Cable thief stoned to death

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Cable thief stoned to death

A Cape Flats man has been stoned to death after trying to steal electricity cables.

The man, only identified as Masangweni, was found tethered to a tree in Brown’s Farm, Philippi, on Wednesday.

Philippi residents spotted him early in the morning trying to cut wires from the informal settlement’s illegal electricity connections.

Enraged community members caught the startled thief, tied him up and stoned him to death.
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Seriously only in Africa.
:wtf:
 
Wish they would do this to the okes stealing eskom & telkom cables :D

(Ok not really though)
 
So they didn't like it when they found someone stealing something that they use to steal electricity with?

Yup, most definitely Africa,
 
Is it bad that I don't know who to cheer for here? :confused:

I'm glad that they took care of the thief and made an example out of him... not glad that the authorities got completely bypassed in all of this, and the vigilante crowd is made up of a bunch of thieves anyway! :erm:
 
Brown will be the one in trouble. For knowing about the connections.
 
I wish I could get my hands on the d00s that stole the phone lines in primrose. 3rd time in the last year.

I recon I'm going to put an alarm on the telkom box. I could easly put a wireless PGM in the case and connect it to my alarm system.
 
It looks like most South Africans (forum members included) wouldn't mind Sharia law:wtf:
 
Rosaudio said:
So they didn't like it when they found someone stealing something that they use to steal electricity with?
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Would they do the same if an Eskom employee tried to disconnect them? (Which probably wouldn't happen as Eskom (or the council) turns a blind eye to "certain areas", whereas paying users get cut off for not settling erroneous bills.)
 
The rest of the article explains their rage a bit more:

A Philippi resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, says Masangweni was a notorious skollie who had been terrorising the community.

“We had just had a meeting with him about his thug life and he told us he had changed, but then he was caught stealing,” he says.

“When we had the meeting, we told him someone will kill him. And it turned out exactly like that, although it happened in another area.”

The man says Masangweni was part of a burglary syndicate.

“They stole fridges from people’s shacks when there was no one at home,” he says.
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I actually prefer this outcome to him simply continuing to rob people until he ends up killing someone and actually goes to jail.
 
evilstebunny said:
So can we stone that little terroriser Malema too?
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Wait just a second, you can't stone one and not all the others! Equal and fair opportunities remember! Wouldn't want to be accused of discrimination now.


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Yoh thieves stoning other thieves is it just me or should the headline not read something like "gang related violence over eskom property"?:D

I bet one of these days you'll be able to purchase outsourced electricity form these okes lol.
 
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