JOBURG – I AM no advocate of police brutality, but I find the amount of media coverage given to the incident in Daveyton astonishing.
The taxi driver was allegedly breaking the law and resisting arrest.
His resulting demise sparked a nationwide outcry.
Surely the many commuters who die every month due to reckless taxi drivers, loading passengers into roadworthy vehicles, deserve the same courtesy from the media.
Why is there very little coverage when these commuters, who have not broken the law, end up dead on our highways?
Why are taxi drivers and taxi organisation leaders not brought to book in the most public manner?
Is it because these deaths have become so commonplace that they are seldom worthy of more than a brief report in a newspaper?
As I see it, taxi drivers are equally capable of brutality as the police force is.
