Careful out there

Posted on November 27th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Take A Walk On The Live Side, You Might Not Care But We Do.

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A word of warning for anyone gigging in South Africa. Watch your back!

28 Year Old Johan Engelbrecht - sound engineer to Shane McCallaghan - was robbed by six men outside a pub in Bloemfontein. He was stabbed four times and left for dead; fortunately being found and taken to hospital by a punter.

“Six men got out of the bakkie and ran towards me. I wanted to run away or jump over a wall, but they were too fast.”

“They surrounded me, searched my pockets and took R1 000 and my new cellphone. The next moment one of them stabbed me in the arm from behind. They threw me on the ground. I fought for my life. When I wanted to fight back, they stabbed me three times with a knife and screwdriver in the back,” he said.

Bloemfontein is the capital city of the Free State Province of South Africa. The city’s Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning “place of cheetahs” although it’s poetically known as “the city of roses”.

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