“Why did they have to kill them? His cellphone was still there, his jacket and cash, just less than R100.”
The window on the passenger side of the vehicle — now parked in front of the family’s house — was smashed, temporarily covered with plastic sheeting. A male family member who did not want to be named opened the driver’s door and gestured inside.
Molobela says her taxi driver brother’s death is heartbreaking, but the real pain will be felt by his 13- and 7-year-old children. Protesting drivers placed three tyres in the vehicle entrance to the police station and lit them. Members of the police and Johannesburg metro rushed to extinguish the flames minutes before minister Bheki Cele and Gauteng premier David Makhuru arrived in a blue light convoy. This reporter approached the taxi drivers for an interview but was initially waved away angrily.
“This is not the first of our colleagues to be murdered in this area. Nothing ever comes from our murders. If they arrest somebody the courts normally let them go free,” a driver said. Another said the local station was a police station in name only. The drivers were still gathered outside the police station gates when TimesLIVE left the premises. Neither their numbers, nor their anger dwindling.
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