We will get fed up eventually, and then....

Last week Sunday, when we were visiting Mom, she told us how a friend of hers, an Italian lady I also knew from my childhood days, and who happens to live about 2 km from our home, had been attacked.
She lives in a "secure" complex, one of those complexes with about 30 townhouses, and with a single motorised gate access. This complex also has a pedestrian gate access, always locked. Anyway, the had looked out of her kitchen door, as she always did before she locked up for the night, and noticed that her roll up door of her carport that adjoins the unit was half open. She went out to see why, and was attacked by a big black man. She managed to fight him off, and get back into her home and lock him out.
After he had gone, and she had got some help, they found her 4 lb hammer had been taken out of the tool box in the carport, and was lying on the dustbin near her kitchen window. It is assumed the attacker was going to use this to gain entry to her unit.
Anyway, when Mom spoke to her about it, she recommended that the lady have an alarm system installed which can be activated at night when you retire, and will set off an alarm at the home, and a remote alarm to an armed response if any movement is detected within the home after being armed.
Her concern was around the cost of such a system. As it is, she is not short of funds, and could afford it, but is a bit "tight fisted". And, to top it up, the armed response companies also install the alarm for free, and you only have to pay a monthly fee of around ZAR350 per month for the armed response.

On this past Thursday night, he killed her!

It seems she had retired, and had taken some medication which she had been given by the doctors to help her sleep following the first attack. The perpetrator, and I must assume here that it was the same kaffir responsible for the first attack, somehow again gained access to the complex, gained access to her home, tied her up with wire and strangled her.

She was an elderly lady, probably about 70 - 75. She was a widow, and had 3 children. One daughter lives in Canada, one in Italy, and her son, divorced but recently remarried here in South Africa. The reason she had never returned to Italy permanently before this was due to her son having been divorced, and so she wanted to be available to assist him if needed.

In fact, after her last trip to Italy, and return recently, she had indicated that now that her son was remarried she wanted to emigrate back to Italy for her safety!

R.I.P. Marilena Bernardi - I'm sorry that society has let you down like this. However, rest in the knowledge that he will pay for this, a million times over, maybe not in this world, but in the next world.

Salagatle!