Saturday, May 26, 2007

The 14 taxi drivers arrested, out on bail

By Odette Ismail
26 May 2007

The 14 members of the Congress of Democratic Taxi Association who were arrested after chaos erupted in Northpine, Cape Town has been let out on bail of R300 bail each.

The Cape Argus reports that their fellow colleagues went to Kuilsriver Magistrates court where they showed their support on Thursday.

Three people were wounded on Tuesday when a shoot-out broke out at the intersection of Old Paarl and Okovango roads in Northpine.

However another five males face the charges of being in possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.

The fourteen are to appear in court again on October 26 for more investigations on apparent outstanding ballistic reports.

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