THE MISTAKE THEY MADE WAS COMING AFTER MY LIFE – Joe Sibanyoni Nails The Big 5 Cartel Members

Target Marked In Blood As Taxi Boss Names Trio In Deadly Underworld Plot After Surviving Brutal Ambushes

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Signoni Ferrari delivered explosive testimony before the commission of inquiry, exposing a deadly underworld where government tenders, taxi associations, and organized hits collide in a violent battle for economic dominance.

Taking the stand to confront decades of bloodshed, Signoni Ferrari directly implicated Mr. Cibby, Catmat Lala, and TK Malef in a coordinated campaign to eliminate him, declaring that their strategic alliance signaled that the game was up.

Signoni Ferrari detailed how the lethal violence in Mamelodi, where people were dying in massive numbers every day, was directly tied to the presence and actions of Catmat Lala, who is known as Katiso.

Connecting the dots between the escalating body count in Mamelodi and concurrent waves of fatal gun violence in Soweto, Signoni Ferrari identified TK Malef as a core component of the deadly machine driving the conflict.

The witness explained that while surviving a single hostile adversary was manageable by entering hiding, facing a consolidated trio comprising Mr. Cibby, Catmat Lala, and TK Malef created an inescapable, life-threatening crisis.

Commissioners grilled Signoni Ferrari regarding his long-standing history with Mr. Cibby, specifically probing an incident in or around 2006 when Mr. Cibby allegedly dispatched hitmen to assassinate him.

Signoni Ferrari survived that initial hit attempt despite sustaining direct gunshot injuries, yet Mr. Cibby later confronted him, asking why Signoni Ferrari had disappeared from his presence.

When commissioners questioned whether Mr. Cibby gathered armed associates out of fear to protect himself from potential retaliation, Signoni Ferrari rejected the premise entirely, clarifying that the deployment was an active offensive posture rather than a defensive measure.

Following the 2006 shooting, Signoni Ferrari fled the taxi sector entirely, entering complete hiding and securing a connection in the trucking business, where he operated for almost three years.

A severe economic recession devastated the trucking venture after three years, forcing Signoni Ferrari to formulate a strategic public return to the minibus taxi industry.

To force state intervention, Signoni Ferrari aired his grievances across two consecutive weekly editions of the Sunday World newspaper, prompting the Department of Transport to convene an urgent stakeholder meeting involving industry representatives and the housing registrar.

During that official Department of Transport meeting, Signoni Ferrari openly confronted Mr. Cibby, pointing at him in front of all attendees and declaring that industry politics must be settled directly between the two of them.

Signoni Ferrari felt comfortable resuming operations despite the extreme danger because key rival association figures had already been killed, leaving only one or two specific individuals to monitor.

When asked why he failed to file a formal police statement after being shot in 2006, Signoni Ferrari testified that he lived in intense terror of Mr. Cibby, choosing instead to report what he witnessed directly to the local operational executive of the association.

Signoni Ferrari confirmed under oath that the specific gunman who carried out the 2006 hit on him is no longer alive today.

Addressing the structural state of law enforcement, Signoni Ferrari testified that the Gauteng Traffic Police Public Transport Unit was historically severely under-capacitated to police the minibus taxi industry.

Signoni Ferrari noted that while structural deficiencies remain, taxi-related gun violence has decreased significantly from 2020 to the present under his direct leadership due to widespread peace initiatives.

Transitioning to regulatory failures, Signoni Ferrari cited findings from the Shongwe Commission, highlighting how the Provincial Regulatory Entity unlawfully required applicants to obtain association letters of recommendation before issuing operating licenses.

Signoni Ferrari explained that this non-statutory requirement effectively transformed taxi associations into absolute gatekeepers capable of illegally excluding non-members and monopolizing lucrative routes.

To illustrate the mechanism, Signoni Ferrari explained that an individual seeking to operate a taxi must write a formal letter to the association chairperson, secure approval under association conditions, and rely on the association to instruct the Provincial Regulatory Entity to grant the permit before purchasing a vehicle.

The inquiry reviewed the historical roots of the violence, tracing the crisis back to the Motor Carrier Transport Act of 1930, which rejected over 90 percent of black applicants and forced operators into an unregulated shadow economy as an act of economic survival.

Following the Welgemoed Commission of 1981 and the Transport Deregulation Act of 1988, the number of minibus taxis exploded from 3,752 to approximately 39,641 within just three years.

This nearly 11-fold expansion occurred without route planning or institutional support, triggering what academic research characterized as a shift from low-intensity economic conflict to full-scale mafia warfare involving hired hitmen and systematic assassinations.

Despite interventions such as the National Taxi Task Team in 1995 and the Gauteng Minibus Taxi-Type Services Act 11 of 1997, underlying structural drivers and uncounted cash collections sustained ongoing route wars.

Signoni Ferrari revealed under oath that he has survived two separate direct assassination attempts on his life, first in 2006 and again on August 10, 2022.

In both instances, state law enforcement failed to deliver justice, leaving the perpetrators of the 2022 hit attempt unprosecuted for approximately three years.

Signoni Ferrari affirmed that despite being subpoenaed under Regulation 10.6, he appeared before the commission as a law-abiding citizen with over 40 years in the sector, seeking legal protection and institutional accountability.

The proceeding encountered brief administrative delays as legal teams worked around the clock to retrieve missing annexures J and I from the former secretary of the Shongwe Commission.

THE MISTAKE THEY MADE WAS COMING AFTER MY LIFE – Joe Sibanyoni Nails The Big 5 Cartel Members

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