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Huge black gang shoot 2 dead in Germiston Spar robbery

A military-size gang of 11 blacks shot two people dead at a Spar supermarket in Germiston, east of Johannesburg on Saturday 2 June.

According to police, the 11 armed robbers showed up at the supermarket in Van Dyk road around 16:00 yesterday afternoon.

“The suspects instructed everyone inside the store to lie down and while at it spotted a customer who had a firearm on him. They shot at him as well as a female customer and the two were declared dead on the scene,” said Gauteng police spokesperson, Captain Kay Makhubela.

A spokesman for Netcare911, Shawn Herbst, said paramedics who responded to the scene had on assessment found “that an adult male, (who is an) off duty security guard and an adult female member of the public sustained fatal gunshot wounds” adding that “both patients were tragically declared deceased on the scene”.

“The suspects fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of cash. They hijacked two vehicles as they left the store.”

Makhubela stated one of the hijacked vehicles was later recovered at Vosloorus. He said the suspects were still at large early on Saturday evening.

“A manhunt for the suspects has been launched. Two cases of murder, business robbery and hijacking of motor vehicles were opened,” he said.

Johannesburg airport robbers arrested

The National Commissioner of the South African Police Service, General Khehla John Sitole, has welcomed the arrest on 21 February of suspects believed to have been involved in cases of robbery of people being followed from the O. R. Tambo International Airport and praised members for their sterling work.

This morning, members from the National Investigation Unit (NINU) together with members of O. R. Tambo International Airport and the SAPS Flying Squad, acting on intelligence, arrested four men in Alexandra Township outside Johannesburg. The suspects were allegedly planning a robbery when our team pounced on them as they were changing the number plates on their sedan. However, three suspects managed to flee, initiating a high speed chase and a shootout between the suspects and the police. The suspect’s vehicle swerved off the road, crashing to a halt.

Four suspects were arrested of which one was shot and wounded. Our team also recovered at least two handguns. The National Commissioner, in praising the SAPS team for this significant success said, “I am very pleased with the progress we are making to significantly reduce this category of crime but more importantly I am equally pleased that our proactive strategy is yielding positive results”.

These suspects are believed to have been involved in multiple cases of people being followed from the OR Tambo Airport and robbed. The firearms will be sent for ballistic testing to determine if they have been used in the commission of crimes.

“We appeal to anyone who may have any information on crime are requested to please contact our Crime Stop number 086 00 10111. All callers may remain anonymous and all information will be treated with strictest confidence,” the police said in a statement.

Bikers robbed at gunpoint

A warning has been circulating on social media about motorbikers being robbed at the William Nicol off-ramp on the N1 North.

The warning states that bikers are being “robbed at red robots by armed men”.

In the most recent incident, a man on a motorbike was confronted by two armed men while waiting at a red traffic light on the William Nicol off-ramp.

“They pointed a firearm at him and robbed him of his belongings,” the warning stated.

The police have confirmed the incident.

“It is alleged that the complainant was stopped at the corner of the N1 North and William Nicol. He was approached by two men, one of whom was armed with a pistol. The suspect pointed the firearm at him and took his laptop.

“The two men then fled the scene,” said Gauteng police spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Katlego Mogale.

She said at least three motorcyclists had reported being robbed in the area.

“These cases are hijacking, attempted murder and robbery with a firearm.”

Mogale added investigations were continuing.

Earlier this year, the William Nicol and N1 freeway area in Norscot was named a smash-and-grab hotspot.

Purses, handbags, wallets and cellphones are some of the items targeted by robbers and smash-and-grabbers, according to a recent article by Arrive Alive.

Victims are mostly single drivers with belongings on the passenger seat.

“Criminals tend to focus on female drivers, knowing well that they are less likely to chase after them,” the article states.

Source: IOL

Foreign national shot in Free State

A 34-year-old foreign businessman was shot dead at the Tseki shopping complex in QwaQwa in the Free State.

Police spokesperson Thandi Mbambo said the incident occurred on Wednesday evening.

She said at around 17:50 police received a report that a man had been shot at the shopping complex. On arrival there they found a foreign national businessman lying on the ground near his shop.

The man had bullet wounds to his upper left eye and upper body. Paramedics certified him dead at the scene. Mbambo said it was later discovered that the businessman had been robbed of an undisclosed amount of money.

A case of murder has been registered for further investigation.

Armed men open fire on Joburg bus

A bus driver was shot and wounded when he tried to protect his passengers during an armed robbery on the bus in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, on Wednesday, News24 reported.

