Update: March leader lives in fear
The dispute which has now become a taxi war was between the Nasareth District Taxi Association (NDTA) and Extension 24 residents.
Extension 24 prevented the NDTA taxi’s to pick up commuters by barricading the area with bricks and attacking NDTA taxi’s.
According to Mr Mogwane he heard a knock on his door on Tuesday evening and when he opened six men, two in full police attire with a sniffer dog, stormed into his house and chased him around.
He then ran into the backroom where his two was sons sleeping.
“The men then asked me to lay down on the floor and started assaulting me and my two children, yelling I should take out the gun. My wife came into the room after she heard the children crying and was also assaulted.”
The men eventually left the property and speed off in three police vehicles.
Community members came out in numbers to assist the Mogwane family, armed with the three police vehicles registration number.
“They first did not want me to open a case and told me to wait until the next day but we stood there until they opened the case.”
“I am planning to sue the state and I want the attackers to be brought to justice,” he added.
According to w/o Lize de Witt the case is still under investigation.
Residents of Extension 24 have since asked Mhluzi taxis to pick up commuters and are still waiting for council for feed back on the memorandum they have submitted.
