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Panga Attack

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HEAD WOUND: Even after being hacked with a panga, Andre Adriaan managed to fight off robbers who attacked him and his friends at Cob Hole on the Kowie River on September 19 last year
COB HOLE

Panga attack case reopened after Talk of the Town’s queries

No arrests made, even after man with gunshot wounds found in bush where attack happened A week after Talk of the Town’s queries asking why SAPS had closed the case investigating the second panga attack at Cob Hole on the Kowie River last…

  • Jon Houzet
DEEP CUT: On September 19, panga-wielding robbers cut Andre Adriaan so badly in his arm he required 15 stitches. He has lost feeling in one of his fingers and has a pins and needles sensation in two other fingers
CRIME

Panga attacks still unresolved

A previous topic in this column was pondering how the police formulate charges after a crime has been committed. This becomes pertinent again in the case of the second panga attack at Cob Hole on the Kowie River, in which a suspect is now…

  • Jon Houzet
GAPING WOUND: When robbers attacked a family fishing on the banks of the Kowie River on September 9, Piet Bissett, 75, was cut so badly with a panga it removed a piece of his scalp
DOMESTIC ABUSE

Root out violent offenders

The propensity for violence in our community, whether from strangers or people we know, is frightening and disturbing. Just weeks apart, there have been three horrific incidents in Ndlambe. Shortly after two separate panga attacks at the…

  • Jon Houzet