Country View mother pleased following swift vehicle recovery
Zodwa Malinga said the service from Netstar Car Tracker and Midrand police was pleasing and satisfactory.
A Country View mother is pleased that her vehicle was recovered in less than 12-hours after it was hijacked.
Zodwa Malinga said her son Vuyani Malinga was the one driving her white Nissan NP200 van when he was ambushed by two or more suspects on Freesia Drive.
Zodwa said the incident happened on March 6, around 20:20 and the vehicle was recovered in the early morning of March 7, at about 3:50.
She said she received a call from a Netstar car tracker official informing her that the car has since been found abandoned.
“The car was recovered in Kaalfontein. When my son [Vuyani] narrated the ordeal, he said about two men with balaclavas ambushed him from nowhere, while he was seeing his friend. They took the car and drove off. He said the suspects used a dark VW Polo as a runaway car.”
Speaking to the paper on March 12, she said the service she received from the tracking company and Midrand police officials was satisfactory.
She added that after the car was recovered it was then booked at the Ivory Park police, where she had to go and confirm if it was indeed her car.
“On Thursday [March 7], I went to the Ivory Park police station to check if there were any damages to the car and check its condition. Then it was taken for clearance and I am still awaiting to get it back but the service has been pleasing and I am happy the car was recovered.”
Zodwa said Vuyani is traumatised by the experience and started trauma counselling with Midrand counselling officials from March 11.
She said the counselling officials told her that they will help her son to recover and he can return anytime he gets flashback of the incidents.
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