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  • noun Plural form of taximan.

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Examples

  • In a speech to the taximen, Radebe repeated President Thabo

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Cape Town taximen have been deliberately sabotaging the city's rail services in order to gain customers, the commission of inquiry into violence in the Western Cape minibus taxi industry heard on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • More than 27,000 Eastern Cape taximen are bracing themselves to support anything that will halt the government's taxi recapitalisation programme because they still don't understand it.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Zicina, said the taximen were not against their vehicles being inspected for roadworthiness because that was legal and necessary for the safety of the passengers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Two more taximen were murdered and nine others, including eight passengers, wounded in a shooting in Umtata on Tuesday - only a day after a taxi operator was killed and two others wounded in the same area.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Mdantsane East London and Districts Taxi Association (Melta) chairman Missile Kinana criticised the government for deploying the army, police and traffic officers on taximen without giving them notice.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Scores of taximen have been arrested and close to a hundred vehicles impounded since the security forces started the crackdown last week in response to renewed violence which has left many people dead in East London and Umtata areas.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • He said the government should have given the taximen time to fix their vehicles.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • He also laid wreaths at the site where seven taximen were shot on the Qumbu-Mount Frere road last month after returning from the national taxi conference in Durban.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • Monday's scheduled opening of this the third and last toll plaza on the South African side of the Maputo Corridor was called off after farmers and taximen blocked the road protesting over tariffs.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

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