Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has recounted how an elderly woman sheltered him in her kitchen for about 45 minutes while a group of attackers searched nearby houses for him.
Speaking in a video from 09:00 posted by Channels Television on Monday, November 9, 2026, Sowore said he escaped from a restaurant through its back door when the attack began. During his escape, he passed through two houses before reaching the rear of a building, sustaining injuries to his shoulder and palm in the process.
He explained that he eventually found himself in the kitchen of an elderly woman, who wanted to know what was happening. After telling her that some people were trying to kill them, she offered him a place to hide and continued cooking without drawing attention to his presence.
While he remained inside, the attackers searched the neighbouring house, moving from one room to another for about 45 minutes.
Recounting the incident, Sowore said, “I ended up in an old woman’s kitchen, and she asked me what was happening. I told her not to worry, that some people were trying to kill us, and that I would stay there and see what happened. She asked me to sit in her kitchen and kept cooking as if nothing had happened, and we could hear them searching the next house from room to room for about 45 minutes,”
Sowore added that the woman occasionally looked towards the fence and later stepped outside to check the situation, but never disclosed that he was hiding in her home.
He also recalled hearing about 40 young people nearby, some of whom reportedly said they would have killed the person they were searching for if they had found him.
Sowore said he lost his phone during the incident but eventually reached a safe location, where he was able to contact others. He also expressed gratitude to the woman for protecting him.
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