Video: Taxi war continues<\/a><\/p>\n (Warning not for sensitive ears) \u2013 Video: NDTA blocks N11<\/a><\/p>\n Updates here:<\/p>\n
Police are now on high alert for revenge attacks on Nasaret’s taxi operators, though the chairman of the Mhluzi Taxi Association, Mr Almon Mdluli, says \u201cwe are not pointing fingers at this stage\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Mdluli says that the mini buses was set alight around 04:00 Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage we have no clue who the arsonist could be, and we’re not speculating, the police must solve this urgently,\u201d Mr Mdluli says.<\/p>\n
Nasaret District Taxi Association chairman, Mr David Ross, told the Observer that rumours of revenge attacks were rife.<\/p>\n
\u201cI however don’t believe that any of our members are involved, this is purely an act of vandalism by a criminal,\u201d Mr Ross said.<\/p>\n
According to the SAPS eight taxis were set alight in Extension 5, while another eight were torched in Avalon simultaneously.<\/p>\n
The attacks seems deliberately planned, the SAPS says.<\/p>\n
No suspects has been identified yet and Mhluzi detectives have taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n
Nasaret and Extension 24 has fallen prey to violent protests regarding the disputed taxi routes on numerous occasion the past weeks.<\/p>\n
The stalemate over which association has exclusive transport rights in Extension 24, has not been broken.<\/p>\n
\u2022 At 09:00 the SAPS and military descended on Iraq Taxi Rank where everybody was searched. The Middelburg Observer could however not confirm any arrests before print.<\/p>\n
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