Afrikaner children Connor Van Heerden 7 and sister, 5, held up at rifle-point by 3 black men inside Westdene home

Two Afrikaner children,5 and 7, were threatened by two black riflemen in their Westdene, Johannesburg home. There were a total of three robbers involved in the attack on their home'. One attacker told seven-year-old Connor van Heerden: 'Let us take the TV and stuff or I will shoot you'. The children were in the living room early on Wednesday-afternoon when the two riflemen tore open the security gate and stormed into the front door. The housekeeper Fundi was in the bathroom outside the house. The children's parents JJ and Candice van Heerden had gone out for lunch, leaving the children in the housekeeper's care. Candice Van Heerden said 'as we understood it, Fundi came back after the attackers had left. They told the children they came to fix the TV, but Connor saw their rifles, and they threatened him. The two took five minutes to loot a computer, tablet computers, a TV and Candice's wedding ring. "The children remained unharmed', the report noted, and the attackers chased away in a grey BMW. What happened next was astonishing: the driver, ignoring a red robot when he was less than 2km away from the Van Heerden home and ran into a red vW Golf - which pushed the BMW into a pole - injuring seven people seriously, said Warrant Officer Jerbes de Bruyn. "We suspect that two of the injured people were in the Golf and the others were pedestrians'. They were taken to various hospitals. The driver of the BMW was arrested at the scene, and his two mates ran away: and hijacked the GWM-bakkie belonging to Mr Jan Pieter de Jonge. De Jonge said he was outside iat his erf and when he wanted to climb into his car, he saw somebody hiding away in the nearby bushes. "The guy jumped out and pushed his rifle-barrel against my head. I just gave him the keys and told him to go.' However within seconds the two robbers rear-ended a white BMW in University Road, about 100m from the first accident. Driver Yvonne Dooks and her girlfriend Rosanne Parsaa were not injured. Ms Parsaa said: "The police stormed towards us and tried to indicate with their firearms that we had to pull over. We got a fright because we didn't know what was happening...' The SAPS are investigating a series of crimes including attempted murder, armed house-robbery and car-jacking. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=812730695420144&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater