A cellphone shop was robbed at Benmore shopping centre in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Armed robbers came in and pointed a firearm at the security guard and an employee, said Lt-Col Khensani Magoai.<\/p>\n
“They took them to the storeroom, forced them to open the safe, and took an undisclosed number of cellphones.”<\/p>\n
Last week, Gauteng police commissioner Lt-Gen Lesetja Mothiba said the province’s malls had been robbed 11 times since August 13.<\/p>\n
On September 9, a robbery took place at an Altech Autopage cellphone store at the Glen shopping centre in Ormonde. Three armed robbers stole 15 cellphones worth R34,000.<\/p>\n
The Samsung, iStore, and Vodacom shops in the same mall had all been robbed since November last year.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, a G4S security guard was shot dead when four men robbed him and his colleagues of cash they had collected from the Diepkloof Black Chain shopping centre in Soweto.<\/p>\n
A Samsung shop was robbed at the Cradlestone mall in Krugersdorp, on the West Rand, on September 5.<\/p>\n
Police said the robbers made off with cellphones and tablets worth hundreds of thousands of rand.<\/p>\n
A Timberland clothing store at the World Wear shopping centre in Fairlands, Johannesburg, was robbed. Eight men took all the clothing in the shop and an undisclosed amount of money.<\/p>\n
On September 3, the Telkom Connect shop in the Eastgate shopping centre was robbed of cellphones and an undisclosed amount of cash.<\/p>\n
A cellphone store in Northgate mall was robbed on September 2.<\/p>\n
A Telkom Direct store at Kolonnade shopping centre in Pretoria, was robbed on the same day.<\/p>\n
Magoai said a case of business robbery was being investigated.<\/p>\n
R1 million stolen in SA iStore robbery<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n