The incident happened within five minutes after Masroefa pulled her car over. The suspect stole her purse and her son’s bag. As theCity of Cape Town is pushing through plans for a R180 million security wall along the N2 and around the airport to protect motorists, a mother and her 11-year-old son became the latest victims of a smash-and-grab.
This follows the killing of Nelspruit grandmother Karin van Aardt in a smash-and-grab ambush earlier this month. What was meant to be a routine trip, ended in trauma for the mother and son after they were robbed while stranded on the N2 due to a flat tyre. Masroefa Kassen told the Cape Argus’ sister publication, the Daily Voice that she was taking her son to his father for the holidays and used the Airport Approach Road, however a flat tyre forced her to pull over onto Borcherds Quarry Road on December 13 around 1pm.
Then a bare-chested suspect stole Kassen’s purse and her son’s bag with his clothing in it, while they were stuck alongside the road. She explained: “The suspect was a single individual, he was actually bare chested, he didn’t have a t-shirt on, but it was like they were sitting and waiting there.
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