Noord taxi rank horror: Taxi drivers viciously attacks defenceless woman

Pictures of a woman with scary bruises surfaced over social media, after she was viciously attacked by taxi drivers and marshals in Johannesburg’s Noord taxi rank.

Shockingly, this incident occurs when the country is currently rolling out Gender Based Violence campaign termed “16 Days of activism” in which condemns all acts of violence against women and children.

According to the victim, Motlalepule Tloome, she says her attack emanates from an uproar situation where she was harrased by four taxi operators in broad daylight.

Apparently, the victim was accompanying her family members who were heading to Welkom from Johannesburg, when the altercation allegedly took place.

“On Tuesday around 13:00, I accompanied my two aunts to Noord Taxi Rank in Johannesburg, they were going to Welkom and one of my aunties was with her 3-year-old daughter, and when we get to the Noord office to pay the travel fee, they told us to pay for my sister’s child,” Tloome told Kasi Voice News.

She furthermore added: “And we told them that we we don’t have enough money to pay for the child, so it’s better if they refund us and we will take North West route because the child didn’t pay last week at the same taxi rank.”

“They then refused to refund our money and told me to leave their premises, I then told them I won’t leave the rank without getting my money back, that’s when they started to beat me almost four of them,” Tloome addressed.

The victim said according to bystanders, she was attacked by more than eight personnel in total, as she was in conscious state.

Tloome was then taken to a local hospital following this tragedy, after she sustained serious injuries, and the media doctors said the victim suffered a severe damage to her bladder, and she will not be able to urinate for couple of days.

The 34-year-old originates from Welkom, however, she reside in Johannesburg for work purposes.

She further told Kasi Voice News that following this attack, she opened the case at Johannesburg Central Police station on the same day of the incident, and the case has been handed over to the detective unit.

The victim said when the police launched manhunt, Tloome was asked to identify the attackers, in which she could not label them, as she didn’t saw their faces.

Kasi Voice News has tried to reach out to Jofelta Taxi Association for a comment, but the association failed to respond to our query at the time of publication of the story.