”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12250,2774],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-south-africa","tag-taxi-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/fastdeadly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}