Taxi Abuse TikTok | Allegations of death threats, police complicity, widespread intimidation emerge

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6 ай бұрын

A woman who was travelling with her children was verbally intimidated by a taxi marshall for giving a lift to a pedestrian. However, the situation took a surprising turn when a TikTok content creator, also a taxi operator, stepped in. Using his platform, he tracked down the individuals involved, reported the incident to the relevant association, and publicly apologised on behalf of the taxi industry for the distress the woman and her family experienced.
The story quickly gained traction on TikTok, sparking discussions and shedding light on the power of social media in addressing and raising awareness about such incidents.
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@The_Truth777 6 ай бұрын

So essentially, she was kidnapped together with her kids.

@theemaak-tyshow2058 5 ай бұрын

shout_out to the man in the studio.. He really is a brave yet smart man...i salute 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@silasmokibe 5 ай бұрын

Salute

@saneledlamini285 6 ай бұрын

They must give her R300 back. They are not the law. At some point, we have to rise against these thugs!

@mxolisimakhubo6077 6 ай бұрын

I once picked up a friend outside the GauTrain station in Johannesburg's CBD. I was then accosted by five taxi drivers who demanded 1500 from me or they take my car. I was there for 45 minutes, with no cops or security assisting. I eventually paid the 1500. I have no sympathy for the taxi industry and I am happy for them to be regulated out of business. They have been treating us like rubbish forever.

@RastaAfricanGentleman 6 ай бұрын

Sorry brother. In Durban they took my cousins car whom was doing a lift share with his girlfriend's colleagues. I went to the rank and asked who has the car keys, they remained silent, that's when I told them tracker was alerted and we have recorded them take it. They quickly gave me the car. I gave them my number for future sakes. My cousin stopped the lift club

@harryramphele7102 5 ай бұрын

Where in the constitution does it enshrines about R1500 fine for picking someone on the streets, they are crazy ... Thanks to Bolt and Uber, taxi industry is starting to smell the coffee of competition, they have been monopolizing the industry for long....

@RastaAfricanGentleman 5 ай бұрын

@@harryramphele7102 no constitution to enforce this but it is no different than having no street vendors and hawkers near big centers, malls and certain schools. Same type of monopoly near taxi ranks exists and people who ride them mostly know this, obviously they are more criminal than the other. I agree though we need competition now but let those competitive companies be African or South African

@sabelombewana6132 5 ай бұрын

What happened to that rascal?

@koenakoketso 5 ай бұрын

@@RastaAfricanGentleman😢😢😢Imagine

@lindabanks9481 6 ай бұрын

The court must issue a warrent of arrest if any taxi driver is doing this

@UbukaOnline 5 ай бұрын

Theyve got taxis too.

@musamkhize9328 6 ай бұрын

Remember most of the police officers have taxi business,uber business when you Report this crime to the police, they don't do anything.

@user-tz7ib4qh8h 5 ай бұрын

Yes police they don't attend you when you report them

@darlingtonmachilar6745 6 ай бұрын

Sorry Sisi Dumisile, your abuser will be found and dealt with accordingly.. He was doing it for the last time. Enough is enough.

@make-peacelifecoach4940 6 ай бұрын

The Lady should open a case of Extortion and being held against her will…

@lindelanwiseman1143 5 ай бұрын

Exactly my point

@mogalebaloyi530 6 ай бұрын

Please fire that man and never let him work around taxi industry

@RastaAfricanGentleman 6 ай бұрын

Mdletshe is an outstanding man and his character as an operator continues to change the narrative in the industry. I fear for his safety though because he is challenging a lot of things

@user-xi1tf7ph6g 6 ай бұрын

Its very sad that our country has become a lawlessness. One cannot give a lift to a friend without being hassled by gangster😢💔😡

@user-de6gw5wo5x 5 ай бұрын

We can't even have conversations with friends standing on the side of the road without being victimized by a taxi driver for not stopping them. I was a victim of not stopping a taxi when it passed because I was still having a conversations with a friend, when the taxi that I was in reached the changing spot, that where I was put in a taxi I didn't stop and the driver harassed me trying to remove me from a taxi. As commuters we feel like we are owned by taxi operators

@silasmokibe 5 ай бұрын

U cant even travel with ur family 😢😢

@buyiengcobo9 6 ай бұрын

Up Godole Up, sifuna amadoda anje e South Africa, Syabonga bhuti omncane ukhule nje.

@noziphotshabalala5018 6 ай бұрын

🙏🏾🙏🏾

@maandasieda3567 5 ай бұрын

Mxm zulu people useless

@nompumelelo5925 6 ай бұрын

These man must be arrested including those with firearms, are those firearms even licensed?

