Taxi associations accused of terrorising immigrants in Pretoria
14 October 2019
“We are living in fear. We do not know when they will strike next,” says Ashley Johnson.
Johnson, a Zimbabwean living in Pretoria, is nursing wounds after being attacked at a shop by a group of men who told him they were cleaning up drug dealing on behalf of Pretoria taxi associations last week.
According to witnesses, such attacks have happened three times in the last month. The men, who according to witnesses arrive in cars marked with the names of taxi associations, have been targeting shops along Eskia Mpahlele Drive where many foreign nationals spend time.
Witnesses say on Wednesday 9 October the men carried long sjamboks and whipped people.