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A 42 year old man accused of faking a hijacking was severally assaulted and stabbed by his employer in Canehaven, KwaZulu-Natal, on 15 March 2025.
Members of Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) were called out to Shastri Park – KwaZulu-Natal, at approximately 10:34. On arrival, Reaction Officers met with the injured male. He explained that he was employed as a driver for an E-Hailing service provider.
Yesterday afternoon (Friday), he travelled to Umgeni Road in Durban – KwaZulu-Natal, where he was allegedly hijacked for his employers silver Toyota Etios and robbed of his Huawei cellphone.
The man further stated that he spent the night under a bridge with drug users and managed to seek assistance from a member of the public this morning.
He was transported back to his employer’s residence in Canehaven – KwaZulu-Natal,. His employer & a second individual assaulted him with a wheel spanner and accused him of fabricating the incident.
They believed that he pawned the vehicle to a drug dealer in exchange for narcotics. He was also stabbed during the assault. The injured male thereafter returned to his father’s home in Shastri Park – KwaZulu-Natal,.
He was transported privately to a medical facility and would thereafter register a criminal case against his attackers.
