[Even the Police aren’t safe any more!!! Ah! Don’t forget… President Mbeki (that great stand-up comedian) said a few weeks back that crime was going down… Yeah right…

Let me digress into a bit of South African history: Interestingly, Tweefontein, where this crime occurred is the site of quite an amazing guerilla raid during the Boer war a century ago which I was recently reading about. At Tweefontein, General De Wet launched an attack on a British camp on a hill and soundly whipped them. There was a British army of 20,000 in the vicinity of Tweefontein while the Boer General, De Wet, had only about 600-700 men. De Wet decided to try attacking the British! So he singled out one of their camps for a night attack. The British were encamped on a hill and had built entrenchments all around it. The Boers climbed up the steepest side of the hill in the night when the British least expected it. 500 Boers attacked 400 British and shot them to bits. The Boers lost 44 men, and the British 116. The Boers captured their guns and many other things and made off with them.

Interestingly, one of the British survivors of the attack told that the Boers were so impoverished that a number of them even wore women’s clothing because they had no other clothes to wear. Prior to this… the British had sent 60,000 troops in a broad sweep to try to capture De Wet… but De Wet and his men slipped through the British lines…

Sadly… South Africa is no longer a preside of gallantry and great deeds… but a nation of losers and filth… where criminal scum get to kill anyone in any way that they please – even the Police!! Jan]

Nelspruit – Not even police officers are safe from hijackers.

Two officers, one of whom was killed, were hijacked in police cars in Mpumalanga at the weekend.

The first hijacking took place on Friday.

A police minibus, that had earlier been used for members of a police brass band, was hijacked while parked at a low-cost housing development in Tweefontein.

Three men shot a police inspector in the chest and he died at the roadside. A woman who was in the minibus was shot in the right leg.

Both were forced out the vehicle and the robbers drove off. The woman is recovering at KwaMhlanga Hospital.

The vehicle, with registration BNP 104 B, has not been recovered and no arrests have been made yet.

On Sunday, about 20:00, an off-duty police captain was hijacked of a Mmamethlake police car she had used to visit her sister at Siyabuswa.

Garage robbed, minibus hijacked

As she was about to leave, a hijacker held her up and took the car, a white Mazda 323, registration CPZ 315 MP.

There have been no arrests and the car hasn’t been recovered.

Three civilians were hijacked in the area at the weekend.

On Friday, a motorist picked up a hitchhiker in Vosman, only to be held up and robbed of R300.

The hitchhiker made off with the minibus, registration BBN 168 MP. No arrests have been made yet and the minibus is still missing.

On Sunday, the Engen garage in Vosman was robbed of R130 000 and the robbers hijacked a minibus to make their getaway.

It was later recovered, but no arrests have been made.

On Monday, a supermarket in Kwarrilaagte near Dennilton turned into a war zone when a security guard and five robbers exchanged gunfire.

The guard was killed and a customer abducted and forced to use his minibus for the attackers to flee.

The customer was able to press an alarm that alerted Netstar, however, and the minibus was later found abandoned, after the driver had been dumped in the veld.

Edited by Iaine Harper

Source: News24.Com
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…/p>