The implementation of the Taxi Recapitalisation Policy (TRP) was articulated by the South African government since 1999 with the purpose of formalising and regulating the South African minibus taxi industry and its estimated time implementation in 2005. The South African minibus taxi industry is labelled badly as a result of violence, un-roadworthy and unsafe taxi vehicles. The industry is also unregulated and informal. The violence that has dominated the industry has unfortunately overshadowed the significant role played by the minibus taxi industry in the country's transport system. The introduction of the Taxi Recapitalisation Policy brought hope to number of minibus taxi commuters who were becoming victims of taxi violence. It is almost a decade since the policy was introduced and implemented but what change has it brought? Has it cleansed the industry of its violence, is the industry now having safer and roadworthy vehicles