Domestics 'helped robbers'

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Johannesburg - Four men robbed a house in Sandton, allegedly with the assistance of two domestic workers, Johannesburg police said on Friday.

Inspector Lee Ramdiyal said the incident happened on Thursday morning in Bryanston.

"The men gained access to the complex by pretending to be 'service providers'."

They then accosted the home owner, tied her up and ransacked the house of jewellery, cash, firearms and laptop.

The robbers fled in a white car.

After a police investigation it was suspected that the domestic workers could be involved in the robbery.

The domestic workers, aged 27 and 29, were traced and arrested.

"The domestic workers were in possession of some of the jewellery and cash that was taken during the robbery."

A man, aged 59, was arrested for the robbery as well.

He was found in possession of a firearm and a large amount of cash.

Those arrested are being detained at the Sandton police station on charges of armed robbery.
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Feel sorry for the people who where robbed, but it stopped me from explaining to the wife again why I refuse to employ garden boys / maids / african staff since it is 99% of the time inside jobs - ungrateful fuskers
 
Anybody who is serious about security will avoid staff at home.

When will people understand, that your home is your haven, you do not
purposely invite trouble into your home, and that is what having a maid
or gardener is, it's inviting a stranger into your haven.

It seems that those unwilling to clean their homes themselves, to garden
themselves are willing to put their families at risk.

When did it become absolutely necessary to have a cheap worker doing your
dirty work?

Do those who employ home workers not realise that they are tempting fate,
to expose your material wealth to the poorest sector in society ?

Don't talk to me about job creation, don't fool yourselves, creating jobs for
people to become gardenworkers and maids - exactly the very thing many hate us for ?

That their moms, grandmothers, dads and grandfathers were gardeners and maids
and now them - do you not think that this is demeaning to people, and if it is not
demeaning to them, because they are desperate for a job, perhaps their neighbour who
is politically active is demeaned by it, or the jobless criminal two shacks down.

Understand then, that there is no such thing as cheap labour in South Africa.
 
I like how they use the word "allegedly" when the two maids were caught red handed with the jewellery and cash.
 
Domestic workers are the only reason I still live in SA. Possibly the only fringe benefit of living here, that and the weather...

Touch wood in the 3 years I've had our current maid I've had no incidents what so ever.

In fact she conducts her self with fair degree of decorum.. She normally alerts me to suspicious behavior in and around the neighborhood...
 
wrathex said:
Anybody who is serious about security will avoid staff at home.

When will people understand, that your home is your haven, you do not
purposely invite trouble into your home, and that is what having a maid
or gardener is, it's inviting a stranger into your haven.

It seems that those unwilling to clean their homes themselves, to garden
themselves are willing to put their families at risk.

When did it become absolutely necessary to have a cheap worker doing your
dirty work?

Do those who employ home workers not realise that they are tempting fate,
to expose your material wealth to the poorest sector in society ?

Don't talk to me about job creation, don't fool yourselves, creating jobs for
people to become gardenworkers and maids - exactly the very thing many hate us for ?

That their moms, grandmothers, dads and grandfathers were gardeners and maids
and now them - do you not think that this is demeaning to people, and if it is not
demeaning to them, because they are desperate for a job, perhaps their neighbour who
is politically active is demeaned by it, or the jobless criminal two shacks down.

Understand then, that there is no such thing as cheap labour in South Africa.
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Very well said. I often get asked if I want to employ someones' relative as a maid and always refuse. It's too risky.
 
Our domestic worker has worked here for seven years and we've never had a problem. I agree that a lot of house break ins are inside jobs, but be careful of generalising.
 
wrathex said:
Anybody who is serious about security will avoid staff at home.

When will people understand, that your home is your haven, you do not
purposely invite trouble into your home, and that is what having a maid
or gardener is, it's inviting a stranger into your haven.

It seems that those unwilling to clean their homes themselves, to garden
themselves are willing to put their families at risk.

When did it become absolutely necessary to have a cheap worker doing your
dirty work?

Do those who employ home workers not realise that they are tempting fate,
to expose your material wealth to the poorest sector in society ?

Don't talk to me about job creation, don't fool yourselves, creating jobs for
people to become gardenworkers and maids - exactly the very thing many hate us for ?

That their moms, grandmothers, dads and grandfathers were gardeners and maids
and now them - do you not think that this is demeaning to people, and if it is not
demeaning to them, because they are desperate for a job, perhaps their neighbour who
is politically active is demeaned by it, or the jobless criminal two shacks down.

Understand then, that there is no such thing as cheap labour in South Africa.
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It's the "ag shaaaaame" factor which exists in women (and some men) to "help out the needy" or "underprivileged" and "keep them off the streets and not do crime"

My mom has the same gene and I've noticed this in several women. They can be robbed 50 times, and the 51st time they will start to think by themselves "no, not going to hire again"

Fast forward 10 years, same thing happens...
 
AcidRaZor said:
It's the "ag shaaaaame" factor which exists in women (and some men) to "help out the needy" or "underprivileged" and "keep them off the streets and not do crime"
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Donate to charities, make more money and spend more - generate tax revenues for the gov and work opportunities - but hiring directly if you can't be sure 100% of the person's profile and can't predict when they will be co-erced into assisting local township skollies in getting to the vast sums of cash and jewellery the whitey has in his home - that can be avoided and should be.
 
creating jobs for people to become gardenworkers and maids - exactly the very thing many hate us for ?

That their moms, grandmothers, dads and grandfathers were gardeners and maids
and now them - do you not think that this is demeaning to people, and if it is not
demeaning to them, because they are desperate for a job, perhaps their neighbour who
is politically active is demeaned by it
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Some sort of agenda you got going on there to get people who believe and think like that to fire their domestic workers?
 
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