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Nadine Gordimer assaulted

JOHANNESBURG: South African Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer was robbed and locked in a store room by thieves who assaulted her in her home, the police said.

Ms. Gordimer, 83, did not sustain serious injuries when she was assaulted on Thursday for refusing to hand over her wedding ring. She was robbed of cash and jewellery when three unknown men gained entrance to her home.

Ms. Gordimer, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is noted for her novels and short stories about the inhumanity of apartheid.

The police said that the unarmed men held up Ms. Gordimer and her domestic worker. One of the men took Ms. Gordimer to a bedroom and demanded she open the safe.

She would not part with her wedding ring from her marriage to art dealer Reinhold Cassirer, who died in 2001. They then locked both Ms. Gordimer and her domestic worker in a store room.

The domestic worker managed to press a panic button, triggering an alert with a security company.

Guards arrived about half an hour later and released the women. A case of house robbery and common assault was opened but no arrests had been made. — AP

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