Never underestimate a woman in heels — that was the lesson a would-be-thief learnt this week when she was chased down by a Nelson Mandela Bay councillor for having snatched a pedestrian’s handbag.

Minutes after concluding a crime awareness meeting in Central, ward councillor Terri Stander kicked off her high heels and ran through the streets of Gqeberha to nab the robbery suspect...