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Original Post Date: 2008-03-07 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
Ten minutes before a group of American tourists were due to arrive at their Joburg guesthouse, two armed men were dropped off outside the house and hid in the bushes.
When the six women arrived at their Observatory guesthouse around 6pm on Tuesday, the men – along with two other accomplices who were waiting in a nearby car – ambushed them.
The gang surrounded their vehicle and held them up at gunpoint, demanding their money, cellphones, laptops and digital cameras.
During the hold-up, a 75-year-old woman was pistol-whipped, and the gangsters also removed the women’s jewellery, including chains and rings.
| ‘They were waiting for the women to arrive’ |
The gang made off with more than R50 000 worth of hi-tech equipment and about R80 000 in cash.
Sadly, the gang also took the money the women had raised in the US which they intended to donate to a Durban orphanage. Their passports were also stolen.
The robbers then fled the scene, and on their way out of the boomed suburb where the guesthouse is situated, they assaulted one of the security guards who tried to stop them.
An hour before the attack, the women checked through the gates of OR Tambo International Airport. There they declared their valuables, how much money they were bringing into the country and the address of the guesthouse.
On Thursday, the owner of the guesthouse, who did not want to be named, said the attack was not random and the men knew exactly what they were going for.
| ‘Many of them just want to go back home as quickly as possible’ |
“They were waiting for the women to arrive. They knew they were coming. These men were seasoned professionals who put their guns to good use and took exactly what they wanted,” she said.
The guesthouse owner said that after the attack, she called the airport to inquire about a possible leak at the customs department, but was told that nobody at customs was allowed to carry a cellphone on them, thus preventing any communication with people on the outside.
“But the person who helped to fill in their forms even assisted them outside (the customs department), and the women even tipped him. During that period he could have had instant communication with anybody,” she said.
The guesthouse owner said the women spent their time in Joburg the next day arranging new passports and cancelling all their bank and credit cards.
They left Joburg for Durban on Wednesday evening.
“Many of them just want to go back home as quickly as possible,” she said, adding that she did not know where in Durban they were staying.
This is the second such attack to have happened this week. On Monday, a couple, their 2-year-old child and an adult relative were ambushed by a gang outside their Sandringham, Joburg, home after arriving from OR Tambo International. They had just arrived from Nigeria.
Over the past year, dozens of people have been attacked shortly after arriving at the airport. And while evidence suggests there might be a syndicate colluding with airport staff to carry out the attacks, the police have denied this.
This week, the police said there was no evidence to suggest that a syndicate might be involved in most of the attacks.
The police said that while they investigate every case where people claim to have been followed from the airport, they had not been able to establish a definitive link that the robbers were operating out of the airport.
No arrests had been made.