Hijack hell-way where petrol attendants hardly go three days without helping a victim

Service station employee says they no longer call the police because they witness crime way too often and seemingly nothing gets done

26 November 2023 - 20:21 By ISAAC MAHLANGU

It’s about 8pm when a man in bloodied clothes gingerly walks into a filling station on a deserted part of the N3 freeway...

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