'Enough is enough'
2005-05-08 21:59
Johannesburg - A Muldersdrift man is selling his house after being targeted by robbers for the fifth time in this crime-ridden part of the West Rand.
"Enough is enough," says Michael Clarke. He says they're moving before someone in the family gets killed.
The 81-year-old Ulrich Lange was murdered on his smallholding in the area last month.
The Clark family was attacked in their kitchen last week, barely three weeks after Michael Clark, 16, was shot in the neck when robbers ambushed them outside their home.
Clark sen says he opened the kitchen door on Wednesday night to let the dogs in.
"The next moment two armed men stormed through the door and started
shooting".
Clark says he locked a security gate inside the house and ran to fetch his own pistol as the robbers fired shorts down the passage.
During the ensuing shoot-out, Clark wounded one of the attackers.
That same evening, Clark and his family moved to relatives in Johannesburg.
"I wanted to move away from the city, because I thought it would be more peaceful.
"I didn't expert regular armed attacks. I don't want to go back to that place
again.
At the weekend another Muldersdrift resident was wounded during a robbery.
A gang of four robbers struck at the smallholding of 65-year-old Chris Klein and overpowered his daughter, Sanet du Plessis, 34, and a friend in their home next to his.
Police say the women were watching TV when the robbers struck.
Du Plessis shouted to warn her dad, but when he came out of his house, he was shot in the chest.
The robbers fled with cash, cellphones and jewellery.
Klein was admitted to the Leratong hospital.