THE MISSING MILLIONS

THERE was no gunfire, no screeching tyres, no blaring sirens and no panicky shoppers scattering across the aisles.

In fact, this heist at Africa’s largest shopping mall, the Mall of Africa in Mid-rand, was so quiet nobody knew it was happening and the details of the stolen cash emerged only about seven months later.

It was an otherwise ordinary morning in July last year when Bathobile Mlangeni (29), a security guard at one of the biggest cash-in-transit companies in SA, allegedly strolled out of the mall’s basement-level cash depot wheeling a shopping trolley filled with refuse bags stuffed with R4 million