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This has to be the worst cases of over-crowding I have ever
read!
Working parents, who need a safe, affordable, (hopefully
stimulating) place to leave their children, while they
cannot be there for them, sometimes have NO idea what is
happening to their precious children while in the “care” of
those who claim to be qualified to take care of
preschoolers.
Imagine! Thank God this taxi was stopped by two alert
traffic officers before a tragedy occurred.
One can only try to think how difficult it might be to drive
with a quarter of those children in a taxi, let alone 105
plus 8 adults!
Shocking to know that a school would employ the services of
a taxi driver without checking if he was even registered to
drive a taxi, but in this case he did not even possess a
driver’s licence!
Poor kids! They must have been so excited to be going on an
outing the next day. Can you imagine their eagerness to get
to pre-school to go out for a special day? Little do they
realize how close each and every one of them was to death!
They had no say in the matter of how many would be squashed
into one taxi! What do small children know? They trustingly
piled in and piled in, and piled in…! How they managed it
cannot even be imagined.
One wonders whether they would be more likely to die of
suffocation, or an accident due to the driver’s control of
the vehicle being severely hampered by umpteen little
bodies.
Well done Jaco Strydom and Vernon Johnson! Let’s have more
dedicated traffic officers out there, seeing what is going
on, and taking action.
Some guys have got so used to driving with absolutely no
attention to the law, either by become legal drivers, or by
obeying one single law, that they are under the very
mistaken idea that they are fully entitled to do just
exactly what they like and get away with it. They voted very
enthusiastically for the new Government when a last minute
half-promise of reviewing the taxi driver programme seemed
to be just what they wanted. It almost looks as if the ANC
Government is actually trying to control the flood of
lawlessness. Will they show who is boss, or let the taxi
drivers dictate to them? We watch with some interest to see
if Jacob Zuma, who knows his people, is able to control his
men, get them disciplined, law abiding and respectable as
drivers worthy of the profession of transporting our people
safely, or whether it is too late to stop the flood of total
lawlessness on South African roads.
We have all been saying it for years. Attitude, training,
and law enforcement will stop this all too common display of
wicked behaviour.
Pat Allen
National President: SAIDI
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