Five people have been arrested for allegedly stealing 30 sheep, which they loaded into a taxi in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape.
Police spokesperson Capt Ursula Roelofse said police followed up on information that the sheep were being transported in the taxi early on Friday morning.
The vehicle was stopped and the suspects arrested. Police recovered 30 sheep.
The pupils were “literally sitting on top of each other” in the 16-seat capacity Toyota Quantum, which was spotted by law enforcement on Monday at the intersection of Standford Road and Ditchling Street in Port Elizabeth.
Video footage of the children being removed from the vehicle has surfaced on social media.
Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Police Department officers said they were patrolling when they noticed the over-loaded white Toyota Quantum, which was driving in the opposite direction, said department chief Yolande Faro.
“The metro police officer approached the driver, introduced himself and stated the reason for the stop. On inspection of the vehicle his suspicion was confirmed – that the vehicle wa
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Limpopo Public Transport Unit officers attached to Limpopo Traffic Police, stopped a 22-seater cross-border taxi with double the amount of passengers on board.
According to the spokesperson for the Department of Transport, Matome Moremi-Taueutsoala, the bus was stopped on the N1 next to Snake Park just outside Polokwane. The bus was enroute to Zimbabwe from Johannesburg.
“We have called cross border officials to authenticate cross border papers but the driver doesn’t have a permit to drive this kind of vehicle,”he said.
There were 44 people on board, seven of them children.
Moremi-Taueutsoala says this is totally unacceptable and that traffic officers will continue to crack down on those who break the law.
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