They walked all the way from Mhluzi in Beyers Naude Street to the Wilgeoord Complex.
There they played on a barbed wire wall fence…
It is right here where the two first graders’ outing turned into a nightmare.
The youngest brother (eight years) got stuck in the wire, with his elder brother (nine) unable to free him.
Fortunately for the two, there was a good Samaritan nearby.
Willie Botes heard the cries for help and went to investigate.
He helped the two terrified little brothers out of their predicament and then realised they were too small to be left on their own.
Blood stained the younger brother’s clothes after his older brother had tried to free him.
He took the two brothers to his apartment and immediately called the town’s good friend, the Middelburg Observer.
Two journalists, Tiisetso Malunga and Matthew Handley, rushed to the apartment.
And there the two brothers sat… glued to the television.
After a few questions, straight out of a journalist’s manual, it was determined that the two had already walked into town earlier in the morning, where they got a hiding from their mother.
They were very afraid of the police, that for certain was very clear.
When Matthew made a call to the editorial office, one brother thought he was calling the police and immediately jumped up and started running, Willie had to calm the little boy down.
The boys then gave the two journalists false directions as they took them home.
After some help from neighbouring children playing in the street, the two were later safely dropped off at their grandmother’s house in Tembisa in Mhluzi.
