{"id":8687,"date":"2013-08-07T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2013-08-07T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:05:24","slug":"commuters-stone-taxi-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8687","title":{"rendered":"Commuters stone taxi driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sataxi.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8688\" alt=\"sataxi\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sataxi.jpeg\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>A Durban taxi driver was reportedly beaten to death by commuters after crashing his taxi, killing one person and injuring three others.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Mercury<\/em>, the out-of-control taxi knocked down two women as it approached a taxi rank on Monday afternoon. It then collided with a bus, injuring the conductor, before running down and killing rank manager James Bantu Khoza.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that commuters attacked the driver with rocks and beer bottles after the crash. He was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A witness told the newspaper that the taxi had been moving at a &#8220;very high speed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard Bab&#8217;u Khoza say: &#8216;Slow down. What&#8217;s the rush?&#8217; We then heard two loud bangs, only to realise that the taxi had crushed him,&#8221; said the unnamed witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Durban taxi driver was reportedly beaten to death by commuters after crashing his taxi, killing one person and injuring three others. According to The Mercury, the out-of-control taxi knocked down two women as it approached a taxi rank on Monday afternoon. It then collided with a bus, injuring the conductor, before running down and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commuters stone taxi driver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1009,4865,140],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-durban","tag-sa-taxi","tag-violence"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/sataxi.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8689,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions\/8689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}