Three arrested in separate Western Cape taxi-violence investigations

Western Cape police have arrested three suspects in separate investigations into taxi-related violence. Two men, aged 28 and 36, were arrested in the Overberg over a September 2026 shooting at the Zwelihle taxi rank in Hermanus that killed two taxi owners and injured a driver; they are due in Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on October 26, charged with murder and attempted murder. A 29-year-old suspect was arrested in Kensington after a petrol-bomb attack on a taxi association chairperson’s home in Retreat on September 30 and is due in Wynberg Magistrate’s Court.