Mrs Susan van den Berg 73 and daughter Ronelle Steyn survive attack by escaped convict

Mrs Susan van den Berg identified a man who held a pistol to her daughter Ronelle (sic?) Steyn's head - and attacked the two families in Buller Street in Middelburg on Wednesday-night as escaped criminal Mduduzi Nkosi. Tears running down her cheeks she said angrily: "It was him, the man on the front page of your newspaper. I saw the mustache and face very clearly.' Journalist Daleen Naudé reports on 5 December about an armed attack by at least two black men against the two Afrikaner families' female members. The 73-year-old family matriarch Mrs Susan van den Berg said 'it felt as if I was standing outside looking on. As if it was happening to someone else.' The Van den Berg couple Susan and Bossie stay with their children, the Steyn family and until around 9h45 pm were visiting a friend Mrs Susan Schoonbee. The latter's car was stolen a few months earlier and they took her to her home, also in the Dennesig suburb in Middelburg. Mrs Van der Berg rode with her daughter Ronelle Steyn and granddaughter Yolandi, as well as her friend LIzanne Wolmarans, both 14. There was an ambushed at the garage upon the womens' return home - just after the tee girlss had gone inside, locking the security-gates behind them. The two women were ready to go inside when they looked straight into the eyes of a man they identified as Nkosi, holding a gun to her daughter's head, Mrs van den Berg said. He plucked open the driver's side door and leaned across her daughter to rummage through their belongings inside the car, shouting the entire time: 'where's the money'...' Mrs Steyn kept her cool and replied: 'calm down.' She was forced at gunpoint from the car with her mother. The gunman plucked the elderly Mrs van den Berg from the car was so rough that she was thrown against the motorbikes. Her arm is black and blue where he held her. Mrs Van den Berg said she feared the thugs would kidnap the females and she told them that 'the money was inside the house' so the two women were pushed and shoved towards to house. Meanwhile the teens inside the house looked through the security gate to find out what was keeping the two women. Yoldandi started yelling loudly when she saw the handgun held against her grandmother's head, 'Call granddad with his gun. Call daddy'. Lizanne ran down the hall way towards Mrs Steyn's daughter Rozanne and woke up her brother Louis, 14. The teenaged boy immediately got onto the citizens'band radio network issuing an emergency call. Outside the two women realized there lives were hanging on a thread: the black gunmen were very nervous after hearing the girls' screaming, and started backing away inside the garage, with the guns still pointed at them. Mrs Steyn reacted at once - slamming closed the steel security door between them and the gangsters and sliding closed its locks. Seconds later the family heard their stolen BMW drive away. In hot pursuit were Mr and Mrs Willem and RAchel Kies, members of the Radio Group - but the BMW got away from them. The vehicle was found abandoned 15km outside Middelburg on the Loskopdam Road. The two Afrikaner women emerged relatively unscathed with bruises and a traumatic experience, reports the journalist. The family said they wanted to thank the Kanonkop/Dennesig/Middedorp Radio Group and the SAPS who showed up within minutes. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416