
A company possessed by the billionaire was struck to the tune of R300m this week, with the BLF holding thumbs the wrongdoers are black.
In a mocking as well as an ironical declaration on Sunday, deregistered political party Black First, Land First (BLF) took a pot shot at billionaire Johann Rupert, one of their biggest longtime political targets.
The party scrubbed salt right into the entrepreneur’s injuries after one of his businesses succumbed to a robbery on Friday evening.
The Sunday Times reported that a subsidiary business possessed by Rupert was struck by jewelry burglars, with an estimated R300 million worth of watches, ruby pendants and also earrings seized at a storehouse in Rivonia. The thieves purportedly overpowered and bound the security guards before getting into the safe.
The stolen luxury items were supposedly headed for stores in Sandton under the circulation arm of the Rupert household’s high-end goods business Richemont, which owns Cartier as well as for Montblanc, among other brands.
Expert investigators are comprehended to be exploring why the CCTV electronic cameras really did not appear to be functioning and also just how the guards could have proven so inefficient.
The BLF’s replacement head of state Zanele Lwana said their “innovative motion” considered the crime a “brave act of repossession” that “must be applauded”.
” We really hope that those who repossessed the jewelry are black individuals. Just black individuals have a genuine right to repossess that which comes from them. All the mineral riches in South Africa were stolen from black people.
” BLF will certainly ask both the SA Revenue Service (Sars) and the National Prosecuting Authority to check out Johann Rupert for feasible tax evasion, money laundering, and also possession of illegal goods. Why would certainly a stockroom keep precious jewelry to the value of as much as R300 million?
” As long as the historical mass robbery of black people of their land and wealth is not remedied, such acts of repossession if carried out by blacks.