Criminals seem to be becoming more and more creative when it comes to stopping motorists or getting drivers to leave their vehicles in order to hijack them, and a recent incident involving cement was possibly the most dangerous and creative method yet. While travelling along the N1 just after the[…]
Would be hijackers have found a new way to prey on unsuspecting motorists. This new hijacking method has been called the “tap-tap” method. The hijackers “tap-tap” method This method is often used with a female driver as a decoy. The alleged hijacker will tap the back of your car while[…]
A woman in Cape Town managed to stave off a hijacking attempt on Monday with some daring maneuvers, as she smashed her way to safety at a set of traffic lights. Just before the motorist could take her planned left turn, a vehicle screeched in front of her, blocking any[…]
Two men have been found guilty of the murder of Egyptian-Capetonian businessman Mamdouh Moustafa. Moustafa, known as the Cairo Shwarma King, was stabbed to death when he was hijacked in 2015. Moustafa, 68 years old, was a well-known vendor at the VOC festivals and many other events in the city,[…]
A recent hijacking at the Waterloo Road Mosque in Kenwyn has raised deep security concerns for musallees who attend Taraweeh in Ramadan. Residents were left shocked this week after hijackers seen disguised in religious garb targeted a musallee who had left the masjid to attend to an emergency. The victim[…]
The mother of a month-old baby and three others will appear in court in Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday, facing a charge of abduction. The woman claimed that her baby was kidnapped in the Durban CBD on Friday while she was breastfeeding the infant. The office of Acting Police Commissioner[…]
A Queenstown Public Order Policing Unit that was deployed at Dutywa in King William’s Town have arrested two suspects in connection with a hijacking in Cape Town recently. According to police spokesperson, Captain Jackson Manatha, the suspects, aged 32 and 34, were found in possession of four unlicensed pistols with[…]
While the Cape Town community is still reeling after the brutal death of Mamdouh Moustafa, known fondly as the ‘Cairo shwarma king’, very little is really known about the roots of the Egyptian expat. The 68 year old food trader was found dead in Epping on Friday evening. Police and[…]
British businessman Shrien Dewani on Monday explained his version of how he and his wife Anni were hijacked while driving back to Cape Town after a dinner. In a plea explanation handed to the Western Cape High Court and read out by his lawyer Francois van Zyl, Dewani said his[…]
A four-year-old boy has died after being dragged outside a hijacked car in Boksburg, Gauteng police said on Sunday. Lt-Col Khensane Magoai said that the boy was travelling in a City Golf with his mother, father and sister in Reiger Park on Saturday night when the family was approached by[…]
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