Deputy Minister shares terror of hijack ordeal
(World News South Africa)

Johannesburg - For several hours, Deputy Minister of Justice Thabang Makwetla lay face-down in the back seat of an unknown car, as four armed men barked orders at him, threatening his life. After his bank accounts were raided, Makwetla´s hellish kidnapping ordeal ended as he was ordered to run into a stretch of veld in Brits in North West. He was sure that he was going to be murdered. But now that the men have been arrested - police are investigating their supposed links to a syndicate responsible for a spate of house robberies and hijackings across Gauteng - Makwetla has spoken for the first time about his harrowing experience....