By Obakeng Maje
Taung- Stolen goods found by the owner at a local scrap-yard on Thursday in Taung.

Letlhogonolo Segano,33, is a happy man and said he is very glad that good people still exist. Segano who stays in Depot, near Taung said he was informed by one of the community members that his precious tiles were stolen and being sold at a local scrap-yard.

The scrap-yard is situated in Taung CBD, and owned by foreign nationals.

Steven Mthethwa,32, who is from Mozambique said normally they require I’d documents if one come and sell scrap to them. “We require I’d Document and we put them into our records to show who and when the items were sold. It is very unfortunate to find out that those tiles were stolen” he said.

Segano rushed to a local scrap-yard after a ‘tip-off’ and the community members allegedly tried to apprehend the suspect, but he ran for his life.

Our crew visited the scrap-yard and found a stretcher belonging to Taung hospital still in good condition and other hospital items with bar-code still on. However Mthethwa hesitates to give us the name of the person who sold the items to them.

If our mole’s information is anything to go by, those hospital items were allegedly sold to the scrap-yard by one of the cleaners(who is known to us) at Taung hospital.

Taung police were called but they allegedly arrived two hours later and our attempt to get their response was futile.-TDN
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