Threats of taxi violence found to be false

By Cindy Witten
17 February 2009

After numerous e-mails made its way around, threatening taxi violence at taxi ranks across the City, today seems to be calm and business as usual.

South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Captain Billy Jones says that the e-mails were untrue.
“There were quite a few [e-mails] going around yesterday, but as indicated, it was just a hoax,” he said.

Quite on the contrary actually, as taxis have been transporting passengers all day with no incidents of violence reported.
“There have been no incidents today; there have been no taxi strikes,” said Jones.

“We have in any case deployed members from early this morning.”