A Pietermaritzburg businessman who was hijacked at the weekend had to listen as his captors debated whether to kill him or not.
At one stage, he said: “They had a gun pressed against the back of my head. In that moment, all I could do was wait for them to pull the trigger.”
Three armed men had pounced on Nkosi Duma (34) while he was parked on Milner Road in Scottsville after a stop-off at the Sidewalk Centre before taking him on a terrifying 23 km ride to Cato Ridge.
Nkosi said he had been scrolling through his cell phone, before locking the doors, when the gunmen forced themselves into his Audi A4. “I was still in shock when the first guy snatched the key. One of them pointed a gun at me and told me to move to the backseat before they drove off with me,” he said.
Nkosi said he had his head pushed down into the rear footwell with a gun digging into his skin.
“Each bump and sharp turn the car took, the gun hurt me more. They kept asking me where the vehicle’s tracking device was,” Nkosi said.
After driving with him for over 30 minutes, Nkosi said the men stopped in a secluded area, where he was tied up and assaulted.
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