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News4 reports that according to a Cato Manor police officer, he took a bank card from a vehicle that had been carjacked because he mistook it for his own and it is his intention to pay back the money he withdrew with the card.

Minenhle Joshua Makhaye was arrested after being captured on CCTV footage using the bank card belonging to the parents of Zarah Ramsamy, 11, who died during a carjacking in Malvern last month. Zarah was killed while hiding from gunmen under the family's car. When the car was recovered in Cato Manor, Makhaye was instructed to drive it to Malvern and that was when he allegedly stole the card. During his bail application in the Durban Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, his attorney, Zolani Duma, read out Makhaye's affidavit, in which he stated: "It was an honest mistake. I had mistaken the card for my own. I realised it was not mine when I didn't get a cellphone notification when I used the card. I intend to pay the money back.” Detective Warrant Officer Sivan Naidoo of the Hawks testified on Tuesday that 272 bank cards were found in a red box in Makhaye's room on the day he was arrested. Ten of the cards have been verified as Capitec cards that were taken from Bridge City Mall in Ntuzuma during the 2021 looting in KwaZulu-Natal. Makhaye was also found with a number plate, five cellphones and a police radio that did not belong to him. Duma indicated to the court that Makhaye denied the allegations levelled against him by the State and intended to plead not guilty. The bail application will continue on Monday.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Anelisa Kubheka at News24 (subscription or trial registration required)

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