Metrobus spokesperson Esther Dryer said a group of six armed men jumped onto the bus when it stopped on the corner of Hendrik Potgieter and Ontdekkers roads to pick up a passenger just before 06:00.

“The men started shooting randomly, possibly to scare the passengers and the bus driver intervened.”

Both the bus driver, in his 50s, who was shot in the abdomen and an injured passenger were taken to Flora clinic.

Earlier, paramedics said the driver of the bus explained that an unknown number of suspects entered the bus as he stopped near the Mollie Road bus stop and opened fire into the bus.

S. African blacks attack white mountain biker

A road safety website has issued a warning to South African cyclists after a white mountain biker was attacked by two blacks armed with knives. The mountain biker, Filip Rafalski, said he “was glad to be alive” after the knife attack. He needed 18 stitches to his face. The incident occurred in Blue Hills next to the R562 in Midrand, between Johannesburg and Pretoria.

According to roadsafety.co.za:

We often share information on Mountain Bike safety. Sadly mountain bikers do not only have to deal with the riding conditions but also with criminals seizing every opportunity to rob and attack riders! A friend of the Arrive Alive website, Filip Rafalski, fell victim to such an attack and we would like to share his story:

To all Mtb & Road cyclists – PLEASE WATCH YOUR BACK ALL THE TIME and be careful when you ride

This morning 01.01.2015 at around 8am VILLAGE RD.,BLUE HILLS ( next to R562) I was attacked by TWO BLACK GUYS.

They stole my bike – SPECIALIZED EPIC COMP 29″,Garmin GPS EDGE810 and all sensors that came with Garmin

Both of them had big knives.

One punched me on my face and started walking away with my bike.

Second guy wanted to take my cellphone that was in my back pocked. Told him that I will give it to him. Wouldn’t listen. wanted me to lie on my stomach. He said he will take my cellphone himself out of my pocket and than HE WILL KILL ME.

Rafalski after having been stitched up

Thanks to three Black ladies that live on the plot on Village Rd. I am still ALIVE

They made so much noise,screaming so loud that my attackers didn’t hurt me more. I needed 18 stitches to my face

Also big thanks to Andrew and his wife from the plot on Village Rd.

Those guys HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LIFE! Crazy!!!

What is happening to our beautiful South Africa?

Ride safe guys out there!!
I am so grateful to be Alive

Repeat ‘I love black people’ robbers tell Afrikaner farmer

A wheelchair-bound farmer and his family were assaulted and robbed by blacks on their farm in Mpumalanga, Beeld reported on Tuesday.

“They forced my father to repeat ‘I love black people’,” 70-year-old Johan Lange’s daughter Monique was quoted as saying.

Five armed men jumped over a fence, attacked Lange, from Kiepersol, threw him out of his wheelchair and assaulted him on his farm on Saturday around 10pm.

Monique Lange, 34, her husband Bernhard Bekker, 36, and their 13-month-old son were visiting him at the time.

The attackers stole five hunting rifles and ammunition from a safe, as well as a laptop computer, cellphones, money, and bank cards.

Bekker was assaulted and bound, and the baby was tied to Monique. She managed to free herself and call for help.

The men fled in Bekker’s bakkie, which police found abandoned about 30km away at the Mkhulu sports field on Sunday.

No arrests had been made.

Assault riffle and 332 rounds of ammunition seized in KZN

A 37-year-old woman and her 20-year-old son were arrested at their homestead in Mistake Farm close to Umzinto on Monday afternoon, 9 June, for being in possession of, inter alia, firearms and ammunition. They are due to appear in the Umzinto Magistrates Court on Wednesday, 11 June. Police seized an R5 rifle with three magazines, a 9mm Norinco pistol loaded with nine live rounds of ammunition, two bullet proof vests, two police reflective jackets, a crime scene expert jacket, a can of teargas, a can of photographic spray, a miner’s headlamp, a pair of handcuffs, 38 shotgun rounds and 285 R5 rounds of ammunition.

Umzinto SAPS Detective Service Team gathered intelligence regarding a firearm that had been used in an attempted murder case that they were investigating and raided the suspects’ homestead. A search of the rondavel occupied by the son resulted in police finding the shotgun ammunition and the police equipment. Thereafter, police carried out a search of the main house which is occupied by his parents and they discovered a hole in the concrete floor of the bedroom beneath the bed. It was boarded up to conceal the 285 live rounds of R5 ammunition. A search in a disused deep freezer standing alongside the passage wall yielded the R5 rifle with three magazines and the Norinco pistol which was loaded with nine rounds of ammunition. The serial numbers of both guns had been ground off.

