April 17 2010
A Pretoria woman is fighting for her life in hospital after she was shot twice in the head while trying to save her mother-in-law from a gang of armed robbers posing as policemen.
Suna Steenberg, who runs Montana Pale and Lapa’s with her husband, Jurie, was shot when she opened fire on gunmen who were attacking her mother-in-law, “Tannie Poppie”, in their Leeufontein smallholding yesterday.
The attack comes 10 days after matriculant, Ernest Hoon, 18, was shot dead in an armed robbery on his parents’ smallholding less than 3km away from Steenberg’s home.
In the latest attack two men wearing police uniforms walked onto the Steenberg’s smallholding as workers offloaded poles at the premises.
The gunmen got into the heavily fortified double-storey home, which is surrounded by security surveillance cameras and high walls.
Inside the heavily-armed robbers attacked Steenberg’s mother-in-law in her bedroom….
South Africa Today – South Africa News – Leeufontein
