Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has suspended Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela for claiming to have a BCom degree in his CV when he has admitted that he has not completed his degree.
Victor Wiwi, the president of the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata), was shot and killed in Nyanga on Wednesday night, while another person was killed and two others were wounded.
Western Cape Transport MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela has on Wednesday launched the Easter traffic safety plan in Brackenfell.
The department is due to spend over R4 billion on infrastructure.
Four boys aged between 11 and 13 died earlier this month after they fell into a sinkhole in Nyanga near the Borcherds Quarry off-ramp while they were playing.
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.
