12-year-old boy thinks on his feet to save siblings
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and 12-year-old Asanda Radebe proved this when he kept his two younger sisters safe during a robbery, while his mother went out.
Thato Radebe was at home with her three children – Asanda, Amahle, five, and an eight-monthold baby girl – when she decided to go and get some nappies at a nearby store. She told her children she would be back in a few minutes and they could wait at home, she told Roodepoort Northsider.
Little did she know how things would change quickly. Asanda was watching TV when he heard a noise at the gate outside.
Thato said: “He looked outside and saw three men he didn’t recognise and triggered the alarm, thinking it would scare them off, and then went straight to his sisters.”
Asanda then hid his eightmonth-old sister in the cupboard and told his five-year-old sister Amahle, who thought he was joking at first, that they were being robbed and that she must stay still and quiet and do what the robbers say.
By this time, Thato had called Honeydew Community Policing Forum’s Jon Rosenberg who, along with an associate Hanlee Fourie, responded and were at the scene in a matter of minutes.
When they reached the prop- erty, the robbers had left and they found the children alone at home. – Caxton News Service
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