Alleged racist slurs, people chased with an axe and a bloody arm and back are way more than a man from Zwelethemba ordered from KFC in the wee hours of Sunday 3 July.
Xola Letaba and his friends had gone to the takeaway in High Street between 03:00 and 04:00 to order food, but little did they know their night would result in a racist attack and ultimately end at the local hospital.
“The queue for the drive-through was long, so I parked more to the side of the entrance to allow for cars to pass and went to the ordering window on foot,” Letataba related.
As he ordered his food he saw a white Toyota Hilux bakkie speeding into the driveway.
“[The two men in it] quickly realised they had taken the wrong entrance because they faced oncoming traffic. They then reversed out and went to the correct entrance, where my car stood.”
According to Letaba, the two men driving the white bakkie stopped behind his car and asked: “Wie se kar is die?” “Wie is die [k-word]?”
Letaba then walked back to his car to deal with the ensuing ruckus. He let the two men know it was his car and he would move it out of the way, which he did.
He parked in KFC’s parking lot.
“After parking my car I saw they were still swearing at me and went up to them asking them to stop.”
Meanwhile, another white bakkie stopped two vehicles behind the bakkie. Letaba said one of its occupants left the vehicle carrying a sharp object.
“I also approached him in a quest to take the sharp object away, but failed to, which is when he stabbed me four times in my left arm, and then chaos ensued.”
He said another guy driving the white bakkie fetched an axe from his car and chased everyone who was in the drive-through.
A couple of cars in front of Letaba was another group of young people from Zwelethemba who assisted Letaba by taking him to the hospital.
“The most disheartening part of the whole situation is the fact that minutes before the situation got out of control I had asked the cashiers if the CCTV camera was working, and they said it was.
“But the following day I went to the store to ask for footage of the incident and I was told the CCTV cameras were not working due to load shedding.”
Letaba has opened a case with the police, but was still waiting for feedback from them.
