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What kind of coward
hits a woman
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Scenes from the video that went viral of a taxi driver in Durban klapping a passenger... eish. Screen grab: YouTube
FACEBOOKERS have heaped scorn on the man who took a video but did nothing to stop the beating of a female passenger by a minibus taxi driver in Durban. A video of the beating went viral on 1 5 February. The driver's operator said he now plans to fire the driver as soon as possible if indeed he is the one captured on camera violently beating a woman in a taxi in KwaZulu-Natal. “I can confirm that the registration is my taxi. It is a long distance taxi that travels from the Berea to the Eastern Cape.” He said he was in Johannesburg when he received calls from friends on Wednesday informing him about a video on Facebook which showed one of his drivers violently beating a woman outside a parking lot. “I am going to meet with... [the driver] later today," he told Media24's Amanda Khoza on Friday, 1 6 February. “He has been working with me for more than five years and this is the first time I have ever heard of such an incident. I would like to apologise to the public for the behaviour
displayed by my driver... He should have not done this at home or at work," Gumede said. “If he does admit that it was him, we are going to part ways because it is my name that is on the taxi.
“Our taxis have LV initials on them and that is my reputation, I do not want to be associated with violence.” The minute-long video, which has been posted on the Crime Intelligence & Community Awareness Facebook page shows a man and a woman outside a parked taxi. The woman appears to be struggling to get out of the taxi as the man blocks the door using his arms. The man then klaps the woman and she falls into in a sitting position. She almost escapes by running away from the man but the man grabs her by her clothes and violently shoves her back into the first row of the taxi.She tries to fight back but the man pushes her feet into the vehicle before shutting the door. The person shooting the video tried to capture the
number plate, which has a Durban registration number. The Ntuzuma Taxi Association and the South African taxi industry have condemned the klap. Provincial deputy chairman of the South African National Taxi Coalition Bheki Mbambo said it was embarrassing, and disgusting. “He is not a man, he is an animal . Violence must not be tolerated,” he said . SA National Taxi Council chairperson of Durban northern region, Sifiso Mthethwa, said any abuse against commuters is wrong. “All we want from commuters is their money, nothing else.” Mthethwa said if passengers give the drivers grief, they still could not them. “It does not matter what commuters say to you, if you are not happy, rather report them to police because you also have rights instead of painting the public transport industry in a bad light.”
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