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January 23, 2016

#ATTACK: Ex-Bok’s night of terror after blacks invaded their holiday home and beat, stabbed & robbed them

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Former Springbok and Free State rugby player Gerrie Sonnekus yesterday described how an idyllic fishing break with two friends in Port Alfred ended in a nightmare.
This was when thugs invaded their holiday home and beat, stabbed and robbed them.
GERRIE SONNEKUS
GERRIE SONNEKUS
Mthuthuzeli Mbaba, 29, Twin Kondile, 29 Lukhanya Tsotsi, 27 and Odwa Best, 26 have all been charged with attempted murder and armed robbery and have pleaded not guilty.
Sonnekus, and Free State friends Billy Zaaiman and Andre Cleghorn, had been holidaying in Port Alfred in June last year when they were attacked and robbed at knife-point.
All three men are in their sixties.
Testifying in Afrikaans, the softly spoken Sonnekus told the Port Alfred Regional Court how he woke late at night after a busy day out fishing to the sound of desperate shouting.
From then on things were a blur. There were already men in his room and he “instinctively” fought them off in the “hopes of subduing them”, he said. But outside his room he found that both his friends had already been overpowered and severely injured by the gang.
After that he remembers little, until he woke up trussed in a chair with blood pouring from stab wounds to his head and back, and under his eye.
He pointed to Mbaba as the leader who had done most of the talking.
He also remembered Best as the man who had stood over a severely injured, partially conscious and prostrate Zaaiman. Each time Zaaiman attempted to sit up, he said, Best would kick him in the head and shout “stay down you dog”. He said he was also confident Kondile and Tsotsi had been present although he could not recollect their respective roles that night.
Asked by state prosecutor Hennie van Heerden how the violent night had affected him, Sonnekus said: “It was very traumatic. Every time I have had to talk about it I feel emotionally overwhelmed.”
Mbaba and Kondile’s defence attorney Katja Offerman said both men would deny they had been at the holiday home or that they committed the crimes of which they were accused.
She questioned Sonnekus’s identification of the two men, and said that judging from the amount of blood under the chair to which Sonnekus had been tied, he must have had blood streaming down his face.
Sonnekus said this was true. “When I later looked in the bathroom mirror I couldn’t even recognise myself.”
Tsotsi and Best’s defence attorney Angela Muller also suggested Sonnekus had been mistaken in his identification of her clients but Sonnekus was adamant his memory was accurate.
http://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/ex-boks-night-of-terror/

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