In a country struggling to prove its crime ridden streets are safe before hosting the 2010 soccer world cup, gangland-style turf wars continue to cause mayhem.

Armed with pistols and hair trigger tempers, South Africa’s minibus drivers rule supreme. They are the undisputed kings of road rage, swerving in and out thru traffic, ignoring red traffic lights as the nervous motorist gives way to these hooligans of the roads.

Blocking traffic while filling their vehicles with passengers they whistle and pump those hooters with a menacing force. Traffic cops make no effort to stop taxis as they do not pay up for violations. Whats the point putting yourself in danger if there is no financial benefit.

Watch these taxi barbarians deliberately gunn for motor cyclists who are vulnerable knowing that they are above the law and thus acting on impunity.

Thousands of drivers and passengers are killed yearly increasing when taxi violence flares up. Lucrative taxi routes pay well for drivers and bosses thus the need to speed blindly and weave across streets to earn that extra cash.

Mini bus taxi fatalities are common due to speeding and reckless driving. Often the driver is unscathed and the innocent die. Comprehensive motor car insurance is essential when driving on the roads with taxis.

Cases of culpable homicide are opened but a conviction is unheard of.

For as long as the taxi industry continues to be plagued with gangster ism and lawlessness they will continue to cause mayhem and death on the roads of South Africa.