Afrikaans women targets of black attackers

Sisters Rita Cloete and Lida Prinsloo hijacked Oct 28 2010 at same Springs home in two hijacking ordeals eight hours apart…

Oct 27 2010 - Afrikaans sisters Rita Cloete and Lida Prinsloo, 76, were both hijacked on the same day in seperate armed attacks by armed gangs – eight hours apart at Mrs Prinsloo’s home in Springs. Mrs Cloete’s broken wrists – the attackers had beaten her with a rifle-butt – required surgery. The double hijackings took place in front of her sister Lida Prinsloo’s home in Eastvale Street, Springs. Cellphones and credit-cards were looted.



LOUD SIREN HAD GANG FLEE:

In both hijackings the attackers were very brutal and aggressive, yelled at the women in Afrikaans that they were going to get shot – and one hijacker had tried to run down the injured Mrs Cloete with her own car. Mrs Cloete was beaten with a rifle-butt and a family friend, Jeff Reece, had two shots fired towards him by the hijacking-gang when they drove up in the second attack. The armed gang then tried to attack the family members who had all fled inside - locking the security guard behind them while one had pushed the button activating their security system’s very loud siren. The gang then fled.

The double-hijackings started at noon as she had stepped outside, Mrs Prinsloo told Wolfram Zwecker of Beeld: “the next moment this man was at my car, screamed in Afrikaans: “I am going to shoot you,’ ripped the keys from my hand, jumped in the car, turned it around and then nearly ran me down as he drove off,’ she said. The gang attacked the family a second time when Mrs Prinsloo and her husband showed up from Potchefstroom to offload a cupboard at her sister’s house. Throughout the double-siege, Chanelle Rebello (4), Prinsloo’s granddaughter, hid away in the shower – and the little girl would only come out from behind the shower-curtain pnce the police and ambulance people showed up…Credit cards and cellphones were robbed. The extended family members also said they were ‘grateful that they were still alive’. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Susters-gekaap-op-dieselfde-plek-dag-20101029