Zimbabwean smuggler found with explosives used to bomb SA ATMs
The Hawks say the explosive devices found in a Zimbabwean smuggler's possession are commonly used as ATM bombs.
Motsi Nhamo was slapped with a 15-year prison sentence by a Limpopo court this week.
The crime-fighting unit nabbed the 44-year-old a year ago, after they were tipped off about a person smuggling explosives from Zim at the Beitbridge border post.
Spokesperson Matimba Maluleke says they searched Nhamo and his luggage and found detonators worth R110 000.
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"He was found in possession of of those explosives.
"He is a foreign national. Obviously those explosives are not from South Africa that were smuggled from Zimbabwe into the country and usually, those explosives are used to blast the ATMs and cash delivery vans and sometimes even at the mines, they use explosives when they do illegal mining."
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