WATCH: Police fire teargas, rubber bullets at Durban taxi strikers

Police fired rubber bullets and teargas at marching taxi drivers and owners protesting their vehicles being impounded by eThekwini municipality late Tuesday morning. Watch. 

The taxi drivers and owners had marched from Botha Garden, eventually reaching the old Durban drive-in where around 30 to 40 taxis had been impounded.

On the way, drivers and owners intimidated members of the public and reporters from taking video footage of the march. They burnt rubbish in the street, tipped over concrete bins, vandalised the municipal bus depot and damaged metro police vehicles as they marched to the drive-in.

Once there, taxi driver and owner leadership began negotiating with city management to get their taxis released from the impound.

However, during the negotiations, for an unknown reason, drivers began pelting police with stones.

Police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets, which was followed by stones, spades, sknobkerries and sticks being hurled back at police. 

A News24 reporter on the scene said there were around 60 police in the impound during the negotiations. 

Taxi owners complained that there was a backlog at the provincial transport department.