FIVE million rand and a private jet!
That was what the naked man on the roof of Dr George Mukhari Hospital in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane demanded.
“I came here flying and I will leave flying,” he told the hundreds of people watching.
He said he had been dropped on the roof from a plane early on Tuesday morning.
“I slept here and I was woken by the hot sun. These corrugated sheets are hot now and I can’t sleep anymore.”
He said that if his demands were not met, he would jump down and die.
To the screams of the people on the ground he then leaned forward as if to jump. “I will jump. I need my money and plane.”
A hospital worker said early in the morning he looked up and thought he’d seen a monkey, as there were many in the area.
Then he heard other workers screaming that they had seen a naked man on the roof of the three-storey doctors’ quarters.
There was commotion at the hospital as patients and medical staff ran outside to see the naked man.
Police were called and after about two hours’ of talking to the man, they managed to convince him to come down. He was taken to the casualty unit.
The man then asked for food and after he had eaten, fell asleep on a hospital bed.
Hospital spokeswoman Mpho Koka said the man was not a staff member but a member of the public.
She said it could not be confirmed whether he was mentally unstable or not. “He was rescued and taken for medical assessment at the psychiatric unit. As per regulations he is supposed to be observed for a period of 72 hours,” she said.
