“Kodwa, Jesu!”: Viral Video Shows Cops Impounding Taxi With 37 Passengers, Mzansi Bewildered

• Another bizarre video showing an overloaded taxi on South African roads has surfaced on social media
• X user @zibuseman shared the clip, showing the dumbfounded passengers en route to an unknown destination
• Netizens, bowled over by the peculiar yet unsurprising scenes, raced to the comments to air their views

The wonders — and albeit a serious safety concern, hilarity — never seem to end with the trend of overloaded taxis.

This is especially true when minibus taxis and other forms of transportation travel cross-border from South Africa to nearby southern African countries.

Cops impound overloaded taxi

A viral video published on X shows the moment local authorities inspect a Quantum filled with more than twice its average load.

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X user @zibuseman shared the bizarre clip.

The caption read:

"37 passengers from Zimbabwe in one minibus. South Africa, are these people right, mara?"

Watch the video here.

The 41-second material captures the cops inspecting the loaded minibus after stopping it, presumably at a roadblock.

However, its origins and the taxi's destination are unknown.

The scenes play out with the policemen recording the circus on their cellphones.

In the clip posted, the person filming — thought to be one of the authorities — can be seen moving their phone around to get a look inside.

The phone pans to show the faces of the passengers, all looking bamboozled by the unexpected disruption. Some try to shield their faces from the camera.

The officers converse among themselves and are heard incredulously shouting:

"Ba laishitse 37? A go kgonege! (They loaded 37? That is not possible)."

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Netizens left alarmed and puzzled

The clip garnered nearly 385,000 views as netizens expressed their outrage and surprise. It further attracted 2000 likes, 1100 reposts and over 400 comments.

Briefly News camped in the comments strip to capture the interesting reactions to the bizarre scenes.

@Nompu1234 wrote:

"Kodwa, Jesu. Zimbabwean criminals coming into SA in their numbers."

@Lekako3 said:

"They heard that @Our_DA is now in charge. So, there [are] jobs galore in SA."

@Cosi_za offered:

"Taxi licenses must be suspended for this criminality."

@Madelin30664814 mentioned:

"They left behind all that land they claim to have!"

Woman uses pink microphone in taxi to shout her stop

In related news, Briefly News previously reported that a South African woman pulled a hilarious stunt while on a taxi ride.

TikTok user @nnella2 posted a video showing herself speaking into a pink battery-operated microphone as she shouted her stop to the driver.

Source: Briefly News