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The man was arrested on Tuesday and was released on R2,000 bail by the Kwaaiman Periodical Court on Thursday.

He is due to appear in court again on December 7 to answer to charges relating to vehicle theft and hijacking.

It is still not clear whether the 51-year-old man is alleged to have stolen the vehicles himself.

Police said investigations are continuing.

Mqanduli police spokesman major Zamukulungisa Jozana said police had been doing normal patrols when they stopped at May Sono’s house after noticing a large number of vehicles, mostly bakkies, in his Ezidindi village yard in Coffee Bay.

“We recovered nine vehicles but only five have been positively identified and linked to cases opened by the police so far. The other four have been tampered with to the extent that it is hard to identify them,” said Jozana.

He said the police’s vehicle identification unit was still busy trying to verify the owners of the other four cars.

“Of the five cars, one was stolen in Port Elizabeth, one in Uitenhage, another in Pinelands in Cape Town and the last one was stolen in Mthatha. The fifth vehicle, we have confirmed it was hijacked, also in Mthatha,” said Jozana.

“The vehicles are mostly bakkies, except for one Golf. We also recovered a trailer with the cars which was also stolen in Mthatha,” he said.

Jozana said the cars included a Toyota Hilux, a Nissan, two Ford Couriers and a Nissan van which was in a process of being spray-painted.

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Oct 5, 2012

Mothata

Yah neh!
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Oct 5, 2012

Papage

Police must not lie, they acted on a tip off, this guy has been running Taxi business for years and he has been stealing cars all the years and the Police knew that, why arrest him now, did he refuse to pay the protection fee or what?
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Oct 5, 2012

2shy2call

Thanks but its not new to Nancefield hostel dwellers we all know.

Nkandla 500 of them are ready to operate when the new small town of Zuma opens.
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Oct 5, 2012

Pointman

Here is one way of capitalising your business. Risky though.
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Oct 5, 2012

Seja-Bana

yoh yoyh yoh yoh,..................taxi bosses, they still our hard work belongings and make maoney with them, the polices must hire more police specifically for taxis
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Oct 6, 2012

Ndele01

Quite Honestly,

There is no more corrupt province than the Transkei.....I witnessed this even in the Apartheid days.
Nothing works in that province...
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Oct 7, 2012

Virgin.after.sex

Haai man seja-bana!!!! Your grammar is very poor.
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Oct 9, 2012

midastouch

Haai maan Virgin!! Engleesh is a foreign language kaloku! asiyazi siyayizama!!
Give the oke a break!!
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Oct 10, 2012

The-Vince

Most taxi owners run their businesses on stolen vehicles.....FACT.
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