Women in miniskirt attacked at taxi rank
TWO Johannesburg teenagers were humiliated, harassed and groped in public last week - all because one of them wore a miniskirt.
VICTIMISED: Video footage shows a group of men tormenting and attempting to grope a girl who is wearing a miniskirt at the infamous Noord Street taxi rank.The disturbing scenes of a crowd of grown men chasing the girls near the infamous Noord Street taxi rank and then proceeding to grope them were captured on CCTV.
Sowetan has seen the 17-minute footage in which some men pulled out their cellphones and took pictures of one of the victim's thighs and bottom.
The first girl to be groped wore a black miniskirt with an animal print top, while her friend wore black leggings and a black top with white bra straps showing.
The scenes that played themselves out on Friday evening were reminiscent of those almost four years ago when Nwabisa Ngcukana was stripped and sexually molested for also wearing a miniskirt - at the same taxi rank.
In the footage, the two girls - one believed to be 16 years old - emerge out of a nearby shop in the city at 6.31pm.
By that time, a crowd of between 50 and 60 men had already gathered outside the shop.
As the first girl, who was dressed in the black miniskirt, walks out of a shop, the men follow her and start abusing her.
In the video one man takes out his cellphone and starts taking pictures. Another emerges from the crowd, slaps the girl's bottom and gropes her.
Clearly frustrated and angry, the girl tries to fight back but other men take the distraction as an opportunity to grab her behind.
At one point the girl is completely surrounded by the lustful crowd of men. She folds her arms and looks at them before walking off.
She can be seen screaming at her tormentors, occasionally trying to punch them after they have groped her but that does not help.
They keep on coming back - taking pictures with their cellphones and groping her.
Her friend comes to her rescue but she is also subjected to abuse.
The girls walk side-by-side in the middle of the road as the large crowd looks on.
The one teenager seems embarrassed and resorts to folding her arms across her chest, looking ahead.
Her friend gesticulates at the men hurling abuse while she pushes her skirt down with her right hand.
Ten minutes after her ordeal began, the girl in the black miniskirt is escorted from the scene by two Johannesburg Metro police officers.
The other teenager is then left behind.
The men turn their attention to her, also taking cellphone images of her bottom and groping her.
Luckily, a shop owner nearby sees the commotion and pulls her into his shop at 6.42pm.
Six minutes later metro police officers arrive to escort her away but the men put up a fight.
The cops eventually win.
The teenager's brother, who asked not to be identified, told Sowetan that his sister arrived home that evening accompanied by the police.
"When she arrived home she was in tears," the brother said.
"I asked the police what happened and they said a group of men had attacked my sister and her friend. It seems the men had been fondling them because they wore miniskirts."
The brother said his sister was angry at being humiliated in public because of what she was wearing.
Neither the teenager's brother nor metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar could confirm whether a case had been opened.
The brother said he would wait for the teenager to "calm down" before talking to her about opening a case.
Minnaar said: "I can't confirm or deny whether a case has been opened but there is a strong possibility that the (CCTV) footage will be the subject of a criminal investigation."
Sowetan was unable to get hold of the other victim.
SifisoHadebe
There's a police trailer parked one city-block away from the Noord rank but clearly that is ineffective at discouraging criminal activity. Maybe there needs to be a permanent police presence inside the actual Noord taxi rank.Report Abuse
moisa
THIS HAS GO EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE UP PRINGING OF BOY CHILD. BOYS FROM RURAL ZULU HOMELANDS AND SOME FEW XHOSAS ARE THE ONE WHO DO THIS NONSENSE BCOZ THEY ARE NOT USED TO SEEING LADIES IN MINI SKIRT AS A RESULTS OF THEIR SYUPID CULTURESReport Abuse
shrink7
@moisabut moisa, i thought they do see big and small breasts and thighs during those cultural activities in their homelands.
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Gaara
"Six minutes later metro police officers arrive to escort her away but the men put up a fight" this what gets me, they didnt even care that the Cops were there. they fought police so they could harass an innocent woman.this is why rape is so high in this country. these things have no respect for women or the Law and i can pretty much gaurantee that they will repeat this since nothing was done to them.sometimes the heavy handedness of the old apartheid force is what is needed to deal with such hooliganism. No farking self control at all. disgusting mothafukas need to be castrated.fakin sick animals.Report Abuse
MommaC
It is past time that these MCPs were taught a lesson.Ladies, any one want to join me in a mini slutwalk to Noord St? I have a 38, a tazer, a shambok and a beautifully crafted long sword - and I'm pretty darn good with using them all
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Thugnificent
Sowetan dis should have been your lead/cover story. This is so serious and needs national outrage at these animals that r excited by mob stupidity. These potential rapists mus be identified, even if its jus the 3 out of the whole mob. I can olready see the 1 in de Zebra/Chiefs t-shirt.It does not matter wat dey or not used to. There is no justification 4 dis behaviour. Ke manong die goetes. Sies!!!
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mmasello
shame especially on a 16 yr old teenager..the other one looks old.. i guess they learnt their lesson that no more ministkirts on public.. soem ppl dont know how to dress... but they did nt deserve to be humiliated like theseReport Abuse
nevus
there is Purity with Chiefs shirt always on the wrong side of ubuntuMorning everyone glad you all still breathing.
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Mokgaditse
If you can not win cups then donner mini skirt ladies, New motto for Zebras, that is all they know and can do. Keep on supporting stupid deeds zebras. The champs will always be against woman abuse irrespective of how they look, what they wear and so forth.Report Abuse