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Afrikaner shopper, bystander shot by irate guard at shopping centre
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Beukes father and son went to Game shopping centre on Christmas eve to get their pictures taken, and get shot by an irate security guard…
Dec 29 2008 Pietersburg/Polokwane. Game shopping centre guard Thomas Mathebula, 38, appeared on remand in the local magistrate's court on two charges of attempted murder after shooting at an Afrikaner family which was standing at a pillar, eating pies. The guard;s shot truck salesman Marthinus Beukes, 28, penetrating his left lung -- and the same bullet then entered the leg of bystander Mr Extra Mashita.
Beeld journalist Marietie Louw-Carstens, who interviewed the family, said Christmas eve became a nightmare for then when they had only gone to the shopping centre to have their family pictures taken. His father Hennie said that afterwards, the family had bought pies and took them outside, standing together at a pillar near the entrance to eat them.
The guard, from the Group 4-Securicar company, drove up and stopped with his cash-transport van at the entrance while the family was standing nearby, amongst a crowd of other (black bystanders), eating their pies. The guard walked up only to the white family and rudely demanded that they had to leave at once because he 'wanted to walk there'. The guard was enroute to the Absa cash-machine, he said.
Mr Beukes junior did not take kindly to the guard's rude attitude in singling out his family, pointing out that many other people were also standing around there, and that he saw no reason why he and his family were singled out with these demands that only their family would have to leave. They were just standing there eating pies, doing nothing wrong, he told the guard.
The guard then walked up to Mr Beukes, grabbed him by the belt from behind and dragged him away from the pillar - and to stop him from further assaulting him, Mr Beukes junior then hit the guard in the mouth. The guard stopped dragging him. Mr Beukes senior told the newspaper that guard then walked to the armoured cash-van, fetched his gun, walked up to the Afrikaner family, stood about a meter away from his son and had simply fired a shot into his chest without saying another word. "I thought he was going to shoot me too,' said the father.
As it happened, the same bullet which went through Mr Beukes' lung, then exited and struck Gauteng resident Mr Extra Mashita, who had also stood nearby, as did many other people.
Mr Mashita required emergency surgery at the local hospital to have the bullet removed from his leg.
Meanwhile, Mathebula, released on R1,000 bail, was ordered to return for his next court date on 4 February. He has now laid counter-charges of alleged assault against both Beukes men.
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2446857,00.html
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