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11 South African Taxi Drivers Killed in Ambush

by VOA News

   Eleven South African taxi drivers were killed and four others
   critically wounded when gunmen opened fire on their minibus.

   Police Brigadier Jay Naicker said the victims were returning to
   Johannesburg from a colleague's funeral when they were ambushed between
   the towns of Colenso and Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal province.

   Two people among the 17 on the bus were unscathed.

   Police are investigating possible motives, but rivalry between groups
   of taxi drivers vying for the same routes has led to violence in the
   past.

   South African media reported the deaths of 10 people in violence
   related to rivalries among minibus taxi drivers in Cape Town over one
   weekend in May.

   Minibus taxis are an essential mode of transportation in South Africa.