A 39-year-old SAPS sergeant and a security guard were shot and wounded after a group of armed men attacked a cash-in-transit (CIT) vehicle in Macassar on the Cape Flats on Thursday, 29 April.
“Three suspects were arrested and five firearms, including three AK-47 rifles as well as five vehicles, were seized in Stellenbosch. Two of the vehicles were hijacked by the suspects as they fled the Macassar scene,” according to a SAPS statement after the incident.
According to SAPS spokesperson Vish Naidoo, the SAPS does not believe that the three suspects arrested were the only ones involved.
Reinforcements consisting of local police, tactical response teams and air support responded immediately, quickly foiling the robbery and tracking the suspects to a Kayamandi taxi rank in Stellenbosch, the statement read.
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Burger says there is simply not enough data to determine if there is a racial motivation for how the police respond, but says it was clear that the police overreached their powers on Tuesday when they shot and killed Ntumba.
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The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) s Johan Burger says the reach is lacking on whether there is racial bias in the South African Poclei Service (SAPS) s response to black citizens as opposed to white citizens.
This comes in the wake of the death of Mthokozisi Ntumba in the Wits student protest this week.