Around 20 people were held hostage by five armed men on a smallholding in Knoppieslaagte, Centurion on Thursday morning.
The men infiltrated the staff living quarters on the smallholding around 04:00 armed with pistols and a tire iron.
Orange Fox Security spokesperson Ruan Heyns said: “They woke the staff up unit by unit and rounded them up in a large room.”
Heyns said the men held one staff member at gun point while they cleaned out the units.
“They robbed approximately 20 staff members and fled the scene after assaulting eight of the staff members with the tire iron,” Heyns said.
The staff members who were assaulted were transported to hospital with minor injuries, he said.
Heyns said the robbers fled with money as well as cellphones and electronics and are still at large.
The staff members had been held hostage for 2 hours.
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