The burgled home belonging to well-known East London Springbok rugby twins Odwa and Akhona Ndungane is in the process of being sold.
The sale comes after the Baysville home was stripped by vagrants a week after a tenant, who had lived in the house for about two years, absconded.
Odwa is settled in Durban and Akhona in Pretoria.
The three-bedroom house, with a double garage, thatched entertainment area and swimming pool, caught the attention of neighbour Dean Wilson when he noticed vagrants looting items from the abandoned house and posted a public appeal on Crime Spotter, to notify the owners.
The house had been stripped of all copper, bath tubs, toilet cisterns and a front aluminium door.
Christelle Ndungane, speaking to the Dispatch on behalf of the family, said the tenant had left with no communication. “We only noticed something was up towards the end of March when the tenant, who had been paying rent consistently for two years, suddenly stopped paying.
“After several calls to speak to the tenant, we visited the house and knocked because we do not have other keys to the house, but the battery for the garage door was not working and that is how we entered.
“To our surprise two taps near the garage had been stolen and water was gushing out. It had flooded the lower part of the house.
Ndungane said they reported the matter to the Beacon Bay police, who later referred them to the Cambridge Police Station where a “vacant house” case was opened.
Police spokesman Mzuku Fatyela confirmed a case of burglary had been opened by Akona Ndungane.
Akona flew into East London yesterday for a meeting with an insurance company which had not attended to the matter until yesterday.
“We had no intentions to sell the house because we are from East London and we had decided to invest in property, especially because we might want to come back one day, but now it’s mostly unlikely because I am happily settled in Pretoria and so is Odwa in Durban.
“After many people had approached us about selling the house, we are finally giving in and have accepted an offer from an East London couple who viewed the house when we still had a tenant there.”
Akona said they were waiting for the insurance company to fix the house before the prospective new owner settled in.
Bok twins sell house stripped by vagrants
The sale comes after the Baysville home was stripped by vagrants a week after a tenant, who had lived in the house for about two years, absconded.
Odwa is settled in Durban and Akhona in Pretoria.
The three-bedroom house, with a double garage, thatched entertainment area and swimming pool, caught the attention of neighbour Dean Wilson when he noticed vagrants looting items from the abandoned house and posted a public appeal on Crime Spotter, to notify the owners.
The house had been stripped of all copper, bath tubs, toilet cisterns and a front aluminium door.
Christelle Ndungane, speaking to the Dispatch on behalf of the family, said the tenant had left with no communication. “We only noticed something was up towards the end of March when the tenant, who had been paying rent consistently for two years, suddenly stopped paying.
“After several calls to speak to the tenant, we visited the house and knocked because we do not have other keys to the house, but the battery for the garage door was not working and that is how we entered.
“To our surprise two taps near the garage had been stolen and water was gushing out. It had flooded the lower part of the house.
Ndungane said they reported the matter to the Beacon Bay police, who later referred them to the Cambridge Police Station where a “vacant house” case was opened.
Police spokesman Mzuku Fatyela confirmed a case of burglary had been opened by Akona Ndungane.
Akona flew into East London yesterday for a meeting with an insurance company which had not attended to the matter until yesterday.
“We had no intentions to sell the house because we are from East London and we had decided to invest in property, especially because we might want to come back one day, but now it’s mostly unlikely because I am happily settled in Pretoria and so is Odwa in Durban.
“After many people had approached us about selling the house, we are finally giving in and have accepted an offer from an East London couple who viewed the house when we still had a tenant there.”
Akona said they were waiting for the insurance company to fix the house before the prospective new owner settled in.
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