Saturday, 28 May 2011
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by A Stuijt | 
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by A Stuijt |
“After crashing his car trying to
flee from an unmarked car with three black gunmen who did not identify
themselves as metro-cops, the Afrikaner high school boy played dead. He woke up
from a coma days later in hospital: with severe gunshot wounds and facial
injuries… “
On April 18 2008,
James Geldart, then the headboy at the Afrikaans High School Brandwag in
Boksburg, was accosted by a group of armed black men in a car and ordered to
pull over. He fled, terrified that the armed black men inside the
unmarked car may be hijackers. They were Boksburg metro-cops, instead… but
Geldart didn’t know that.
He crashed his car in
his haste to flee – and pretended to play dead. He woke up in hospital with
mysterious bullet wounds and severe facial injuries days later. The City
Times in Boksburg said in their article that he was in a coma for a few days.’
The three unnamed metro-cops charged with his attempted murder have managed to get the case
postponed ever since. Their next court appearance is on June 28 2011.
Case has
dragged since April 18 2008 – and the cops are still working: packing guns:
Three as yet still
unnamed black Boksburg/Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police officers, charged with
the attempted murder of the young Afrikaner, have ever since then, managed to
get this case postponed repeatedly. And again, on May 26
2011 they appeared in Benoni Regional Court – still unnamed – and the case was
once again postponed, this time to June 28.The officers' lawyers said they had
‘approached the Director of Public Prosecutions regarding the matter and were
waiting to hear the outcome…’ the court heard. The three officers have been
charged with attempted murder, and also with discharging a firearm in a
built-up area and negligent use of a firearm.
Shortly after the
young, unarmed, defenceless Afrikaner was shot inside his car under such
inexplicable circumstances, the Boksburg metropolitian police spokesman Wilfred
Kgasago assured the news media that: "The SAPS initiated investigations on
the matter. Investigations were in-depth and proved convoluted and protracted.
The sensitivity, as well as the gravity of the matter, debars the EMPD from
commenting at this juncture, as it does not wish to say anything that could
have a bearing on the case. Circumstances surrounding the case, as well as
the stringent procedures that had to be adhered to in the process of
investigations, necessitated that our internal investigations be put on hold
until the courts finalise the matter."
Geldart has since
moved to Durban. He was interviewed by City Times in
2010 after yet another postponement. He said at that time that he still
bore the scars of that Friday morning attack."I am happy that the
matter is in court, it has been a while, so I am happy with the news," he
reportedly said “I have been going for examinations and tests and need surgery
for my facial injuries."
The three unnamed
Boksburg metro-cops first appeared in the Benoni Regional Court on
Wednesday, September 15 2010 – more than two years after Geldart was shot. And
the case has been dragging ever since – and these metrocops are still on duty,
carrying guns…
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