Afrikaner campers attacked in Brits Life-partners Jackie Coomber and Tessa de Villiers, two teen sons attacked by four black men at Brits campsite and brutally beaten but SAPS refused to respond… ------------------ Afrikaans family struggled for three days to report armed attack to police: BRITS – Nov 2 2010 – Jackie Coomber’s ear was nearly chopped off and her arm was broken when she fiercely fought to protect her family from four black men armed with a panga and pick handles at a Brits campsite. While Jackie Coomber, 38, (on picture) was wrestling with the attackers, her wife, 37-year-old Tessa de Villiers, covered their 13-year-old sons, Anton de Villiers and Martin Matthee with her body to protect them and keep them calm. The family from Brits were attacked while they were asleep in their tent at the Trans Magalies caravan park on Friday night. Mrs Coomber’s right ear had to be reattached after the attack. Doctors also operated on her broken right arm to repair the nerves in her hand. Some of her teeth were also knocked loose and her body is covered in bruises from all the beating she endured. De Villiers said they took the boys to go fishing at the caravan park on Friday.“I woke up at midnight when I heard the tent’s zip being opened.“When I looked up, I saw four men in the tent. One of them had a panga and the other three had pick handles.†The men went straight for Coomber. “They told us to be quiet in English,†Coomber said. “I said they can take everything, but they started beating me while I was still lying on my back.“I kicked at them and the only thing that kept going through my mind was that I had to protect my family. “At least I managed to pay them back with a few nice kicks and a good beating. In the process, I even saved Tessa’s handbag,†Coomber said.“When Jackie collapsed next to me and everything went quiet, I ran to get help,†De Villiers said. The family struggled for three days to report the incident to the police. De Villiers said a police official who was also camping there called the local police, but they never responded to the emergency calls. ‘Brits and Hartbeespoort police refused to let me report the incident…’ “Both the Brits police and the Hartbeespoort police refused to let me report the incident. At the Brits police station, a police official told me they ‘don’t have any stationery, and that I can’t report the incident on behalf of Jackie’ - who was sedated at the time - anyway. I went to the Brits police station with a journalist from the local newspaper, the Brits Pos, on Monday. It was only then that they finally helped me. The police took Jackie’s statement that same afternoon,†De Villiers said. Brigadier Mokhele Seboloki, station commander, earlier told Beeld they are now ‘investigating charges of armed robbery and attempted murder’. The attackers fled only with three cellphones and De Villiers's car keys. In response to our own enquiries at Censorbugbear-Reports.blogspot.com , the SAPS commissioner in Brits reportedly was ‘very upset’ about the lax response of his employees and ‘is now investigating who was involved.’
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Campers-attacked-with-panga-and-picks-20101102 In response to my own enquiries regarding the behaviour by the Brits SAPS, I obtained the following comment from Dolf Dreyer, editor of Madibeng Pulse: “Dit is inderdaad 'n baie swak vertoning deur die SAPD dat die klaers so moes sukkel om die klagtes te lê, maar selfs die afrikaner volksparty se eie berig bevat geen inligting wat bevestig dat die polisie se optrede rassisties was nie. Die klaers - of die volksparty - maak daardie afleiding aangesien die klaers wit en die SAPD lede swart was. Ons het onlangs berig oor 'n mnr Tommy Wakeford wat 'n verklaring in Afrikaans wou aflê en hy is toe gesê gaan kyk maar daar in die gang of iemand jou kan verstaan. hy het dit tereg as rassisties beskou en ons het so geskryf. daar was ook so 'n jaar gelede 'n swart vrou wat op die vrydagaand verkrag is en sy het tot die dinsdagoggend moes sukkel om medies ondersoek te word – iets wat om verskillende redes binne ure gedoen moes wees. in hierdie geval was die klaer swart en die sapd lede swart en die uiterste pligs versuim kon dus nie aan rassisme toegeskryf word nie. in die huidige geval was die swart polisie kommissaris by Brits baie ontsteld oor sy lede se optrede en hy het gesê hy gaan uitvind wie btrokke is en hulle laat ondersoek. Dieselfde kommissaris het etlike maande gelede 'n memorandum ontvang van boere wat oor plaasaanvalle gekla het en daarna daadwerklike stappe geneem om polisiëring op te knap met mannekrag, toerusting en pattrollies. Die bewering onder die opskrif van afrikaner volksparty se webwerf maak sonder enige substantiëring is onproduktief en dit skaad goeie verhoudings wat brood nodig is vir die gesamentlike optrede teen misdaad. Jy sal merk dat die voorval ook in Beeld gepubliseer is en daar is geen sprake van rassisme nie. Ddie redakteur Tallie Taljaard van Brits Pos het aan my genoem dat alhoewel hy 'n joernalis saam met die vroue gestuur het om die klagte te lê, “het hy nie rassisme opgemerk nie maar wel laksheid van die polisie om hulle werk te doen.†beste groete,dolf dreyer,redakteur.Madibengpulse.see:
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