{"id":1559,"date":"2024-08-10T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:44:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:44:21","slug":"car-thieves-getting-smarter-they-are-using-donkeys-to-smuggle-cars-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/car-thieves-getting-smarter-they-are-using-donkeys-to-smuggle-cars-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Car thieves getting smarter, they are using donkeys to smuggle cars across the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Police in South Africa have foiled an attempt to smuggle a stolen luxury car into Zimbabwe using donkeys to pull it across the Limpopo river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The suspects fled into the bushes towards Zimbabwe after their efforts to free the car from the sand failed, local police say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Last December a vehicle stolen in Durban was recovered on the same river, attached to a group of donkeys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Local police are investigating whether a syndicate is behind the new practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Police Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo says a Mercedes Benz C220 was recovered on the riverbed close to Musina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u201cThe suspects were using donkeys to pull the car across the river\u201a but our members were just in time to pounce on them after the donkeys were apparently no longer able to pull it through the sand,\u201d Mr Mojapelo is quoted in local media as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The donkeys were unharmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The Limpopo River forms the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe and is a well known transit point for illegal immigrants moving between both countries but the news of it becoming a smuggling point for cars is a surprise development, says the BBC\u2019s Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Authorities regularly patrol the Beit-Bridge border post to monitor movements between the two countries in a bid to curb cross-border crime, our correspondent says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"><em>Source: News Daily<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in South Africa have foiled an attempt to smuggle a stolen luxury car into Zimbabwe using donkeys to pull it across the Limpopo river. The suspects fled into the bushes towards Zimbabwe after their efforts to free the car from the sand failed, local police say. 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