The mother was placed under arrest and on their way out, the detectives found the son in a taxi and placed him under arrest as well. On Tuesday morning, the arrested woman’s husband, who is in his forties, handed himself over to the Umzinto police. He will also be appearing in court with his wife and son. Meanwhile, investigations revealed that the police equipment, other than the firearms and ammunition, may have been stolen from a SAPS police vehicle that had been broken into in 2012 in Durban. Police officers from Pretoria were in Durban on official police duty when their state vehicle was broken into and the equipment stolen. The firearms will be forwarded to the SAPS Forensic department for ballistics tests to determine if they had been used to commit any other offences.

The Provincial Commissioner of KwaZulu-Natal, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni commended the members for the investigation that led to the recovery of the firearms and equipment. “We will be investigating if these firearms were used by these suspects to commit any other crimes and if so, further charges will be added,” she said. – SA Police Media Service

Angler shot dead trying to rescue friend

A fellow angler was shot dead in front of a friend while coming to his rescue during a horrific attempted robbery on Strandfontein beach.

Alvin Allies, from Northpine, was killed instantly after being hit by a bullet in the pancreas on Sunday morning, his friend Pieter Terblanche told the Cape Times on Monday.

“He came to help me. He was running in the line of fire to come to my rescue. He could have run away but died because he wanted to help his friend,” Terblanche said.

He said he had worked with Allies since 2011 and the latter had used that specific spot, which he referred to as the Guntry, for more than 20 years.

The ordeal, at about 4am near a tidal pool, began when two “young criminals” approached Terblanche and Allies asking for petrol.

Terblanche said he referred the men to the offices of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) but they returned minutes later, this time wanting cigarettes.

They then left again.

When they returned yet again, one of the men confronted Terblanche with a firearm while Allies went to remove the last of their fishing rods from the water.

“The second chap came with a knife and wanted to stab me but I pulled his buddy in front of me and he stabbed him. We continued to wrestle and a lot of shots went off, but they missed me,” Terblanche said.

“My friend came back from the water and knocked the other guy with the fishing rod. As (Allies) was coming to assist me he was hit by a bullet. He was running in the line of fire.”

Allies is survived by his wife, children, mother and a brother, Terblanche said.

“It is hard on them (the Allies family). It is hard on all of us, his friends and the other fishermen,” he said.

The two men fled after Allies was hit. Terblanche, who had dislocated his shoulder during the altercation, ran to the NSRI’s rescue base for help. Terblanche alleged that the police took a while to get there because they had to walk to the scene as there were no proper vehicles to drive on the beach.

“Something must be done to ensure safety on our beaches. Idiotic criminals like these can just do whatever they please,” he said.

“These places are used by a lot of people and the government must do something.”

Source: IOL

Two blacks get life sentences for robbery, rape

Today, 14 March 2014, Siyanda Emmanuel Dlamini (27) and Sthembiso Ernest Mngadi (29) were each sentenced to three life imprisonments at the Durban High Court. Both Dlamini and Mngadi were facing nine counts of rape, inducing another person to commit a sexual offense, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances. The court found the two accused guilty of all the above mentioned crimes.

On 8 November 2011, both the accused entered a home of unsuspecting victims in Piesang, Inanda. They accosted three vulnerable women and two male occupants and held them at gunpoint. They raped and robbed them of an undisclosed amount of cash and cell phones. These events unfolded before the eyes of their helpless younger brother. They ordered both the brother and the other male to partake in the raping and as a result the other male occupant was shot in the face for protesting, while the brother feigned sexual intercourse with one of his sisters.

KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni thanked Inanda Cluster Detectives and Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit for their dedication in the arresting and thorough investigation of the cases that resulted in the conviction and sentencing of the accused who have been terrorising Inanda community. – SA Police Media Service

Heavy sentences demanded for murder trio

The South African Police Service in Limpopo on Monday will be demanding heavy sentences for a black couple and an associate on trial for 53 charges, which include murder, attempted murder, robbery, fraud, theft, racketeering and possession of drugs.

The call comes after the end of a marathon trial which commenced in February 2012 at the Polokwane High Court against Thomas Mothwa (43), his wife Refilwe Mothwa (41) and their associate Jan Mohlala (58). The trio is accused of playing a leading role in targeting elderly people in the rural areas of Limpopo and North West accosting them at or near the banks after they had withdrawn money.

