A brave six-year-old girl from Greenbushes in Port Elizabeth stood up to a house robber and refused to let him take the television set that she was watching.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Pricilla Naidu says the incident happened on Friday afternoon, when the complainant, who is a domestic worker at the house, went to her quarters on the premises to have her lunch.
She says her six-year-old daughter was in the main house watching television, when an unknown man, armed with a panga, entered and threatened the worker.
The suspect took her cellphone and R1000-00, and then went with her to the main house where he threatened the child and instructed her mother to unplug the TV set.
Colonel Naidu says the child, who was unperturbed by the suspect’s threats, refused to let the TV go and stood guard in front of it.
She, in turn, threatened the suspect that she is going to call the ‘ouma’ who was asleep in a room.
The child then ran from the living room towards the bedroom to alert the 75-year-old woman and the intruder fled through the back door, taking a laptop computer.
The alarm was raised, and the 27-year-old suspect was later spotted standing on the side of the road.
Naidu says three laptops and the cellphone were confiscated.
The man was arrested and he will appear in the Port Elizabeth magistrate's court on Monday on charges of house robbery and possession of suspected stolen property.
