Uniformed attackers beat up Francina Brink, 85, Bon Accord smallholdings, Pretoria
Sept 17 2010 - 85-year-old Afrikaner great-grandmother Mrs Francina Brink (85) was brutally assaulted by ‘four black men in police uniforms’ at the Bon Accord smallholdings north of Pretoria. Two men were arrested: one was a SAPS-constable who had ‘leased out police equipment’ to the 4-member gang.http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rowers-in-uniforms-rand-hartlyer-aan-20100917
She ‘could never have dreamt’ -- she told journalist Hilda Fourie of Beeld -- ‘that the four men who arrived in police uniforms were robbers instead’. Her black carer, Mrs Rebecca Ngcanga, had told Mrs Brink that there were ‘police officers at the gate who wanted to see if all the workers had legal documentation’… Instead the ‘police officers’ walked inside, forced the workers to kneel with their heads to the floor, and tied them up. They grabbed Mrs Brink by an arm, took the old lady to her room, ripped off her watch and diamond-ring, tied her hands and feet together, beat her and demanded to know where ‘the safe’ was. “They threatened that if I didn’t talk they would kill me,’ said the old lady, who is a heart-sufferer. She opened the safe - and then they pushed rags into her mouth, covered her head in cloths and started strangling her before leaving her on the bed. While leaving the homestead, the old woman rolled off the bed and found her loaded firearm lying underneath it – just in time to see a black hand grabbing her bed-room door-jamb. In her fear, she fired off a shot -- but it turned out that she’d shot a gardener in his hand because the workers had managed to get loose and were rushing to her aid. Mrs Brink then phoned her grandson – who stopped a police van enroute his rush to the smallholding and described the vehicle in which the gang had fled. The description was immediately broadcast over the police radio, said Lt Col Eugene Opperman, and members from the Mamelodi-East SAPS spotted the car there, forced it off the road, and arrested the driver. After questioning they also arrested another gang-member and are still looking for the other two. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rowers-in-uniforms-rand-hartlyer-aan-20100917
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