Vehicle involved in ‘burglary’ at Zane Dangor’s home also targeted Sassa CEO
The former DG says he finds the coincidence between both incidents rather ‘odd’.
Former Department of Social Development director general Zane Dangor. Picture: Facebook via South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
Following a house burglary at the house of the former Director General (DG) of the Social Development department, Zane Dangor, on Monday, new details have emerged that one of the vehicles involved in the break-in may have been used to try to gain access to the home of SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) CEO Thokozani Magwaza.
Speaking to Talk Radio 702 on Tuesday morning, Dangor said two vehicles had pulled up at his house, and two men got out and told his helper they had been sent by him to fix something.
“Before she could do anything they had overpowered her‚ broke the security gate in the front of the house,” he said.
The former social development DG, who resigned over the grants crisis earlier this month, said the helper screamed and his son tried to confront one of the attackers, and they tried to put a cloth over his mouth.
However, his son managed to flee the attackers and locked himself in a bedroom. He sustained an injury on his hand during the incident and had to be taken to hospital for X-rays.
“And then the guys apparently went through the house‚ looking in the cupboards. But they took nothing‚ nothing was stolen and then left before the police could arrive.”
Dangor said the incident had left his family traumatised by the suspicious burglary at his home.
He also said there were valuable items in the house but they were not taken by the intruders.
After he had called his former colleague at Sassa to tell him about the break-in, Magwaza told him that he had briefed security officials at the grants agency about a car that “had approached his wife in exactly the same way” on Monday.
The car was apparently similar to one of the cars that pulled up at Dangor’s house.
He said the coincidence between both incidents are rather “odd” and views the incident as an “act of intimidation”.
“I see it as an act of intimidation for me … the fact that they came and took nothing from me‚ that’s intimidation. I think we need a full investigation to look at the linkages‚” he said.
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