Even in moments that completely shake our trust, compassion can lead the way. One heroine proved it after guiding a complete stranger to safety after a recent hijacking in Parktown.
Parktown, Johannesburg (17 September 2025) – Driving alone can sometimes feel like holding your breath until you’re home safe. Especially as a woman. For one young lady in Parktown, that fear became a reality when she was targeted at a stop street.
With her driver’s window only slightly rolled down, two men decided that would be enough to strike. One yanked her passenger door while the other reached in, grabbing her phone and handbag before running off.
Completely shaken and without a phone to call anyone or even a GPS to guide her back home, she was left stranded and scared. That’s when a stranger appeared. Not in uniform and not by call. Just another woman who saw what had happened and refused to leave her on her own.
Instead of driving away, the stranger rushed to assist her and then led the traumatised young driver about 30 minutes away from the area to Rhema Church, a place where she could safely navigate home from.
“She drove in front of her all the way safely back to the area my daughter knew near Rhema Church,” writes Samantha, mom to the young lady who had gone through the scary ordeal.
Because her daughter was too shaken up to get the woman’s name or number, mom Samantha turned to Facebook, posting in the Boskruin & Bromhof Community Group to try and track her down.
“I thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote. “You are and were a true angel sent from above.”
Community members took to the comments to share their gratitude that in moments of fear and panic, there are strangers in your corner who still choose kindness.
“We must not forget the good in a tsunami of bad we hear about more often,” as one person so beautifully puts it.
And that’s exactly why we are here. To share stories like this one. Stories that restore our faith in others, in community, and in the fact that there are people out there who genuinely care.
We may never know the stranger’s name, but her act of compassion is a reminder that while the roads we travel can be unsafe, there are still good people out there who will go out of their way to guide you home.
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