On 3 October 2015, I climbed over my own gate and an hour later I had three police cars with eight policemen and a Brigadier in my house.
I was helped to go to Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital where the blow I received on my head when I was assaulted by the illegal person who had taken possession of my house, through a mistake made by an estate agent, was x-rayed. The police took down the particulars of the incident.
However, I never heard of my assailant again …
No police report, no court procedure followed either … just another unsolved case. Today I reported that trespassers had entered my property and made a fire in one of the rooms. The neighbour called the estate agent who sent me photos.
The police refused to go and take finger-prints or investigate.
When they heard that I live in Cape Town, they said, “Fly to Krugersdorp and come and make a court case against the trespassers.”
I told them how the SAPS had descended on my house in October 2015 because I, the owner, had climbed over the gate, but they were not willing to let me speak to a Captain or Brigadier.
It must be a new interpretation of the law that even when your property is locked vagrants and trespassers have a right to break in and spend the night burning the place down if they so wish.
Simple justice and the request that they keep an eye on the place is now the joke of the station.
No justice, no protection and no solution to the “entitlement factor” of our criminal comrades.
Long live Amandla!
