Staff Reporter.
ActionSA Gauteng leader and party premier candidate Funzi Ngobeni and youth forum chairperson Hluphi Gafane have been found safe and unharmed in Benoni on Tuesday night after being reported missing.
Earlier on Tuesday night ActionSA Chairperson Michael Beaumont confirmed that both Ngobeni and Gafane had been victims of hijacking and that they were missing.
However, on Tuesday around 11pm Beaumont updated colleagues that both leaders had been found.
“I have been informed by SAPS that Funzi and Hluphi have been found in Benoni. They are being recovered now. We are also so grateful to learn that they are unharmed,” he said.
It is believed the Ngobeni and Gafane were travelling in a Toyota Hilux registration number LC-06TC GP when they were hijacked in Olievenhoutbosch in Centurion. Beaumont said the vehicle was still missing.
“ActionSA expresses its profound gratitude to members of SAPS who were incredibly responsive and deeply humbled by the overwhelming outpouring of support and concern from South Africans.
Beaumont requested that Ngobeni and Gafane be afforded the space to recover from their ordeal with their families before a more substantive briefing of these events can be provided tomorrow (Wednesday).
Compiled by Lehlohonolo Lehana.