A farm attack in Elandslaagte that took place on May 5, 2018 saw farm workers being tied up and a home robbed.
A couple who stay on the farm, as workers, heard noises and went to investigate.
They were confronted by five men wearing balaclavas. The men grabbed them and tied them up.
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AfriForum says a farmer who was killed in his home in Tulbagh had tried to fight off his attacker.
The 59-year old man was fatally stabbed on Wednesday night during a house robbery on Wolwefontein farm.
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Four robbers to push a five-year-old toddler in the oven if the family did not obey their request to hand over valuable items to them during a house robbery. The incident took place on Tuesday morning at 08:45 in Old Inandaweg in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. According to a statement from Reaction Unit South Africa (Rusa) on..
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The family of farmer Riaan Scheepers from Alexandria in the Eastern Cape said this evening that Scheepers had died after a weeks-long battle to stay alive following a savage beating from robbers at the farm he managed late last month. A message from his daughter Bianca Scheepers shared on WhatsApp‚ states: “Papa went to a..
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Armed men entered a full carriage on a Metrorail Cape Town-bound train and began to rob passengers, reports GroundUp. One commuter was shot, according to an eyewitness to the robbery. Riana Scott, spokesperson for Metrorail, confirmed the incident was reported at 13:42 on Friday. “Security reported an on-board robbery between Langa and Bontheuwel Station,” she..
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A woman was stabbed and wounded in a house robbery in Moreleta Park, east of Pretoria, in the early hours of Monday. ER24 paramedics called to scene and found her and her 15-year-old daughter being consoled by Bull Security members, said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring. “Paramedics found she had sustained numerous lacerations and stab wounds..
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A Westville family is lucky to have escaped a nightmare trip with armed robbers who abducted them from their home and took them to draw cash at an ATM this morning. Blue Security community and media liaison officer Andreas Mathios said two armed robbers climbed up to the second story of a house in Dunkeld..
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A traumatised cyclist has spoken out after five men armed with pangas and knives robbed a cycling group of their bicycles near Langa. Abdullah Jaffar, the owner of Jafmed Pharmacy in Ottery, and his fellow cyclists were riding to Stellenbosch when the assailants attacked them on Jan Smuts Drive on Sunday. “It could have been..
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A well-known doctor from Schoemansville was assaulted and injured when armed robbers invaded the family home on Friday night. Dr Dawie Koekemoer, his wife and two sons were held at gunpoint while five men ransacked the house and hit and kicked Koekemoer. “The family was getting ready for bed around 23:00 when one of the..
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“So you think you are a big man?” the armed robber taunted as he kicked a Nigel father in the face, while his partner and their terrified children feared for their lives. “If I had tried to be a hero, all of us would have been shot dead. I can guarantee that,” said businessman Alex..
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