{"id":975408,"date":"2022-02-03T23:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/eastern-cape-taxi-driver-gunned-down-two-passengers-injured\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:15:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:15:31","slug":"eastern-cape-taxi-driver-gunned-down-two-passengers-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/eastern-cape-taxi-driver-gunned-down-two-passengers-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cape taxi driver gunned down, two passengers injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7d57e273-c17a-5023-bbd2-345c0fcde7ba&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x8&#038;resize=2008x1130.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Pretoria \u2013 A taxi driver was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on the R72 near Chalumna in the Eastern Cape police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>At the scene, police found a 60-year-old driver of a white Toyota Quantum sustained several gunshot wounds to the upper body and was declared dead. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTwo unknown female passengers were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds. The details about the incident are sketchy. However, it is said that a white Toyota Corolla with three occupants was involved in the shooting incident,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting comes after the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco), in January, called for peace following the recent spate of killings of taxi owners.<\/p>\n<p>Santaco spokesperson Sifiso Shangase said the taxi association was alarmed by the rise in the number of murders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Earlier in the year, a 69-year-old taxi owner was shot dead in Gopalall Hurbans Road in the oThongathi CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, a 52-year-old taxi owner was shot dead in front of his family in Cornubia, north of Durban.<\/p>\n<p>Police are appealing to anyone who can assist with information that can lead to the arrest of the suspects to contact the nearest police station. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The information may also be shared via Crime Stop on 08600 10111. All information is confidential and callers may remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-b76132ae57401b2291f0eb8347d0b8ae\">IOL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria \u2013 A taxi driver was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on the R72 near Chalumna in the Eastern Cape police said on Thursday. At the scene, police found a 60-year-old driver of a white Toyota Quantum sustained several gunshot wounds to the upper body and was declared dead. \u201cTwo unknown female passengers were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}