Two hijackings occurred within a day of each other and in one of the incidents a woman alleged that she was raped by the hijackers.
The first incident occurred between Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27 when the owner of a white Toyota Quantum received a call from his tracker company.
The owner then contacted this taxi driver and asked if everything was fine and he said yes and that he was going to visit his girlfriend.
The owner of the taxi found this strange as the driver never did this before and his cell phone was off.
He tried to call his driver again, but his phone was still off.
That is when the tracker company phoned the owner again informing him that his vehicle was travelling at high speed on the road between Balmoral and Delmas.
When the vehicle got into Springs the tracker company lost location.
In the second incident the hijacking occurred in the Central Business District (CBD) of eMalahleni, in Walter Sisulu Street.
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It is alleged that the complainant was driving his brother’s vehicle, a silver Mercedes Benz and he was together with his girlfriend.
At some stage he climbed out of the vehicle to buy airtime, when he was out of the vehicle he realised that the shop he wanted to go to was closed.
As he was about to climb back inside the car, he was approached by three unknown men. One had a firearm and he pointed the firearm at the driver of the vehicle.
The suspect then told the driver to climb into the back seat of the car, while in the back seat the suspects said that they only wanted R5000.
He won R3500 at a gambling place, not handing over the money the suspects started assaulting the driver of the vehicle with a firearm.
The suspects then drove off with the driver and his girlfriend inside the vehicle.
The vehicle was later recovered in Klarinet, the girlfriend was found and she alleged that she was raped.
According to the girlfriend all the suspects spoke Sepedi.
