Armed men entered the school on Monday and robbed international students who were there as part of an outreach programme.
A group of international students were held up in a grade 1 class on Monday and robbed of their belongings.
JOHANNESBURG - A Mamelodi teacher described how armed men entered a grade 1 class on Monday and held up international students visiting the school.The teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, said his grade one class saw the drama unfolding."When the students come in, the people just produced their guns and pointed at them and ordered all of them to lie down. Then they took everything: school bags, cell phones, laptops - and they went out.
An eyewitness describes the chaos that ensued when robbers held up grade one pupils, teachers and international students at a Mamelodi school. Rheece Kriel, whose parents own the school, said he was painting the classroom when the saw the volunteers arriving. "Then all of a sudden, there were people running around and chaos and it was quiet .... maybe, we thought, there was a game that the students were playing and then I just started seeing pistols everywhere.""Then my sister came up, she was bleeding from the head - she had been pistol whipped - and then she fell down the stairs. She sprained her ankle and her arm.""Some of the American volunteers had experience in first aid ...
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