Survives with serious brain injuries: Jacques Kemp, 37, dad of three-year-old-son; assaulted for no apparent reason by four black males in Muldersdrift
6 Feb 2015 - Thirty-seven year old Jacques Kemp is recovering at his parental home in Johannesburg after he was brutally attacked and sustained severe head-injuries which have left him with amnesia and epilepsy.
He was helping family move in his bakkie that Friday-evening and was returning from Poortview to Krugersdorp when he was assaulted at a traffic light at 12h45. He was found unconscious and bleeding copiously by passing paramedics in his bakkie next to the Silverstar Casino Circle. The Muldersdrift police are only investigating a case of 'assault' but not of attempted murder.
The Roodepoort Record reported that a local resident witnessed how 'a group of young (*black) men in a red VW Polo had climbed from their car and assaulted Kemp who had also stepped out of his bakkie.
'He was assaulted most cruelly, hit four times with some iron pipe. The four then jumped into their vehicle and drove away,' the resident wrote on a facebook page.
'Kemp struggled back to his bakkie where he collapsed.'
It was found that he sustained serious head injuries. He required a four-hour operation to stop the bleeding after paramedics found him next to the road and took him to the Netcare hospital in Krugersdorp.
Reportedly Kemp suffers memory loss and remembers nothing of the incident, has troubled eyesight and is deaf in his left ear.
He will require rehabilitation and requires medication against epileptic attacks.
Nobody knows what really happened and nobody was arrested. The Drift Reaction unit has asked the media to publish the details so that eye-witnesses would come forward to tell them of the event. Kemp's wife Chrisna and their three-year-old son Wian are very shocked and struggle to come to terms with it.
"Wian doesn't understand why daddy doesn't come home,' Chrisna told Die Pos newspaper. She said he also is deaf in his left-ear now and that it will take him a long time to recover fully. "Until that moment we probably will never know exactly what happened. The Muldersdrift police station has opened a docket investigating an 'assault', but apparent not attempted murder. Mr Kemp and his family live in the Waterberg but he has a job in Johannesburg.
http://diepos.linmedia.co.za/articles/crime/29020/2015-02-06/groep-mans-val-glo-waterberger-aan
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