SAPS Zuma-protection unit members Sankoela Lepota and Malose Makonyane in court for attempted murder of Afrikaner Enslin couple
12:26 Nov 30 2013 Bloemhof, South Africa
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translated by Adriana Stuijt November 30 2013 for Farmitracker archives:-----------------
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.
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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