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Eastern Cape MEC for Transport and Community Safety Xolile Nqatha, Premier Oscar Mabuyane and MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Zolile Williams in a media briefing in East London on Monday.
Sithandiwe Velaphi/News24
The Eastern Cape government said three of the 43 firearms confiscated from taxi operators and guards in Mthatha over the weekend were directly linked to a deadly shooting incident which claimed the lives of three people in the Ntywenka Village of Nqanqarhu.
The firearms were seized by police at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, where 14 taxi operators were under heavy guard after being injured during violent clashes between two warring taxi associations.
At the centre of the violence was a dispute over routes between the Uncedo Service Taxi Association and the Border Alliance Taxi Association (BATA).
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