SAA Hostess Steals from Pax
GunsssR4ever
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Out there somewhere ...
Posts: 3,816
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
SAA Hostess Steals from Pax
If they are not enough in the news ... 
An SAA hostess accused of stealing travellers cheques, jewellery and an undisclosed sum of cash from a passenger's hand luggage appears on a theft charge in court on Monday.
The 26-year-old was arrested on Friday afternoon shortly after she disembarked from an SAA long-haul flight from London to Cape Town.
"We were tipped off by someone (who allegedly saw) what had happened. The hostess was searched during a check at the arrivals terminal. She had in her possession travellers cheques to the value of R20 000, a gold ring valued at R10 000 and some cash and was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of stolen property," police spokesperson Randall Stoffels said.
Approached for comment SAA spokesperson Onkgopotse Tabane said: "The person faces a charge of theft. We view this matter in a very serious light. When something like this happens we discipline the employee, but I do not want to pre-empt this matter as it is under investigation."
The 26-year-old was arrested on Friday afternoon shortly after she disembarked from an SAA long-haul flight from London to Cape Town.
"We were tipped off by someone (who allegedly saw) what had happened. The hostess was searched during a check at the arrivals terminal. She had in her possession travellers cheques to the value of R20 000, a gold ring valued at R10 000 and some cash and was arrested on suspicion of being in possession of stolen property," police spokesperson Randall Stoffels said.
Approached for comment SAA spokesperson Onkgopotse Tabane said: "The person faces a charge of theft. We view this matter in a very serious light. When something like this happens we discipline the employee, but I do not want to pre-empt this matter as it is under investigation."
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere South of the Limpopo
Posts: 371
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Ray-A..
Not in your company, or mine - but sadly she is virtually assured of a job in government...
Chief of Metro Police - convicted criminal
27 officers of same - convicted criminals
Marketing DIRECTOR of, shall we just say, a certain (government) tourism organisation - convicted of R2.5 million fraud,
Members of Parliament - convicted of fraud (the "Travelgate" scandal as the press called it),
Various Mayors, councillors etc - all convicted of any number of crimes..
and on, and on......
R
Not in your company, or mine - but sadly she is virtually assured of a job in government...
Chief of Metro Police - convicted criminal
27 officers of same - convicted criminals
Marketing DIRECTOR of, shall we just say, a certain (government) tourism organisation - convicted of R2.5 million fraud,
Members of Parliament - convicted of fraud (the "Travelgate" scandal as the press called it),
Various Mayors, councillors etc - all convicted of any number of crimes..
and on, and on......
R
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Anywhere but here!!
Posts: 69
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Go to agree with you Rhodie, that's the way it works over here, you'll propably find that she is gonna be found not guilty (apartheid will be blamed of course) and promoted!!! Just you see!!!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: South Africa
Posts: 166
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sort of like the SAA FO (EE model) who was caught with a few kgs of heroin in a hidden compartment in his flight bag and accused the Captain of planting it there!! He is still running around even though he should be in jail.
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Holland
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This has been going on for some time.
A couple of years ago I was on a SAA flight to Atlanta. On the flight to Seattle I discovered that most of my cash dollars had dissapeared from my wallet. I had no idea how or where this could have happened.
I met up with a SAA B767 crew in Seattle during their Sim training and told them about my loss.
They told me then about this huge problem that SAA have. Whether this is the first one they caught or if there were others I don't know.
It makes me sick!!
A couple of years ago I was on a SAA flight to Atlanta. On the flight to Seattle I discovered that most of my cash dollars had dissapeared from my wallet. I had no idea how or where this could have happened.
I met up with a SAA B767 crew in Seattle during their Sim training and told them about my loss.
They told me then about this huge problem that SAA have. Whether this is the first one they caught or if there were others I don't know.
It makes me sick!!
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: The World, although sometimes I wonder
Posts: 388
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Of course one does not want to get too emotional in this, as theft is theft, and that seems to be the general pasttime in this land nowadays, but one has to ask where was she arrested?
If she was arrested whilst still in the international side, ie the air side, she will well be able to get off on a technicallity - her defence would be that she was going to hand the stuff in at the bank and lost property. You laugh, but this is true.
It would have been a different case, had she been arrested once, she had landed and left the building. Then it is too late to hand the stuff in and that is theft - no doubt about that.
One wonders where she was actually arrested. Dont get me wrong I am not defending her, but as is often the case, people are arrested too quickly and they are able to get off on technicalities.
