The hot topic of conversation on the Germiston City News Facebook page for the week, February 25 to March 3, was:
Update: Employee shot dead, R6-million worth of nickel stolen in Wadeville business robbery: https://bit.ly/2lAJm90
Employees of Lauds Foundry Equipment were subjected to a nightmarish time, recently, when the company was invaded by 15 men. The robbery left one man dead and employees traumatised. Elsburg SAPS communications officer Const Daphney Phooko told the GCN that at about 6.50am, 15 men, speaking Shona, entered the business in Kabeljou Road, in Wadeville, driving a white Chevrolet utility bakkie with a canopy.
You said:
- Emily Norris, “This is terrible.”
- Debbie Dodd, “When is this nonsense going to end? This situation is just awful.”
- Cheryl Brandon, “There was a time when these kinds of crimes would happen in the dark of night. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. A busy workday, in broad daylight, with lots of people around is no longer a deterrent. It seems like just going to work is a risk.”
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