Two Ctrack employees, en route to a meeting on the morning of 28 February, witnessed a man attacking a minor girl on the side of the road close to Firgrove, near Somerset West.
The victim managed to break loose from the attacker and ran away from him.
The Ctrack employees immediately pulled over and took the young girl into safety, who confirmed that the attacker stole her school bag, ripped her ear rings out and tried to rape her.
Ctrack contacted the local police who arrived shortly thereafter, and the then further assisted the young victim to contact her family.
The suspect was caught and apprehended shortly thereafter by the South African Police Services.
Various similar cases has been reported in recent months with the most noted the brutal rape and murder of a young woman in Bredasdorp earlier this year.
About Ctrack
Ctrack is a JSE company specialising in fleet management and vehicle tracking for a global client base. With more than 25 years of experience, Ctrack is recognised as a world-leading provider of advanced machine-to-machine communication and telematics solutions that adds value to this global base of customers with mobile assets.
Ctrack’s end–to-end research, design, development, manufacturing, sales and support of customised solutions for customers is serviced by a global network of staff and team members in more than 50 countries through the Ctrack brand. The company’s technology and electronic division designs and develops a robust range of asset management and monitoring systems using GPS satellite positioning, GSM cellular communication systems and other advanced communication and sensory technologies.
The result is innovative and advanced machine-to-machine communication that provide Ctrack customers with 24x7x365 information and monitoring of their mobile assets that help them to achieve operational efficiencies and cost reduction targets.
Operations span six continents, with over one thousand employees and more than 700,000 systems sold.