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Black man deliberately shot A 34-year-old black man was almost killed after being deliberately shot with a pellet gun by a white man in Nottingham Close, Parklands. After shooting him, the white man rode his motorbike up to the scene and started laughing while at the same time hurling racial slurs at his victim, allegedly saying: “I shot this fucking k****r”. He then sped away from the scene, leaving the victim, Luvuyo o o, terri�ied and in agony. Speaking to Isolabantu News, Popo who lives in Dunoon’s New Rest squatter camp, recounted the terrifying moments when the white man with a pellet gun shot at him, on October 19, last year. Popo spent three weeks at Cape Town’s Somerset Hospital. The pellet bullet is still stuck in his body and doctors apparently told him that if they removed it, chances were that he would die. “They [the doctors] said they would not be able to remove the bullet because I can die if they do. I still feel pain near my ribs.” said Popo. According to hospital documents, seen by Isolabantu News, he was shot in the left scapula and the pellet bullet is in the thoracic cavity. Writing in isiXhosa in his di-
ary, he said that he was pushing a trolley loaded with planks of wood and discarded and soiled carpets which he was collecting from construction sites in the Parklands area. He said he was collecting the wooden planks and discarded carpets so that he could use them to revamp his shack. Here is Popo’s diary entry; he wrote: “I was pushing a trolley loaded with planks of wood and discarded soiled carpets. A white man standing on the balcony of his double storey house in Nottingham Close, shouted at me; go back where you come from I don’t need k****rs in my street. I didn’t answer. I kept pushing my trolley”. He told Isolabantu News that while still pushing the trolley along Nottingham Close, he stopped when a neighbour of the white man offered to give him a discarded wooden door, and when he was receiving it, and about to load it onto his trolley, he felt something burning on his shoulder and his “breathing changed”. “I leaned onto the trolley for support and then I fell onto the ground. Another neighbour, also a white man, came out to help me
and told me I have just been shot. He asked me what did I do, and I pointed that I have been shot from that house there [pointing to the house where the white man was standing and spewing racial abuse],” said Popo. He said that the man that came to his side to help called the police
as well as an ambulance, while the man that was giving him the wooden door �led the scene when he saw him falling to the ground. Table View police spokesperson, Captain Adriana Chandler, con�irmed that a case o assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm had been opened at
the station. Asked if the suspect was arrested or had appeared in court, Chandler said that the suspect was not arrested, as the investigating o �icer isited the address provided by the complainant, but CONTINUED ON PAGE 3