“They parked their vehicle in the mall parking but their trailer was removed from their vehicle.”
The stolen kayaks included some brands that are rare in South Africa and should be easily spotted. The South African companions of the Russian tourists have made a plea on social media for people to be on the lookout for the kayaks and trailer.A group of Russian tourists was handed a raw deal when their trailer, laden with whitewater kayaks worth about R100,000, was stolen in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday.
Shane Raw, who was helping the group with information on where to kayak, told TimesLIVE the tourists had just finished kayaking on the Tsitsa river and had loaded their kayaks on to a trailer and travelled to the nearby BT Ngebs Mall. “They parked their vehicle in the mall parking but their trailer was removed from their vehicle. It was taken right in the parking area. It seems they were not aware that they were meant to padlock the trailer to their vehicle,” Raw added.To all my SA contacts - a strange request: please be on the lookout for a trailer full of whitewater kayaks which was...
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