Aluminium pot maker 52-year-old Nombango Claudia Mgiba, who was arrested on suspicion that she was melting down cables stolen from Eskom to make her Potjies, has been freed on R5 000.
She was arrested earlier this week on Monday after the Hawks raided her home in Mkhuhlu near Calcutta outside Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, where they recovered Eskom cables and found the aluminum pots.
Mgiba appeared in the Mkhuhlu Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, (1 February 2024), where she faced charges of possession of suspected stolen property.
Hawks Mpumalanga spokesperson Captain Dineo Sekgotodi said: “She was released on R5 000 bail and the case was postponed for further investigation.”
The suspect will appear again in court on 28 March 2024.
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The woman accused of stealing aluminum cables belonging to Eskom and smelting them to make huge aluminum pots at her home in Mkhuhlu, near Calcutta outside Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, has been remanded in custody.
The accused 52-year-old Nombango Claudia Mgiba was arrested at her home on Monday morning, (29 January 2024).
She appeared in the Calcutta Magistrate’s Court on a charge of possession of suspected stolen property.
The accused was arrested by the Hawks in conjunction with other police teams through a tip-off about the power utility’s stolen aluminum cables, which she stored at her home.
Mgiba allegedly smelted the cables to make huge pots.
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