{"id":53044,"date":"2023-07-07T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/diefstal-moord-en-die-k-woord-20230705-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:47:55","slug":"diefstal-moord-en-die-k-woord-20230705-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/paarlpost\/diefstal-moord-en-die-k-woord-20230705-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Diefstal, moord en die K-woord\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wat vir \u2019n biddende gesin tydens \u2019n maaltyd by \u2019n spogrestaurant op die Vrede en Lust-plaas in Simondium gelyk het soos \u2019n diefstal van \u2019n selfoon, het in \u2019n oogwink tot klagte van \u2019n rassistiese-aanval en poging tot moord ontaard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Menseregtekommissie ondersoek \u2019n rassistiese voorval by die restaurant op die wynlandgoed waarby \u2019n man en vrou betrokke was, berig <span>Die Burger<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die man en vrou is later as Sarel Meyer en Ntombizodwa Sephoko (40) geidentifiseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die voorval het reeds vroe\u00ebr vanjaar op \u2019n sonnige 16 April by die Savoye-restaurant geskied, waarna albei partye teenklagtes teen mekaar by die Groot-Drakenstein-polisie ingedien het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens die Wes-Kaapse polisiewoordvoerder, kapt. Frederick van Wyk, het Sephoko \u2019n saak van poging tot moord aanhangig gemaak nadat \u201c \u2019n groep mense besig was om te bid toe sy \u2019n selfoon op die vloer gewaar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sephoko beweer dat sy gewag het tot die groep klaar gebid het om te vra aan wie die selfoon, wat sy glo opgetel het, behoort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToe sy vra aan wie die selfoon behoort, is sy na bewering deur die beskuldigde aangeval en in die swembad gedruk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie beskuldigde het glo ook ingespring en haar begin verwurg en probeer verdrink. Die beskuldigde se vrou het toe aangesluit om haar man van die klaagster te skei,\u201d verduidelik Van Wyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2019n Teenklag van algemene aanranding en kwaadwillige saakbeskadiging is deur Meyer teen Sephoko geopen, voeg Van Wyk by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVolgens die klaer was hy en sy gesin op \u2019n plaas in Simondium. Die klaer het sy skoonma gevra om vir die kos te bid. Hy sien toe dat \u2019n onbekende vrou na bewering iets uit sy vrou se sak haal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meyer beweer dat Sephoko hom toe in die swembad gedruk en hom geklap het. Tydens di\u00e9 rumoer is die selfoon wat aan Meyer se vrou behoort, beskadig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video-opnames van die voorval, wat in \u2019n swembad op die landgoed uitgespeel het, is wyd op sosiale media versprei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die beeld is bewerig afgeneem terwyl die gespartel in die swembad slegs in die agtergrond gehoor kan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wat duidelik hoorbaar opgevang is, was \u2019n man wat skree: \u201cWat gaan jy s\u00ea? Jy f***** steel! . . . Jy gaan tronk toe, sussie!\u201d Dit terwyl \u2019n vrou op haar beurt skree: \u201cSorry, bhuti! Sorry, bhuti!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bewerings van rassisme word by die beskuldigings betrek vanwe\u00eb die K-woord glo teen Sephoko gebruik is. Sulke taal is egter nie in die video-opname hoorbaar nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daar is ook berig dat die kringtelevisie-beeldmateriaal reeds verwyder is teen die tyd wat die polisie ondersoek by die Savoye-restaurant ingestel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op die vraag waarom hulle n\u00e1 die voorval nie \u2019n poging aangewend het om die beeldmateriaal te prioritiseer en sodanig te bewaar nie, antwoord die bestuurder van die Savoye-restaurant, Etienne Buys: \u201cDie rede waarom ons geen poging gemaak het om die beeldmateriaal te hou nie is omdat die polisie reeds die Sondag (16 April) daar was, en beide partye met die samewerking van die polisie geskik het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar is aangedui dat daar geen verdere optrede sou wees nie,\u201d verduidelik Buys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volgens hom het Sephoko toe reeds erken dat sy wel gesteel het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDie party wat haar glo in die swembad ingeduik het, het ook om verskoning gevra. Dus het die polisie Sondagmiddag toe s\u00f3 die verklarings afgeneem en albei partye is huistoe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns is eers twee weke later weer deur die polisie genader en meegedeel dat die dame \u2019n saak van aanranding en poging tot moord gemaak het. Toe was dit egter te laat om die kringtelevisie-beeldmateriaal te herwin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buys noem verder die bestuur het voorheen al met soortgelyke \u201c<span>distract and steal<\/span>\u201d-bendes by die proelokaal te doen gehad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDis waarom ons die polisie laat kom het om die saak op die rekord te plaas en dit nie net self te hanteer het nie. 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