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RETIREMENT VILLAGE TARGETED BY BREAKINS: THREE BURGLARIES IN A WEEK
‘Residents are negligent’ CARALEE DORFLING
Colonel Priscilla Naidu, police spokesperson, confirmed the burglaries. “Almost every week the complex is broken into. Soon someone will be killed and then the governing body will start to wake up,” said Arno Pieterse (58), a resident of the retirement village. Only people over the age of 50 can buy property here. “In all the homes elderly people live who cannot defend themselves. The thieves know it’s an easy tar-
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FTER three burglaries in one week at a retirement village in Port Elizabeth, it is still each man for himself. In the latest incident in the Kragga Kamma Uitspanning retirement village, two men robbed an elderly couple in their home early on Thursday morning. There were also burglaries at the complex last Monday and Tuesday.
get.” Pieterse says in the six months he had been living in the retirement village, there were more than ten burglaries. “The burglars step past the sleeping elderly and rob them of all their gold and silver. TVs and cellphones are also being stolen. “But all that we hear from the trust chairperson is that break-ins are the fault of the residents; they must take care of their own safety.” Another resident, Godfrey Tawse (81), says the elderly have moved to
the retirement village for safety. “Here are people over the age of 90. Of course they will sometimes forget to close a window. This is when the complex’s security measures should be good enough to keep unwanted people out,” he said. Clea Eckermann, trust chairperson, confirmed the burglary and theft. She said this happened because of the residents’ negligence. “It is their own fault, as they do not have sufficient security measures.
“Here are 122 houses. We cannot take care of everyone’s safety,” Eckermann said. “It’s everybody’s own responsibility.” She added that it is a sectional title complex. It was, therefore, not the responsibility of the trust to take care of every resident. Pieterse said that he paid a levy every month to live in the complex. He believed these funds should be used for improved security.
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