A mixture of shock, outrage and incredulity met video footage this week of a Cape Town motorist driving an Opel Corsa with its back right wheel replaced with a flatbed trolley.
The former owner, who apparently sold the white Corsa to a man from Delft, said after he saw the video he contacted the car’s current owner to find out how the four-wheeled car he sold the man only a few months ago had turned into an apparent death trap.
“He said he didn’t have a choice. He had to do it. He knows it wasn’t the right thing to do and he was wrong,” said the man. As to how the car ended up mounted on a trolley, the former owner said he received a vague and troubling report. He was told the car is at the new owner’s house, somewhere in Delft, where it was allegedly being fixed.The video on Twitter was uploaded by @NalaThokozane on Tuesday with the description “No one, absolutely no one. South Africans.”Some declared the country needed to be"closed".