Afrikaner couple fear for their safety after threats by black traffic officials when the couple were driving through Zeerust on Sunday 8 March at 13h30. The officials threatened them and cursed them for 'Boers.'
Veronica and Jan Nieuwoudt said they are terrified after the confrontation, which started when a female traffic official stepped in front of their car, a Chevrolet Spark and ordered them to stop. "She went and sat beneath a tree, screaming at me to bring my driver's license,' said Jan. "I walked to her. She claimed we were driving too quickly and started writing in her warrants-book.' Veronica asked the woman to identify herself as she did not wear her name tag. The woman replied: "Haven't you ever lost something'. I was suspicious and decided to take her picture so that I can find out if she was a traffic official or not." The woman slapped her telephone away. Then an official who was sitting at the site registering the speed-camera told Veronica she was not allowed to 'see the reading' of the speed the Nieuwoudt's apparently were driving at - adding that he 'didn't know how to work the machine'. She nevertheless took a picture of the meter reading and showed that it registered 52km in a 60km zone, said Jan. Then a third person, a male in another traffic-official uniform, walked up, cursed Mrs Nieuwouodt for a 'Boer when she asked his name and then shoved the Afrikaner woman physically. Jan said he intervened, asking the man to stop shoving his wife. "The official pushed his face into mine and said in Afrikaans: "You are going to fall." I replied that 'I didn't think I was going to fall and chuckled, trying to defuse their aggression. I took the speed-ticket she had written out for me and we drove away. Veronica and Jan now are very worried because these aggressive officials have all their particulars. Veronica had submitted a formal complaint to the Zeerust traffic department. However the director of community services Tiro Seleka, in Zeerust, said 'we are not going to respond to her complaint because she was merely a passenger in the car'. He claimed that only the 'accused man' can lodge a formal complaint. The Beeld.com journalist who wrote the article that Seleka had also commented that "Veronica can be happy she wasn't locked up because she tried to intervene in a trafficial carrying out her duties and took pictures (on a public road) without permission. "
The official "reportedly doesn't have a name-tag 'because she was recently married and needs a new one made with her new name".
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2015-03-17-egpaar-vrees-n-padvalk-voorval
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