{"id":57252,"date":"2026-09-28T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hijacked-kidnapped-by-friends-over-loan-dispute-ballito-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:00:08","slug":"hijacked-kidnapped-by-friends-over-loan-dispute-ballito-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/hijacked-kidnapped-by-friends-over-loan-dispute-ballito-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacked & Kidnapped By Friends Over Loan Dispute: Ballito – KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thirty (39) year old man was Hijacked & Kidnapped from his home in a gated estate in the presence of his wife & new born baby. <\/p>\n

Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was called out on Wednesday (23\/09\/2026) to assist in the search for the Ballito – KZN resident. He returned home during the hours or Thursday (24\/09\/2026) morning. <\/p>\n

When interviewed by Reaction Officers, the victim & his family provided the following details regarding the incident. <\/p>\n

According to the victim, he had borrowed R180 000 from a friend residing in Phoenix – KZN (address withheld). He then failed to make the repayments timeously and on the day of the incident the friend made contact with him asking for his location pin drop. Shortly afterwards four (4) mean arrived at gated complex and were granted access. They were all friends known to him. <\/p>\n

During a conversation one of the friends drew a firearm and demanded the keys to a Peugeot bakkie parked at his residence. They then forced him into…<\/p>\n

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A thirty (39) year old man was Hijacked & Kidnapped from his home in a gated estate in the presence of his wife & new born baby. Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) was called out on Wednesday (23\/09\/2026) to assist in the search for the Ballito – KZN resident. He returned home during the hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/828525946_933020099472082_5122055297698819085_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-57252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/828525946_933020099472082_5122055297698819085_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}