Two people have been arrested in connection with the housebreaking and theft at the Phala Phala Farm of President Cyril Ramaphosa on February 9 2020.
Millions of cash in foreign currency was stolen during the burglary.
On Monday, Hawks spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale said two suspects aged 39 and 30 will make their first appearance in the Bela Bela magistrate’s court on Tuesday.
Accused charged with theft, housebreaking
This after their arrests on Sunday and Monday, respectively on charges of housebreaking and theft.
“The pair was arrested in Rustenburg and Bela Bela, respectively by the members of the national serious corruption investigation in relation to the Phala Phala farm break-in February 2020. The arrest of the third suspect is imminent,” said Mogale.
Sunday World reported at the weekend that one of the five men accused of stealing an undisclosed amount of US dollars from Ramaphosa’s farm threw a lavish birthday bash at his swanky lounge in Namibia on Saturday, allegedly paid for by the proceeds of his daring heist.
Lavish birthday bash
Erkki Shikongo, one of the five Namibian nationals accused of breaking into Ramaphosa’s farm, hosted his lavish birthday party at Amanda Guest House in Outapi, north of Namibia, close to the Angolan border.
He gave away “free food”.
Shikongo bought the guest house for N$800 000 shortly after he and his friends allegedly robbed Ramaphosa’s farm.
Former spy boss Arthur Fraser, who blew the whistle on the farm robbery after opening a criminal case against Ramaphosa and his presidential protection head, General Wally Rhoode, at the Rosebank police station in June 2022, claims there was between $4-million (R73-million at current rand-dollar exchange rate) and $8-million on the farm when the men robbed it.
Sunday World reported that an internal FNB Namibia document, which we have seen, states that Shikongo deposited N$1-million on March 11 2020.
A chunk of the money was spent on the purchase of the guest house.
