POLOKWANE IN A HIGH TARGET BY CRIMINALS

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Coin Security  spokesperson : David Makamu



Four armed men got away with three boxes of money in a cash heist in polokwane on Monday. The robbers attacked Coin Security guards while they were climbing into a security van after picking up money in Grobler Street at about 11:00 in the morning. The men with guns held them up and took three cash boxes. The robbers opened fire on the guards but no one was injured. The men fled in a silver Audi A4 with Gauteng number plates.

By reading this part of a report, as a Public relations practitioner point of view, I can say without a doubt that Polokwane is a corrupt society.  Each and every day when we listen to a radio, watch a television, or read newspapers, we hear about such different and shocking news and instead of all this to decrease, it keeps on increasing in such a way a person can image. Point is, who are these people making Polokwane a place to be so hard to imagine and what is it that can be done to end all these cases and that is our government putting much of its effort on their strategies of fighting crime? These robbers were travelling in a silver Audi with a Gauteng number plate, meaning they may not be people from Limpopo but Gauteng.

 Polokwane must start working on these kinds of issues and come up with some useful plans on to how they can stop people to undermine its authorities and again gain its respect just like old times. By doing this, people from different places in the country may stop considering it as the first priority where they can commit murders, rob people and so on. Polokwane is no longer a safe place and if it doesn’t work through this, it will end up being in danger of having many criminals residing on it just to do their crime scenes.

         ANGRY LIMPOPO STUDENTS VERSUS CRUEL ROBBERS

Thursday, 03 May 2012 happened to be a day which a group of eight robbers had a BAD call at the University of Limpopo’s Mankweng campus, east of Polokwane after being attacked with several of ANGRY students.

The eight men had robbed one of the university students of a cell phone at 01:00 midnight and the suspected thieves were apprehended by the students and were severely assaulted.  About approximately 100 students beat them up with stones, sticks and other dangerous weapons. Three of the robbers escaped and were later arrested by the police outside the university campus and the other five robbers were badly injured. The students stoned an ambulance that was called to take the injured robbers to hospital, but did not injure the medics. They also broke a campus office window.



Angry students as last seen today at the University of Limpopo



How I view this issue on a Public relations practitioner point of view is that, students or people should learn and try to calm down no matter how bad they are provoked because later on, if it was not for the police who stopped them, they were supposed to be behind bars facing charges of attempted murder which was to be a bad news for their career in future. My point is I hereby making an appeal to all people to refrain from taking the law into their own hands since one bad day this might make them suffer the consequences. These students should have kept the suspects and waited for the police to come and arrest them so that the law could be applied against them than to beat them up because if they died, there was no going to be any evidence to the police on their way of investigating this case. Thus, they were somehow in some way going to be the one who were suspects at the end of the day.