At 2.30pm on Friday, 12 January, I witnessed something quite alarming. This happened on Voortrekker Road near the weekend robot, on the right side at the shops on the left. It was on the side of the café going from Krugersdorp to Roodepoort. I was stationary at the red robot and saw it happen just ahead of me on the corner.
A little girl (about six or seven years old) with shortish blond hair slicked into a pony tail, and wearing a white dress was being pulled by the right arm by a man. She looked like she was holding something in her left hand and trying to eat it. A taxi pulled up and while he was holding her hand he was climbing in the taxi and coaxing the child to get in with him.
When she seemed reluctant to get in the taxi he pulled her arm harder and got her inside. Then the taxi door slammed shut and raced off. I was at the robot and rushed off behind them to get a photo of the taxi’s number plate and call the police. The right turning traffic had blocked my attempt to get behind the taxi and there were two other taxis now on the same path. I tried to track which taxi it was but with the traffic and by the time I got to the next robots I wasn’t sure which one she was in any longer.
I took photos of all three taxis at the robot and called the police. They told me they can’t just go and search three taxis because I didn’t see which one exactly it was and they would wait and see for a missing person report.
I don’t know what else to do but to make people aware of this.
