Police had confiscated almost 50 firearms. Most were seized from guards and taxi owners at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha where they were protecting Border Alliance Taxi Association (Bata) taxi bosses wounded when their convoy was ambushed between Nqanqarhu and Tsolo on Wednesday.The guards had previously been stationed at Maclear Hospital, but moved with the patients to Mthatha.
Following claims that the police had disarmed one faction in a deadly taxi war this weekend, Mthatha in the Eastern Cape was blocked off completely on Monday morning, with no vehicles able to travel in or out, while gunshots were heard inside the town. WhatsApp warnings were sent to residents t.