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PUPILS HIT HARDEST
Rioting Nyanga taxi drivers continued their violent protesting yesterday, burning another City-owned vehicle.
Taxi drivers using Toyota Avanzas, commonly known as Amaphelas, have since Friday been optogging, burning City of Cape Town trucks, buses, a police van and a guard shelter at the Nyanga Clinic. Several private vehicles were also damaged.
Yesterday morning, another vehicle was torched while the protests disrupted the working class, local businesses and school laaities.
A Philippi resident says: “My daughter, who is in matric, was writing a trial exam yesterday, she uses a taxi.
Safety
“Her father ended up taking her to school before he could go to work.”
The City’s safety boss JP Smith says the Amaphela drivers are breaking the law in more ways than one.
“The vehicles being impounded are operating illegally,…
