Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela is calling on taxi operators to identify criminals, hitmen and paymasters.
Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela said that one of their key priorities was to relocate shacks that had sprung up on tracks that had been unused for months.
Since the start of the year, there have been 92 taxi-related murders and 51 attempted murders in the Western Cape, with the latest violence on Monday, when five members of taxi association Cata were shot dead and three others were wounded in Nyanga.
Mbalula said that an efficient, affordable, safe and reliable public transport system was a pre-requisite if transport was to be a driver of economic activity and an enabler of economic output.
Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela said the objectives of the lekgotla was to pave the way for members of the taxi industry to engage one another in order to reimagine the industry.
Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela will on Friday wrap up his three-day trip to the Garden Route district, where he's been meeting with municipal officials and minibus taxi leaders.
Over the past two weeks at least five Golden Arrow buses have been targeted in separate attacks.
The party's Cape Town council caucus said that the official was released without being charged.
One person was killed and two others were wounded in two shooting incidents at the Bellville taxi rank last week.
Since January, Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela's department recorded more than 40 taxi-related murders and 20 cases of attempted murder in this province.
Six people, including five taxi drivers, have been killed in Nyanga and Philippi since Friday.
Taxi body Santaco said that government's R1.1 billion relief fund was not enough and branches in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have now called on drivers to ignore those regulations and operate at full capacity.
Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela said that he was considering drastic action because the lives of innocent passengers and residents were at risk as a result of the ongoing conflict between warring taxi associations in the Western Cape.
Only three people have died on the province's roads compared to 38 last year.
Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela said that since the lockdown commenced last week, he'd received a number of reports of essential services workers being left stranded and unable to get to work.
This after a man was killed and two others wounded in taxi-related shooting at the Mbekweni train station.
The bus route has not been operating since it was suspended in May last year.
The service has been suspended since May last year after the city's contract with the bus operating company came to an end.
