 |
|
President Thabo Mbeki victim of SA crime
|
May 07, 2008, 10:15
President Thabo Mbeki's official residence in Arcadia, Pretoria has been broken into. Police say a safety aluminum wire fitted to the roof of Mbeki's house was stolen over the long weekend.
The R30 000 wire is meant to intensify safety against lightning. Sunnyside police spokesperson Mirna Von Benecker says no suspects have been arrested so far.
Kevin Bredenkamp of Ubani, the contractors who were supposed to install the aluminium cables, left the premises on Tuesday because he deemed it unsafe.
He said that the robbery must have taken place between Friday night and Monday night but was only discovered on Tuesday morning.
"We couldn't climb on the roof on Sunday morning because the president was still sleeping and we were instructed to come back on Tuesday," one of the workers, Philip van Schalkwyk, said.
He said that when they had wanted to continue their task on Tuesday morning, they were shocked to discover that all the aluminium which they had installed over the past three weeks had been stolen. – Additional reporting by Sapa
|
