On Sunday, January 4 police found a shaken Mr Daniel Mbuli in his car, stranded next to the highway. A few hours earlier Mbuli was on his way home, when he received a nasty surprise from armed criminals.
“I was at the Checkers in Klipfontein. I just got in the car when there was a man knocking on the passenger window, showing me cell phones he pretended to sell. Whilst I was busy telling the man I don’t want to buy anything, another man open the back door and put a gun against my head.”
Mbuli told how two more suspects got into the car and how he was forced at gunpoint to start driving.
“‘Cooperate and we let you live – try to be smart and you’ll die’,” Mbuli recalled the words of one of the suspects.
“When they spoke to one another it was in a different language. I think they may be from Northern Africa,” was the only detail Mbuli remembers very clearly.
The suspects made Mbuli take the highway towards Ogies. Luckily Mbuli had not filled up his car for the unexpected long trip, and they were left stranded next to the highway. The suspects then waited with Mbuli next to the road until another driver stopped to help, and they hijacked the good Samaritan instead.
They took Mbuli’s money and cell phone before driving off in their new victim’s maroon BMW.
Mbuli was in shock but otherwise unharmed, when he was found by traffic control and police setting up a roadblock not far from where he was left.
The suspects are unknown and no arrests have yet been made.
