Metro cops were called in to restore order after a taxi was shot at. Photo by Zamokuhle Mdluli.

“WILL this fight ever end? I don’t think so.”

This was what a commuter in Mofolo, Soweto, said yesterday after yet another taxi shooting.

A taxi belonging to the Witwatersrand African Taxi Association (Wata) was shot at yesterday morning while picking up passengers.

Luckily, no one was injured.

Wata accused their rival, the Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association (Nanduwe) of being responsible.

Police had to intervene after the incident as tension between the two associations reached a dangerous peak. There were long meetings between cops and taxi officials.

The SunTeam secretly attended a meeting the police held with taximen at an abandoned petrol station in Dube.

Nanduwe members told the cops their problem with Wata was that they were collecting passengers on their routes, which they were not supposed to do, according to a court order.

One of the taximen said: “We don’t have a problem with them passing here. The problem starts when they pick up people on our routes. We won’t allow that.”

Bur Wata members insisted they were only picking up passengers where they were allowed to.

“We know our boundaries. They are just stubborn and don’t want to see our taxis on the road,” said a member.

In July, both associations were banned from operating for a month by Gauteng Transport MEC Ismail Vadi.

He only allowed them back on the road after they agreed to stop fighting.

Joburg metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar confirmed the shooting incident.

He said no one was injured and police were monitoring the area.