CentralNotice Taxi wars in South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Taxi statistics People using Taxi service each day 14 million Officially registered minibus taxis 200,000 Average taxis per owner 7 Avg monthly kilometres driven by a taxi 8,000 Avg number of passengers transported monthly per vehicle 3,161 Avg time spent daily in a taxi by a passenger 65 min Avg number of trips per passenger per day 2.3 Data as of 2006 [ 1 ] The term taxi war is usually used to refer to the turf wars fought between taxi associations and individual minibus taxi drivers in South Africa from the late 1980s onwards. [ 2 ] These taxi wars are still raging to the present day. [ 3 ] The multi-billion rand minibus taxi industry carries over 60% of South Africa's commuters. [ 2 ] Generally speaking, these commuters are ...