Nelspruit – A man attending a wedding in the botanical garden told his wife they should bring their children there some time. A few hours later he was attacked in the parking lot by four panga-wielding assailants.
This was less than a month after a family who had been strolling in the garden had been robbed by men also carrying pangas. Earlier this year the garden also suffered a spate of attacks.
Mr Kenny Baumgart was attending a wedding at Red Leaf Tea Garden on Saturday November 29. At about 20:30 he went to fetch his wife’s flats from his vehicle which was parked on the other side at Kazuri Restaurant. After he had hitched a ride from friends leaving the party, four men jumped out of the bush with pangas.
“The one took a swing at my head but missed,” he told Lowvelder. They stole his money, phone, shoes and jacket, and ransacked his vehicle. They then tied him up with shoelaces and a rope, and threw his wife’s jacket over his face.
They beat him to the ground and left him in the bush…
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