Buziwe Nocuze
Xolani Ndlela always leaves home at 6am to go to work. But on Tuesday he left 30 minutes earlier – and it saved his life.
“I didn’t plan to leave home early. It just worked out that way,” said Xolani from Delft, Cape Town.
A few minutes after he left his shack for work a speeding taxi crashed into his shack.
“I believe it was God’s plan because if I were still inside my shack when that taxi came I would be dead now.”
It’s alleged that the taxi driver was running away from gunmen.
Xolani was on his way to the taxi rank when he received a call informing him about a terrible incident in his shack.
“The first thing that came to my mind was fire. I thought I would go home to find my shack reduced to ashes,” he said.
“The woman who phoned sounded relieved. She thought I was inside the shack. I was shocked to find the taxi inside my shack.”
He said the driver was still inside the taxi.
“He was in pain and crying for help. Residents took him to the hospital.”
Police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said they are investigating an attempted murder case after a shooting incident on Monday where a 46-year-old taxi driver was shot and wounded. The suspect fled the scene and is yet to be arrested.
