Afrikaner mine-shiftboss Jan Swanepoel injured in black-racist attack by Welkom official and AMCU trade-unionist:
http://www.vistanews.co.za/172877/news-details/man-deur-munispale-werker-verwurg
By Alet van der Walt, VisaNews: "Was this a robbery, a black-racist attack or was Mashimong Mine shiftboss Jan Swanepoel the victim of the war between trade unions AMCU and NUM?
Photo and story by Alet van der Walt.
2014-08-07 WELKOM, South Africa. South African journalist Alet van der Walt interviewed Jan and Mariaan Swanepoel for her publication Vista after Jan Swanepoel was badly assaulted by two black males.
He was also cursed for 'white dog' and 'white pig' and the two men who had attacked him had not tried to rob him. And after he lodged charges, the public prosecutor has been strangely reticient to charge them in a court of law, she writes.
One attacker is a well-known local NUM-trade unionist and the other a municipal employee.
The Afrikaans couple now are struggling with the question whether this was just 'an ordinary robbery, a racist attack or did Jan become the victim of two warring trade unions, AMCU and NUM?"
Cursed for 'white dog', 'white pig' and the black attackers threatened to kill him: there was no attempt to rob him:
The two black males accosted Swanepoel last week at a parking lot of th ENB-building. Swanepoel said they assaulted him so badly that he has again injured the same foot which had just recovered after a mine-accident.
He was unable to return to work because of this injury and suffers another income-loss.
The two men - who are known by Swanepoel - kept cursing him for 'white dog' and 'white pig' and kept threatening to kill him. Swanepoel is involved in the trade-union activities at the mine
and does not exclude the possibility that he was caught in the crossfire between the two warring trade unions, NUM and Amcu.
He said he had just stopped at the ENB building and climbed from his car when a vehicle drove up the wrong-way of the one-way road and stopped next to him.
The two men jumped from this car after it screeched to a halt and stormed him.
They pushed him down on the ground, held him down and one of the attackers grabbed him by the throat, trying to strangle him.
Jan got loose and fled to a nearby office. While they were plucking him around they cursed him repeatedly with racist language such as 'white pig' and white dog' he said.
The men chased him into the office, plucked open the door and continued to beat and assault him, tearing his shirt from his body.
Jan sprayed the two with teargas to try and get them away from him - and only then did they stop assaulting him, he said.
What followed was even more distressing: after a bystander called the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Welkom, the Swanepoel couple went to the police station in Jan Hofmeyr Road to lodge a formal
complaint against the two men. When he arrived there he was told that the two blacks had launched a charge against Swanepoel 'for spraying them with teargas without any reasons'.
The State Prosecutor has already decided to throw out the case against Swanepoel however a date for the arraignment of his two black-racist attackers still has to be set, he said.
Welkom attorney Walter du Toit said "it appears as if everything possible is being done to stop those men from appearing in court for assaulting my client.'
He is preparing a civil case against the two attackers, whose names are known to the Vista journalist.
http://www.vistanews.co.za/172877/news-details/man-deur-munispale-werker-verwurg
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