Johnathan Paoli
THE Bela Bela Magistrate’s court postponed the bail application of Froliana Joseph and Imanuwela David on Tuesday, following the pair’s arrest by the Hawks for their involvement in a break in at the Phala Phala farm of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The former employee and her co-accused face charges pertaining to conspiracy to commit housebreaking, theft and housebreaking, and the intent to steal, with David facing an additional charge of money laundering due to allegedly having siphoned off the stolen money after the robbery.
The two accused said in court that they had initially broken into the wrong farm called Stokkiesdraai in search of the foreign currency, businessman Hazim Mustafa had allegedly given in the sale of buffalo.
The next day the accused broke into Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, where they found the $580,000 they are accused of stealing.
NPA Limpopo regional spokesperson Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, said that despite being
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