@blaqlogic1464 6 ай бұрын

On behalf of all the man in RSA I'd like to take my hat off to the operator who stepeed in. Thsnk you Nomzana

@moosamanana6458 6 ай бұрын

Hopefully, they will fix this situation. They have been abusing us for almost a year now.

@mrtee4878 6 ай бұрын

A year?

@enjay45 6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣@@mrtee4878

@phumelelakhawula2796 6 ай бұрын

4 years

@phumelelakhawula2796 6 ай бұрын

4 years

@mvonxele307 5 ай бұрын

Not a year or 4 years , it's long time story

@gollasotvthebestmoments1005 5 ай бұрын

My dad is even scared to pick up his family at the mall. This is so wrong we can't have a car at home and still use a taxi 😢

@harryramphele7102 6 ай бұрын

I also had a similar incident at N12' just next to Daveyton... i was trying to give someone a lift not knowing that they were among people who were hiking. After getting inside my car, they produced their cards 'written Benoni taxi association, they told me to go with them to their taxi office, i refused. I said to them, we rather go to police station first for me to get protection and i stood my ground, they left me. We can't be terrorised by this palookas.

@Bluecollarjoe6B9 6 ай бұрын

Thank you DA for defending citizens from these thugs in Cape Town.

@imtiyazdreyer1426 6 ай бұрын

Let then come and try it here, JP Smith and team loves the unlawful behavior, in order to set an example! Well done COCT, well done JP Smith.

@RastaAfricanGentleman 6 ай бұрын

That still happens but not in town or the suburbs, ask anyone living in your Townships

@allbyhisgrace8925 5 ай бұрын

No wonder they hate the myCiti ,such lawlessness i tell you ,the law in South Africa is so lenient and coddles these criminals.

@harryramphele7102 5 ай бұрын

exaclty

@zamanimyende5975 5 ай бұрын

Cape Town is the home of gangsters in the taxi industry

@thabangfitzgerald9244 5 ай бұрын

why do they force ppl to use public transport while its not even free or safe,,this is bullying

@heathermbambeni529 6 ай бұрын

That guy belongs in jail,period!

@thabisomodisane1435 5 ай бұрын

Easy hustle they don't monitor thier taxis but private cars which thes no law In RSA that says don't pick up people in streets they belong to taxi industry...

@tshidisomotaung8319 6 ай бұрын

What gives the taxi operators so much power over the communities?

@TheChaz789 6 ай бұрын

Guns.

@sibusisomemela2739 5 ай бұрын

@@TheChaz789 the have guns , even police they wont do anything

@ericnkgadime4776 5 ай бұрын

OUR GOVERMENT

@UbukaOnline 5 ай бұрын

You asking simple question its Guns.

@sphalush8261 5 ай бұрын

The answer is there in your question, communities

@lindabanks9481 6 ай бұрын

A lesson must be taught to these criminals

@lungamasuku6872 6 ай бұрын

Lomjita ukhuluma isizulu esiqonde gqo!!!❤❤❤

@Professor_Stark 6 ай бұрын

These people carry guns, shamboks, and stick weapons even. They do as they please, drive on sidewalks, harass other drivers and drivers giving people lifts. It’s been going on for years and it’s sad having to leave someone you know on the street in fear of these thugs. Santaco needs to be stricter and there should be a helpline of some sort for incidents like these which one can report on the spot. Better solutions and repercussions should be put in place to protect citizens and dealing with offenders.

@vistom5784 6 ай бұрын

Syabonga Godole uyiQhawe🤝

@marvinnhlapo3593 6 ай бұрын

Why are you excluding vulnerable men because not all men can stand their ground

@KD-us9jm 5 ай бұрын

I think it's very tricky to stand your ground as any kind of man or woman, especially in the heat of the moment when these people are "upset" , you may be outnumbered , and they may be carrying firearms.

@godfreytshishonga1037 5 ай бұрын

Men's lives don't matter in our country

@rowlandcelanisibanda4646 4 ай бұрын

No one can't stand against the taxi people no matter how powerful you might be The whole association will be against you

@mandlabhengu1582 5 ай бұрын

Taking someone's car keys without consent is classified as car jacking they did samething to me at MTN rank jhb and i activated my tracker and that marshall got arrested and jailed for 8months

@FreedomRadio. 5 ай бұрын

SABC failed to bring in Metro and transport MMc to elaborate, that taxi associations don't own roads. they only have jurisdiction on routes against other taxi operators, not ordinary civilians or other modes of transport. I can tell my cousin to stand next to a taxi rank I'll pick him up from there and I should not have to worry about being fined. As long as someone is not pointing out a taxi sign they're allowed to get a lift, it's a free world. Whether on the side of the road on anywhere - ordinary drivers should be free to drive around without fear of Taxi drivers and associations.

