Smit Gert and Annette, attacked, Nigel

Gert and Annette Smit of Nigel were attacked ten days after the murder on Eugene Terre'Blanche by a black man who had worked for them for six months. On the day of the attack this black man arrived at their smallholding dressed in an APLA uniform and shot Gert. He then walked to the kitchen where Annette was helping the black man's child, which had fallen ill. He ordered her to give his child to the couple's maid. Their maid pleaded with the APLA-member to please not shoot Annette Smit, because she was 'a good miesies'.They then tied up Mrs Smit while he beat her up. The maid softly told her not to struggle but to lie still. The APLA-member said he was looking for the keys to the safe but she didn't know where it was. He then produced an angle-grinder which he had apparently brought with him to cut open the safe and ran away with the couple's weapons and their bakkie - which was later found abandoned alongside the road. This was not reported in the mainstream news media. The sources are verified and accurate however.