VIDEO: Woman attacks taxi driver after accident
Is it okay to take justice into your own hands?
A video of a woman attacking a taxi driver after an alleged accident has sent waves across South Africa.
According to The Citizen, the incident took place in Umhlanga on Tuesday morning.
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In the video, which was shared on X, the woman can be seen repeatedly hitting and kicking the taxi driver.
The other women in the video can be heard cheering her on.
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This is totally wrong pic.twitter.com/eadKm0TAiw
— Mlambo (@Lwadz_G) December 6, 2023
"Started my day with beating up a taxi driver. I’m high on adrenaline right now," tweeted the woman, @thusthus12, after the incident.
According to her Tweets, the taxi driver drove into her in the middle of the road at high speed.
"Robots were not working. I took my turn entering the road, and he appeared from nowhere and hit me, my car landed on the pavement," she tweeted.
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"The rank marshall trying to threaten me for beating the driver. I told them to f*ck off coz if it was their mother in the car they would have shot them. That guy nearly killed us."
My right hand hurts. I haven't been in a physical altercation in years! Beating on a grown man was not part of my plans for the day https://t.co/4LSuJc78uf
— ThatMomOutThere (@thusthus12) December 5, 2023
The response to the video has been divided, with some supporting the woman and others expressing that they felt it was wrong.
The woman, identified as Thuso Khumalo, told IOL News that she understands some people's claims that she reacted unjustly but sticks by the fact that the driver could have easily cost her her life.
"They are right, I probably shouldn't have hit him at all, but there was nothing that warranted him driving at that speed in an area where the traffic lights were not working, he just came out of nowhere," she said.
"Taxi drivers do frustrate us everyday, but we live with it and we kind of understand, but this was so extreme for me because his taxi was empty, it was just after 9 am, where was he rushing to so much that he almost killed us," she said.
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