South Africa 🇿🇦 student fights to keep thesis 📁 during robbery

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.

Noxolo Ntusi, 26, grappled with armed attackers to hold on to it during the incident in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

But she also said her actions were "not very smart" and advised others to give robbers what they ask for.

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.

They were trying to put me in the car, I think, but I made myself so heavy that they just gave up."

UCJ, UNILORIN.