Air base robbery with a different angle
It comes as no surprise to hear that the air force base at Hoedspruit was raided over the weekend
13 May 2021 - 05:00
Back in the early days of this country’s sometimes shaky transition from military state to democratic republic, northern suburbs dinner party conversations frequently revolved — in whispers — around the millions and millions of Umkhonto weSizwe arms caches supposedly full of AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and Russian antitank mines.
These arsenals, the residents said, would be used to rob banks and commit other crimes now that they were no longer needed to overthrow the regime. Indeed, the AK-47 did for a while pop up frequently in cash-in-transit van heists...
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