The police minister says it seems as if the thieves targeted stock and knew exactly where it was kept.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has said “there is a funny situation” about the bottle store in Cape Town broken into barely a day after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a ban on the sale of liquor.
“That one we were there until 4am but that person was able to break off the cameras and he or she had a very good choice of stealing,” Cele said on Wednesday during the justice crime prevention and security cluster media briefing on the enforcement of the regulations of alert Level 3 and adherence to the safety protocols.
Following the theft, Mark Kallend, owner of OK Liquor in Bothasig, said: “They basically emptied the whiskies out.
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