The robbery took place at an address in Nutcracker Street, Payneville.
The brothers, aged 10 and 11, were watching TV at 11am, when a man, who identified himself as Petros, knocked at the door.
There were three other men with Petros.
Springs police spokesman Capt Johannes Ramphora says the security door was unlocked and the men entered the house.
Petros allegedly asked the boys where their parents were and said their parents owed them money.
Ramphora says the men claimed they were never paid for building a wall at the premises.
One of the men got into a car parked in the street, while the other three men started searching the house.
They took a TV and clothing worth R13 000.
The men left with the stolen goods, got into the waiting vehicle and drove off.
After the men left, one of the boys called their mother.
The boys’ father says he knows one of the men.
Ramphora says they are investigating a case of house robbery.
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