Njanji Chauke was attacked by two armed men in Northumberland Road in Northriding, Johannesburg on 25 February.
One man came at him with a knife and the other with a panga.
"As I usually do, every second morning or so, I go for a run about 6.5km to a crossfit class, not very far from my house, and then after that I run back, around 6 o'clock," Njanji Chauke reporterd for the SABC.
"It was slightly darker, also a bit misty. Suddenly, as I was running down, I was about 10 minutes away from the gym, I just saw two guys, I just heard their steps actually, coming out of a bushy area nearby."
"I thought it was a fellow runner that was going to run past me. When I looked back, I saw these two guys. The one got this long knife, the other one a huge panga - more like a machete."
"These guys were taking aim at me. I said 'Guys, what are you doing? What do you want? Take whatever you want.' These guys didn't care about what I was saying," said Njanji Chauke.
"When I realised that these guys were actually going to kill me - they started taking shots at me with the knife and machete - luckily I was very active and I started outrunning them."
"I just ran. I just ran for my dear life," said Njanji Chauke.
