11 taxi drivers ambushed and were killed after firing in KwaZulu-Natal province

During a bombing of a taxi in South Africa, eleven people were killed Saturday night, four seriously injured. The van was ambushed on the road between the Colenso and Weenen locations in KwaZulu-Natal province. Armed men jumped from the bushes and opened fire on the minibus.

The van was carrying other taxi drivers returning from the funeral of a colleague. Taxi drivers came from the Gauteng province of which Johannesburg is the capital. Police investigate the reasons for the fire. In the 1980s, South Africa's taxi business was deregulated and everyone over the age of eighteen could drive a taxi. Since then, fierce competition has sometimes led to violence.

It is often a matter of controlling profitable roads. Ten people were killed in Cape Town in May. About 60% of the 55 million people in South Africa will work with minibuses. The arrival of Uber in South Africa has also caused conflict in this part of the taxi industry.