M1 highway robbery: ‘We were all sitting there waiting for our turn,’ says motorist

A group of about five armed men brazenly walked around in-between traffic and robbed motorists in plain view

20 February 2024 - 22:19

It was a chaotic scene on the M1-M2 split at the Crown Interchange in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning as motorists stuck in traffic, who witnessed other motorists being robbed at gunpoint by pedestrians criss-crossing through the queue of cars, tried to flee...

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