Bangikhaya Machana had finished his shift as a long-distance bus driver when he was shot in the left arm and waist at an Intercape depot in Cape Town on Monday, 25 April. The 35-year-old father of two young children died of his injuries three days later.During a memorial inside a warehouse at the depot in the Boquinar Industrial Area on Tuesday,Murdered bus driver Bangikhaya Mchana’s father, Nkululo Mchana , thanked Intercape for his son’s memorial service.
Four white candles and a framed picture of Machana standing outside a bus were on display on a table with a black cloth. Nkululo and Machana’s wife Asange lit two candles before the service. Three women comforted her afterwards as she wept. “[The attacks] are uncalled for. We didn’t do anything wrong, but some people are not happy and now they’re trying to force us out of business.”Intercape CEO Johann Ferreira pays his respects to Bangikhaya Machana at his memorial service.
Ferreira said extortion and violence were levelled not only at Intercape, but the broader long-distance bus industry. He said more than 150 violent incidents had been reported over the past year, with more than 60 cases opened at police stations. No arrests have been made.
Taxi criminals, first the trains and now busses.
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