A farmer from Bethal in Mpumalanga was stabbed with a steak knife in the stomach at Spur during the weekend. The farmer was stabbed by the waiter as a result of a nasty dispute.
Hendrik Hart (29) went to the restaurant with friends on Friday night shortly before closing time.
“When we arrived, the table was dirty” he said.
“I asked the waiter to clean it up but he had a bad attitude.”
According to Hart at that stage the service deteriorated.
“He brought drinks and held his hands on top of the glasses. While serving the food, he put his fingers in the plate.
“He made me very angry and I requested for another waiter to serve us.”
At 22:00, when the restaurant started to close, Hart was still eating.
“He came up with a broom and whipped dust up around our food.”
“He deliberately provoked me and when I got up to sort him out, he already had a steak knife in his hand.”
The waiter stabbed Hart left of his belly button in the stomach, for which he had to get stitches.
The manager of the Cedar Peak Spur who was on duty, denied the incident. “We regularly get drunk guys who make trouble and then we call the police to remove them,” he said.
“I had a sole and two beers,” says Hart.
“I could not drink the third beer, because I was stabbed with a knife. How drunk can two drafts make a guy? ”
Jakes van Strijp, a lawyer from Ermelo who owns the restaurant, described this as a very unfortunate incident.
He did not dismissed the waiter or laid criminal charges.
“This is an incident that never should have happened,” he said. ”There was an altercation and people of different racial groups have uttered things that should not be said to each other in this country.”
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