The attack on the 77-year-old Mr. Martin Neal of the farm Droogekloof in the Warmbaths district no doubt illustrates that farm attacks have led to racism and hatred against whites.

The deputy chairman of TAU SA’s Waterberg District Agricultural Union, Mr. Henk van den Graaf, who was on the scene and with Mr. Neal spoke about the attack, saying four suspects during the night broke into Mr. Neal’s house and attacked him in his bedroom.

They assaulted him so badly that his ribs broke, he sustained head injuries, and his jaw was broken. They threw him to the ground and tied his hands and feet with shoelaces. They threw a blanket over his head and told him that they were going to shoot him, to which Mr. Neal asked why they wanted to do it and what he did wrong. The suspects replied in English, “Because we do not like white people.”

However, they did not shoot him but left him on the cold floor and stole his two handguns, television, computer, mobile phone, safety radio and his Toyota RAV 4 vehicle.

Mr. Neal, who usually walks with a cane, could not get up from the cold ground and spent several hours there until his domestic worker found him.

The farm’s gate was not broken, and the lock was unlocked so that the suspects could easily get into the property and easily get out with the vehicle.

Mr. Van den Graaf said the police took hours to get there. “Mr. Neal was already long gone by the time the ambulance arrived, and the HPG security company completed their investigation at the scene before the police arrived a few hours later. The two constables of the uniform branch were extremely arrogant and unprofessional, and eventually drove recklessly away from the scene.” Deon Beukes, the chairman of the Community Police Forum, who was on the scene, has summoned complaints against the two black constables with their senior.

Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger

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