Taxis on strike

Here in Johannesburg what we call taxis are really mini buses who pick up people on their path (most workers who live in the township, like Soweto, do not have cars and have to go a long way to go to work).The taxi drivers are typically real bullies. They drive terribly just like you would expect from a road bully. They go through red lights, change lane without notice etc just because they feel they can.
They even bully their customers. One of my colleague here was in a taxi and since he wasn't full he refused to go any further until more people came and when she wanted to leave to take another taxi he bullied her into staying.
They are known for carrying guns and there is often incidents in the newspaper of taxi drivers shooting at each other.
Yesterday they were on strike for one day and in heir anger against people who were finding other ways to go to work they ended up shooting bus drivers and getting violent towards cars. One other colleague of mine was taking the ramp to get onto the highway (a concrete overpass that you cannot drive off) when she saw ahead of her a group of taxi drivers throwing bricks and shooting at cars. She quickly reversed (on a highway ramp!) and got away from there.
The police typically does not get involve with taxi drivers because they have guns, there are many of them in town and just like anybody else they don't want to get shot at. This is the main reason why the taxi drivers can drive anyway they want: the police doesn't want to get shot trying to give them a ticket.

through all this everybody is calm and ultimately finding it frustrating but entirely normal and entirely unavoidable.