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We will kill your child!
Henriëtte Geldenhuys Published:Jul 15, 2007

Gunmen are targeting Joburg mothers at their most vulnerable — when they are accompanied by their children.

At one school alone, prestigious Pridwin Preparatory in Melrose , at least five women with children have been held up at gunpoint in recent months and robbed.

Among the incidents:


In June, a mother was robbed of her jewellery and wristwatch at the school’s gates. Other parents and staff watched the attack in horror on closed-circuit television cameras inside the school’s reception area, afraid to intervene.


On May 6, a five-year-old boy , his mother, brother and grandfather were held up at gunpoint and robbed at their Melrose home.

Two robbers surprised them in their garage and robbed the mother of a diamond engagement ring, a tanzanite ring, diamond earings, a cellphone and a wallet with R600.

On June 4, Pridwin parent Nicky Hunter and her son Ross, 5, were held up at gunpoint at their home in Parkwood, near Zoo Lake .


“My son got a fright and started crying, but one of the robbers put his hand over his mouth and said: ‘If he doesn’t keep quiet, we will kill him.’ ”

The gangsters forced the mother and son and an employee to the floor and “kept saying, about 10 times: ‘Kiss the carpet.’ ”


The robbers stole three laptops, a camera, videos, DVDs, a watch and the boy’s PlayStation, bought a day earlier, before fleeing in the family’s BMWX5.

For days after the robbery , Ross’s Australian parents agonised about their son’s future in South Africa. Finally they decided he would be better off in their home country.


“We needed to take him away from the fear that will not go away if he stayed in this country,” said Ross’s father, Fred Hunter.

The family had planned to stay in South Africa for the next seven years, but instead mother and son flew to Australia on Wednesday.

Hunter — who brought the St Petersburg Ballet and the Great Moscow Circus to South Africa — could soon follow them.

“If this is how people are treated, why bother? My son should be thinking about riding bikes, playing with friends, not about armed robbers.”

Pridwin principal Selwyn Marx said robbers targeted mothers and focused more on their jewellery than on their vehicles. The school has hired security guards and erected boom gates at the entrance.

Said one mother, who asked not to be named: “Everyone who lives in Melrose with boys at that school has been attacked. The parents and the kids are so freaked out. There’s not one parent I know who’s not working on a plan B to leave the country.”

In attacks at other schools:

A mother was hijacked at a crèche in Morningside.

In June, a mother was hijacked outside the gates of the Fairway Primary School in Melrose.

Dr Annemarie Novello, a trauma counsellor, said: “The child that you see after the attack is not the same child as before. Children of five regress to become children aged two after such a trauma. They become very clingy and needy and won’t want to sleep in their own rooms. Their feelings of safety, dependent on their parents being in control, has been taken away.”
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Metro/Article.aspx?id=515705
 
Also have friends that we robbed while knives were held at the children's throat. The children still battle to get over the incident and it has completely changed their attitude towards the country. At the moment they are also at the stage where they are leaving.
 
The point is not that...

It is the fact the our children should NEVER have to live in fear of getting their throat cut or watching their parents held at gunpoint.

Or do you think thats a normal way to live?
 
We have to stop this Criminal (black) tsunami - pls prove me wrong if you can:mad:
 
Welcome to Africa, we are now part of the problem not the solution to Africa's woes! Everyone wanting safety and security for their children should leave before you and/or your children become part of the skewed and corrupted statistics.
 
Paul_S said:
Hey! Don't insult they animals - they don't think and behave like these thugs do.
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True, don't know quite what to call them. I think its one species not many people would miss if they headed towards extinction though.
 
In SA when you leave your house without a gun, it is like going to the battlefield without ammunition.
Every Non-criminal South African should have a gun or some kind of weapon to protect out loved ones.
 
The robbers stole three laptops, a camera, videos, DVDs, a watch and the boy’s PlayStation, bought a day earlier, before fleeing in the family’s BMWX5.

There’s not one parent I know who’s not working on a plan B to leave the country.”
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That article over-exaggerates.
Very few people can afford X5s. If everyone in that school is planning to leave then they all must be super rich flaunting what they got so that all of them are targets. This article just further perpetuate that all whites are rich and have too many possesions for there own good.
 
How the heck can you have too many possessions for your own good?

The big problem is that people are too lazy to work, and then are envious of those that do work hard for what they have. And the only way these lazy b******s can get hold of it, is to steal!!

So what if only a few can afford X5's. If you can afford it, I say, you should have the right to enjoy it without being scared for your life!!

What's the use of having jewellery and not being able to wear it? What's the use of having an expensive car and not being able to drive it?
 
AdLo said:
That article over-exaggerates.
Very few people can afford X5s. If everyone in that school is planning to leave then they all must be super rich flaunting what they got so that all of them are targets. This article just further perpetuate that all whites are rich and have too many possesions for there own good.
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You're coming dangerously close to condoning their actions.
 
When i hear of these "people" who commit such crimes all i can think of is getting hold of one, torturing him to a point where he cries/screams/begs for his life and only then whsipering in his ear "dont worry, its only going to get worse".

Someone tried to hijack me while me and a friend were waiting outsides another friends for him to go outside. Lucky for me they only had screw-drivers, so alot of fighting went on, they took our cellphones and tried to run. In the rage i was, i started the car and knocked one of them over (didnt kill him tho), drove down to the police station and reported the incident. All in all got cellphones back, 1x bad guy and 1x stolen car (didnt start which is why they tried to get mine).... oh yah and 1x badly dented bonnet/bumper
 
@ acidriain,

GOOD FOR YOU!

Its time to start fighting back.
I have no qualms against running someone over who tries to hi-jack someone or does a smash and grab. So i get a dent? Big deal... at least saved someones life!
 
acidrain said:
Someone tried to hijack me while me and a friend were waiting outsides another friends for him to go outside. Lucky for me they only had screw-drivers, so alot of fighting went on, they took our cellphones and tried to run. In the rage i was, i started the car and knocked one of them over (didnt kill him tho), drove down to the police station and reported the incident. All in all got cellphones back, 1x bad guy and 1x stolen car (didnt start which is why they tried to get mine).... oh yah and 1x badly dented bonnet/bumper
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Good job! only problem is I live up the hill from you, so... a little more nervous after hearing your tale of good deeds. :(
 
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