Egyptian soccer team robbed at hotel

We as AFRICANS need to be careful because if this goes on till the world cup, It may take for ever for the world cup to come back to Africa.

The Hotels should have CCTV and beef up their security, for Africa's sake.

Great start! I seem to recall one of the former ministers of sport (or possibly safety and security, I cannot remember which) during Mbeki’s tenure as stating that no football fan or tourist would be a victim of crime during 2010. OK, granted this is still the Confeds Cup, but perhaps the criminals weren’t listening to the minister and they too are using the Confeds Cup as a rehearsal for the main event.

We all know politicians and ministers are capable of talking utter tripe, but that minister’s assertion, given the crime situation in this country, was hard to top.

Of course, DO NOT expect him to apologise or admit that what he said was rubbish.

Editor, the Egypt national team story is unfortunate for us. The Confed Cup has so far been great with minor problems of course. I hope the police will do their job effectively. I must however point out that the headline of the article is misleading. This is a case of theft not robbery. Robbery involves the use of force (armed in most instances). In this case the money was stolen while these guys were away. It can never be robbery. Please verify facts before going to print.

I am a south African living in the USA. I love my country very much, and I know we have a big problem of (porvety and crime). But, I also know that a lot of countries would love to see SA fail in hosting this event.

Now, is it a all possible that this maybe one of those tricks to
smear our name as a criminal and an incompetent country. I do not know, but I am very much in question of this incidence, and it's not to excuse our problem of (crime and porvety). Not at all.

I had my wallet stolen from an SAA flight, a laptop with 30k pictures and business data from a tiny window in a secured location, a safe cracked within a later busines, a business that is being stolen outright by a well known corporation ethically incapable of standard contractual generation, all with in a very short time. Despite evidence nothing is being accomplished by very long investigation and court action. I would say that the courts are beyond congestion, police moral is nonexistant, and perhaps certain corporations may be somwhat above the law or manipulative of this chaos. The theft is so prevailent it seems that there exists a culture of theft, one which I have now heard of as being at many levels of society.

This story is rather misleading as Farai has pointed out.....it's also worth mentioning that at the time of the theft the egyptians were having a huge jol and keeping the company of hookers, serves them right, that being said we are mindful of our SAustralian citizens who wish nothing but failure of the nations most prestigious event to date so the usual PATHETIC heroic/victim stories will start circulating more and more.......boy have we got news that sorry bunch, 2010 is happening and it will be a resounding succes, we've already smashed broadcast and sales records for the Confed, vuvuzela's and all nogal so your contribution/approval isn't worth as much as you think, to All other patriots and proud South Africans lets rally together and show the world the real rainbow nation

Hotel must pay 4 that this..
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Jojo..

This is so pathetic my gut feeling is that things are going to go badly wrong for the world cup. It is going to be bad publicity for the country. I can´t see our politicians tackling the situation they themselves are busy robbing the country for billions. So why should our corrupt police be interested in curbing crime. I was given a parking ticket at the airport by the police who wanted to negotiate the price of the fine with me, he got nothing. Nobody is serious in South Africa in correcting the situation, we all suffer at the hands of these crooks. Let me add I am an ANC member and have been an activist for years. I am tired of hearing it is our time now, while millions are suffering due to poverty. We did not fight a protracted battle to fill the pockets of ANC officials on the board of so many state owned companies. These people are millionaires today Government must act to coorectify this dire situation. Give the country back to the people.

It is regrettable that they were fleeced out, but they were just as reckless by inviting ladies of the night to party their win away. Running to the media in an attempt to project this country as a crime-infested-hole, while knowing very well what transpired, is disingenuous and outright deceitful. For the record, the hotel does have CCTV cameras, and the footage shows scantily dressed women coming in and out of the hotel unsupervised. I agree with Farai, this is more a case of theft than robbery; it therefore makes no sense why the Hotel must pay for this. We are so paranoid about the bad publicity while we actually invent hype and hysteria where none exist.

We as S.Africans r saddened by this.It is totally unacceptable. The SAPS should actvigorously. However when wl M&G stop reporting misleading stories, the Egyptians were not robbed, they were stolen for by the prostitues they collected from the street n partied with. I dnt knw if the M&G reporter enjoys lying or being taught now n then how 2 do his/her job. Research properly man...

SA has a crime problem and the world knows, travel agents/websites do warn people to be responsible and take care of themselves and their belongings. What Egyptians did is actually horrible and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Hookers most of them do that job simply because they need money to survive. How do you bring those people to your hotel and expect them not to steal?
They thought them some manners, even at Egypt they do have thieves.
Installing CCTV camera will infringe other users privacy or do we really need to see what Egyptians do at night or in their rooms?
Ignorance is not an excuse or justifiable.

Hey Martin, to rob is to steal or take from somebody - what do you mean they were not robbed?
Do not shout innocents - what is wrong with you?