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Entries from January 2008

Ring leads to Death

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

A man was shot dead on a Golden Arrow bus after refusing to surrender his wedding ring to robbers.
The 41 year old victim was shot dead on his way home from work on a bus from Claremont to Mitchells Plain.
Three men started robbing passengers, and when they came to Pearson he gave them two of [...]

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Cops attack again

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Racist attack on white motorist by black traffic officer – Video

The Beeld newspaper reports of two young white men who stopped to fill up at a garage and was harassed by a black traffic cop. The cop, Enoch Sifuanda beat and wrestled the young man to the ground and choked him unconscious with the [...]

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Gated complex(crime)

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

The main reason people move into supposedly secure residential estates or complexes is to escape crime. But the latest crime statistics indicate that house robberies with aggravated circumstances are on the increase behind these walled-off, guarded and supposedly secure residential areas.

And experts say that part of the problem might be that residents are lulled [...]

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Two crimes, one does not make headlines?

January 20th, 2008 · No Comments

SOMETHING JUST SNAPPED
  No need to send young Johan Nel off to Sterkies for observation. The motive is as clear as daylight.
Johannesburg - “Mom, something snapped inside me,” were the words of a young man to his mother before he was arrested for shooting and killing three people in a squatter camp in the [...]

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