Another taxi driver wounded in Cape Peninsula

The taxi war continues unabated in the Cape Peninsula and in the latest incident, a 22-year-old driver was wounded in his left leg during a shoot-out in Philippi-East on Tuesday. Police say the driver was sitting in his vehicle in the parking area of a shopping centre when shots were fired at him from a passing vehicle. There were four men in the vehicle from which the shots were fired. The driver is in a stable condition in hospital.

On Monday, a taxi-driver was killed when a man fired several shots at a stationary taxi in the main road of Delft. Thirty-five-year-old Andries Ntsini of Gugulethu was hit twice in the chest and died on the scene. Two passengers in the vehicle were not injured. A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting.