sentences:  In 1996, the NTTT's first report recommended the immediate re-regulation of the taxi industry.The government's attempts at re-regulation were actively resisted by the now extremely powerful "mother" organisations that controlled the taxi industry; this led to an escalation of violence between 1998 and 1999.The government intended The National Land Transport Transition Act, Act No 22 of 2000 to help formalise and re-regulate the now out-of-control taxi industry.