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Ex-Bok's son stabbed in heart
04/10/2006 08:12 - (SA)
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| Former Springbok Niek Bezuidenhout shows where his son Hannu was stabbed in the chest by a disgruntled worker. (Theana Calitz, Beeld) |
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Virginia Kepler, Beeld
Pretoria - The son of a former Springbok rugby player has survived a stab wound to the heart and a car accident shortly after being attacked by a disgruntled worker.
Hannu Bezuidenhout, 29, the son of former rugby player Niek Bezuidenhout, was attacked by one of his workers in Linksfield Ridge, Johannesburg, on Monday.
Bezuidenhout, a building contractor, did not pay the worker his full wages on Friday, after the worker apparently refused to rectify something he had done incorrectly.
According to Bezuidenhout snr, the worker confronted Hannu on Monday morning.
"Hannu walked away and as he was unlocking his office door, the man grabbed him from behind, stabbed him, pulled out the knife and ran away."
Hannu didn't realise he had been stabbed and pursued the attacker.
Blood gushing from chest
"As he reached the man, he noticed blood gushing from his chest. He ran to his bakkie and drove in the direction of Linksfield Park Clinic in Johannesburg. About a kilometre further he crashed into a pole.
"He was about three kilometres from the clinic," Bezuidenhout snr said from his home in Garsfontein, Pretoria, on Tuesday.
Bezuidenhout said a man in a tow truck saw his son crash into the pole and stopped to help him.
"He had an emergency kit with him and put something like a plug into the wound to stop the bleeding before calling an ambulance."
He said the attacker had stabbed his son through the sternum and injured the heart muscle that protected the ventricles of the heart.
"Doctors said if the wound was half a centimetre deeper, the knife would have penetrated his heart and he would have died."
'You can't die now. You must hold on'
Bezuidenhout said his son told him a voice kept telling him: "You can't die now. You must hold on."
Hannu's wife, Ronel, is six months pregnant and they have a 15-month-old baby son, Hanro.
Bezuidenhout snr said he was angry because the police had done nothing so far to apprehend the attacker.
He also called on the man who had helped his son to contact him so he could personally thank him.
Bezuidenhout snr used to play for the Springboks in the seventies.
- Beeld
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