Cops Probe Franschhoek Restaurant Brawl

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As I was walking towards the pool I saw a family dining, they were praying before they could eat. I saw a cell phone on the floor, not far from the table and as I went in to pick it up so that I may ask whether or not it belonged to them, I was knocked on the head and fell right into the swimming pool.

“Before I could grasp what was happening I was being beaten and drowned and I kept trying to ask for a chance to explain myself, but I was being sworn at,” she said.

Sephoko said that a white man and his family were swearing at her and accusing her of trying to steal a cell phone. “He was swearing at me and called me the K-word and said that he ‘doesn't like K*****s’ because they steal,” she said.
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Restaurant owner Etienne Buys said that he was called to the restaurant and told that there was an incident. “I was told that the lady attempted to steal his wife’s cell phone and the man tackled the woman and they both fell into the pool.

There was obviously an incident in the pool which I didn't witness, so we called the police. The one party agreed she tried to steal a cell phone and the other party then tackled her and she got injured.

We unfortunately have tricky cameras that when new footage comes in the previous gets deleted and when the police came to view the footage it had been wiped out. We are working with the police,” he said.
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Ooh Willem "There was a 3 year old in the pool" Petzer is gonna have a field day with this one.
 
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As I was walking towards the pool I saw a family dining, they were praying before they could eat. I saw a cell phone on the floor, not far from the table and as I went in to pick it up so that I may ask whether or not it belonged to them, I was knocked on the head and fell right into the swimming pool.

“Before I could grasp what was happening I was being beaten and drowned and I kept trying to ask for a chance to explain myself, but I was being sworn at,” she said.

Sephoko said that a white man and his family were swearing at her and accusing her of trying to steal a cell phone. “He was swearing at me and called me the K-word and said that he ‘doesn't like K*****s’ because they steal,” she said.
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Restaurant owner Etienne Buys said that he was called to the restaurant and told that there was an incident. “I was told that the lady attempted to steal his wife’s cell phone and the man tackled the woman and they both fell into the pool.

There was obviously an incident in the pool which I didn't witness, so we called the police. The one party agreed she tried to steal a cell phone and the other party then tackled her and she got injured.

We unfortunately have tricky cameras that when new footage comes in the previous gets deleted and when the police came to view the footage it had been wiped out. We are working with the police,” he said.
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Ooh Willem "There was a 3 year old in the pool" Petzer is gonna have a field day with this one.
 
"Before I could grasp what was happening I was being beaten and drowned"

And then came back to life ?
 
The police spokesperson stated:

“According to the man, he and his family asked his mother-in-law to pray for the food. When they saw an unknown female taking something out of his wife’s bag. The woman (Sephoko) then pushed him into the swimming pool and slapped him. The woman (Sephoko) then damaged his wife’s cellular telephone,” he said.
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The GM's version:

Restaurant owner Etienne Buys said that he was called to the restaurant and told that there was an incident. “I was told that the lady attempted to steal his wife’s cell phone and the man tackled the woman and they both fell into the pool.
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Without video evidence the customer is on the screwed side. <EDITED> The restaurant doesn't have actual CCTV cameras. They should get some installed.
 
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I am getting to the stage where if a centre, shop etc cannot have the security that protects you why should you support them.
No CCTV I will stop supporting you
No reputable guards I will stop supporting you

This is going to be very one sided and if she did try steal the phone she desreves all the charges but if not it's going to be a hard ride for the beater.
 
I've also many times picked up stuff people dropped to give it back to them, will not do that again. CCTV would've cleared this whole thing up quickly, they should've downloaded the footage immediately after the incident.
 
The incident happened back on April 16th already, why is it only going 'viral' now?


She said the incident happened on April 16, as she and a friend went to check out the restaurant as a possible venue for a birthday party.

They had also booked the venue for lunch.

“It was not my first time at the restaurant, I am a regular there. On that day I went with my friend because she was planning to host her child’s birthday and needed to see the venue first.

“On our arrival while my friend was shooting content with me in it, I picked up a cellphone and as I was about to ask who it belonged to I was attacked.”

In a video that was widely shared, a bloodied Sephoko is seen being attacked by a man inside a swimming pool, who appears to be trying to drown her.

Her top is bloodied as the man is seen trying to drown her.

Eventually the son and the wife of the attacker came to her rescue separating the man from her. She has identified the man as a Johan van der Merwe.
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Odd reporting by IOL. I will have to correct a remark that I have made:

On May 30, Sephoko received an SMS from Groot-Drakenstein SAPS informing her that the suspect (Van der Merwe) was arrested and charged, his first appearance in court was on the very same day.

With that she was also asked to hand herself in at Groot-Drakenstein police station following a case of theft opened by Van der Merwe against her.

The detective assigned to the case, Clive Windvogel said the matter involving two cases between Sephoko and Johan van de Merwe is still active.

For his next court appearance date, Windvogel said he is still waiting for the docket to come back from court and he will communicate the next court date with the victim.

Savoye restaurant owner, Etienne Buys, said he was made aware of the incident that happened on April 16, a Sunday afternoon lunch time.

He said he was called and when he got to the restaurant he saw “three African ladies and one of them was wet”.
“I was told that the one lady tried to steal either a wallet or a phone belonging to the gentleman's wife while they were busy with their pre-lunch prayer. Allegedly the gentleman tackled the lady jumping into the swimming pool.”

On an accusation that the restaurant refused to assist SAPS with the incident footage, Buys said the restaurant does not have CCTV cameras.

What they have are small cameras that run on a circle forcing it to delete the old footage when the newer one is being recorded.
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ShaunSA said:
What's the point in even having something like this? :unsure:
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Just about every camera system I have come across works like this out of the box unless configured with some form of alternative storage or backup. Most systems will overwrite the oldest footage while recording new footage, the amount of footage being stored being based on how much storage is available, the number of camera's, the quality of the footage, etc.
 
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