Security guards have been unable to prevent looters from making off with stock that was left over after the fire that destroyed Broadway Cash and Carry more than three weeks ago.
Security guards have been unable to prevent looters from making off with stock that was left over after the fire that destroyed Broadway Cash and Carry more than three weeks ago.
Adding insult to injury, thieves also began stripping the still-smouldering Jarvis Street premises of undamaged building materials and owner Waseem Nawaz says he’s given up trying to protect what's left of a once-flourishing business.
After losing the bulk retail shop he’d built up over two years and stock worth hundreds of thousands of rands, Nawaz said there was nothing he could do to protect its meagre remains.
Nawaz told Grocott’s Mail he’d hired security guards to look after stock that hadn’t been completely damaged by the fire, “but I could see that some of the things were still being stolen”.
To find out what the police and municipality had to say on this matter, read the rest of this story in the Friday 24 edition of Grocott's Mail.
