A student who stays in a residential complex in 8th Street, Orange Grove is living in fear.
This after burglars broke into her apartment while she was sleeping with her sister about two weeks ago.
The nervous Bongiwe Mbatha said she was shocked when she woke up and noticed that the front door was broken and some items were missing. Mbatha said, “The experience still frightens me. The premises’ entrance is secured and the complex has an electric fence. You can’t even make a duplicate of the keys. I still don’t understand even today, how the burglars got into our apartment.”
Mbatha said there was no sign of forced entry at the complexes’ entrance, but the burglars managed to walk through to their apartment which is at the back of the complex. She said, “It’s still a miracle to me. It doesn’t make sense to me.”
She added that she normally wakes up when she hears anyone walking around in her apartment, but that night she didn’t hear anything. “Maybe they used muthi to make us fell asleep while they were ransacking the house.”
Mbatha said the burglars took Michael Kors and Nine West bags, one with R400 inside. “They also took a laptop, iPad and an iPhone all to the value of about R35 000. Now I am scared. What if it was someone who has keys to the complex? He or she might come back to haunt us.”
On the night of the robbery the complexes’ security gates were not working and Mbatha wondered if someone knew about it. “How could a stranger know that ours was not working,” she questioned. However, the distraught Mbatha added that the owner of the complex had fixed the security gates after the incident.
“I can’t sleep at night because I don’t know how they broke in, these people might come back to hurt me and my sister.”
Norwood police spokesperson Constable Nonzwakazi Tsoanyane said the incident was reported to the police and investigations were underway.
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