A British doctor holidaying in South Africa was shot dead after taking a wrong turn from the airport. The unnamed year-old man was reportedly with two other family members when their car ended up in Ntlangano Crescent, in the township of Nyanga, last Thursday.
It is not yet clear what happened to the others in the car. It is unclear how the doctor ended up there, but the tragedy has taken place while Cape Town is riddled with violent riots. They claim local authorities are unfairly targetting them, impounding their vehicles for offences other drivers would only be fined for.
The unrest has seen a total of five people dead, including a police officer, arson, stone-throwing, road blockades and looting. The main union involved, the South African National Taxi Council Santaco , has denied its members are behind the violence and officially called for an end to it on Sunday.
Mr Hill-Lewis is refusing to negotiate with Santaco while the violence is ongoing and will only speak with unions after a period of peace. Nyanga is notorious for horrific violence and was once known as the murder capital of South Africa. Nyanga was established in the s as a result of the apartheid-era migrant labour system, designed to provide cities with access to cheap black labour while maintaining segregation. Black men were essentially forced to migrate from their family homes in rural areas to find work in cities where they could only stay in hostels or townships on the outskirts.
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