So it happened.

On Wednesday morning we became just another South African statistic. Four armed men jumped into my backyard, beat the gardener up with a hammer and gained entrance through the kitchen window. Mom was walking down the passage when she spotted the bastard and instead of fleeing in the opposite direction she demanded to know "WHAT he was doing In her house" (She didnt realise we were being robbed at first).. lol, my mom:)
So they throttled her and they hada bit of a scuffle. After realising he was hmm about 5times stronger than her she told them that we don't have a safe but she'd give em what we got... He momentarily released her and she took a chance and ran as fast as her legs could carry her to her bedroom andlocked the door, phoned out for help. They attempted to break the door (gota beeg hole now) but were disturbed by the next door neighbours panic alarm. Good ole gardener (his name is Moosa and his Malawaian) managed to regain conciousness and went over to the neighbours to sound the alarm. Cops came, ADT came, Coin came... Skebengo's fled. (messed up two rooms but all they got was a cellphone)

Mom had a flight to the USA to catch that very afternoon (she's gone to visit her sister for two weeks) and thankfully she managed to recover in time to leave. BUT OMG... since our lil Westville community is 'oh so tight nit', we've had 3million visitors and the phones wont stop ringing. My family has started taking turns to play 'tape recorder' to the symaphizers. Still havent figured out whether people are genuinely concerned or whether they're just inquistive. EVeryONE has heard about this... besides our comunity, we've had calls from newcastle,glencoe,Jhb,Cape Town and Australia... Don't even Know some of these people. On the bright side people are under the impression that we're terribly traumatised and won;t stop sending food. It hepls since we are currently motherless.