{"id":339499,"date":"2020-02-19T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=339499"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:50:54","slug":"watch-brazen-matrix-warehouse-robbery-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/339499-watch-brazen-matrix-warehouse-robbery-in-cape-town.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8211; Brazen Matrix Warehouse robbery in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video has surfaced online of a brazen robbery targeting a Matrix Warehouse store in Bellville, Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>The video was recorded on a bystander&#8217;s smartphone and shows a pair of men taking merchandise from the Matrix Warehouse store and loading it into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Unperturbed by bystanders and other drivers in the parking lot, the suspects continue to run between the store and the vehicle, taking goods from the retailer.<\/p>\n<p>The men eventually flee with their stolen merchandise when another vehicle approaches, leaving the scene in both a bakkie and a BMW sedan.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband reached out to Matrix Warehouse for comment on the video, and the company confirmed that its Bellville branch suffered a robbery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police are busy with the investigation, so at this point in time, we are not allowed to disclose any information,&#8221; Matrix Warehouse said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ck8N_mQ1lBY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Retail danger zone<\/h3>\n<p>Minister of Police Bheki Cele <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/business-report\/economy\/crime-stats-sa-retail-industry-operates-in-a-danger-zone-32859410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>recently said<\/strong><\/a> that retail businesses in South Africa operate in a danger zone, with robberies occurring every day.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers are especially targeted by criminals, and despite the slight decrease in armed robberies over the last year, businesses are still suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The increased cost of private security to deter and combat armed robberies has also severely impacted many local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The danger of retail crime was demonstrated by a spate of mall robberies at the end of 2019, with malls in both Johannesburg and Cape Town being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>These robberies are often violent and commonly end either in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/watch-2-shot-more-arrested-after-cape-town-mall-cellphone-shop-robbery-20191107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>shootouts with law enforcement<\/strong><\/a> or the escape of the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/340513\/south-africa-crime-stats-2019-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest crime statistics<\/a><\/strong>, common robbery, robbery with aggravating circumstances, and commercial crime all increased compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 2.01 million crimes were recorded in 2019 \u2013 down from the 2.09 million recorded in 2018.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business-telecoms\/339266-mtn-fights-back-against-battery-theft.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN fights back against battery theft<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video has surfaced online of a brazen robbery targeting a Matrix Warehouse store in Bellville, Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":339501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[3616,19230,13581,26504],"class_list":["post-339499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cape-town","tag-matrix-warehouse","tag-retail","tag-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339513,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339499\/revisions\/339513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}