{"id":24059,"date":"2026-02-22T06:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/crime-against-e-hailing-drivers-on-going-for-over-10-years-nefsa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:48","slug":"crime-against-e-hailing-drivers-on-going-for-over-10-years-nefsa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/crime-against-e-hailing-drivers-on-going-for-over-10-years-nefsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime against e-hailing drivers on going for over 10 years: NEFSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National E-hailing Federation of South Africa (NEFSA) has called on the government to constitute a task team that will look into attacks on e-hailing drivers.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the killing of a 22-year-old driver in Pretoria West last week. Four suspects are currently in police custody and have appeared in court.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Nigerian national was overpowered inside his vehicle after picking up a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The hijacked vehicle and the driver\u2019s body were later found in Atteridgeville.<\/p>\n<p>Tella Masakale, NEFSA\u2019s Spokesperson, says, \u201cThis incident is not the first, and we hope it is the last hence, we, as the operators and drivers of the National E-Hailing Federation of South Africa, are tired and are urging the government to step up and formulate an e-hailing task team dedicated to dealing with e-hailing criminality. This has been starting since 2015, we\u2019re now 10 years later and we\u2019re still experiencing the same horrible acts of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24060,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-24059","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Four suspects are currently in police custody and have appeared in court.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Four suspects are currently in police custody and have appeared in court.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26857,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24059\/revisions\/26857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}