“They ignored our screams for help” – teachers
Women explain how they were attacked at a 'stop and go' section on the R102.
Drivers, pedestrians and street workers ignored a woman’s screams for help, while her friend was being attacked on the R102 last Wednesday afternoon.
Keshree Subramunier and her friend Melanie Govender, both teachers in Stanger, were driving to their homes in Shakaskraal together around 3pm.
They slowed down at a ‘stop and go’ on the R102 near Ntshaweni.
Govender said her passenger door was suddenly flung open.
“Two well built guys in their twenties were suddenly next to me. One of them climbed into the car, pushed me into the seat and screamed at me to give him my handbag. He grabbed the bag, but I refused to let it go,” said Govender.
“He kept pulling my bag and stabbed me in my left shoulder, but I refused to give in.”
The man then noticed her gold necklace and pointed it out to the second man.
“I told him it is my prayer necklace and that he cannot have it, but he grabbed it. Luckily it broke and fell into my top.”
In the meantime, Subramunier was hooting to try get the people around them to come to their aid.
“When the second man saw the keys in the ignition, he tried to go for them,” said Subramunier.
“I grabbed the keys, got out of the car and started screaming for help. No one did anything. The road was so busy and yet everyone just ignored me and what was happening to my friend.”
The second man then grabbed her cellphone, which was in the driver’s door, and ran away.
When it was their turn to go through, Subramunier jumped back into the car and drove off, with the other attacker still in the car.
“Only once we passed the woman who manned the ‘stop and go’ did he jump out, luckily without my handbag.”
Govender was left with bruises to her neck, arms and legs and a cut on her shoulder.
They opened a case with the Stanger SAPS.
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