NATIONAL NEWS - More than a year after robbers made off with millions of Rands in cash, a former cash guard has been
sentenced, Vryheid Herald reports.
At the time, a group of between eight and ten men said to be heavily armed, overpowered cash
in transit guards at the Vryheid Fidelity depot and made off with a massive sum of cash.
Former employee, Mbuyiseni Mthembu was recently sentenced at Mandeni High Court to 12 years in prison.
When the crime occurred, it was believed the stolen money amounted to R8-million, but it has since been found to be R12-million that Mthembu, Thembokwakhe Robert Nzama, Zakhele Ernest
Xulu, Phakamini Hadebe, Mnikeni Khohlwezakhe Majozi and other accomplices made away with. A spokesman for the Hawks, Simphiwe Mhlongo said the unit was on the hunt for two suspects.
Khohlwezakhe Majozi and Robert Nzama are said to be on the run from authorities, after being granted bail of R30 000 each.
Cash guard jailed after million-Rand robbery
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Posted on: 11:39 Fri, 24 May 2019
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