{"id":296612,"date":"2020-10-01T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=296612"},"modified":"2020-10-01T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:04:37","slug":"namibian-trucker-safe-after-hijacking-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=296612","title":{"rendered":"Namibian trucker safe after hijacking in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>A NAMIBIAN truck driver is back safely with his family after living through the terror of being hijacked by a gang of heavily armed men in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who is in the employ of FP du Toit Transport, was overpowered by a gang of armed hijackers and thrown out of his truck after loading a consignment of tyres destined for Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer of FP du Toit Transport in Namibia, Stephan Terblanche, confirmed the incident and said it occurred about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver stopped at a busy intersection in Johannesburg when he was suddenly overpowered by several men armed with an assortment of firearms. Our trucks are fitted with panic buttons but the attack happened so fast that he did not even have time to press the button to call for help,\u201d Terblanche said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Namibian trucker safe after hijacking in SA\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnXPplZJKck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>QUICK RESPONSE: Seven members of a hijacking gang after they were arrested in Johannesburg last week. One of the gang members was a member of the SAPS. \u2013 Footage: Courtesy of Sean Naude<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that after the driver was thrown out of the vehicle, the hijackers attempted to disable the tracking system mounted on the truck. In the process they damaged the dashboard inside the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Terblanche, the truck was fitted with a back-up tracking system of which the hijackers were unaware of.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were still able to track the truck to the warehouse used by the hijackers in the Alexandra area of Johannesburg,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Terblanche said the South African Police Service responded immediately and the seven members of the hijacking gang were arrested at the warehouse. It turned out that one of the seven men was a police officer attached to the OR Tambo Police Station in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Terblanche the driver was sent for trauma counselling and returned to Namibian with his consignment of tyres after he was given the all clear from the various law enforcement agencies in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHijacking incidents in South Africa are problematic, but in our case this has not happened that often. It is only the second such incident that I am aware of that occurred in the past five years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the consignment of tyres has since been delivered to the transport company\u2019s client in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":296615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Namibian trucker safe after hijacking in SA - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A NAMIBIAN truck driver is back safely with his family after living through the terror of being hijacked by a gang of heavily armed men...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=296612\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Namibian trucker safe after hijacking in SA - 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