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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: South African Crime Comes To America Couple Attacked in Chevy Chase Home Invasion A gunman tied up an older couple and stole items from their Chevy Chase home early this morning, and police said the attack may be related to four similar home invasions that have taken place in the past eight months. The couple told police they were awakened by the gunman about 2:30 a.m. in their home on Brookside Drive, about two blocks off of River Road. The gunman bound them and struck the woman at some point, police said. Investigators believe the gunman entered the house from the rear, Starks said, but he did not provide details about whether a door or window had been left open, or whether the man forced entry into the residence. www.washingtonpost.com/wp...?nav=rss_email/components Meanwhile today in the Rainbow Nation Pensioners tell of hostage ordeal Candice Bailey "I woke up with a gun in my mouth and I screamed." This is how Tamboerskloof resident Angela Collins described the start of a two-hour hostage ordeal she and her husband, Stuart, suffered at the hands of four armed gunmen early on Tuesday.The Collins couple, both in their 60s, told the Cape Argus the nightmare had begun when the four masked men, three with guns and one with a knife, charged into their house just before 7am on Tuesday.The couple was forced to sit on the bed while the invaders looted the house of electronic equipment, cellphones and valuables.The gang tied them up and urinated on the bathroom floor before fleeing. Man shot dead in alleged driveway hijacking A Mitchells Plain man has died after being shot in the chest during an alleged early morning driveway hijacking. This is the fifth hijacking incident reported in Mitchells Plain over the past month.Christopher Smith, 51, had pulled his car out of his Woodlands home driveway on Tuesday morning when he was accosted by three men, said police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Billy Jones. Robbed while praying Four robbers showed no mercy or respect when they attacked a Soshanguve pastor during a prayer on a home visit to his congregation members on Tuesday.Pastor Andile Bangisi of the Seventh Day Adventists Church, accompanied by two members of his church and the family, were on their knees praying in the kitchen when four armed men entered the house in Block M at 3.30pm."Before I could say Amen I heard them coming in and I opened my eyes. They were pointing guns at us. I got such a fright but I had to co-operate. It was unbelievable," he said. Thieves hit Mbeki's residence Johannesburg, South Africa Over the long weekend burglars climbed into the roof of President Thabo Mbeki's official residence Mahlambandlovu on the Bryntirion Estate in Government Avenue in Pretoria and stole between R20 000 and R30 000 worth of aluminium.Beeld reported on Wednesday that the 10mm aluminium wire which had been installed in the roof over the past three weeks, formed part of a network of the house's electronic fittings, including closed-circuit television cameras and computer systems, that was designed to protect the house against lightning. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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Rainbow Nation bump.
Jazmyn Singleton, a black Duke senior agrees. After living in a predominantly white dorm freshman year, she lives with five African-American women in an all-black dormitory. “Both communities tend to be very judgmental,” says Ms. Singleton, ruefully. “There is pressure to be black. The black community can be harsh. People will say there are 600 blacks on campus but only two-thirds are ‘black’ because you can’t count blacks who hang out with white people.”
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