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Olivyia M

1 reviews | Active since Sept 2019

06 Sept 2019, 05:10

Violation of my rights as a woman and harassment

This morning at 03:09 am I left my house Soweto to work at Kempton Park O. R Tambo International Airport. At Koma Road Robots eKhwezi I turned right (which robots were green clearing me to turn) to connect to Elias Motsoaledi Road heading towards CWJ Hardware at the robots, also cleared to pass the robots. I got stop by three Metro Police Officers whom were driving a vehicle registration no: FG50ZYGP one of one was Mr. T. Chunke. First they stop at 03:12am at a hijacking hotspots zone near the dam which I considere to be an unsafe zone. Three of them approached my car and asked me why am I not stopping at the robots. I rep**** by saying why can’t we go to the nearest petrol station where I will feel that I’m safe, not at that location we where at. Secondly I say to them if not safe at all to stop for long at the robots at this hours of the morning as she female, just as I said that he sweared at me, calling me iSifebe. Then he asked for my drivers license of which I gave him. They went around the car for inspection and went straight into their vehicle to write a ticket. I had to wait for 10mins in that unsafe location for them to finish what they were doing. Even got out of my car at 03:22am to check what was taking that long as I told them that I’m headed to work already I’m getting late. Then one of the officers got out of their vehicle to give me back my license and I asked he his details name, surname and employment number to report their act, he threw my belongings on my dashboard , used that word again and stormed off to the vehicle. They used their authority to victimize me and violated my rights as a woman by not acknowledging my request for us to stop at a safe location like a garage and too the offense that I was stopped for wasn’t included in the ticket issued. But they created things to be spiteful and use their power. I’m hoping I’ll get intervention from management about this issue.

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