{"id":33223,"date":"2023-01-31T17:07:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambicans-recount-ordeal-of-having-their-vehicles-torched-in-south-africa"},"modified":"2023-01-31T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:13:33","slug":"mozambicans-recount-ordeal-of-having-their-vehicles-torched-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambicans-recount-ordeal-of-having-their-vehicles-torched-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Mozambicans recount ordeal of having their vehicles torched in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Newspaper \u2018O Pai\u0301s\u2019 has heard the stories of some of the Mozambicans who survived the torching of their vehicles in South Africa. The victims recount the moments of terror at the hands of armed criminals who said that their actions were a message to the government \u2013 without specifying which government<\/p>\n

Couple Mamad David and Suneia Habibo and their three children were returning to Mozambique in their Toyota Prado on the 28th of January, after visiting Durban on work and on holiday. On the way, they were chased by gun-toting criminals in two vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my part, what happened was a chase of 20 kilometres before the village of Sodwana and I kept driving and I did warn my wife that this car with no registration plate had suddenly entered the road and was following me, but I did not take it seriously. I was on the move and, suddenly, the car passed us at good speed, so I thought my intuition was wrong,\u201d said Mamad David.<\/p>\n

But Mamad \u2018s intuition turned out to be right. His car was torched by 12 thieves, all of them armed.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight after, they took me out of the car, made me turn off the car and poured gasoline in it and set the whole car on fire,\u201d Mamad said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t have any compassion; their aim was just to burn the cars. To the last, I asked him not to do it, but he pushed me and showed me a firearm and that\u2019s when he set the car on fire, put the gasoline directly on it, set it on fire and they waited for about five minutes until there was nothing that could be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the gunmen left a message: \u201cThis is a government problem. It\u2019s nothing to do with you. Government problem,\u201d \u2013 but without specifying which government.<\/p>\n

It was a moment of panic and pain. Suneia, David\u2019s wife, saw all the belongings acquired in South Africa consumed by fire without being able to do anything. Her children are traumatised.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very sad what has happened to us since this event,\u201d she says. \u201cWe begged, we pleaded, I offered phones, I even told them to remove everything that was in the car so that they would let us go, but they had no compassion towards us, including the children who were around eight. They didn\u2019t want to know, they were rough, they were animals, I can say, South Africans have nothing to do with Mozambicans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ayman Calu was travelling with his family in a borrowed Nissan Patrol vehicle that ended up being torched after a long chase and even surviving the shots fired by the criminals.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when they saw that I wasn\u2019t giving in, they started shooting at my car. In that moment of distress, I heard seven to eight bullets hitting us. I was paying attention to the road and the rear-view mirror and I saw that he took another magazine out of his waistband and loaded the gun again and went back to shooting seven or eight bullets, that\u2019s what I managed to count and one of the bullets went through the door, it was the bullet that probably hit the right front tire of my car.\u201d<\/p>\n

The families are particularly sensitive to the Mozambican government\u2019s apparent absence in the face of this tragedy. \u201cOur government must step up and protect us. If something similar had happened to South Africans [in Mozambique], the South African government would do everything to make its citizens feel comfortable. Thank God we didn\u2019t lose our lives, but our government must protect us and must make the South African government understand that it must compensate us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, six cars were stopped by the criminals. Two managed to escape, while four ended up in flames, leaving scars on these families which time may perhaps erase.<\/p>\n

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