Riedewaan Abrahams, the taxi-driver who was at the wrong end of five drunken Brumbies, received a cash offer he could not refuse to drop action against the players who trashed his taxi, threatened him and refused to pay him.
The disgraced Brumbies - Joe Roff, Bill Young, Owen Finegan, Rod Kafer and Peter Ryan - are facing disciplinary action.
Abrahams said he had signed a declaration to remain tight-lipped about the settlement and conditions involved. However, before his meeting at the Brumbies's Newlands hotel on Monday, Abrahams said that the R4 000 he was offered hours after the incident early on Monday was not enough and that he was looking at "in the region of R20 000".
Abrahams said that loss of income while he was off the road would amount to about R10 000 and actual damage to the car was at least another R10 000. Abrahams picked up the Brumbies at a club in Camps Bay about 1am on Monday.
He took them to a restaurant in Sea Point where they were thrown out because of bad behaviour and then drove them to Sea Point police station when they refused to pay him and allegedly started threatening him.
At the police station they pushed his car down the road while he was reporting the case in the charge office.
They also allegedly jumped on the roof of his car and ripped his trip meter from the dashboard.
Meanwhile, police management have made an enquiry into the policemen's involvement in the original settlement negotiations.
The Brumbies were taken to their hotel in a police van, on the way stopping at autobanks to draw close to R4 000 which the police then brought back to Sea Point to hand over to Abrahams.
But about R1 000 went missing along the way and Abrahams got only R3 000.