Ep. 115 | The Brutal Sugarcane Serial Killer
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What promises did Tozamile Taki make to his victims?
He promised them work, good jobs, steady pay, and a future on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. For young women with nothing but a handwritten resume and borrowed bus fare, he must have sounded like an answer to a prayer. He was polite, warm even, the kind of man you'd trust to help you start a new life. But one by one, they vanished. And his name was Tozamile Taki, a man called a real jackal in a sheepskin. This is the sugar cane killer. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all things that I love to consume, and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually-minded freak.
today we are talking about a little known case but an extremely infamous serial killer so without further ado let's unbuckle our seat belts go mach 5 down the highway slam on the brakes and bust through the windshield into the serial killer case together
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But in 1971, Port St. John's wasn't part of South Africa at all. at least not really. It belonged to the Transkei, one of the apartheid government's so-called homelands or Bantustans. And these were territories carved out by the white minority regime and designated for black South Africans, separated along ethnic and tribal lines. And the idea was essentially forced removal disguised as self-governance. But before any Batustan, the Transkei was designated as a pipeline feeding cheap workers to the mines. And Cecil Joan Rhodes, the prime minister of the Cape Colony, set the template in the 1890s. And hut taxes bled families dry, and anti-squatter laws made it illegal for black farmers to work productive land.
And labor taxes did the rest. The message was simple, go to the mines or starve. So by the time Taki was born, the system had been grinding for nearly a century, and the land was basically barren, and the infrastructure was almost non-existent, and the men were gone, and Port St. John's fell within what's now called the O.R. Tambo District. So by every poverty measure available, O.R. Tambo sits at the bottom of the Eastern Cape. And the Eastern Cape sits at the bottom of the country. And nearly 65% of the people there live in poverty. 65%, that's crazy. And unemployment runs at about the same number. 18% of the population made it through school, and only 6% went any further than that. And nearly 60% of households have a woman at the head.
And in a lot of cases, it's a grandmother living on a government pension. And census data from 2001 shows that Isikosa was the first language of over 98% of residents in Port St. John's. So this was a tight knit, deeply rule, overwhelmingly Xhosa community.
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