TimesLive reports that a bleeding Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa, who is chair of the SA Medical Association (Sama), had to “run for his life” and hide in bushes next to the N2 freeway when he was attacked on Saturday night.

He was on his way home from King Shaka International Airport when he had car trouble near the EB Cloete interchange, commonly known as Spaghetti Junction, and stopped his car on the side of the road. “Out of nowhere some people approached him and started breaking his car window with a brick. He was then asked to get out the vehicle and then they stabbed him multiple times,” Sama board member Dr Akhtar Hussain reported on Monday. He said Mzukwa managed to flee and hide in bushes. “Metro police were driving by and stopped to see why a car was parked on the side of the road. That’s when they found him and rushed him to hospital.” Hussain said Mzukwa was lucky to be alive and was very traumatised. “As doctors, we do everything for the community ... for the nation and then this is what happens,” Hussain lamented. Sama expressed concern about the high levels of crime in the country, with the latest statistics showing an increase in hijackings compared to 2021.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nivashni Nair at BusinessLive

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