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Travel is dangerous for Afrikaners

 

Afrikaans woman assaulted on train while scores of men look on and simply do nothing…

Jul 3 2009 RANDFONTEIN, South Africa.

Nothnagel Tanya AttackedTrainRandfonteinJune302009 This is Mrs Tanya Nothnagel, a bank clerk who was assaulted and beaten up in full view of a wagon-load of male passengers – who did nothing to help the Afrikaans woman. Beeld journalist Cobus Coetzee writes that 44-year-old Mrs Nothnagel was travelling on the train from Johannesburg to her home in Randfontein, when a ‘middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a well-known supermarket group” assaulted her, beat her in the face and kicked her.

The train left just after 5pm from Park Station. She was assaulted about 45 minutes into the journey while travelling between the Horison- and Princess railway stations. “He and his girlfriend reeked of alcohol and were occupying the entire bench with just the two of them. When I asked them courteously to make room for me, he started yelling at me, beat me in the face, climbed on top of the bench and kicked me in the face.’  None of the other passengers did anything. They merely watched her get beaten up… “The train was jam-packed. There were men all over the place but nobody wanted to help me. Only after the attack did a man and woman help me.’ She climbed off at the Home Lake station outside Randfontein. Her attacker and his girlfriend remained on the train. A week after the attack, her cheeks and eyebanks still are swollen and blue. But she’s refusing to be intimidated and still takes the same train every day, she said. The security on the trains is a huge problem, she told Beeld. “There are no guards on the trains, just at the railway stations’. Police captain Appel Ernst confirms that she’s lodged a formal complaint, which is being investigated by the Roodepoort police station, he said. Metrorail spokesman Sibusiso Ngomane said they ‘can’t afford to place security guards in every train wagon’. http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2535769,00.html

Chris Joubert dropped to his knees and thanked God...  

  July 3 2009 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090703052016777C630332

By Thandi Skade , The Star. As he looked down the barrel of the gun, two thoughts occupied his mind: never again seeing his four-month-old daughter, and that the trigger would be pulled.

  • "Get out, get out!" the gun-wielding man shouted at Chris Joubert. Snapping out of his thoughts, Joubert obeyed. The man jumped into the car and an accomplice got into the passenger seat and they drove off.
    'I dropped to my knees and thanked God for saving my life'

On Wednesday afternoon, Joubert, a Boksburg Audi dealership employee, escaped a hijacking at a petrol station in Boksburg unharmed, but his client's new silver Audi Q5 2.0T had gone. He had taken the SUV to a petrol station to be filled before it was to be collected by the owner later that day. "As I was opening the door, a man - on his haunches - approached me. Next thing I saw a gun in my face," Joubert told The Star on Thursday.

"All I kept thinking about was my wife, never seeing my daughter, who is exactly four months old today, and waiting for that shot to go off.  "I was so shocked by what had happened. I dropped to my knees and thanked God for saving my life."

Joubert said he had alerted vehicle tracing firm Tracker, which activated the tracking device that had been installed just that morning. Police units immediately picked up the signal. The vehicle was recovered on the N3 highway travelling north towards the London Road off-ramp in less than 15 minutes," said Tracker communications manager Gareth Crocker. Boksburg Constable Cathy Meyer confirmed that one man had been arrested on Wednesday and the vehicle recovered. The suspect - who had been released on bail two weeks ago after being caught in possession of a stolen vehicle in Booysens – is having his case dealt with at the Boksburg Magistrate's Court. http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20090703052016777C630332