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    Zelda Venter
    April 07 2008 at 06:58AM
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Minutes before she was raped next to her six-year-old son, her "kind" rapist untied her sore hands and even massaged them to get the blood circulation going. Then, as a "parting thought", he raped her.

This is the ordeal to which a 35-year-old mother was subjected in the early hours of Tuesday last week, when a gang of robbers broke into her luxury home on a golfing estate close to the Roodeplaat Dam, near Pretoria.

Margot Ludik and her husband Andries, a well-known Pretoria attorney, said they were very lucky to be alive.

"I think they wanted to kill us, but they changed their minds. I think it is because we stayed calm," Andries said.
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'I could feel his heart pounding'
The couple were woken just after midnight on Tuesday when the lights were switched on in their bedroom and people hovered over them. This was the start of their two-and-a-half-hour ordeal. Their son and five-year-old daughter were asleep in their bedrooms.

"We heard nothing until they were on top of us. The one robber took the cartridge out of his 9mm and pushed it back. He then held it against my head," Andries said.

"The robbers were shouting 'we are going to kill you, you are going to die.'"

Margot said the fear she experienced was something she could not describe. But she decided to remain quiet and not draw attention to herself.

The couple were told to lie face-down, and their hands were tied behind their backs.

'It is just crime and violence, and nothing is going to change'
"They kept on asking where the safe and the guns were. I told them I had a paintball gun. I tried to show them where it was, but when I lifted my head to explain, I was hit," Andries said.

He never kept cash in his home, but that day he had R5 000, for which he was very grateful.

Andries said the robber offered to go and fetch his children. He tied the boy up next to his mother on the bed and brought the girl to her father.

Margot said she believed everything was going to be fine when the robber untied her hands, massaged them and then retied them. "I really think it was a parting thought, but he climbed onto me while I was lying tied up. The man was terrified. I could feel his heart pounding."

The family underwent therapy and are doing much better.

They are now on their way to Australia, as they have had enough of this country.

"It is just crime and violence, and nothing is going to change," Andries said.



    • This article was originally published on page 2 of The Star on April 07, 2008
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84 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
Hello weak South Afrians, are we not all like timid sheep, there is no unity and we have not got the balls to fight back. Has anyone read Sifiso Falala's article in the paper called, Crime in South Africa is now blatant terrorism, well that is exactly what it is TERRORISM against whites in our own country ??????????????? Fight for our rights, keep your guns, arm yourself. Our Commandos were disbanded why ? The new Fiream law was brought in why ? A man with a gun is a citizen, a man without a gun is a subject, what are you ?????????????????????????
84 Weeks ago A sad state of affairs wrote :
My thoughts and prayers go out to the Ludik's. As a victim of armed robberies four times in one year, I can only imagine what hell and trauma you as a family went through and are still going through. We, as law-abiding citizens, have had enough of this ever increasing and out out of hand violent crimes against especially the children and women. I can sometimes understand that someone in need would steal to satisfy their hunger. But, the violence that the Ludik's had to endure is unnecessary. It is by time that we put pressure on the government to implement laws that would eradicate violent crimes. I say that the only way to do so is to ban guns and where anyone committing any violent crimes with guns should be denied bail and be given minimum sentences. As much as I am for the death penalty, it is wishful thinking as long as we have the Constitution. Let's remember to vote next time for anyone who has the guts to stand up against violent crimes and the death penalty.
84 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
as everybody knows, there is no crime in south-africa - juste white propaganda for and by white neo-colonialists and white cowards
84 Weeks ago Mandla wrote :
And we still protect criminals evryday and say they were not in their right frame of mind.
84 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
Often you ask us for our comments but nothing is being done to the vicious crime taking place in our country.we all want to be safe in our beloved country but once people start leaving there must be something seriouslt wrong. Why can't this bloody government see this! My heart goes out to all those people and we hope and pray that someday something will be done to this.
84 Weeks ago Daily survival wrote :
The children of today assume that its normal to live in a society with a high crime but what they dont know is it was never like this in the old days , and should never be accepeted by the youth. The government has failed all it citizens in terms of security & safety , they are more interested in dozing off in parialment and dreaming of their fat salaries and shopping in Paris. How come COSATU has never had mass rolling action on crime ? I say to cosatu here's your opportunity to increase your membership 10 fold overnight. I say to the Government please hear the people's cry and bring back the death penalty before its too late,it has noting to do past practices.Fear bring discipline
84 Weeks ago Anonymous Tiger Oats wrote :
Young, stupid boyes @ Varsity do silly things and it's all over the news & TV in our country & others. Each & every one who can have a say, says it and they are condemed for life. The worst propaganda imaginable @ the worst time in our country. Here a family is terrorized, raped & scarred for life but it's only "deserves" a small insignificant place in the news. It's disgusting and unacceptable in "our" society. Let's not forget "our roots" and stand together and put these dispicable animals where they deserve - back in the jungle.
84 Weeks ago ATA wrote :
bring back the death penalty to SA- see what they do in other countries, when you steal they cut a finger - the death penalty is the best - ATA
84 Weeks ago Fed up! wrote :
I say bring back the death penalty! They are nothing but barbaric and have no respect for life....not even their own! How do these b***ards live with themselves...they have no conscience! I can't wait for the day someone extremely high in our national govt gets killed - then only will these fools open their eyes! Other than that we ordinary citizens will continue to be stats of their f***ups!
84 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
This isn't a utopia rather South Africa, and the masses know its a beautiful countrty full of promise but the reality is the criminal element reign free and arent going any where not whilst our constituition is seen to give them more rights than law abiding citizens. The politicians and those in power are in denial about the state of lawlessness or perhaps we should just start accepting this as the new way of life for those citizens that remain in the country.

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