South Africa’s slow and painful slide towards anarchy
THE group of armed robbers will go down either as the boldest thugs or history will record them as the dumbest of all criminals in South Africa.
In broad daylight, they stormed an armoured car transporting cash right outside the Dobsonville police station. The thugs peppered the SBV truck with AK-47 bullets. The police officers responded in kind, and a shoot-out ensued. The police officers prevailed, the thugs took off, leaving one of them injured and in police custody.
The fact that the armed robbers were not deterred by the physical presence of a police station – a symbol of law and order in any country – points
