Mahaica bandits pretended to be prospectors during visit to scope out target

The damaged car that was used in the robbery.

By Rae Wiltshire

Two days before they shot and robbed a vendor at his Vereeniging, Mahaica home, the bandits who carried out the attack visited the area on the pretext of doing prospecting work.

This is according to a Mahaica resident, who said the bandits scanned every section of the neighbourhood and he believed it was all done in preparation so that the robbery would have been pulled off without any hiccups.

The man said his curiosity was piqued when he saw the men taking photographs of the