Survived: elderly Ex-Volkskas Bank manager Jak Badenhorst, wife Elsie were saved from 3 attackers getting to them in their bedroom because of a series of heavy security doors installed outside and inside their home: giving rescuers time to rush to their aid and arrest two of the three black male attackers, who even tried to attack the couple by going through the roof of their home:
Oct 22 2014 video: Two black men arrested while trying their best to get to elderly Badenhorst couple in their Middelburg home:
VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYllTwwCzcA
Journalist Gerhardt Rheeder writes in the Middelburg Observer that while the three Heroes of the South African Armed Struggle were breaking down their
security door and then break through a panel in their front door, Elsie had the chance to alert her son Gert Lotter - who raised the alarm with MidAlarms and Radio
Group members showing up within minutes - and the unpaid volunteer citizen-crime fights arrested two of the three thugs at the scene. The two comrades were
taken back to the Badenhorst home to wait for the police to show up. The two arrested man, Clement Mnisi and Kogatso Msibi, appeared in the local court within a
day.
Picture: Elsie Badenhorst look at the loot stolen from her home by Clement Mnisi andn Kogatso Msibi who broke apart their security gate and broke a panel in the
front door to get into the old couple's house. They were taking a nap and the noise woke them up. Mrs Badenhorst said she asked one of the men what they
wanted after they broke down the security gate and they replied: "We are looking for jobs because we are hungry.'
Two more security gates thwarted their attempts to get at the Badenhorst couple: the gate in front of their bedroom door and the one in the hallway.
The 'hungry' attackers then cut the telephone wires, climbed onto the roof of the study and tried to break in by breaking through the roof of the bedroom.
While Lotter was chasing to the Badenhorst home with a colleague he stopped an unknown woman to ask her to phone the radio group. She contacted Mid-
Alarms and police while Lotter and his colleague waited for reinforcement. The three comrades jumped across the wall and Lotter caught one, while two
members of the MidAlarms team grabbed the second one after a chase.
The third man escaped by jumping across a palisade fence. Found were items looted from the Badenhorst house in two bags: meat, softdrinks, their TV...
The thugs were ordered to carry the stolen groceries back to the house themselves where the group was welcomed by a very shocked Mrs Badenhorst - who
told the two police officers accompanying them to 'take the groceries, I don't want them'. Meanwhile the couple's son Kobus rushed to his parental home from
Pretoria to spent the night with his parents while the security doors are being repaired and reinforced.
PICTURE • Clement Mnisi (22) en Kogatso Msibi (21) both from Mhluzi township, appeared in court Thursday accused of house robbery.
It's not clear why they tried so hard to gain access to the elderly former bank manager and his wife.
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