He says he has been traumatised by the experience and cannot sleep at night, but is grateful that he wasn’t harmed during the ordeal.
He went to visit a friend at Chromeville flats and says that he noticed a Toyota double cab bakkie following him, but didn’t give it too much attention.
“As soon as I parked my car, three armed men rushed towards me, opened the car, jumped inside and forced me into the back. They threatened to kill me if I looked at them or if I tried to escape,” he said.
The suspects, who appeared to be professional criminals, immediately set up a signal jammer to block the tracker and drove on the Loskop road. They became agitated at the Stop/Go and eventually turned at the dirt road towards Dennilton just after Loskop.
It was here that they met up with a Toyota double cab, where another two armed men appeared. They stripped the dashboard and removed the tracker from the Ford Ranger Wildtrak.
But they weren’t satisfied and demanded cash and bank cards with pins from Mr Mokgoroane.
The men then drove towards a remote part of KwaMhlanga, where they told Mr Mokgoroane they were now taking his car and he could ask for help from one of the houses in the area.
“It was a very rural area and the time was 23:00. People didn’t want to open their doors because they were scared. Eventually, one lady opened her window and called the police. I was taken to KwaMhlanga Police Station where I called my brother and returned to Middelburg at 02:00”.
Mr Mokgoroane says that he is grateful that he was unharmed and has opened a case at the Mhluzi Police Station.
His car, an orange Ford Ranger Wildtrak with personalised number plates, is now being searched for by police.
