TAXI STRIKE TIMELINE: This is how the situation has been on Eastern Cape roads this morning

9:29: Beacon Bay traffic officer battles to say which roads are blocked or open. 

9:04: Business owners vent their frustration against a traffic officer at Beacon Bay Crossing.

9:07am: Tyres billow smoke under Scenary Park bridge.

9:10am Rubber bullets and teargas cannisters were fired at taxi protesters at the entrance to Scenary Park.

9:16am Pupils get a ride to school in a police helicopter.

9:19 Amalinda Main, Lukin-Pearce towards Batting Bridge is clear

9:20: Cars force their way through a blockade on the N2 between Mdantsane and East London

9:27: Yako entrance to Mdantsane is blocked, including a Correctional Services truck loaded with prisoners bound for court. Prisoners hurl insults from the back.

9:37 Duncan Village roads blockaded, tyres burning near the community centre there.

9:35: Retail Crossing traffic circle and N6 junction at Merrifields private school are blockaded/ closed.

9:42: Police prepare to fire rubber bullets near Mdantsane

9:57 Taxi procession to Bhisho starts with 50 vehicles on their way there

9:59: Duncan Village main road bokced, Windyridge Road in Parkridge is blocked

10am: Truck being looted on the N2 near the Nahoon dam turnoff

10:02 Stutterheim, Khomga, Keiskammhoek under pressure and some are blocked

10:20 Cops douse blazes and roll boulders off the Mdantsane road

10:29 Cops put eyes in the sky above troubled Beacon Bay blockades

10: 44 Hundreds of taxi operators arrive at Bhisho State House to protest

10:51 Mthatha-Port St Johns R61 still blockaded by smart taxis; at the Majola intersection