Two men stood guard over the truck driver while their accomplices took the truck out of sight in the middle of the night.
On August 17 Mr Maxwell Serakwana was driving along the N12 Highway heading in the direction of Johannesburg, at about 19:00.
“I came from the weighbridge at the plaza and as I approached the split I saw a white car behind me put its blue lights on,” said Serakwana.
He began slowing down and brought the truck to a stop. Shortly after, a group of men forced the door open and pulled him from the truck, ordering him not to look at them.
“I only stopped because I thought it was the police, otherwise I wouldn’t have stopped,” he added.
The assailants bound Serakwana’s hands and forced him back into the truck, they laid him down behind the driver’s seat and three of them sat on top of him pinning him down.
According to Serakwana, they drove the truck for some time before coming to a stop alongside the road where they pulled him from the vehicle. They moved him to the nearby bushes and bound his feet.
“Two of them stayed behind while the others drove off in the white car and the truck; they were told to keep an eye on me,” he said.
Later, in the early hours of the morning, the two men decided to walk off.
“I called out to them and asked them for my wallet which had my license; they ignored my plea and kept walking,” he said.
Serakwana, now barefoot, managed to make his way to the road where he saw an information board reading ‘Ogies 16km’.
He managed to find help from someone stationed at a nearby mine and made contact with the police, reporting the truck hi-jacking.
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