A man who allegedly held a woman hostage for four-and-a-half hours in central Johannesburg on Wednesday, demanding the delivery of his identity document, was marched off to Johannesburg Central police station at 7.45pm and will appear in court on Thursday.
The Soweto man (31), who had waited three months for his ID book, stormed into the Department of Home Affairs offices in Market Street just after 3pm, and pointed a firearm at a female home affairs employee (35), police said.
He then grabbed her and locked her and himself into a room for four hours, at gunpoint, demanding his identity document before he would let her go.
Home affairs complied with his request, and delivered the identity book to him after heavily armed police took up positions in the building. — Sapa