@mvonxele307 5 ай бұрын

I was kept inside the boot of my car , they even planed to pour petrol and burn my car while I was inside th boot,😭😭😭😭 guys this is trauma, even my kids when they heared about this incident and my being detained by th LAW enforcement , they cried so painful.😭😭😭

@TheOttoJamz 5 ай бұрын

Eish 😢 ... I was actually held at gun point by 2 of them that i ended up giving them my phone and the R200 i had 😢 .

@XBooks. 4 ай бұрын

Too much Netflix and DStv 😂😂

@ntombincaneaudrey1577 6 ай бұрын

Usimele Godolo🙌🙌

@OlinaIpelegeng-ok1xt 6 ай бұрын

Even in Rusternburg this thing happens actually all over south Africa the Taxi Drivers want to tell us how to spend our money when comes to transport

@cloudstrife8791 6 ай бұрын

Then when DA was fighting taxis being unlawful and a threat people call them racist.

@Ntombelar4sure-db2yl 5 ай бұрын

I was surprised to see the minister blaming DA for doing the right thing just because they are political rivals that is why we will vote this ANC out because they don't how to govern the country they let criminals do as they please just imagine private security having a right to arrest people on the public road where we all pay tax, tall gates and petrol levy kuzofika isikhova nje sithatha ukhiye we BMW into esingenayo and demand R1500 which means they own the road if have a tracker just call them and tell them you've been hijacked.

@meluvuyomellztv8254 5 ай бұрын

Yes DA is A Racist party that won't be forgotten

@craigclifton7254 5 ай бұрын

Yes and Julius was the most outspoken 😅

@petermafreka5396 5 ай бұрын

In this instance you give them the car and call tracker to retrieve it.

@mashilosebola7483 5 ай бұрын

SANTACO needs to publicise the responsibilities of Marshalls. In that way, the public will know what is expected of them.

@lufefekalipa580 6 ай бұрын

Kidnapping, unlawful arrest and unlawful, trauma, etc. Criminal charges can be laid. Also, civil claims can be instituted against that Thug and his Association.

@sindiswamachi1403 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!!!

@user-ih5hn2hk7m 6 ай бұрын

Godole is revolutionarising the taxi indury. Siyabonga

@sphelelembhele5131 5 ай бұрын

Get this guy a hight position in the industry

@lindokuhlemabanga2399 6 ай бұрын

What surprises me is why the shock and dismay over this incident because we all know that the taxi industry is the bully of South Africa, who are we motorists to expect to be treated any better. What Sis Rebecca is saying is what surprises me because the taxi industry gets away with everything and anything let alone bullying and threatening a motorist

@leakalalamatsaung4055 6 ай бұрын

Police are also scared of taxi marshals

@user-yn5yr9lc5y 5 ай бұрын

My daughter' bag was thrown out the window by a taxi driver who drives/drived from Joburg cbd to Northgate. It was at night around 7pm and dark. In the bag were her ID bank cards etc. We reported to the police to the Bree taxi rank and nothing happened to the evil guy. He was still driving. It's so sad just like reporting rapists is a wast of time.😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔💔💔😭💔😭💔😭💔😭💔

@henrysontomgidi1827 6 ай бұрын

She was supposed to leave the car there and call the tracker because the keys were with them

@vjchabane9795 6 ай бұрын

You all know that taxi marshals and drivers in general are law unto themselves. What’s shocking here, it’s just that this was taped on video.

@Joseph_7607 6 ай бұрын

So even the Santaco spokes person avoided the question which was asked on how they are going to deal with the chairperson that threatened this guys life. Mxm she thinks that we r kids 😂😂😂

@user-nd1mc1nj3b 5 ай бұрын

Godole you are a real man

@mphozarampou3875 6 ай бұрын

Taxis are privately owned so are our cars. Taxis don't own people. They're not regulated that's why batella so

@davisadventure 5 ай бұрын

He is basically saying...makuhlukunyezwe amadoda....

@mfanakamoffumncube 5 ай бұрын

The taxi industry are doing this everyday to uber/bolt drivers everyday demanding money from them telling them that they are not allowed 🚫 to come pick up people.Riders request uber/bolt to certain places when the driver gets there they say they have arrested a car and the driver has to pay 1500rand.This is nonsense from taxi industry.

