SECUNDA – Mr Fanie Morajane of SSS Security Services was approached by four robbers, three of whom had guns, while attending to an alarm that had gone off at the Secunda Reformed Church in Nelson Mandela Drive, on 15 February at 10.45pm.
According to Capt Gerhard Elmes, Secunda Police spokesman, Mr Morajane went to his company vehicle to fetch a ladder. He placed the ladder over the palisade fence and proceeded into the property.
Before he could get off the ladder, he heard a voice ordering him in Zulu to stand still.
While on the ladder one of the men took Mr Morajane’s service pistol, two-way radio and his wedding band.
He was then pulled down from the ladder at gunpoint.
The robbers used his handcuffs and cuffed his right hand to the palisades.
During this ordeal he was assaulted while being cuffed.
The robbers made off with the SSS vehicle to the value of R165 000, several bank card, drivers licence and two cell phones.
Mr Morajane was later rescued by Secunda CPF members.
He was taken for medical treatment to Mediclinic Highveld.
The vehicle was later recovered by members working shifts.
