South Africa’s Police Minister coming to Malawi to get 300 stolen cars back
Malawi has 300 stolen vehicles from South Africa and those driving hot cars be aware that Police Minister from South Africa Bheki Cele has announced he is coming to to retrieve the vehicles stolen and smuggled across the border.
”At least 22,000 cars are stolen in South Africa every year, and most of them are taken over our borders to neighbouring countries. Malawi has 300 of these vehicles; many of the cars are stolen from Gauteng,” Cele has been widely quoted by South African media.
He was speaking to reporters at a briefing at Tembisa police station in Ekurhuleni.
Cele is expected to come with International Criminal Police Organisation(Interpol) to fan out across the country, mounting random checkpoints on major Malawi roads and stopping vehicles they suspect to have been stolen.
Most of the “high end” vehicles belong to the senior members of government, high profile politicians and businessmen.
Kamlepo, Chaponda, Kasambala ndi amwenye wonse , pleaaasse bisani magalimo. otherwise muyendela mazda kkkkkkkkk
two useless things in this article….one by the author another by the so called arrangement…….the author says “beware’ …..warning thieves? which side is the author? theives’?
and the minister wants to come here to do what? the worst thieves in RSA are from Nigeria…Is the minister going to do the same in Nigeria where most stolen cars find their destination? Let him try
Kuno nde amatipezelera,kodi a Malawife vuto ndi chani?? Pa mozambikiiii pompa sangayelekeze kukapanga zopusazo,did we go to SA a steal a car?? We bought it, analora bwanji kuduasa ma border ose mpaka kuno? Akatenga these cars tgey will sale them at ac cheap price atatipasilaso matenda acha alongo athu.can we go to south Africa And mount a road block just to find stolen vehucles and chamba from our country
Do you really need the whole minister to come over? Is he going to do the confiscation himself. Africa, zopusa basi.
Tiwone tsopano achina Muli, Kasambala kuyendela tima Mazda kkkkk. Wonders shall never endoooooo
Galimoto zimenezo sizioneka pa mseu. Mkanabwera mwakachetechete
Dont forget to collect another from Kamlepo Kalua
Most of these cars are driven by high profile people mainly from state house, MPs, Ministers and business moguls in the cities of Malawi. Mr Minister you will not achieve anything because these cars are driven by high profile people in the society. I bait you, you will return to South Africa with nothing. Search me.
Maybe Bheki Cele should not have openly said this as people will now hide the cars and not drive them. A clandestine sweep in collaboration with the Malawi Police Services and/or Interpol would surely have easily netted these cars.
But what I wanted to add is that people who buy these cars tend to forget that some of the cars’ (previous) owners lose their lives or those of their families because the criminals will go to any lengths to get their hands on them. According to reports, these criminals steal these cars on order, and as long as the buyers keep receiving these ill-be-gotten goods, nothing will really change. It may seem like a bargain to the buyers but the costs (in terms of lives) does not compare.
I personally was a victim of car theft (in July 2014), but luckily (by God’s grace) I was not near the vehicle when it got taken. It eventually got tracked down within an hour and retrieved before it left the boarders of SA. Of course I was still saddled with a huge bill to pay as the vehicle was used for business and goods worth over several thousands of rands went with it. That, I can live with (and I suppose as so many other people would).
But the sad part is that two days later when I went to retrieve the vehicle from the police impound, I came across a distraught couple whose 4 year old was killed by hijackers as they dragged him under the mother’s car during a hijacking ordeal (story here: http://www.ewn.co.za/2014/07/21/Reiger-Park-Mommy-please-help-me) or ‘google’ Taegrin Morris and you will read about the gory details. I didn’t know about it when I first met them, and I just overheard people talking about it, until I saw it on TV later on that day.
Fellow Malawians, let us desist from providing a ready market for these stolen goods – be it cars or any other thing that we may think we are getting at a bargain. Chances are someone may have shed blood and lost their lives for it. These criminals do not really care and they will shoot even if someone is not a threat – they just want to cover their tracks.
Ndangodutsapo ine. Or najumphapo waka ine
Welcome Minister sir, i don’t forget my Brother’s Toyota Hilux White anamubela pa Eastgate Mall JHB inakapezeka ku Blantyre kwa his neba, after atava zoti Toyota Hilux is for his neba who is in South Africa, inasowa the same day, Malawians kuba too much, Chidziko chambava zokha zokha.
Who is the minister of Police t come to Malawi like that. He should respect the sovereignty of Malawi. Interpol has the legal backing to come but he shouldn’t harass Malawians by making such statements.
If I were him, I would first ask for an invitation then seek the diplomatic way of going about it.
The focus should be placed on prevented the theft in the first place. RSA has one of the highest crime rate in the world. From the 22,000 cars stolen in RSA, 300 are here. Representing 1.3 %. Seriously!!!!!!!!!!
Focus on where the crime is being committed. Clean up your own house before you start with others.
Let him come this is Malawi if he will not be stolen as well
Hehehe! Senior government officials driving stolen cars. Alandeni ayaluke.
Join the discussion…They must start with their neighboring countries, why jumping Zimbabwe and Mozambique? Malawi don’t accept this.
Mchacha bwinotu nazo izi mutha kuyambiranso kuyenda pansi apa