Six teenagers are due in court soon after they were arrested on Thursday, 8 January, for allegedly stoning a vehicle on the N2 near Cape Town International Airport earlier this week.

According to the police, the incident happened on the N2 opposite the logistics company DSV’s premises on Tuesday.

Captain FC van Wyk says a resident of Stellenbosch had visitors from Wales, and the resident was on the way to drop them off at the airport, when the vehicle they were travelling in was stoned.

The matter was then reported to SAPS at Cape Town International Airport.

The incident was captured on CCTV, and Nyanga SAPS was informed about the incident.

In the footage, six young boys could be seen stoning the car. SAPS members were tasked to look for the suspects in Crossroads.

Yesterday morning, Nyanga SAPS members managed to arrest all six boys, who are all aged 14.

They were still dressed in the same clothes in which the crime was committed.

Crime incidents along the Airport corridor, the so-called ‘hell-run’, have long been a concern.

Also on Thursday, Cape Town Traffic Officers arrested a suspect for attempted hijacking and attempted robbery near the N2.

A motorist stopped a traffic officer on the N2 and advised that she had been threatened at gunpoint by an unknown suspect on the Airport Approach slip road onto the N2 outbound.

Officers responded to the location, and on arrival, saw a suspect running on foot towards Montana, and scaling a wall.

They gave chase and tracked down the suspect and he was detained at Bishop Lavis SAPS.

Law enforcement was recently boosted along the N2, R300 and Jakes Gerwel Drive, but officials emphasise officers can’t patrol every single area of concern at all times.

Further details are also set to be released later this year about the City of Cape Town’s proposed R180 million project to build a physical barrier along sections of the N2 highway, to combat violent crimes like smash-and-grabs, stone-throwing, and robberies.

The dangers of travelling on certain routes to and from the airport came under scrutiny in early December, when former teacher Karin van Aardt was brutally killed by an assailant on Jakes Gerwel Drive in a smash-and-grab incident.

Three accused in the case withdrew their bail application, and they will be back in court on 26 February.