{"id":1300,"date":"2026-09-13T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:30:00","slug":"five-arrested-kidnapping-rape-cape-town-ehailing-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/2026\/09\/13\/five-arrested-kidnapping-rape-cape-town-ehailing-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested for kidnapping and rape of Cape Town e-hailing driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/jpeg-2\" alt=\"Five arrested for kidnapping and rape of Cape Town e-hailing driver\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cape Town police have arrested five people \u2014 including two women and a 16-year-old \u2014 after rescuing a 25-year-old e-hailing driver who was allegedly kidnapped, raped and held for a R4,000 ransom in Heathfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police spokesperson Constable Ndakhe Gwala said the victim&#x27;s brother raised the alarm after suspects demanded cash for the driver&#x27;s release. Officers used the vehicle&#x27;s tracker to locate him on Southampton Road. Police allege the driver had met one of the women through his e-hailing work the previous week; when he went to meet her, the group kidnapped him and the two female suspects allegedly raped him.<\/p>\n<p>Those arrested are women aged 23 and 34 and males aged 16, 42 and 48. They are expected to appear in the Wynberg Magistrate&#x27;s Court on Monday, 14 September 2026.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/iol.co.za\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2026-09-13-five-arrested-for-kidnapping-rape-of-cape-town-e-hailing-driver\/\">https:\/\/iol.co.za\/news\/crime-and-courts\/2026-09-13-five-arrested-for-kidnapping-rape-of-cape-town-e-hailing-driver\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steenberg police rescued a 25-year-old driver held for a R4,000 ransom in Heathfield; five suspects face court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127,128],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metropolitanpulse.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}