Certus Security Services News Today

Nelson Mandela Bay motorists are under siege from hijackers and car thieves, with more than 160 incidents reported in less than a month, according to a tracking company used by security firms in the metro.

An inconsolable wife held the hand of a family member as she emerged from the reeds at the Van der Kemps Kloof nature reserve after she was given the daunting task of identifying the body of her murdered husband on Wednesday afternoon.

While the fight to improve security along Gqeberha’s beachfront continues, private security operatives have had their hands full across the metro as hijackings have spiked and caused further concerns over crime in and around Nelson Mandela Bay.

Any property or assets once owned by convicted perlemoen kingpin Morne Blignault will go under the hammer after the Gqeberha high court granted an order to allow the auctioning off of the ill-gotten gains.

With a judge not buying the story that the son of a convicted perlemoen poacher was able to buy a house in cash through the sale of a Mandela coin, Morne Blignault Jnr may have to kiss his family home goodbye.

A scheme to avoid arrest backfired on an alleged hijacker when he played the victim and tried to convince police he was being held hostage by his alleged accomplices in a house in New Brighton.

Convicted perlemoen poaching kingpin Morne Blignault was back in the Gqeberha high court on Thursday in an attempt to prevent the Asset Forfeiture Unit from confiscating assets believed to have been gained through his illegal enterprise.