PRIVATE-HIRE DRIVER SHOT AND VEHICLE HIJACKED
A private-hire driver was allegedly lured to Kwahlalangenkani MP under the pretence of providing transport to Harmony Park.
The suspects then took him towards the Osilema/Salema area, where they shot him and stole his work vehicle.
It is alleged that the same suspects had earlier attempted to target another vehicle.
Hardware store owner, Rizwan Butt (40) kidnapped in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape. His employee was also taken. The kidnapping took place on 19 Oct and both men are still missing.
🚨 🇿🇦 ALL FOUR OF THEM ARE SOUTH AFRICAN CITIZENS, NOT ILLEGAL FOREIGNERS ‼️
🔥They are not Zimbabweans or illegal foreigners but South African men.
• Phindile Alex Nomngcayi (Age 30) – Nguni 💀
• Thomas Thabo Motlhangtlhong (Age 27) – Sotho-Tswana 💀
• Mothoka Godfrey Mathipa (Age 56) – Northern Sotho 💀
• Mokhema Jan Maishoane (Age 53) – Sotho-Tswan💀
These four South African men from Promosa, near Potchefstroom are accused of the planned attack on farmer Donovan Marx on 28 October 2026 at Syferfontein farm ‼️
They tied up a farm worker with cable ties, shot, stabbed and beat Donovan Marx and cut both his ears off before fleeing in his bakkie.
Charges: attempted murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, assault and illegal firearms ‼️
Let us get
Justice for Donovan Marx‼️
Motherwell, Eastern Cape:
An @IECSouthAfrica official was allegedly caught interfering with an elderly woman's vote by her daughter during yesterday's special voting process.
According to the daughter, she accompanied her elderly mother to the voting station but was refused permission by an IEC official to assist her mother with casting her vote. Instead, the official allegedly insisted on assisting the elderly woman herself, despite the daughter's understanding that IEC officials are not permitted to influence or choose a voter's selection.
The daughter further alleges that her mother refused to vote for a particular political party, but the IEC official nevertheless marked an X next to that party on the ballot paper without the elderly woman's consent.
Upon noticing what had happened, the daughter confronted the official and demanded that the compromised ballot be cancelled. However, the official allegedly refused and threatened to call the police to have the woman escorted out of the voting station.
The incident reportedly took place at Ikhwezielihle Primary School in Motherwell NU 6, Voting District (VD) 10250963.
This raises serious concerns about the protection of voters' rights, the secrecy of the ballot, and the independence of the voting process.
The IEC should investigate the incident urgently and provide clarity on what transpired.
Today, we have witnessed a suspicious & unusual conduct of the @IECSouthAfrica area manager in all VDs of Ward 79, Ekurhuleni wherein he came to unseal the ballot boxes during the voting period and transfered the ballots to another box claiming to have made a “mistake” of using..
The face of FARM ATTACKS.
These are the monsters who shot and tortured a 50-year-old farmer, Donovan Marx, in a South African farm attack that led to the cutting off of a man's ears.
🇿🇦BIG PROBLEM FOR ANYONE WHO BOUGHT A CHINESE CAR IN SOUTH AFRICA‼️
South Africa is being flooded with cheap Chinese metal. Showrooms full of Haval, Chery, GWM, BYD, Changan, Omoda and the next badge that arrived last month. Big screens, fake-SUV stance, lights that dance and soft leatherette. A price that looks like a bargain next to a Volkswagen, Toyota, Suzuki, BMW or Mercedes.... That is the con.
Youth is buying the advert, not the car, not the service book and not the trade-in. They see gadgets and think they stole a German interior at half the money. They did not, they bought a pretty box from a market that is being force-fed volume by a country that treats exports like a weapon.
Established cars earn their residuals.
Toyota and Suzuki start, service and sell again. VW has parts on a shelf in this country. BMW and Mercedes cost more because the used market still respects the badge when you walk into a dealership three years later. That is not snobbery, that is a number on a valuation sheet.
Chinese volume brands do the opposite. Day one they look loaded. Day 800 the screen is still shiny and the offer on trade-in is "kak". Buyers discover the hard way that a car is not what it costs new. It is what a dealer will pay when you are done with it. That gap is where these brands live.
Parts is where the romance dies.
Break something on a well-known Japanese or German car and the country already has the pipeline. Break something on one of these new imports and you sit, week or sometimes months. Finance does not pause while a control arm or a screen module sits on a boat. You are the one without a car. That is not “growing pains.” That is the product.
This is market manipulation with a smile, flood the segment, undercut the monthly and stuff the cabin with toys. Long warranty on the brochure. Photograph it like an SUV even when the tyres and the drivetrain say city car. Take the young buyer who would have walked into Toyota, Suzuki or VW. Take the family that would have stretched for a used German. Push them into something that looks expensive and depreciates like a phone.
South Africa loses twice. First the customer leaves a proven brand. Then the same customer comes back poorer, waiting on parts, staring at a trade-in that does not cover the hole. The “cheap” car was never cheap. The marketing was.
Give it two years. That is when the first wave of owners hit real mileage, first serious failures, first refinance, first trade. Then the clever campaign from Beijing stops looking clever. It looks like a dump of disposable product into a market that cannot afford to learn the lesson twice.
If you want a toy with a tablet on the dash, buy the toy and admit it.
If you want a car that still has a spine when you sell it, buy what this country already knows how to fix: Volkswagen, Toyota, Suzuki, BMW, Mercedes.
The rest is a costume. Beautiful in the parking lot but ugly on the valuation and when it breaks, you are not a customer, you are a waiting list.
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Ward 19, Rustenburg Subregion! The rot within the IEC is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Yet when people raise concerns about possible vote rigging, they are gaslit and dismissed. Democracy demands transparency, not intimidation.