DUNOON | JOE SLOVO PARK | WOLVERIVIER | KWA 5 | KILLARNEY GARDENS | MONTAGUE GARDENS | MILNERTON | TABLE VIEW | WITSAND
December 2015
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fter purchasing groceries worth R1350.00, at Checkers in Canal Walk Century City, a Dunoon woman claims she was detained for over three hours for a packet of peanuts worth about R15 that was not scanned when she was making payments for the rest of the groceries. She claimed that about eight security guards interrogated her in a security control room to establish why she didn’t pay for the packet of peanuts. The woman Nozwakazi Mlindi, 29, begged the guards to call the SAPS so as they could open a case of shoplifting if there was evidence that she was a thief.
T h e guards, she said did not budge on her request to call the SAPS. Instead, she claimed they detained her further in the security control room! She said they later told her to pay for the packet of peanuts perceived to have been stolen but even after paying for it the guards didn’t give the peanuts to her.
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Woman detained for R15 peanuts
Nozwakazi Mlindi is upset after Shoprite Checkers accused her of stealing stealing small small packet packet of of peanuts worth R15 that was not scanned where as she paid for groceries worth R1350.00 PHOTO: PETER LUHANGA