@mathewsletlape1517 5 ай бұрын

Taxi owners they don't know what's coming for them. Nobody owns anyone in this world

@msizimhlongo 5 ай бұрын

Every business has competitors, why now are taxis feels the need to abuse people like this😢

@lonwabozweni3611 6 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot Godole

@Leba_T 6 ай бұрын

The taxi industry is a mafia business, especially in Gauteng

@zwelomthethontloko2538 5 ай бұрын

As a motorist, Terrified of taxi drivers, they own the road and never follow road laws, they are above the law. Nothing will happen and this will be forgotten till one day something even worse happens.

@sellojafta 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Chief

@FaithFab639 5 ай бұрын

Give them car and call the tracker company to retrieve it.. matter-of-fact report it as theft(stolen).

@trevorsnyman6106 5 ай бұрын

Lol im surprised that this much people are surprised by this... its been going on for years

@sanelisekilengwabeni2694 5 ай бұрын

Thank you this interviews

@dorahmogwahle986 6 ай бұрын

The taxi marshalls think they own this country

@NeoThabo2 3 ай бұрын

Big ups to the lady in studio for catering to a wider audience in terms of explaining in different languages.

@doubletrouble1241 5 ай бұрын

Politics gave taxi Industries power!!!

@KhusterBoesman 6 ай бұрын

The marshal should be arrested for extortion.

@mbongenidube7282 5 ай бұрын

The problem is most of these marshals and taxi drivers are not that educated at all, so reasoning is a bit of a challenge. They dont understand the basic laws of business, all they understand is violence. I remember catching a taxi from Carlton center to Riverlea with Nancefield taxi and Riverlea taxi association RTA refused for me to drop off at my destination. I was forced to drop off about 2km from my stop. The worst part is I was in the taxi with a pregnant lady who also dropping off at my stop, I completely cancelled RTA. I will never board taxis for Riverlea Taxi Association and I have found out that Im not the only one who is not using RTA taxis because of their attitudes.

@user-pv6jj2lv3d 4 ай бұрын

Taxi drivers and que Marshall's in Rustenburg are the worst I have seen a lot of violations, harassment and intimidation. I pray that they be exposed through social media too !!!!!!!!...

@user-kq4kq2sw2g 5 ай бұрын

He must be arrested this one,its hijacking

@MNJ_Agri 5 ай бұрын

In this interview we needed a police official

@user-sy1wy6mn3z 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mr mdletshe for not speaking English

@Ginger4789 6 ай бұрын

One of my colleagues at work also gave a lift to a fellow colleague was also accosted by taxi drivers and threatened 😮😮😮😮😮

@magdalenechristie6453 5 ай бұрын

I am a white woman. I do animal welfare in the informal settlements I often give lifts to people who have to walk kilometres back to their homes. They anyway do not have money to pay for taxis Sometimes women who have to walk from the houses where they do domestic work to the taxi ranks. Because they do not have the money for all the shifts. In the rain. In the 37 degrees of heat. Often people going to town looking for piece jobs. I dont ask for money. Ive been offered, but declined Every time those people who i have helped were so grateful My question is: should i keep on helping, or am i in danger

@izindabaezinhle-mbi9653 6 ай бұрын

UKUBA BEKUYINDODA NGABE KU RIGHT?

@user-yp1ll6ki7d 5 ай бұрын

akuko rite neze ukukhomba umuntu nge sibamu

@menzihsbonelo207 5 ай бұрын

You get ride of your competitors by improving the quality of the services you provide, not bullying them😢

@Ngunikaz 5 ай бұрын

They did this to us on our way back to JHB from EC. We were using one transport and they wanted us to pay a fine of 1.5. Yheey I refused , spoke to one of the taxi owners and they had to let us go. It’s bad, ungovernable cowntry!

@sbtcapital 5 ай бұрын

Even at malls you can't Uber to your house it's like they choose for you the mode of transportation

@nkosinathingele1158 6 ай бұрын

Its Sis Danisile, .... not what the Santaco lady is saying

@thandimartin1583 5 ай бұрын

Taxi industry is a killer’s den.

@WILLIAMCHALAKA 6 ай бұрын

TAXI BUSINESS WILL DISAPEAR VERY SOON , ORDER ON LANE SOME ARE USING ELETRIC SCOTTERS. IN UK BUSES AND TAXI HAVE RUN OUT OF BUSINESS

@hlanganisambatha614 6 ай бұрын

😂 you dreaming

@MfesaneRadebe 24 күн бұрын

Dankie Godole ngyathanda lapho, kuvikelwe umphakathi, and isizulu ulwimi lwethu, ofuna uklizwa akalufunde.

