Crime
Children traumatised after bloody assault
A tense standoff between 250 Avanza Scholar Transport and Taxi Association members and the local traffic department ensued on Thursday after a traffic officer assaulted one of Avanza's drivers by hitting him over the head with his firearm.
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The assault on Skumbuzo Gama took placei n front of the 13 school children he drove from Mhluzi to Eastdene Combined.
The children were so traumatized by the event that they had to be taken home.
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Gama was arrested which spurred fellow Avanza members to flock to the municipal magazine where they demanded that his impounded minibus be released without costs.
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Almost the entire traffic department responded to calls for backup at the magazine where gathering Avanza members were threatened with arrest.
• Read the full article in the latest edition of the Middelburg Observer out now.
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