Nyanga CPF calls on criminals to stop attacks on Golden Arrow buses

The Nyanga Community Policing Forum has called on criminals to stop their attacks on Golden Arrow buses, because the township’s residents end up suffering as well.

Buses have seemingly been torched, in response to the city’s clamp down on errant taxi drivers, and permits checks in the area.

The policing forum’s secretary, Dumisani Qwebe, said the attacks on buses puts the lives of passengers at risk. “Whenever you attack buses, you are attacking the lives in the buses [too] that will be lost,” he said.

Early damage costs are said to be to the tune of at least R10 million. At least one bus driver was hurt in Thursday’s violence.

Qwebe, said they’ve since called for a meeting with local taxi drivers: “So that they can discuss the issue of their permits and licences”.

The city’s security officials claim that a criminal syndicate has orchestrated the latest attacks, in which several Golden Arrow buses and vehicles were torched, over the past 48 hours.

Qwebe has condemned the violence: “We are so devastated with what happened on Thursday, and this has badly impacted our operations”. He added that people’s livelihoods were suffering too: “When we do such things, we are delaying our communities to get to work”.

-EWN

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