@muziwakhencube7423 5 ай бұрын

They did a same thing to my friend he paid R5000 on N2 for picking up people going to richardsbay if he didn't pay R5000 they said he will pay R25000 at the offices to release the car

@msizimhlongo 5 ай бұрын

Just look at that. We are now at their mercy at this point, police can't do anything because themselves are involved in this shenanigans 😢

@vinqualiva 4 ай бұрын

Now this is the content we signed up for.

@reemthembo552 5 ай бұрын

This is a common problem,we were abused by taxi Marshals for my husband picking us up with our kids.

@Mathapelo396 5 ай бұрын

Taxi drivers think they are law unto themselves

@ntombizodwadube6972 5 ай бұрын

Salute to the taxi man in the studio. I once had the same issue in 1995 , that long hey! That’s how the Zulu men it the township & around South Africa used to be , abavikeli bomphakathi ( protector) but now,they are killers, Zulu asibuyeleni kubuntu bethu. Taxi, bolt, Uber, private cars has the right of the road as we pay road tax, toll roads, & we all had our rights to choose what transport we would use & has nothing to do with taxi drivers/ marshals. We need tough laws . No one owns any road in South Africa. Siyabonga game yet hi ngokulwa lempi, Jehovah akuvike, uhlale ukuselekile njalo, Siyabonga ngokubuyisa isidima somzi ka Zulu. Okumhlophe kodwa

@user-nz6rg8jg8t 5 ай бұрын

Akaboshwe ngangizo fonela abakwa tracker

@adorneverything7873 5 ай бұрын

The same thing happened to me when i was driving from work with my colleagues.

@husainalli 6 ай бұрын

A clear and concise discussion about thuggish behaviour and the rules of engagement thereof going forth. With Santaco to fly in front and lead. The future is bright. We are headed towards a Singapore type of Cow and Tree.

@user-dq9bo9zy3p 6 ай бұрын

I dont think this will end .it has been going on for long.mybe when Jesus come

@user-yi4qx8px2i 3 ай бұрын

Thanks man for helping the sister 🙏🙏🙏

@Ginger4789 6 ай бұрын

Does the area belong to taxi operators considering this industry don’t pay any taxes

@SIBUSISOXULU-vk9po 6 ай бұрын

I had to pay R1600 to metre taxis patrollers of Vereeniging for dropping someone from OR Tambo airport last year i was harass very brutally

@lavadome9686 5 ай бұрын

Godole uchubekile kakhulu and uhluzekile engqondweni. I'm ukumbona ekhula njenge Ndoda

@ThavhanyedzaMLucky 5 ай бұрын

If i want to take someone on the road i most go to taxi rank src where are those rules?

@preciouscele5130 5 ай бұрын

Our country this is breaking my heart such abuse 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@bonginkosikhumalo1882 5 ай бұрын

This guy Godole need a big Thanks he live among community ❤

@sifungongwenya6291 5 ай бұрын

same problem nase Engcobo kwade kwafa abantu, 2 years ago ndamiswa ndiqhuba imoto from engcobo to JHb ndabuzwa nge ID phofu phofu ndilayishe abantwana bam

@mlondichiliza737 5 ай бұрын

The taxi industry should not push disadvantaged people against the wall. People have overthrown governments, powerful n influential people. They must use apartheid regime as reference, guns n intimidation won't a revolution. They should work with the community not against

@awethuzanga1631 5 ай бұрын

Big up to the camera man for that video that attracted the attention

@tamara40 5 ай бұрын

It was her children who recorded the whole big up to the kids

@dimitrimokotsolane6719 5 ай бұрын

Even Thuso Motaung said it is a new law now...I was once a victim but they started realising thst I'm carrying a gun and they let me go. Worse, they were also armed.

@siphiwegoniwe552 5 ай бұрын

This government is useless, in the Eastern Cape small town called Butterworth Long distance buses are no longer pick up people. Even they closed Shoprite to sell bus tickets .

@albrightmavundla9550 5 ай бұрын

Santaco spokesperson is very clear. And thank you

@musamilton5613 5 ай бұрын

The problem of this thing of hiking becomes when you get hijacked or robbed, hiking is not safe but the service on this taxis is horrible

@user-fb5vj7ko1l 4 ай бұрын

Horrendous treatment of a woman by the taxi Marshall, please help this is getting out of hand. How come are they not made to account for the horrible behavior. 😢😮