Delft

As you've heard in Eyewitness News, some taxi users in Delft saying they're still fearful about using some routes.

A big meeting happening today around that.

Taxis are running though.

There were, however, some noticeable differences at a few of the smaller taxi ranks, especially in Kailicha, where fewer taxis were operating during the morning peak.

And this is being attributed in part, Mandy, to the lingering fears among both taxi drivers and commuters with many still uncertain about their safety following the recent shootings.

And that anxiety is something communities themselves, as you have just put it, have been telling us about, especially in Delft, where operations at the Palm Rank resumed this morning after that rank was temporarily closed last week.

Some communities there saying that while the Texas are operating again, They are still very scared to use them.

They are worried about what could happen while traveling along the routes that were affected and particularly whether they'll be safe when making their way home later in the day.

walk the talk.

As you've heard in Eyewitness News, some taxi users in Delft saying they're still fearful about using some routes.

A big meeting happening today around that.

Taxis are running though.

As we sit here speaking right now, in the DA ran Cape Town in, I believe, the Cape Flats.

Oh, no, I think they said Delft.

Actually, it's going around everywhere.

I think the day before it was somewhere else.

So another meeting is scheduled for Monday.

But generally, you can feel the tension in and around these other areas that were affected by the deadly violence, the bloodshed, places like Inyanga, Delft.

um you know um earlier this morning in in in at the nyana texas ring texas were not operating while i was leaving the airport as well there were people who were you know workers who work at the airport who were saying there there are no taxes to transport them from work back to their home so you know there's there's that there's delays in in in in in you know in how texas are operating And also there's tension there.

But we will only definitely find out what the situation is in terms of a solution on Monday after that meeting.

As I indicated earlier, today they're writing Physical Sciences Paper 1, Technical Sciences Paper 1 in the 9 o'clock sitting, and then at 2 it will be Tourism.

We've been reporting violence in the taxi industry for just over a week now, with certain interchanges, Delft, for example, having to be closed.

Unfortunately, the provincial government's meeting with Qatar and Kodeta could not proceed yesterday because Qatar... cited prior commitments and that's been rescheduled now for Monday.

How has this conflict been impacting on the ability for our learners to go to the various examination centres to go write their exams? Well,

Cape Town International Airport is reportedly experiencing longer-than-usual queues at security screenings due to operational staffing constraints associated with the ongoing taxi-related unrest.

Three people were killed at the Palm taxi rank in Delft on Wednesday allegedly because of long-standing disputes between taxi associations over routes and operating rights.

Shootings were also reported at taxi ranks in Mfuleni, Nkailicha and Guguletu.

Airport company South Africa says the disruptions have led to staff shortages, which have caused flight delays.

You know, that news has come just this Sunday when she passed.

In this week now, taxi wars have been going on in Delft with commuters unable to get home.

It's just quite sad to me, Lester, that, you know, I am someone who... which, gratefully, has grown up in a very idyllic version of Cape Town.

And even now, you know, having moved back from Java to Cape Town, I still stay in a very realistically safe area, you know, living on the Atlantic seaboard.