The couple would approach victims under the pretext of knowing them, offering them a lift in their motor vehicle. The unsuspecting victims will then be offered a spiked soft drink and upon losing consciousness, they would steal their bank cards and banking details, identity documents and any other valuables. The victims would then be dumped along the road or thrown from a bridge or into a river and left for dead.

The couple would then enlist Mohlala and other unknown suspects to make withdrawals inside banks by replacing the photograph in the victims’ ID books with that of their associates or other accomplices, allowing them to misrepresent bank officials that they are the rightful owners and make withdrawals at various banks and ATM’S.

Their evil deeds started in 2000 and were finally halted by the police in 2007 leaving four victims dead, while two other victims James Molomo and George Moshoana bodies are yet to be accounted for and many others defrauded of their hard earned money. Both Molomo and Moshoana are presumed dead.

Black security guards caught committing robbery at factory

The South African Police Service National Investigation Unit under the direction of Lieutenant General Vinesh Moonoo foiled an organised business robbery at a warehouse in City Deep, Johannesburg on Monday morning.

The detectives received information that a company called Mpisi Import and Export in City Deep was going to be robbed with the assistance of the company security guards as well an ADT security guard.

The accused initially went to premises where the CCTV cameras were being monitored and they allegedly destroyed the recording equipment and they then proceeded in trucks to the actual warehouse.

With the assistance of the Johannesburg K9 Unit, our officers initially stopped an ADT security vehicle as it emerged from the Mpisi warehouse. Several bails of clothing (jeans) were found in the security guard’s vehicle. The guard was arrested and his cellular phone was seized.

The team then proceeded to the warehouse and found no security guards at the gate, instead, they were caught with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar. They were in the back of a truck which had bales of clothes, the same as those found in the ADT vehicle.

One of the security guards was supposed to have been guarding a completely different premises but he had not been on this site at all.

The three suspects arrested have been identified as:-

Sipho Nhlanhla Lulane (ADT Security Guard)
Sipho Sfiso Ngubane (Mpisi Security Guard)
Phuti Abdnico Manoko (Mpisi Security Guard)

All three suspects have appeared in court 17 at the Johannesburg court yesterday and have each been granted R5000 bail. – SA Police Service

Police arrest four robbers in KZN

Dundee police and Glencoe K9 members arrested four suspects for business robbery in the Dundee CBD and recovered firearms, stolen cash as well as the getaway vehicle in Newcastle. On 17 December 2013 at 09:15 employees of a retail clothing store were allegedly accosted at gunpoint by four armed unknown men who demanded cash and robbed them of an undisclosed amount of cash at gunpoint. The suspects fled in their getaway vehicle which was parked outside the store. No shots were fired and no person was injured during the robbery.

After an initial investigation police proceeded to Newcastle where they arrested four suspects between the ages of 30 and 48 and recovered some of the money that was allegedly stolen. Three firearms, two 9mm pistols and a revolver were seized and the motor vehicle that was allegedly used during the commission of crime was also seized. All four suspects will be charged for business robbery, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition as well as possession of suspected stolen property. They will appear in Dundee Magistrates Court soon. The firearms will be sent to ballistics to ascertain whether they were used in the commission of any other crime in the country.

KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni commended the members for arresting theses criminals and for the seizure of illegal firearms. “We are committed to eradicating criminal activities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and confident that the impact of these arrests will result in the reduction of the serious and violent crimes during the festive season,” she said. – SA Police media release

Eastern Cape shoot-out leaves one policeman dead, another critical

The South African Police Service in the Eastern Cape are working around the clock looking for two suspects involved in an attack on two police constables in Cofimvaba, late Wednesday afternoon.

Police Constable, Tandile Mlenga aged 35 and Student Constable Siviwe Majwede aged 23, stationed at Cofimvaba SAPS were on duty when they followed up information on a business robbery which took place at one of the businesses at about 15:30 yesterday. Upon searching for the suspects at a residential home in the Joe Slovo Informal Settlement, they were attacked by at least four unknown gun-men. Several shots were fired at them and Constable Mlenga died on the scene. Student Constable Majwede is in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Two suspects, aged 30, have been arrested and will appear in the Cofimvaba Magistrates Court on charges of murder and attempted murder. Police are looking for two (2) more suspects.

Constable Mlenga leaves behind his mother and two minor children. He served in the SA Police Service for 9 years. – SA Police media release