It’s festive times and everyone is going around shopping for festive food, especially old stokvel ladies who hire bakkies and go to buy groceries in bulk, so that they can share among themselves. So those people tend to have a lot of cash with them and criminals are aware of them.
Since it’s festive times, it’s also a time for pickpockets and ATM scammers to hustle, and it appears that even ladies are getting into this business. Yesterday there was a trending story of a young man who was beaten up by the community justice for scamming and this morning we heard about 2 ladies who were mercilessly beaten for robbing people.
According to the reports, 2 young ladies were trying to hustle for themselves as they were pickpocketing people’s things. This kind of crime involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim’s pocket without them noticing the theft at the time. It may involve considerable dexterity and a knack for misdirection.
However, it ended in tears for those ladies as they were caught by the Port Shepstone community and they couldn’t wait for the cops to arrive, so they took out a sjambok and started whipping them. The mob justice didn’t show mercy despite the criminals being ladies and they even threw them in a pit.
After this was posted on social media, people showed no mercy for these two women; some people in the comments section even said if we continue dealing with criminals, we can put a stop to criminality; some even said this is what must be done to corrupt politicians.