Cape Town - Tracing cellphones stolen
during a spate of mall robberies across
South Africa will be discussed at talks
between Southern African Development
Community (SADC) police chiefs,
national police commissioner Riah
Phiyega said on Tuesday.
Speaking on the side-lines of a meeting
with Parliament's portfolio committee
on police, Phiyega said tracing the
markets where the stolen cellphones
were heading was crucial to cracking
down on syndicates responsible for the
robberies.
"There are mega links. Some of the
people that were arrested here [in the
Western Cape] we were able to link
them to other cases in Gauteng, so
there's a lot of work that's being done
between the provinces," Phiyega said.
"I'm fortunate to be meeting with the
police chiefs of the SADC region on
Thursday so it will be one of the issues
we looking into in terms of cross-
border collaboration to look at where
are these stolen products being taken
to."
Gauteng and the Western Cape have
been hardest hit by a succession of
armed robberies taking place at malls
over the last few months.
In almost all the cases, the robbers'
loot has consisted of electronic
devices, especially cellphones.
There have been several breakthroughs
in Gauteng over the past few weeks.
Most recently, on Friday last week,
seven people were arrested in
connection with two separate incidents
whereby a Telkom store at Irene Mall
was held up at gunpoint, and a shoot-
out took place between robbers and
police at Centurion Mall.
Gauteng police commissioner Lesetja
Mothiba said the majority of suspects
arrested were foreigners.
"I think at some stage the national
commissioner will make some
announcements because we are
worried that in almost all of these
arrests there were foreigners involved,
especially Zimbabweans and
Nigerians ," Mothiba said.
"We are very worried that these
cellphones - almost 10% - are meant
for the local market and about 90% are
being exported to most of the countries
in Africa."
In August, crime intelligence officers,
linked to the national task team set up
to probe the robberies, arrested several
suspects who were trying to enter
Lesotho with the stolen goods.
SAPA

How does this confirm my Igbo brothers involvement?
Waka pass jor.

already, its common knowledge that south Africans are the most xenophobic on the planet. So some of their allegations nay be true, most are usually hinged on this bias.

ZACHIE:
How does this confirm my Igbo brothers involvement?
Waka pass jor.

Who said anything about them being Igbo? Down here tribe does NOT matter! A Nigerian is a Nigerian

The South Africans do the hard work and rob the stores and then sell the merchandise or exchange it for Drugs to the Nigerians who in turn ship to Nigeria for use.

Business!

destante:
already, its common knowledge that south Africans are the most xenophobic on the planet. So some of their allegations nay be true, most are usually hinged on this bias.

A criminal is a criminal, what xenophobic about a Nigerian criminal in South Africa? you know that there are Nigerian criminals in jail in many different countries across the world even in countries like Afghanistan? so what's xenophobic about that.

If a Nigerian steals in South Africa should we not say a Nigerian criminal was behind that crime? If you say South Africa is the most xenophobic country on earth then why on earth do Nigerians keep living and keep coming to South Africa? It would be better to stay away from xenophobic countries.