Cape Argus reports that the MyCiTi vehicle-operating company Kidrogen is facing a “new type of threat and act of hooliganism”, namely that of its drivers being sexually assaulted by commuters.  

Two men allegedly sexually assaulted a female driver at the Marine Circle bus station in Table View at about 7.30am last Tuesday.  After boarding the bus, one of them switched off the vehicle and started terrorising the driver.  He allegedly unbuttoned his trousers and pushed his genitals up against the driver's window while trying to force the door open.  The second man was apparently acting as a lookout.  Kidrogen spokesperson Leah Eckles said the driver was traumatised.  Realising that she wasn't going to be able to hold the door much longer, she decided to abandon the bus and escaped through the driver's door.  Eckles indicated:  “The whole ordeal was so horrific and the driver is so disturbed by what transpired that she has been put off from work indefinitely for the purposes of receiving counselling.”  Kidrogen chief executive Andile Peter said he was concerned that the incident represented a “new type of threat and act of hooliganism”.  The police are investigating a sexual assault case.

• Read the full original of Sisonke Mlamla’s report on this story at Cape Argus

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