/ 23 April 1999

HIJACKERS NAB SAMARITANS

TWO good samaritans who tried to help a hijack victim were themselves hijacked as they pulled over to the side of Impala road in Roodepoort on Tuesday afternoon. West Rand police say Gustav van Aswegen stopped his car and Theunis Holtzhauzen his bakkie to help Johannes Swart, who was standing on the roadside after being robbed by three gunmen of his Isuzu bakkie, cellphone and watch, and were promptly held up by another three hijackers, two of them armed. Hours later police arrested a 17-year-old man who was allegedly driving Van Aswegen’s car, while Holtzhauzen’s bakkie was recovered in Soweto, but Swart’s bakkie has not yet been found and police are investigating.