Afrikaner smallholders Jan 59, and Hermiena Venter 67, were nearly killed, and are left destitute made the vicious attack from two black men armed sticks, longknife and bricks at Jackaroo smallholdings, Witbank.
Jan 16 2014. It was reported ten days later in the Witbank News that the Afrikaner pensioner-couple was nearly killed in a vicious attack by two black male attackers on a dirt-road near the Jackaroo smallholdings on Monday 6 january.
Disabled Jan Venter's right arm and right leg were broken and he sustained serious injuries to his skull. He was already using crutches before this attack because of his disability.
Mrs Venter 's arm was cracked by one man bashing her with a heavy fighting-stick while she was trying to get the car-keys into the ignition.
She is still traumatized by the sight of blood streaming from her husband's headwounds across his face and shoulders and the groans as the men kicked and bashed her husband and struck at him with bricks.
She said she still is unable to sleep from the nightmares, and keeps seeing the men attacking her husband in her dreams.
Hermien and Jan were driving on a dirt-road enroute to the Jackaroo smallholdings to visit her son for the day after stopping at a shop. They drove past an empty site when two men suddenly rushed out and attacked their car, forcing them to stop.
They forced us into a narrow path which had a deep gully on the side, she said, describing that she was unable to drive quickly because of the gully.
"They tried to open our car doors and screamed at us to open them. We refused, she explained - but one man picked up a big boulder and bashed the window at her driver's side until it broke.
The man standing next to my door had a long, wide knife with him, she said. Her husband, with his arm still in plaster, said that
when he saw his wife in danger from the thugs breaking the window, he decided that he'd climb out of their car with his crutches.
But that's when her defenceless husband was attacked. One of the couple's dogs, Seuntjie, who rode in the car with them, jumped out when his boss got attack and tried to attack the people who were trying to kill the couple.
"Our little guy tried to fight back,' says Venter, but adds that the tiny dog got scared when one man grabbed him and he fled back into the car.
Meanwhile Hermien, still inside, was battling against the knifeman, stabbing and beating towards her with a stick.
"They opened the hood and the bonnet and started looting our stuff: one guy simply cut the battery cables and took out the car-battery.'
Hermien said the attackers demanded money while they were ripping the tools and the cooler box from the couple's car.
They took the couple's wallets containing a total of only R300 in cash, together with their identity documents. Jan had managed to hide their cellphones and after the thugs fled with their loot,
they called one of their children to come and help. Ten days later, and the couple say the recovery is slow. Jan's forehead still carries the slash-wounds where he was hacked at with sticks and bricks.
His leg is swollen because they had to insert iron pins to set the badly injured foot and leg.
"It's hard to manage with most of our children living so far away but they help where they can, said Hermien.
The damage to their car, the medical expenses have left them penniless: they will need help to get back on their feet again.
It is claimed that the SAPS are investigating the case but didn't find any suspect in or around the veld where they were attacked.
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