SABC host claims he was called a monkey and beaten up in racial attack (video)
Samora Mangesi has shared footage from the scene of an alleged attack and now wants the police to effect arrests.
Picture: @Samora_Mangesi/Twitter
An SABC television host, 26, Samora Mangesi, has shared shocking photos of himself following what he alleges was a “racially motivated attack” on him on the West Rand of Johannesburg, apparently around the Wilro Park area.
He also shared videos allegedly taken at the scene, which you can view below.
Mangesi is a former presenter of the Hectic Nine show and joined The Real Goboza as a co-host last year.
He wrote that on Friday night he was attacked after stopping “to check on a group of young white people whose car had overturned”.
He said: “They called my friends and I monkeys. When we engaged them on why we were being called such, they beat me up until I was unconscious.”
On Friday night I was the victim of a racially motivated attack. After stopping to check on a group of young white people whose car had overturned, they called my friends & I Monkeys. When we engaged them on why we were being called such, they beat me up until I was unconscious. pic.twitter.com/E9DOGpPacJ
— SAMORA 👨🏾🇬🇧 (@Samora_Mangesi) March 13, 2019
In the videos below, please be advised there is strong language and conflict. At this stage The Citizen cannot confirm whether the people in these videos are guilty of any crime, though Mangesi claims this was the group out of which unidentified individuals assaulted him.
I had to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Even whilst I was being put in the ambulance, one of these guys tried to run my friend over with his bakkie and the paramedics had to intervene. pic.twitter.com/zhodciLrBV
— SAMORA 👨🏾🇬🇧 (@Samora_Mangesi) March 13, 2019
I sustained injuries on my face, cuts inside my mouth and bruising along the left side of my body from when they kicked me on the ground after one of them had hit me on the back of the head. According to EMS I was out for about 5 min and only regained consciousness in the ambi. pic.twitter.com/gfumlii0se
— SAMORA 👨🏾🇬🇧 (@Samora_Mangesi) March 13, 2019
“My memory post the attack is very sporadic,” he further explained. “I remember going in for a CT scan and then signing papers to leave the hospital. As much as they say I was awake, I don’t remember being in the ambulance, arriving at the hospital nor much of the treatment. Qha kuthwa bendigqwenks.”
He said he had “toyed with the idea of letting it go” and just continuing with his life, but said he’d changed his mind because “apparently this is not the first time that this has happened to a black man in the West Rand, more especially around Wilropark”.
Mangesi said a friend’s neighbour was driving past at the time and witnessed the whole thing.
He claimed it had also happened to him.
“So today, I went to the police station armed with only reg. numbers, photos and videos to open a case again my unknown attackers.”
I am okay now. Most of the swelling has gone down and seemingly apart from a scar on my chin, a cut on the inside of my cheeck, swelling on my lips and a graze on my left temple, I'm alright. pic.twitter.com/iv1CybFXkM
— SAMORA 👨🏾🇬🇧 (@Samora_Mangesi) March 13, 2019
“Once the CAS number has been sent to me by the police I need to go back to the hospital to get the ball rolling even further. Right now, I’m fine and going about my daily business. As much as I am not keen for a long, drawn-out situation I realised it’s my duty to report such.”
Anyway, ndiyabalisa nje wethu. 🤗
— SAMORA 👨🏾🇬🇧 (@Samora_Mangesi) March 13, 2019
