What followed was 10 minutes of hectic action that ended in a police shootout and the death of one of the intruders.
‘I had slept in the downstairs room and my fiancé was upstairs,’ said victim Johan Oberholzer.
‘I had just finished packing the bakkie with all our wedding gear and was carrying the last item, a cooler box, when the men entered.
‘Three had pistols and one held a rusty knife to my head.
‘They grabbed whatever else was lying there and one went upstairs.