Bela-Bela taxi crams 58 schoolchildren

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A video has surfaced on WhatsApp and social media showing a traffic officer counting the young children as they emerge from one taxi.

A video footage showing a police officer counting 58 schoolchildren climbing out of a minibus taxi is doing the rounds on social media.

JOHANNESBURG - Bela-Bela traffic authorities were left reeling after they stopped a minibus taxi, crammed to capacity with young school children. In a video footage circulating on social media, an officer is seen counting each child as they climb out of the vehicle. The officer and the person filming the video sound incredulous as they count the fiftieth child, and continue counting until 58.Shortly before the video ends, the officer is heard saying that"the driver will sing in jail".He said officials will visit the affected schools to further deal with the matter.

 

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The taxi driver' s driver's licence must taken for good and must be behind bars for many years.

This is totally unacceptable..

The problem we are a reactive government than a proactive government. This things need a strong regulation, lets stop gambling with our kids lives. Parents are also to be blamed how do allow ur kid to be in a full taxi like that

Greed is a terrible thing! Hope they lock him up.

eh😮 58kids in one taxi this is madness. what is this country coming to?.

Where is Fikile ? Mr mouth

Ubuntu

worse bela bela public schools have free bus transport but parents chooses to put their kids lives in danger

zinhlekheswa orileng

Sounds about taxi

Tso mehlolo, i always seen similar things like around tembisa, if you drive past Kempton Park you will see

As the saying goes , the taxi is never full.where are schooler buses?

Lock up the driver. Immediately.

Parents what do you call thus?

MbalulaFikile Hon Minister, please intervene. These situation is all over the country. Some kind of regulation or control measure might assist to improve the quality of school transport.

It's time the taxis committing crimes like these should have the driver locked up with out PRESIDENTIAL PARDON And the taxi taken away with out COMPENSATION

AfroBantu_ Yhuuu hayi you see black people? what kind of mentality is that?

And I thought I had seen worse, this certainly takes the crown. How is it even possible?

Aslong parents dnt want to pay reasonable price it wil b like dat

what are thy gonna do with this kind of things

Abramjee

And they are charging expensive,

I can believe this...If Metro police they can intervene with this school buses (the Drivers and Owners) batla bona mihlolo. And I don't understand go re as Africans why we have to treat each other like that. Money it's important to them than our kids lives.

Not the first time though

This is happening every where School transport, I grew up travel like this to school. It's truly sad that we experienced Such.

That taxi driver should be locked up for life plus all the kid's parents!! It's not as if they were worried about their child's health by allowing this...

This is ridiculous.

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