White Man Shots Black Woman ‘Mistaken’ For Hippo
White Man, (South African White Man) shot a black woman ‘mistaken’ for a hippopotamus in a fishing farm.
A 77-year-old white man-South African farm owner appeared in court on Thursday for shooting and wounding a black woman he claimed he mistook for a hippopotamus, police said
Paul Hendrik van Zyl was detained on Tuesday in Lephalale town, northern Limpopo province, after firing rounds in the direction of a woman who was fishing with her companion in a river.
According to the National Prosecuting Authority, he is charged with attempted murder (NPA).
“The arrested suspect alleged that he was shooting at the animals (hippopotamus),” police spokesman Mamphaswa Seabi said in a statement.
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Thirty-eight-year-old Ramokone Linah sustained gunshot wounds on her arm, while her partner “managed to hide”, police said.
The accused “is the owner of the farm where the incident occurred,” said Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, NPA spokeswoman in the province.
Hendrik was freed on 1,000 rand ($62) bail and the case was postponed for further investigations to May 18.
A group of opposition radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporters staged a protest against the granting of bail outside the court, according to the party’s posts on Twitter.
Such incidents cause outrage in South Africa, a country where deep racial divisions persist 28 years after the end of white-minority apartheid rule.
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