South Africa: Brazen Thieves Drive Off Into Lesotho With Free State Man's 30-Ton Excavator

An excavator, weighing in at 30 tons and worth about R1m, was stolen from a sand mine in Hobhouse in the Free State on Monday and brazenly driven across the Caledon River into Lesotho.

According to PC Hugo, owner of Hugo & Seun, a supplier of sand and building material, four men overpowered two of his employees in the early hours of Tuesday morning and tied them up.

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