translated by Adriana Stuijt November 30 2013 for Farmitracker archives:
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W.o Sankoela Lepota and serg Malose Makonyane from Zuma protection-unit bailed at R3000, charged with attempted murder and firing a weapon while road-terrorising Afrikaner Enslin couple
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Afrikaans article Beeld by Susan Cilliers, court reporter: POTCHEFSTROOM. headline: "Terror on Road': Two SAPS members of the Zuma presidential protection unit briefly appeared in magistrate's court here on November 29 2013, charged with
attempted murder relating to a shooting incident with an Afrikaner couple in Augustus on the N12 freeway near Bloemhof.
Warrant officer Sankoela Lepota and sergeant Malose Makonyane ;'s case was transferred to the regional court, where they were ordered to appear next month. Their R3,000 bail was extended.
During their court-appearance, sergeant Makonyane, described as 'aggressive', slapped down the camera of the female Beeld photographer, threatening her verbally, saying 'there will be trouble if you take any more pictures of me.'
They are also charged with reckless driving and pointing a loaded firearm at an unarmed couple during the incident just outside Potchefstroom, reports Ms Cilliers."It is reported that the two men were on duty during the incident,' she writes.
During their bail-application, there was testimony that Lepota and Makonyane were travelling from Pretoria to Kimberley when they fired shots at a green Uno vehicle being driven by complainant Mr
Schalk Enslin. The Uno's left-front wheel was struck by a bullet. No-one was injured. The two police officer then allegedly drove away from the crime-scene
without providing their personal particulars and without reporting the incident to the SAPS.
They indicated that they would deny guilt. Lepota claimed that he was 'the passenger and didn't shoot.' The driver Manyane said his defence will be that
'the Uno driver tried to push my car off the road and that the Uno's driver had pointed a firearm at me.
Beeld newspaper quotes the complainant Schalk Enslin as saying that he does not own any firearms - and that the two black police officers were 'terrorising me and my wife Nedine in the car with me.'
He said the two men, inside an unmarked white Volkswagen Polo, started riding their bumper, chasing towards them at high speed.
'It was the driver (Makonyane) who tried to push us off the road while glaring at us,' Enslin told the journalist.
Enslin told her how he had pulled off the road after the Polo-driver rolled down his window, pointed a firearm directly at Enslin and fired a shot.
As it happened, the scene was witnessed by many people in the vicinity. "They started crowding around us and the two (police officers)
then drove away at high speed. The SAPS in Potchefstroom arrested them near Bloemhof. During their arrest they were identified as police officers assigned to Zuma's protection unit.
http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-11-30-terreur-op-pad-polisielede-in-hof
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original Afrikaans article:
Wo Sankoela Lepota and serg Malose Makonyane from Zuma protection-unit bailed at R3000, charged with terrorising Afrikaner Enslin couple
‘Terreur’ op pad: Polisielede in hof SUSAN CILLIERS Saterdag 30 November 2013Potchefstroom. – Twee lede van die polisie se presidensiële beskermingseenheid het gister vlugtig in die landdroshof hier verskyn op aanklag van poging tot moord weens ’n skietery in Augustus op die N12.
Ao. Sankoela Lepota en sers. Malose Makonyane se saak is gister na die stad se streekhof oorgeplaas, waar hulle volgende maand sal verskyn. Hulle is vroeër op borgtog van R3 000 elk vrygelaat.
Makonyane het die kamera van Beeld se fotograaf gister afgedruk en gewaarsku daar sal “moeilikheid” wees as sy nog foto’s van hom neem.Hulle staan ook tereg op aanklag van roekelose bestuur en die rig van ’n vuurwapen.Die twee was sover bekend aan diens tydens die voorval net buite Potchefstroom.
In hul borgtogaansoek is getuig Lepota en Makonyane was van Pretoria na Kimberley op pad toe hulle glo skote op ’n groen Uno gevuur het.Die Uno se linkervoorwiel is getref, maar niemand is beseer nie. Die twee polisielede het glo van die toneel weggery sonder om hul besonderhede te verskaf of die saak aan te meld.
Hulle het aangedui dat hulle skuld gaan ontken.Lepota beweer hy was net die passasier en het nie geskiet nie. Mokonyane, die bestuurder, se verweer is dat die Uno se bestuurder hom van die pad probeer druk en ’n vuurwapen op hom gerig het.
Schalk Enslin, die Uno-bestuurder en klaer, het egter aan Beeld gesê hy besit nie ’n vuurwapen nie en Lepota en Makonyane het hom en sy vrou, Nedine, geterroriseer. ’n Ongemerkte wit Volkswagen Polo het van agter op hulle “afgejaag” en langs hulle inbeweeg. Die bestuurder het hulle van die pad probeer dwing en die insittendes het hulle aangegluur.
Enslin het van die pad afgetrek nadat die Polo-bestuurder sy ruit afgedraai, sy vuurwapen op Enslin gerig en ’n skoot na die Uno gevuur het.Ooggetuies het begin saamdrom en die twee polisielede het glo weggejaag. Hulle is later naby Bloemhof gearresteer.
http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-11-30-terreur-op-pad-polisielede-in-hof
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