A petrol station owner is suing Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa for R100 million because, he claims, he’s the victim of “frightening” police incompetence and criminal cops.
Johann Roodt hasn’t visited his Khepe Motors petrol station in the Eastern Cape town of Flagstaff for the past three years because he’s too scared.
Even though he lives in Durban, he wears a bulletproof vest at all times.
Roodt says in papers filed before the South Gauteng High Court that he has, since 2009, been the victim of armed robbery, arson, theft, fraud, intimidation and death threats.
He claims a bullet was left for him at the petrol station and a coffin was recently delivered to the premises.
Both his regular customers and his staff have been threatened, he claims.
Roodt gives details of 17 emails to President Jacob Zuma, the office of the national police commissioner and various police generals – and his station manager says he even spoke to Zuma personally when calling the presidential hotline.
Station manager James Talbot says in an affidavit filed with Roodt’s lawyers that he called the hotline in desperation and ended up speaking to Zuma himself.
Zuma is known to occasionally speak to people who have lodged complaints with the hotline.
Talbot claims that Zuma referred him to Mthethwa and undertook to come back to him.
He says neither Mthethwa nor Zuma ever responded, nor did current police commissioner General Riah Phiyega’s office, despite promises to do so…
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