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Road accidents put a huge strain on hospitals and other health facilities while also eating away at the Eastern Cape department of health’s budget according to MEC Nomakhosazana Meth. She was speaking to journalists after leading a massive roadblock, alongside transport & community safety MEC Xolile Nqatha, on the busy N2 near Sibangweni village outside Mthatha on Tuesday morning, as part of the official launch of this year’s Easter Arrive Alive Safety Campaign.

A prominent Eastern Cape taxi operator, who himself survived a drive-by assassination attempt, has stepped forward to outline the reasons behind the slew of taxi killings of Santaco members in the province. He said the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) in the Eastern Cape was divided into two groupings, with claims that warring factions were ordering the killing of those opposed to the process of electing new structures of the provincial taxi council.