News24 reports that gunmen attacked three City of Cape Town contract employees in Macassar over the weekend and robbed them of their valuables.

Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said Macassar police registered an armed robbery case after the incident in Macassar Road on Saturday afternoon. "According to reports, armed suspects approached the workers, robbed them of their cellular telephones and a VW Citi Golf and fled the scene. The suspects are yet to be arrested," he indicated. According to ward councillor Peter Helfrich, one of the victims said 10 armed men robbed the contractors, who were working on a pipeline between wastewater treatment works in Zandvliet and Macassar. All the men were armed and aggressively explained to the victims that if they did not cooperate, they would be shot. The stretch of road was in the news recently after four bodies were found there. The attack on City contractors came only days after four provincial government employees narrowly escaped a hijacking in Khayelitsha. The Western Cape Department of Social Development staff were targeted on Friday afternoon while returning from facilitating a substance use disorder and crime prevention programme, along with the police and non-governmental organisations, in Site C. Fortunately, they were able to get away in their work vehicle, but they were left very traumatised, according to Social Development MEC Sharna Fernandez.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons and Nicole McCain at News24

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