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Hy het beslis dat hul vrylating \u2019n risiko vir getuies sou inhou en die publiek se vertroue in die regstelsel sou ondermyn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Makalala het nie om borgtog aansoek gedoen nie. Sy ses medebeskuldigdes het aangevoer dat hul vrylating in belang van geregtigheid sou wees en dat hulle nie \u2019n bedreiging vir die publiek sou inhou of die verhoor sou ontduik nie. Hulle het verwys na hul vaste woonadresse, familieverbintenisse en sakebelange. Die meeste is betrokke by die taxibedryf, terwyl Mazele \u2019n begrafnisonderneming bedryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-lees-western-cape-extortion-crisis-only-one-conviction-despite-331-arrests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">LEES | <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/western-cape-extortion-crisis-only-one-conviction-despite-331-arrests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Western Cape extortion crisis: Only one conviction despite 331 arrests<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens die NVG se streekswoordvoerder, Eric Ntabazalila, het die staat egter sterk bewyse van \u2019n volgehoue kriminele operasie voorgehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDie ondersoek het \u2019n geko\u00f6rdineerde rampokkery-onderneming blootgel\u00ea waarby taxi-eienaars en lede van taxiverenigings betrokke was wat langafstandbusmaatskappye stelselmatig geteiken het,\u201d het Ntabazalila ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMeer as 150 voorvalle van geweld en intimidasie wat Intercape-busse alleen raak, is sedert Januarie 2021 aangeteken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volgens Johan Ferreira, uitvoerende hoof van Intercape, is die bogenoemde uitspraak nie net vir sy maatskappy belangrik nie, maar ook vir \u201celke Suid-Afrikaner wat op veilige en betroubare openbare vervoer staatmaak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 id=\"h-lees-seven-appear-in-court-on-bus-extortion-charges\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">LEES | <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/seven-appear-in-court-on-bus-extortion-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seven appear in court on bus extortion charges<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVir meer as vyf jaar leef ons bestuurders, passasiers en personeel onder die skadu van georganiseerde geweld en afpersing. Meer as 225 aangetekende voorvalle teen Intercape-busse alleen, is sedert Januarie 2021 aangemeld. Dit was nie lukrake dade nie. Dit was \u2019n doelbewuste, geko\u00f6rdineerde kriminele onderneming wat daarop gemik was om geld van wettige ondernemings af te pers en die mense wat ons bedien te terroriseer,\u201d verduidelik Ferreira aan <em>Die Papier.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOns verwelkom die hof se besluit om borgtog te weier. Dit is die regte uitkoms. Die individue wat voor die hof verskyn het, staar 156 aanklagte in die gesig, waaronder rampokkery, afpersing, ontvoering, geldwassery en inmenging met noodsaaklike infrastruktuur. Die staat se saak, wat noukeurig onder Projek Tsitsikama opgebou is, is oorweldigend sterk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIntercape sal voortgaan om ten volle met die staat saam te werk terwyl die finansi\u00eble ondersoeke afgehandel word voor die verrigtinge wat op 20 Julie 2026 hervat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAan ons passasiers: Julle verdien dit om veilig te reis. Ons sal nie rus voordat dit op elke roete wat ons bedien, gewaarborg is nie,\u201d s\u00ea Ferreira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019n Hof in Kaapstad het borgtog geweier aan sewe mense wat daarvan beskuldig word dat hulle deel was van \u2019n georganiseerde afpersingsindikaat wat langafstandbusoperateurs tussen die Oos- en Wes-Kaap geteiken het. 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