Jan 28, 2025 MISA, Motor Industry Staff Association, Martle Keyter, Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, Putco
MISA comment - A special task team must investigate bus arson attacks
MISA, the Motor Industry Staff Association, demands that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu immediately appoints a special task team to hunt down the criminals behind the arson attacks on four Putco depots across Mpumalanga.
“There is something very sinister about these attacks. For years the people of Kwa-Mahlangu, Moloto and Hammanskraal have been struggling with reliable and adequate bus services. For the past few months the embattled state-owned North West Star bus service have been unable to provide a service to commuters in and around Hammanskraal, running in arrears with the payment of salaries to its staff. “The result is that the poorest of the poor have to pay R150 per day and more for taxi’s to get to work and back. This situation is effecting even more commuters after last night’s bizarre arson attack,” says Martlé Keyter, MISA’s Chief Executive Officer: Operations.
According to Putco’s spokesperson Lindokuhle Xulu an unknown group of assailants ambushed and bound security at the Moloto depot before setting buses alight and opening fire inside the depot. The rampage spread throughout the night. In total, 47 buses were burned at the Moloto, Wolwekraal, Siyabushwa and Vaalbank depots. The South African Police Service in Mpumalanga has already indicated that the attacks appear to have been well orchestrated.
According to Keyter no stone must be left unturned to find the criminals before another incident happens. To date South Africa has seen no major arrests, prosecutions, or links made relating to the spree of arson attacks five years ago that brought the services of Prasa, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, to its knees and sabotaged its ability to render services in the Western Cape. “This is unacceptable. The majority of MISA’s more than 69 000 members in the retail motor industry is dependent on affordable public transport to get to and from work,” says Keyter.
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