{"id":353346,"date":"2017-09-13T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T22:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=353346"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:24:15","slug":"__trashed-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/__trashed-20\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa student fights to keep thesis during robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"
The prospect of losing the only copy of her master’s thesis during a robbery was just too much for one South African student to bear.<\/p>\n
Noxolo Ntusi, 26, grappled with armed attackers to hold on to it during the incident in Johannesburg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“There’s no way I will let them take it,” she told the BBC.<\/p>\n
But she also said her actions were “not very smart” and advised others to give robbers what they ask for. “You can always write again,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Ntusi, a medical scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service, had her molecular zoology master’s thesis on a hard drive when a car drew up beside her and two men jumped out, one brandishing a gun.<\/p>\n
But while the attackers were able to take her lunch bag, Ms Ntusi refused to let go of the bag containing the hard drive.<\/p>\n
“I was thinking about my masters. I’m almost done with what I’m writing, there’s no way I will let them take it,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I was just pulling myself into a ball. They were trying to put me in the car, I think, but I made myself so heavy that they just gave up.”<\/p>\n
During the attack, one of the robbers pressed a gun to her head and repeatedly threatened to shoot her.<\/p>\n