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The minibus taxi strike in Cape Town entered its eighth day on Thursday with the industry going to court to get back impounded vehicles, while authorities say nearly 200 criminal cases have been opened.

Illegal miner says the shafts were new and it would have been fair for everyone to have a share in them

Detectives are investigating an overnight shooting at a residence in Mbekweni, near Paarl in the Western Cape, which claimed the lives of five people, including two teens.

Three Golden Arrow buses were set alight early on Monday within hours of the company obtaining a high court interdict aimed at curbing violence during the taxi strike in the Western Cape.

The deadly internal war has seen more than 100 illegal miners arrested since authorities clamped down on illegal mining on the West Rand

The Public Servants Association in KwaZulu-Natal has asked the SA Human Rights Commission to urgently intervene in water shortages affecting operations at Bethesda Hospital in the uMkhanyakude district.

A city depot was petrol-bombed and at least seven official vehicles damaged or destroyed in Cape Town over the past 24-hours as efforts continued to end a stand-off between law enforcement authorities and the taxi industry in the Western Cape.

Application forms will be available at all police stations from Monday, 7 August. 



Johannesburg metro police and illegal miners were involved in a shoot-out in Matholesville, west of Johannesburg, on Sunday.

Taxi operations across the Western Cape came to a halt on Thursday after the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) held a mass meeting in response to its standoff with the City of Cape Town over several incidents of vehicles being impounded.