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Taxi operations resumed to Cape Town taxi rank following the picket by taxi drivers

Taxi operations resumed to Cape Town taxi rank following the picket by taxi drivers

Cape Town – Taxi operations resumed to Cape Town taxi rank, following a Picket of taxi The operations stopped for several hours.
Earlier, on Tuesday, a large group of microbes taxi drivers blocked the entrance to the station’s deck, forcing several road closures in the vicinity.

The protest follows a video that went viral, showing a traffic officer who put a taxi driver in a suffocation position and fought it.

The angry taxi drivers accused the Cape Town traffic officers of targeting them and criticized the use of the maximum force while arrested the driver who was already in handcuffs.

Christiaan Barnard street between Sir Lowry Road and Hertzog Boulevard in Cape Town CBD was opened again at traffic after being closed due to taxi protest.

The city’s safety and security MMC, JP Smith says that traffic officers caught a taxi driver earlier, who fled after being pulled to drive on the N2 road, near.

Smith says the officers had to submit it, and the suffoc has prevented the wounds, which could have happened if the accused had not been restricted.

He says that an arrest officer is allowed by law to use sufficient force, as it is necessary to arrest an offender.

The driver is currently behind bars waiting to appear in court soon.