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Annetjie Smith chained up after brutal beating

Smith, Annetjie, 62, Zastron: chained up after brutal beating, left behind for dead, Feb 13 2011 Pic: Charl Devenish Volksblad

Smith Annetjie 62 left chained in Zastron home after brutal beating

2011-02-15  Zastron, Free State. 62-year-old widow Annetjie Smith was attacked by two blacks in her home on Sunday, beaten brutally with their fists, dragged around and they then tried to smother her to death. When she told them she had nothing left to steal after four break-ins in her house late last year, they tied her up securily with ropes and chains and left behind for dead.Her maid discovered her 25 hours later.

She was rushed to a Bloemfontein hospital with the EMS-trauma helicopter.She told Volksblad journalist Jana van der Merwe from her hospital-bed the next day that she was fooled by the two 'neatly-dressed, decent' men who knocked on her door at 8am, asking for work. "I told them I'd like to help but I have no money to pay them.. that I was an embarrassment to the rich people around me because I am poor.' They left and she went outside to fasten her Rottweiler dog. She was ambushed, dragged inside her house and beaten mercilessly.

"They threatened to cut my throat if I dared to make a noise,' she said. "Do you know that what you are doing is wrong?" she asked them during her ordeal. They replied that they 'wanted money'. She said that in a three-week period late last year, she had four breakins and everything she’d ever owned of any value was looted. She simply had nothing left for anybody to steal.http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Weduwee-vir-dood-agtergelaat-20110215 also: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8321670/Bono-reignites-anger-over-shoot-the-Boer-song.html

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