Afrikaner teacher Elna Middel illegally arrested over trumped-up 'stolen car' claims by two aggressive Zulu-cops
Wednesday Oct 12 2011 - In the ongoing harassment culture of white and Indian woman-drivers targetted by black South African cops, Afrikaans teacher Elna Middel of Elmelo was the latest to fall victim to these scamsters.On Saturday-afternoon, she was chased by two police cars and illegally kept in police-captivity by aggressive and threatening police officers for more than four hours with her son - because the police's faulty records had incorrectly marked her car as 'stolen'.
Mrs Elna Middel - who can prove that she has owned her car for ten years - was dragged off the road between the toll-gate and Middelburg at the Hendrina-turn off on Saturday-afternoon with her son.The police were reportedly very 'threatening and menacing' towards the white teacher. She said despite her assurances and providing documentary proof that the car had been in her continuous legal possession for the past ten years, and that all her records were accurate, the police ordered her to climb into the back of their car - and they also threatened to hand-cuff her son.The cops told her that her car 'was reported stolen in Witbank'. Her son speaks Zulu and understood the conversation which was going on between the two black officers about her, said Mrs Middel to Praag.co.za."This entire experience was very upsetting and humiliating. As a law-abiding citizen I was treated like a criminal.
"She was illegally held captive by the police between 15.30 tot 19.00 in a cell until a family-member intervened and she was freed.And the police then added fuel to the fire by refusing to return her car because it was 'listed in the system.'After long arguing the police undertook to return her car on Monday 'provided that SHE contact the police officer to 'get her car removed from the system'.She contacted the specific cop on Monday but his promise to 'look into the error' came to naught.Tuesday she personally went to the police unit in charge of stolen cars to 'get her car registration removed from the system' - but she was sent to the licensing office 'to get a clearance certificate'. By Wednesday, October 12 2011 her car was still listed as 'officially stolen' and the 'clearance officer' had not yet bothered to show up for work. Mrs Middel said she is a teacher with a low income, and very little time to waste on 'bureaucratic rubbish' like this. She's had to make countless phonecalls so that the police can correct their own computer records. I feel this is highly unfair.'
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