TAXI bosses have pleaded with drivers to remain calm after the chairperson of the Codeta-Paarl Taxi Alliance (Pata) was murdered.
Siyabulela Mandyoli was shot on Tuesday afternoon in front of his house in Paarl.
Mandyoli, 52, was instrumental in brokering a peace agreement between warring taxi operators, after a dispute over the lucrative B97 route in 2021 that claimed the lives of 24 mense.
The route was closed by then-Transport and Public Works MEC Daylin Mitchell due to violence between feuding taxi associations, the Cata Boland Taxi Association and the Paarl Alliance Taxi Association.
An agreement was signed last year for the sharing of the route and it was reopened. There are fears that taxi violence could flare up again.
Spokesperson Andile Khanyi said that Codeta are unaware as
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