Robber empties gun on top matriculant
JOHANNESBURG – A matriculant who got eight distinctions last year may have lost the use of her legs after an armed robber “emptied his gun on her”, the Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Beeld reported that Razelle Botha, 18, one of the top pupils at Waterkloof High School last year, was at her home in Moreletta Park at 9.45pm on Monday night when the robber shot her in the arm, chest, stomach, lung and spine.
Professor Willem Botha, a retired professor of geophysics at the University of Pretoria, was at home with his daughter when two robbers burst in. He was wounded in the groin.
The robbers fled with a laptop and a camera.
“I can’t imagine how anyone can empty their gun on a child,” said a heartbroken Kobie Botha, Razelle’s mother, at hospital on Tuesday.
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NVDL: To ruin someone's life over a laptop and a camera? Is that the value of a human life nowadays? Or is it just spite and hate? I guess if you don't value your own life much, why would you bother to respect anyone elses? Even so, this is the sort of thing makes me mad. And what does Mr Nqakula say? Something like: "we're worried." You're worried? Is that all? Kooo kooo. Smell the coffee! I hope they catch the perpetrator bloody soon.
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There are no words to describe how sad this makes me feel.
Now it turns out that these guys had been to the house before and had been seen and chased out by the pistol wielding resident. They returned later to 'show who was boss' - you know, criminals basically deciding: 'we hold the power, you cower'.
Not surprisingly he wants to move overseas now. His daughter was weeks away from making a trip to France before studying medicene in the US.
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