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Former PAC president appears in court charged with stealing millions from party By Tarryn-Leigh Solomons Share Cape Town - Former PAC President Luthando Mbinda (60) appeared in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on charges of fraud and theft amounting to R2.4 million. According to Western Cape Hawks spokesperson Lt Col Philani, Nkwalase Mbinda handed himself over to the offices of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation in Bellville prior to his court appearance. Mbinda is the third suspect arrested by the Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team. His alleged accomplices, Gcobani Katiya (53) and Ramarumo Edward Mfulane (35) were arrested and appeared in the same court on 09 April 2021, later released on warning. ....
Nicolette Kinnear, wife of murdered Anti-Gang Unit Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear. (Photo: Supplied) She also inquired whether Kinnear’s report might have been the motive for a planned alleged hand-grenade attack on their family home, which was thwarted in November 2019. Security placed outside the couple and their children’s home in Bishop Lavis had also been suddenly removed in December 2019, a month after the hand-grenade incident. Visiting the home of the Kinnears after the assassination of the top cop outside their front gate on 18 September, Police Minister Bheki Cele ordered an investigation, especially considering that the detective had implicated fellow SAPS members. ....
weekly newspaper. The use of explosives in cash-in-transit robberies and heists is methodical, almost expected . The case last weekend that targeted nine Absa ATMs in the Strand and Gordon’s Bay areas in Cape Town was different: new modus operandi, more terroristic in nature. On the morning of 30 January, a group of about five men overpowered and abducted two SBV Services employees who were doing maintenance on a faulty ATM in Rusthof, Strand. The employees were disarmed, forced to their vehicle and one employee was made to strap explosives on to his body. Between 8am and 9am, the Absa ATMs were targeted and cleared along the two coastal areas. This was according to the Western Cape Hawks spokesperson, Zinzi Hani. No arrests have yet been made and the Hawks investigation was still under way at the time of writing. ....