WATCH | Security guard who allegedly stole R4m in 2019 finally caught, appears in court

14 January 2022 - 11:47
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Bathobile Mlangeni appears in the Alexandra magistrate's court on January 14 2022.
Bathobile Mlangeni appears in the Alexandra magistrate's court on January 14 2022.
Image: Catherine White

A former security guard who had been on the run after allegedly stealing R4m in 2019 was arrested last week after the Gauteng task team for serious and violent crime received a tip-off that she was hiding in Zola, Soweto.

Bathobile Mlangeni, 29, wearing a light-coloured blouse, made her first appearance at the Alexandra magistrate's court on Friday morning, where she applied for legal aid.

Her bail hearing was postponed to Monday for a legal aid attorney to be appointed for her.

Mlangeni, who worked as a security guard at one of the biggest cash-in-transit companies in SA, allegedly cut open two bulk cash bags and transferred the money into a number of refuse bags before placing them in a trolley and walking out the Mall of Africa, where she was on duty. 

Two weeks after Mlangeni allegedly executed the audacious theft in July 2019, she sought refuge in a three-roomed RDP house in Buhle Park township, near Germiston, under the pretext of being on the run from “an abusive boyfriend”. 

The police eventually tracked her down to her hiding place in Soweto last week.

Bathobile Mlangeni, who is accused of stealing R4m from an SBV depot.
Bathobile Mlangeni, who is accused of stealing R4m from an SBV depot.
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