A Metrobus driver accused of racially abusing a group of white schoolchildren has claimed his trip was made a ”living hell” by the taunting pupils, the Star reported on Thursday.
This was stated on Wednesday by Metrobus chief executive Bheki Shongwe, who sprang to the defence of a driver who is accused of forcing pupils off a bus in the middle of a busy main road.
According to Shongwe, the driver admitted that he had threatened to stop the bus and ”beat the pupils up”, but said this had been done ”to calm them down”.
The paper reported how pupils from the Parktown Girls’ and Parktown Boys’ high schools claimed they were forced off the bus by an irate driver, who — after ordering the black pupils to stay on the bus — told the white pupils they ”would never ride on this bus again”.
”He said to us: ‘The black people are ruling this country now and I’m going to show you how it’s done’,” Grade 11 pupil Chezni Rose said. – Sapa