A Bolt driver was suspended after shooting a passenger dead, injuring another, while a third escaped and was charged with hijacking.
COUNTLESS people use e-hailing apps like Taxify every day to go to places in urban areas. But just over a week ago things went horribly wrong on one trip. A passenger was shot dead on his birthday, another was wounded and a third was arrested for hijacking.The drama unfolded just before 11pm when Sanele Mthethwa wanted a ride from his flat in New Germany, near Pinetown.When the ride arrived at his Regal Crescent home, Mthethwa got into the front passenger seat.
The taxi driver drove to the KwaDabeka police station, where police found Mbuyazi hiding on the back seat. They arrested him.She said police were investigating a case of attempted hijacking and had opened an inquest docket in relation to Mthethwa’s death. She was adamant that Mthethwa’s joke was not reason enough for him to be killed. She is angry that police refused to open a murder docket and that they had arrested her younger brother.
She said the family intended reporting the way police handled the matter to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate . Gareth Taylor, Bolt SA’s country manager, said: “Bolt unequivocally condemns any and all incidents of violence in the strongest possible terms, and takes any criminal incident very seriously.
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