Theft is theft and I think guilty parties should be put away for a long time, but one hopes the powers that be did their work properly. The law must also run its way.
If she was arrested whilst still in the international side, ie the air side, she will well be able to get off on a technicallity - her defence would be that she was going to hand the stuff in at the bank and lost property. You laugh, but this is true.
It would have been a different case, had she been arrested once, she had landed and left the building. Then it is too late to hand the stuff in and that is theft - no doubt about that.
One wonders where she was actually arrested. Dont get me wrong I am not defending her, but as is often the case, people are arrested too quickly and they are able to get off on technicalities.
Theft is theft and I think guilty parties should be put away for a long time, but one hopes the powers that be did their work properly. The law must also run its way.
GunsssR4ever
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Out there somewhere ...
Posts: 3,816
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
More disgruntled South African Airways passengers have come forward with allegations of theft on board the carrier's London's fights, after the arrest of an air hostess
Gatvol
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: KLAS/TIST/FAJS/KFAI
Posts: 4,195
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Here we go again Guns....Lots of posts but no surprises..........Whos running the country now??
I cant see things getting any better.....(Rand stopped today at 6.91/$)
I cant see things getting any better.....(Rand stopped today at 6.91/$)
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: ON the bridge linking Wonderland and Hell
Posts: 33
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
It's the Economy.........
Granted that unemployment is north of 30% and inflation is about 5% (not so bad actually), u do have 50% of the population below the poverty level (which was greater duing apartheid era), so u will have some major problems (Crime, Aids, corruption, all the vices that come in a value pack due to poverty etc...).
Hopefully this turbulence will not last forever. I think ZA has come along way since the end of apartheid, and things will only get better. According to the B*ll S*itter pessimists that "predicted" a civil war when ANC took over, things aren't so bad.
According to economists, the economy is actually booming, unless I've been reading some major propaganda
Alot of the people who think things in ZA are not getting better simply miss the good ol Botha days when the majority were not even considered in the economic equation. Nothing against anyone here, but usually the road to positive change is not always so smooth. Alot of African countries have been and are far worse off to be in than ZA. Lets stay positive. 
Hopefully this turbulence will not last forever. I think ZA has come along way since the end of apartheid, and things will only get better. According to the B*ll S*itter pessimists that "predicted" a civil war when ANC took over, things aren't so bad.
According to economists, the economy is actually booming, unless I've been reading some major propaganda
Alot of the people who think things in ZA are not getting better simply miss the good ol Botha days when the majority were not even considered in the economic equation. Nothing against anyone here, but usually the road to positive change is not always so smooth. Alot of African countries have been and are far worse off to be in than ZA. Lets stay positive.
Gatvol
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: KLAS/TIST/FAJS/KFAI
Posts: 4,195
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I see a post of mine got dumped. It obviously hit home and was in answer to Bush Pilots Statement "Alot of African countries have been and are far worse off to be in than ZA"
Telling the truth today is NOT Politically Correct.
Telling the truth today is NOT Politically Correct.
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Hilton, Sheraton or Marriott
Posts: 1,817
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I'm sorry Bert - it's been made clear in the past - we cannot allow the reference to "black" or "white" or for that matter any cultural ring-fencing. This forum prides itself in being a multi-cultural discussion forum where the color of one's skin is transparent.
Keep it that way.
4HP
Keep it that way.
4HP
Gatvol
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: KLAS/TIST/FAJS/KFAI
Posts: 4,195
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
OK, understand 4hp, but its a fact not an accusation. A good majority of the whining on this forum is brought about by just that issue.
So ...moving on, let me repeat part of my dumped posting as it did not refer to color...........
An incident that occured to me was at JNB where as I was going through the screening to board for MZ, I was instructed to place my wallet on a tray and the lady would take it through. I thought that very strange but since it did not have any money I thought I would see what would happen. When the tray came around the machine a mat had been placed over my wallet. Had I been in a hurry or not paying attention, Im sure that the screeners would have shared the contents.
That should smooth things a bit..........
So ...moving on, let me repeat part of my dumped posting as it did not refer to color...........
An incident that occured to me was at JNB where as I was going through the screening to board for MZ, I was instructed to place my wallet on a tray and the lady would take it through. I thought that very strange but since it did not have any money I thought I would see what would happen. When the tray came around the machine a mat had been placed over my wallet. Had I been in a hurry or not paying attention, Im sure that the screeners would have shared the contents.
That should smooth things a bit..........