Motorist withdraws case after patrollers apologise, pay back R2,5k

The brother also told Mahlangu that the patrollers apologised about the incident and paid his R2,500 back.

From there, said Mahlangu, the brother asked him to withdraw the case as the patrollers had made amends.

“Everything happened in the morning. These people went to my brother and they probably softened him up and he called me to withdraw the case because these people came and returned the fine.”

Mahlangu then went to Nelspruit magistrate’s court where he had opened the case but “police told me to then go withdraw the case at Nelspruit court as the matter was handled there”.

He said had it been up to him, he would have not withdrawn the case to teach the patrollers a lesson.

“We won’t sit down with them, we are not friends and if they do it again I will show them what I am made of,” said Mahlangu.

On the day of the incident, Mahlangu – who lives in Barberton – said he had gone with his neighbour to Nelspruit. He went there to service the vehicle and when he was done he waited for the neighbour who had gone to Sars.

It was when the neighbour was about to get into the car that the taxi patrollers pounced, he said.

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