According to 30-year-old Wayne de Beer’s doctor he can consider himself lucky to still be alive after he was stabbed and robbed on Monday night.
De Beer who works in Lanseria gets dropped off by his company on Albertina Sisulu Road every evening from where he walks to his flat on the corner of Corlett Avenue and Progress Avenue. On the night in question, at about 8pm he withdrew cash at a petrol station on the way home and while walking on Progress Avenue two men approached him from the front. As they got close to him they split to his left and right hand side. When they were behind him he suddenly felt a sharp blow to the back of his head with which he says he was not sure whether the weapon was a knife or a screwdriver.
They stabbed him twice again, once in the neck and once in the back. He tried to fight back but lost so much blood that he dropped to the ground in a semi-unconscious state. The suspects fled with all his valuables. Two good samaritans that stay right across from where the incident took place rushed to his assistance. They called an ambulance and went to fetch his wife, Mellisa and father-in-law.
De Beer says the Western Suburbs Roodepoort Neighbourhood Watch (WSRNW) was on the scene within minutes, but the police never showed up.
“We even tried to flag down a police vehicle of which the driver was on his cell phone, but he did not stop,” said Mellisa.
At the hospital the doctor established that the stab wound to his back missed his spine and a major artery by a mere centimetre.
Although the incident took place on Monday, De Beer’s shirt he wore during the robbery was still drenched with blood on Wednesday.
“I do not understand why they had to hurt me. Why could they not just take my belongings,” asked a visibly traumatised De Beer.
“You do not expect that something like this would happen to you early in the evening on a busy road,” said De Beer who was also mugged two months ago.
“The public should be vigilant and try to carry pepper spray with them,” he concluded.
He also expressed his extreme gratitude to the two strangers, Tuki and Obakeng Mohabu who assisted him.
De Beer felt it would be fruitless to open a case with the police.
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