taxi drivers

Old video of police crackdown on taxis in S.Africa linked to fabricated story about pregnant woman
September 5, 2025
As transport-related unrest persists in South Africa’s Western Cape province, social media users are sharing a video claiming it shows police violently arresting minibus-taxi drivers for harassing a pregnant...
Old images mislead about taxi violence in South Africa
August 1, 2025
Spates of taxi-related violence in South Africa are commonplace and usually deadly. Images of minibus taxis set alight in North West province began circulating on social media in July,...
In Wuhan, driverless taxis offer a peek into the future of intracity transport in China
July 20, 2024
The city of Wuhan, on the banks of China's Yangtze River, gained global notoriety in December 2019 as the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Now the capital of central...