Afrikaners under siege

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Afrikaners under siege: Harms family moves from Pretoria home after three attacks within 6 hours...

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=21155&

Afrikaner dadr Alex Harms, 31, his wife Marichen, 30 and their little sons Noah, 3 and Eli, two months, have moved out of their home in a high-security complex, The Wilds east of Pretoria yesterday after the family was attacked three times within six hours by armed men who managed to loot their house while a 20-strong police force was patrolling the area...

Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper writes that security guards now have been hired to look after the house while they move out -- the young Afrikaner family won't be living in the secure The Wilds compound east of Pretoria any more, they said.

The three attacks took place from 10pm to aboug 4:20am on Thursday-night, they said.

"We first saw two men moving around outside in our yard and we shouted at them: 'we can see you'.They then jumped across a very high wall into the yard of their neighbours and ran away.

Mr Harms immediately alerted the head of security of the high-security complex.
The firm sent a guard with a guard-dog to patrol around their house while the couple locked themselves into their bedroom with their babies and pet dogs and finally went to sleep at around 1am.

Shortly after they had settled down however, they heard six shots ring out.
Mr Harmse then discovered that the guard's dog, a Boerbull, had been shot in the hind legs. The injured animal was lying at their front door, bleeding badly.
The guard who had been shot in the shoulder, managed to still run about a kilometer to the nearest security point of the complex to call in reinforcements.

Norman Padoa, manager of The Wilds, said a bullet had hit the guard in the shoulder and penetrated his lungs. The unnamed guard now recovering at a local hospital.

About ten minutes after the shooting, about 20 police officers showed up at the complex.

However after the police force had left and his family was back in the bedroom, trying to sleep, Mr Harms had heard something which sounded like a falling key.

What he'd heard was people breaking their way through a sliding sidedoor -- and he then discovered that they had been stealing their TV, a computer, cellphones, an iPod and other electronic equipment from the room right next to their main bedroom where the children and his wife were sleeping.

What made him particularly angry was that this robbery was going on right under the noses of the police -- the goods were being stolen while the police were still outside searching the area around their house, he said.
Police captain Paul Sithole said the case 'is being investigated'.