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Amid a taxi strike, the City of Cape Town’s JP Smith says they won’t submit to a call by Santaco to halt vehicle impoundments.

The City of Cape Town and Santaco speak about the violence during a protest by the taxi industry and the city lays out its plans to ensure the safety of commuters.

Traffic officers in Cape Town opened fire, wounding a suspect in the leg, when a taxi driver and his passenger “became riotous” and attacked them after being stopped for disobeying a red traffic light on Wednesday.

Mayco member for safety and security, JP Smith, said that gangsters would keep committing crime because they knew they could get away with it, even if they were caught.

At least 14 people were killed, seven of them children, in fire-related incidents at the weekend in Cape Town.

An act signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa to impose new race quotas in the workplace could cost up to 600,000 jobs, says DA leader John Steenhuisen.

The City of Cape Town sees detection of criminal incidents go up by 108% in three months, as its CCTV camera network expands.

Cape Town is cracking the whip on the city's top 100 traffic offenders who collectively owe more than R9m in unpaid fines.

Cape Town has waged war on illegal dumping as officials are stumbling on meat and medical waste dumped in open public spaces.

Notable productions filmed in the past year include 'American Monsters', 'Blood and Water', 'Come Dine with Me Cape Town' and 'Fear Factor India'.