Survives: Ret.Col Servaas de Wet 82, survives attack by four black male gunmen, Glen Austin Midrand AH

Colonel Servaas de Wet, 82 (ret), survives: fights back against four black male gunmen, Glen Austin, Midrand smallholdings: Son in law and neighbours rush to his aid, shooting back at gunmen, injuring one. De Wet, on the management committee of the Herstigte Nasionale Party, said it 'was like a little war that morning at my plot'... In a statement issued by the HNP, it was announced that four black male attackers attacked the De Wet smallholding on 7 April at 11am. He was waiting for roof-repair people who were going to fix his roof. Initially he believed that a group of black men who showed up were roofers. When de Wet wanted to step outside to show them where to fix the roof, the men rushed into his kitchen and attacked him before he could raise his firearm. They tried to force him to the bedroom to 'open the safe'. De Wet he 'realized they would tie me up there and murder me'. So the old man struggled with them in the front hall of the house. They managed to push him to the floor with a gun held against his forehead. He remained calm but managed to hold his own, reports the HNP. The gardener meanwhile had rushed to his son-ín-law's nearby home who immediately ran to help the old man after alerting the neighbours and 'a small war broke out' with the neighbours and the son-in-law chasing the armed black males. The HNP reports: "The terrorists fled while they were being shot at, and one was shot in the back. Colonel de Wet came out of the attack with bruises and a sore back but otherwise unharmed. (HNP statement). https://www.facebook.com/pages/Herstigte-Nasionale-Party/164377200284021?fref=ts