A MAKHI and an alleged soldier were in a party mood and played loud music which disturbed the neighbours who were asleep.
But when Yonela Nyangweni (29) and her partner from Crossroads in Cape Town went to the neighbour's house to ask them to turn down the volume, all hell broke loose.
Yonela said after approaching the neighbour, they were attacked by the alleged soldier in the early hours of Saturday morning, 25 February.
"The house music they were playing was too loud and it was already after midnight. I went outside and told the lady who was hosting the soldier that she should switch off the music or turn down the volume. It was disturbing my sleep because I was going to work that morning,” said Yonela.
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Yonela said the man didn’t take the request well.
When she was walking back to her house, the man allegedly pulled her by her braids and told her that she must not tell them what to do.
She alleged that he then started swearing at her and insulted her mother.
“I got angry and insulted his mother as well. While we were arguing my sisters and my partner came out to see what was happening. My younger sister lit a torch on his face because we were outside and it was dark. He then slapped her, and her phone fell on the ground,” she said.
Yonela said the man then dragged and beat her with an empty beer bottle. He then beat up her partner when he tried to intervene.
The man (47) was arrested on the day of the incident at about 2pm.
Police spokesman Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed the incident. He said cops opened a case of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The suspect appeared in the Athlone Magistrates on 27 February. The case was postponed to 6 March.
