The bail hearing of three security officers of the Fidelity Security Group is set to continue in the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court on 29 May. The hearing was postponed on Friday (19/05) to the new date.
The men, Mzwandile Choko (60), Molefe Sidwell Molefe (61), and Deon de Lange (48), remain in custody in the meantime. They were arrested for their alleged involvement in the group’s armoured vehicle robbery on 9 May. The trio first appeared in court on 12 May.
The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation team, based in Bloemfontein, pounced on the trio following an ongoing, intensive probing.
Capt. Christopher Singo, provincial spokesperson of the Hawks, said the investigation was ongoing with the hope to arrest other accomplices. “More arrests are imminent,” he said.
Singo said the heavily armed robbers ambushed the vehicle that was en route from its company depot to Bloemfontein’s central business district (CBD), to deliver cash.
He alleges that before the security officials reached their destination, a group of heavily armed suspects accosted them in McKenzie Street, East End, Bloemfontein. He said the armed robbers instructed the security officials to get out of the armoured vehicle.
“The armed robbers used explosives to blow up the vault and the drop safe of the armoured vehicle. Thereafter, they took an undisclosed amount of money along with three firearms of the security officials, and fled the crime scene,” Singo.
