There seems to be no end in sight to the robberies commuters suffer at the hands of armed thieves who are travelling in minibus taxis and posing as taxi operators in the city.
Another taxi commuter, a 31-year-old woman, was on January 31 held up at gunpoint in a taxi and robbed of money, cellphones and other personal belongings before she was dumped in a secluded area.
According to the Boksburg SAPS spokesperson, Const Ntsako Ledwaba, the victim reported that she got into the taxi, a white Toyota Quantum with green and yellow colours, at the corner of van Dyk and Barry Marais roads, heading to Dunswart.
After the taxi had travelled a few metres, one of the five persons she thought were also passengers pointed a gun at her while the taxi was moving and instructed her to keep quiet.
Thereupon, a woman, she initially also thought was a passenger, grabbed her handbag. In the bag were her clothes, R370, toiletries, bank cards and two pricey cellphones.
After noticing that their target had bank cards, the robbers forced her to give them the personal identification numbers (PINs).
They, with the victim still in the vehicle, drove to an ATM where they withdrew money from her Absa and Pep accounts.
She was later driven to an unknown secluded area where she was dumped.
