Magda and Andrew Smit, Pietersburg, Nov 6 2014: attacked, tortured by five black males
PIETERSBURG, Welgelegen: Nov 6 2014"Mrs Magda Smit and her husband Andrew were attacked by five black gunmen and horribly tortured.
Mrs Smit said that while the blacks were giving her electric shocks with a cattle-prod, she kept praying that she would not be gang-raped.
The Afrikaner couple were watching the TV programme 'Boer seeks wife' and didn't realize that when they heard the gate next to the house shut closed, the five attackers were cutting the burglar bars and had crawled into the house headed for the bedroom. When the dogs inside the house started barking three of the five gunmen tacked Andrew in the hallway. The couple's hands were tied with cable ties, their mouths gagged and taped up. They cut the cables off the TV and hair-dryer and used them to tie Andrew's feet together. "They threw me on the floor of the bedroom and threw a duvet over me. One of these thugs sat on top of me all the time, beating me and pushing an Okapi-knife against my throat while the other men were torturing my wife in the front room, I kept worrying about what they were doing to her,' said Andrew. His jaw-bone and two ribs were broken while he was beaten and he sustained a damaged liver from the ordeal, too.
Magda had recently undergone back surgery. The couple said the five blacks were English speaking and did not wear any masks. "They kept asking for money and diamonds (?) and threw all the ammunition from the safe, stealing Andrew's pistol and revolver, 17 collectors' knivbes, jewellery and money - they even took the cash from my wallet,' said Magda.
At one stage during their long ordeal, one man pulled Andrew up from the floor and beat him with a fist so that he fell on the bed. "I pretended to be unconscious. When I realized I was alone in the room I tried to push the emergency button behind the bed post but could not reach it. I kept trying even though I was hurting very badly and when the alarm started ringing the thugs fled, said Andrew.
The couple now has invested heavily in added security measures which include an electrified fence and security equipment. Andrew was kidnapped twice in Pietersburg and said they were 'reasonably security-aware but we got a bit lax'.
He said the community policing Forum CPF volunteers reacted very quickly with the police and the Mediclinic Limpopo's service was 'professional and neat'.
|"We cannot thank the community enough for all their help. Even motorbikers from a local club showed up and chased the attackers until they disappeared amongst the train-track near Magna Via and Eduan Park.
The Edwel GPF chairman Trevor Van Niekerk also thanked the police for their quick reaction time.
SAPS spokesman Lesiba Ramoshaba '' confirmed the incident' and said no arrests were made.
They did not issue any identity-kits or calls for the community to try and help find the torturers of the Afrikaner couple. From this story it's not clear whether the thugs fled with their loot or whether they left it behind in their hurry to get away.
The SAPS did find 'field signs' at the scene which were placed by criminals and may have pointed to the Smit couple's home - leading to the attack.
A folded-up wire at the scene indicated that there was a 'safe inside the house' and a green piece of wool was a field sign indicating that the Smits were 'easy targets'and that the attack could 'continue.'
Picture: Andrew and Magda Smit with the field-sign-posting material which were found by the police.
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