Tshwane shopkeeper describes being beaten and stabbed in night time robbery

22 June 2016 - 19:59
By Neo Goba‚ Penwell Dlamini And Thabang Thaba

"We want the money‚ not the stock." Mamelodi West shopkeeper Ashenfi Abera‚ 25‚ from Ethiopia‚ was sleeping when two men armed with a gun and a knife entered his shop on Tuesday night. They hit him until he fell to the ground and stabbed him in the left cheek. "It was all that we had. I don’t understand why they had to do something like this‚" said Abera‚ in tears.

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