Taxi driver found dead in his car
A taxi driver was yesterday morning found dead in his car in the Harare CBD.
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A taxi driver was yesterday morning found dead in his car in the Harare CBD.
Chaos similar to that witnessed during the strike by municipal workers a few weeks ago played itself out yet again following a commotion sparked by taxi drivers’ action against drugs in the CBD on Tuesday.
He could possibly be Bulawayo or the country’s oldest “mageza” (slang for kombi driver) but George Marambakuyana (94) believes he is a Michael Schumacher of sorts.The old man is popular on the City Centre-Mpilo route and his commuters affectionately call him “Maramba”, short for his surname.
A Bulawayo taxi driver is battling for life in the intensive care unit at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was allegedly attacked by people who had hired him before they shoved him into his car’s boot and went on to dump him near a railway line, police have confirmed.
HARARE – Taxi drivers in the capital on Wednesday staged a demonstration at Town House over the killing of a fellow cabman, allegedly by municipal police officers.
HARARE – An unidentified policeman was on Thursday attacked by a taxi driver who was resisting arrest prompting members of the public to retaliate by smashing his car along Sam Nujoma Street in the capital.
CHITUNGWIZA- A 20-year-old Chitungwiza car-jacker was recently subjected to the Sharia law when a mob gouged out his right eye as punishment for robbing a taxi driver in Zengeza. The mob is reported to have accused the police and the courts of failing to deliver proper punishment for car-jackers.
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Highway Patrol is reported to have acquired new state of the art BMW vehicles which they are using to harass commuter omnibus crews with. Pressure group Bulawayo Agenda says “reports are that each vehicle is tasked to raise US$2000 a day, since this Matabeleland Region was given 5 vehicles it means that the ZRP are banking almost $10 000 a day.”