South African Man Bribes Police and Pays Bail with Fake Money—Then Vanishes Again
Just when officials believed they had seen the last of him, Skhothane MacGyver — the infamous individual from Mpumalanga who disrupted the province’s bribery landscape using fake R200 notes — has executed what SAPS refers to as “Season 2 of his criminal Netflix saga.”
After being apprehended this week for bribing traffic officers with counterfeit currency and causing losses close to R200 million in fraudulent fines, Skhothane MacGyver was granted bail on Monday morning — a choice that the magistrate now laments “with the burden of a thousand phony fivers.”
The bail was established at R5,000, and witnesses report that Mr. MacGyver settled it immediately with a substantial bundle of “newly-printed” R200 notes that still emitted scents reminiscent of Pritt glue and printer ink.
Court clerk Thandi Mokoena shared with journalists: “I noticed the notes and thought, ‘Eish, this man is serious.’ However, one featured an image of a cow wearing sunglasses while another read ‘Two Hunnid Rends’ in crayon. I should have mentioned something. But to be honest, I just wanted to head out for lunch.”
