Wed May 22 21:27:00 SAST 2013

Woman assaulted for refusing taxi

Jul 9, 2012 | Sapa | 49 comments

Driver got angry after she declined to get in, because there were only male passengers and she was concerned about her safety

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Wed May 22 21:27:01 SAST 2013 ::
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Jul 9, 2012

SeshegoGuY

HuH???
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Jul 9, 2012

tumzangwana

heelang bathong!! bomageza ba gafa straight.
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Jul 9, 2012

Papage

Good you did not get in that Taxi, wish they find him and sort him out. Embarasing to all men, respect women guys, they are our mothers, our babies
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

and what did the taxi drivers passengers do when all this was happening, took pictures using their mobile phones to entertain themselves and their beastly friends?

Its anc's regime's fault that we have this unsafe and unreliable public transport.
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Jul 9, 2012

CheeseBoy

if this woman was my relative this story would have been different.

instead Sowetan would be reporting that a Taxi driver was found not breathing on the side of the road in the bushes.
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Jul 9, 2012

Decibels

if it's not Bonang it's Euphonik, if it's not Euphonik it's Steve Lekoelea, if it's not Lekoelea it's Msawawa, if it's not DJ Sbu it's Jacob GidliGidli Zuma.....WHY South Africa WHY?
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Jul 9, 2012

CheeseBoy

@Decibels

too early for a tot of whiskey don't you think? what are you on about?
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Jul 9, 2012

sabza007

This beast must found.May be this woman was going to be gang raped and/or killed. Who knows.
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Jul 9, 2012

Mygirl

The were no man in that taxi sies maan, how can they just sit and keep quiet. Give them panties and braz if u find them blikksem.
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Jul 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

“The taxi driver is a Xhosa male who drives a white Toyota Avanza or similar amaphela-type taxi with strongly tinted windows.”
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I have them all but "amaphela-type" taxi ????
Sies, to the male passengers in the taxi, did not even intervene.......... bunch of sissies

@Mygirl

We cant give them panties and bras........ they are a disgrace to men so we dont want to be associated with a bunch of cowards.....
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Jul 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

should read....... I have heard them all but "amaphela-type" taxi
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Jul 9, 2012

Impela

What must we do for our brothers to grow up and stop being bullies. As a man I am disgusted with this and all I can think of is ensuring that I and my son and friends pledge never to assault a woman physically or emotionally. If ladies here can suggest what better I can do I would wish to do that as well if it is possible for me.
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Jul 9, 2012

DJWinner

Come on now, who does that? It seems as if women these days have become the punching bags of these madafackas. If it is not a rape, it's a fisting. The aparteid has not ended in this country, for women. Now, it's a black on black attack, what is going on?
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Jul 9, 2012

Stumaeza

Eish these taxi drivers are full of sh**..BoMageza

It's a good thing the poor lady didn't get into dat taxi...le nna i would have done da same.
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Jul 9, 2012

Maezizsto4Sure

It is now the ANC's fault what that thotsa laaitie did to the woman?
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Jul 9, 2012

Mellow

Taxi drivers are stupid all of them and you did good sesi by refusing this monsters are bloody cruel
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Jul 9, 2012

Ubufebe

Texi drivers, violence, whats new?
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Jul 9, 2012

m'zaco'

@ubufebe
TAXI not texi..........LOL

@seshegoGuy
eita mfeth'u__ ( do you remember...eehmmm)

@maezistoz
Eita da grooties! hope weekent ne e le grent...
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Jul 9, 2012

Dzel

Mygirl

The were no man in that taxi sies maan, how can they just sit and keep quiet. Give them panties and braz if u find them blikksem.
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But isn't that South African culture, we see someone being robbed, hijacked or beaten up we stand by idly and pretend we didn't see a thing.

I am the type who can't just watch a crime unfolding and will hoot if that is what it takes to disturb a crime in action. I have had my fair share of trouble with taxi drivers including one time demanding that the driver give me the keys to his vehicle so I could drive as he seemed hell bent on killing his passengers. On another occasion I reported a driver to his association and got him fined for disrespecting his passengers.

If only passengers were vocal the taxi industry would be much better than the cr*p service they provide.

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Jul 9, 2012

Ubufebe

@m'zaco'

TEXI, TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,........
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Jul 9, 2012

m'zaco'

Ubufebe
@m'zaco'

TEXI, TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,TEXI,........
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lol___ kikikikikikikiki......... TEXI mfanam
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Jul 9, 2012

manyobaa

sensationalising
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Jul 9, 2012

Impela

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
should read....... I have heard them all but "amaphela-type" taxi
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Tjo awazi amaphela? Uhlalaphi siyekhona?
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

If violence against women was a national sport, SA would be covered in gold medals.
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

Because even the men who were passangers, didn't see anything wrong with a taxi driver wasting their time getting involved in a fight, in other words those male passangers approved of what that taxi s@vage was doing, if Biko were to write today, he would say 'SAn women you are on your own'
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

To show that the beast passengers approved of the savage driver's actions, even now the police are looking for witnesses, non of them is coming fwd even though they are witnesses to crime, tomorrow that taxi s@vage will be violating their mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces no woman is immune to random violent attacks in SA, so to those male passengers you are not doing yourselves/families any favours by not coming forward to report violent crime against a defenseless person, instead you are accomplice to the act of criminality.
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Jul 9, 2012

sakhomba

maphela a tena. you should see them in Vosloorus. just because a person drives a Conquest, Tazz or Avanza they think you are also in the business.
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Jul 9, 2012

