Another taxi driver has been shot and killed in Khayelitsha, just two days after the two feuding taxi associations agreed to a ceasefire last Thursday.
But Codeta says the latest shooting should not make commuters panic.
The Codeta affiliated driver was shot and killed in a taxi on Japhta K Masemola Road on Saturday night.
Last Wednesday, eight people died in the ongoing violence between Codeta and Cata.
The two associations have been fighting over routes and the war has now claimed the lives of 72 people since January.
On Thursday, taxi drivers parked their vans and refused to drive while their bosses had a meeting with Transport MEC Daylin Mitchell, where the associations agreed that they would lay their weapons down.
Codeta Secretary General Andile Khanyi says he is concerned that skollies might have taken advantage of the taxi violence.
“We don’t want to speculate on this murder because of the violence that we faced,” he says.
“We have to look at other factors, like it could be a random shooting that has nothing to do with the shootings last week.
“We don’t want people to panic, not every shooting is linked to the violence.”
Khanyi explains that the driver who worked on the Mitchells Plain route was driving alone when he was killed by occupants in a Toyota Avanza.
“We really feel terrible about this shooting and we don’t know the motive of the shooting, but we are not going to link it to the incidents last week.
“We will try and investigate why our driver was killed before we can accuse another association of this murder.”
Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk says there is a possibility that the murder is related to the taxi violence.
“Circumstances surrounding a shooting incident on 10 July 2021 at about 7.15pm at Japhta K Masemola Road, between RR Temporals and Frans, Site B, Khayelitsha, where a 28-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded are under investigation.
“A murder case was opened and the motive for the murder could possibly be related to taxi violence.
Anyone with information about this shooting is requested to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.