Transport minister and her VIP protection unit robbed on N3

Good. The only positive I can see from our ship of state now lying so low in the pit latrine this government's corruption has created, is that die kak now sits around the gills of our most senior officers. Your people live in it every day, dear Minister. That's not including all those who've already drowned.

Very efficient and brave "protection squad'!

No overwhelming support from the people of South Africa, I'm sure.

She should have taken the train..... Oh no she couldn't - there isn't one - cos she doesn't do her job!

How many bags of lolly were in the boot? Or was it stuffed into the back seat?

My heart bleeds for the minister. The goons are nogal useless in a real situation when there are no unarmed citizens they can beat up.

They provide perfect scripts for a comedy series.

No comment.

Could there be a link between the Great N3 Highway robbery and SANRAL's determination to award gigantic road construction contracts to foreign companies?

Hahahahaha Kry vir jou!

Travelling to Pietermaritzburg on Friday and an envoy of of 5 vehicles pushes you off the road at hig speeds. I don't feel sorry for them. Now they will know what it feels like for so many South Africans being r9bbed and hijacked on South African roads.

The minister is 'grateful for the overwhelming support from her colleagues and the people of South Africa'. Read the room, we don't give a toss

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Only in South Africa. Seems like a CIT event?

Maybe now they'll do something about the regular crime on that section of road... don't hold your breath!

The comments say it all...

What's with all the BMWs? The minister actually makes herself conspicuous when traveling like this. If she were driving in a Toyota Corolla alone nobody would even notice her.

Good. About time they all felt the consequences of their inadequate government and utter incompetence that affects all citizens on a day-to-day basis. Sadly for the rest of us, she did not have to suffer the pain, trauma and even death that many other criminal acts in SA result in.

I'll be deeply unsurprised to find that one or more members of the goon squad was in on it. The depths of useless they'd need to plumb for this to be possible without someone springing a leak would be hard even for saps. These clowns, as we know from the footage of the deputy capos squad in action, carry side arms and long guns and their massively expensive vehicles are highly likely to be equipped with runflats. Even without those a couple of hundred metres can easily be covered on wheel rims alone. On second thoughts, maybe they are just that useless.

So the blue light brigade are good at assaulting unarmed citizens but are helpless in the face of danger? She should have a word with Mr Useless, Bheki Cele. P.S. This made headlines around the world as did the shooting of a tourist in Cape Town. Go Tourism!

The minister must feel very comforted that her highly trained, elite VIP protection unit, would lay down their lives to protect her, rather than handing their entire range of armaments over to co-conspirators, who presumably are splitting the spoils. Rattus Norvecus behave in the same way - turning to eating each other when under threat.

Welcome to the real wo0rld, Hon minister.

Morning Minister. Welcome to the real world outside the bubble you live in.

Cry us a river! That’s life for you, mrs minister. This is the country you created. Ps. She must have chosen her security squad herself - useless.

The only way this story could be any more hilariously revealing of the ANC’s bottomless incompetence and conceit is if instead it had happened to the Twat in the Hat Minister of Police. Also, it’s probably a good thing for them that ANC cadres, both individually and collectively, are immune to feeling embarrassment. It’s like they have a specialised variety of Dunning-Kruger that prevents honest introspection.

Is this Good news or Bad news? Good news is that even the Ministers feel the pain of what is now everyday South Africa lived by everyday South African's. Bad News is that even R2 billion/yr can't keep you safe. Eish.

This was a warning that unless she toes the line she will be punished, not a robbery.

I remember an assisination attempt on Ronald Reagan. His bodyguard threw himslf into the line of fire and took a bullet for his president. Although Reagn was wounded his bodyguard undoubtably saved his life. So to compare that to our overpaid blue lighters: heavily armed, body armour and surely more than one car in the convoy and they still got robbed? Laughable!! What are we paying these guys for?

I'm absolutely astonished by the number and tone of the responses to this article. It just shows the magnitude of the contempt we all have, rightly, for the pathetic cadres.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts and an Honours degree in Curationis from the University of South Africa as well as a Master of Arts in Curationis from the University of Pretoria. From the Edendale Nursing College, she obtained both a Diploma in Midwifery and a Diploma in Nursing Science. BA Degree plus Nursing Diploma...Go figure..

I just cannot stop laughing.

This clearly demonstrates that all these protection vehicles and staff surrounding minsters and their hangers-on a total waste of money. They can't do their job and protect ministers. How is having a fleet of expensive vehicles, paid for by taxpayers, anything but a vanity performance, boasting about their own importance, whilst frittering away money collected from tax paying citizens, and not doing even doing their job. Unless of course, their mandate is to live high on the hog and spend as much much as they can on whilst they the ANC remains in power? Coz sure as hell, the country cannot afford them, so hopefully their continued hellish thieving presence won't last for much longer.

Firstly a misnomer is it not? Should be Taxi minister, surely? Next comes the protection unit - amazing how efficient when roughing up ordinary citizens & not forgetting how much they cost the taxpayer.

You really can't make this stuff up can you? ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaaaa

You can't make this stuff up!!!!!

In the picture you can see six BMWs, five with blue lights and one without. If this is what all the ministers are entitled to combined with the out-of-the-world salaries paid to the public officials + free this and free that, it is clear why the accounts of this useless Government are in a luccicante red.

there HAS to be more to this in terms of what (not who) was in the cars. There must be softer targets to go for than a protection convoy.

Don't worry minister. The talking hat will make sure that the full might of the law is brought to bear on the nefarious criminals. If he can find them....

Hilarious!

This sounds like a load of codswollop vehicles of that caliber are normally fitted with run flat tires so you do not have to stop, you can still drive a long way (at reasonable speeds) after loosing air pressure. Something smells!

What an embarrassment to the security establishment! Who trained the so-called VIP security? How can they be out-smarted by common criminals and be robbed without anyone of them firing a shot?

I think our SAPS protection and security unit was never beefed up properly when addressing serious crimes committed in our country. The free movement of foreign nationals from neighboring countries who are roaming our cities and national roads cannot left unnoticed. Secondly, security departments was also not held up as supremacy like it used to be during the dark days of Apartheid. Lastly, all the citizens are no longer safe under this new dispensation and poor leadership.