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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: An academic’s take on taxi violence: What is it we don't understand?
Description: These past few months we've seen a lot of violence again from the taxi industry, either killing each other or e-hailing drivers. The news of the killing of Siyanda Mvelase at the Maponya Mall in Soweto saw Soweto residents take the law into their hands by burning a minibus taxi. Last week five people were killed in the Western Cape while nine were injured in taxi-related violence. As South Africans we know that this is nothing new and a very common occurrence in this industry. So this morning we thought to speak to academics who have done studies on...