Cable thieves were interrupted not once but twice by the reaction team at Tavistock Mine.
At about 23:40 on October 17 Mr Richard Dibakwane, a security officer, received a call informing him of the alarm that went off at the cable workshop situated on the mine and rushed to the scene.
On his arrival he noticed that the workshop door was open and that there was copper cable lying outside the workshop doors.
He and his colleagues took note of the damage to the workshop and took photos of the cable. The reaction team left the scene, leaving Dibakwane and a colleague on scene while they attended to another matter.
“While we were patrolling in the bakkie the suspects came from the bushes and started throwing stones at us, they broke the windows of the bakkie and pointed guns at us, telling us to get out,” said Dibakwane.
The suspects then tied the feet of Dibakwane and his colleague’s using their laces.
The suspects headed into the workshop and began loading the cable onto the bakkie. Dibakwane’s cellular phone continued to ring as security wanted an update on the alarm.
“The other reaction team arrived on scene and in response the robbers fled the scene using the bakkie they had loaded,” said Dibakwane.
The reaction team gave chase to the bakkie and found it abandoned in the bushes, the stolen cable was recovered from the back of the bakkie. The robbers had fled leaving the bakkie abandoned.
“They broke my phone because it kept ringing, I only found it two days later,” said Dibakwane.
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