Richards Bay – A KwaZulu-Natal father of two is living in fear after he was allegedly assaulted by a police officer in a road rage incident. The officer allegedly also threatened to shoot him and his family with his service pistol.
Several days later, Richards Bay resident Jozua Joubert said he saw the same officer following him on the road.
Joubert, a boilermaker who recently moved from Mpumalanga to Meerensee in Richards Bay, now fears the officer is watching his family’s every move.
Speaking about the incident, which occurred last Friday, Joubert said he sat helplessly in his car while being assaulted by an off-duty Richards Bay officer, who at one point pulled out his service pistol and threatened to shoot him.
He said the officer, who was wearing civilian clothes, repeatedly punched, slapped and tried to throttle him in full view of his wife and hysterical children – and passing motorists – during the 10-minute ordeal.
When Joubert tried to put up a fight, the officer allegedly pulled out his service firearm, pushed it into Joubert’s bloodied face and swore at him and threatened to kill him.
“He kept on punching me while screaming and swearing,” Joubert, 34, said. “I was terrified. I thought I was going to die.”
Joubert’s wife, Engela, drove her wounded husband to the police station and to their horror they found the man already at the police station…
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