Phondo-Likabhejana

This Xhosa man is an embassment to us men, how could he be such a morron like this. Nxxaa i wish i can meet him and show him, how are real fists made, he need someone who is his own size. I agree with you MsKinkyakaKamaSutra those other male passangers were siesies aswell......
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Jul 9, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

@Impela

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
should read....... I have heard them all but "amaphela-type" taxi
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Tjo awazi amaphela? Uhlalaphi siyekhona?
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I know amaphela (cockroaches) not amaphela-type taxis

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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

LoL thanks Sakhomba for clarifying what 'maphela taxis' are cause I was thinking its a taxi if you ride on you come out covered in cockroaches,

Actually Phondo-LIka.... in PE a Councillor also smashed a woman's teeth out over a road rage incident, the anc has done nothing against him, so these violent beasts are inspired by the beasts who are leading this country into a state of lawlessness,
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Jul 9, 2012

TDK

This is no madness. Just disrespect.
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Jul 9, 2012

Pipiekgolo

Taxi drivers are idiots nxa
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Jul 9, 2012

Skopokopo

All the males in the taxi just kept quiet and did nothing? That was brilliant of you lady.
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

@Skopokopo
All the males in the taxi just kept quiet and did nothing? That was brilliant of you lady.
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its prolly a very normal sight to them, they maybe do in their homes what that taxi guy was doing to that women or even worse.
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Jul 9, 2012

Candyboy

@somaartakeit

heita da jou oulike stukkie mens......*thinking of you*
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Jul 9, 2012

Papage

"The taxi driver is a Xhosa male who drives a white Toyota Avanza or similar amaphela-type taxi with strongly tinted windows.”

@ sowetan, please show the correct picture of this kind of Taxi, it says is "Toyota Avanza" not E20, do we still have E20's anyway? Please stop trying to destroy E20 taxi drivers. to the transport department, how do you allow a Taxi to have deep tinted windows?
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

@Candyboy hallo there gorgeous:-)
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Jul 9, 2012

The_Ben

Mageza ke Mmao. Lol!
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Jul 9, 2012

HORATIO7

what happened to those men in the Taxi then, coudn't they help the poor Women being beating with fists nogal.


nxhaaaaaaa


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Jul 9, 2012

Skopokopo

somaartakeit
@Skopokopo
All the males in the taxi just kept quiet and did nothing? That was brilliant of you lady.
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its prolly a very normal sight to them, they maybe do in their homes what that taxi guy was doing to that women or even worse.
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its true, they are abusers themselves.
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Jul 9, 2012

Mbelewolwazi

Second to tow truck people I hate taxi drivers with a passion. They make my blood boil and my knuckles itchy. What happened to freedom of choice? Ooh what am I saying, what does mageza know about the bill of rights? Kusekude la siya khona.
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Jul 9, 2012

dimpho_4U

people are angry and frustrated ,why take it out on the poor woman,..... she had every right to decline(freedom of choice)...rejected people ke mathata feela(force people to do things the way they wan t them to be),
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Jul 9, 2012

Secretary

Only men in the strongly tinted windows of Toyota Avanza and violent driver. How do you get into such transport? Why those other men did nothing to stop this if their intentions were different?

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Jul 9, 2012

gwadlagwadla

This is a shame, I use to drive a taxi B 4 I got da Job Im doing now. This is not on guyz, this man is giving GOOD taxi drivers a bad name.
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

@gwadlagwadla obvious the taxi industry is not doing enough to detox itself of this bad image cause most women have nightmare experience with taxi drivers, why don't taxi owners send the beasts drivign their taxis on a conflict resolution as well as client service course? surely they can afford for this their clients, do you think if the taxi industry was P'n Pay they'd get away if services ppl assaulted clients? taxi owners have no respect for the goose that lays them golden eggs,
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Jul 9, 2012

somaartakeit

and IF more white ppl used taxis this BS would have stopped long time ago, the gov would have by now ensured safety measures in place, cause white ppl don't take BS and they sort out criminals amongst them they don't hide them behind culture, we blacks take k@k even when we have to pay for it,
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Jul 9, 2012

Ayobas

Maybe the taxi-mudar-fcuking sh#t had and another plan with her. She did the right thing by refusing to get in. I wish the muder-fcuker could have had been staying ko Magogwe Tar, o a ya go ja his tiny balls... bliksem
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Jul 10, 2012

Real-Mogwanthi

so the passengers were sitting on thier ass and did nothing to help this women? I dont think they were men and worse than that even a boy can do something to help!
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Jul 10, 2012

CB045

This taxi driver wasted more time getting out of his taxi to assault the woman. It is a sign of a potential criminal who is obsessed at having things his way. He was must duly be sought out by the public, made to pay his victim for the assault and sentenced for not less than 18 months for this bullying act and terrorism against those who board taxies.
I wish this victim a speedy recovery. It was better to have faced the driver's punches than be raped by all those men. Why did they not assist or support the woman if they were in the taxi and observing the act of violence? They should also be linked for assisting in the crime by not lending assistance or reporting the matter to the police.
With all the corruption in government, it is no wonder why there are no funds to have police on patrol.
Talk about creating employment... the government expects to private sector to do its share, while they cut down employment and line their own pockets!
To the very few good politicians, you are in my prayers.
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