Incident Report
28/03/2021
On Sunday, 28 March 2021, my fiancé and I left our farm at 10:16 on-route to White River in order to go to Checkers for groceries. We had our dog with us.
When we were approaching White River, near the White River Country Club Estate, on the R40 – Direction White River.
We were going up the hill toward WR when several vehicles started overtaking on double solid lines, with no regard for oncoming traffic, pushing vehicles aside with their aggressive driving – nearly pushing us off the road.
At this point my fiancé Barend told me to take his phone and start recording them as they were driving very dangerously and recklessly, I proceeded to record them using his iPhone.
We were approaching Casterbridge circle, basically surrounded by these suspect vehicles. The one vehicle, a black range rover – no license plates - suddenly stopped in front of us, blocking our entry into the clear traffic circle. My fiancé then hooted at him as we were blocked in. The driver of the black range rover brought his car to a complete standstill in front of us, got out of his vehicle, pulled his firearm, and walked towards the drivers' side of our vehicle.
My fiancé had already started closing his window to avoid a confrontation. I told him the man had a firearm, at the same time I checked behind us as we heard more men approaching and I noticed another man had stopped behind us and was approaching the vehicle with a large object.
My fiancé was keeping an eye on the man with the firearm telling me to get down low as he was concerned the man would shoot, when the other man, approaching from our rear swung the large, concrete divider at the drivers' side window, smashing it instantly.
We had at least one firearm pointing at us. My fiancé knew we were in danger and needed to get out of there and reversed, smashing into the vehicle that was blocking our rear and then going off-road, over the barriers to get out from behind the black range rover blocking our entry to the traffic circle. At this point the driver of the Range Rover went around the front of his vehicle to block us off, his firearm was drawn and pointing at us the entire time. In order to avoid him, my fiancé reversed away from him, smashing into his vehicle also, in an attempt to get away from him, as he was pointing a firearm at us. My fiancé went over the traffic barriers to get away from them – and started driving towards White River police station as soon as possible for our own safety.
They chased us, and somehow along with a white VW, branded “Tactical Response Unit” with blue branding and GP number plates. My fiancé showed them we were going to the police, they persisted to try to push us off the road, driving recklessly in front of us, blocking us in every direction we took. We were chased by them, another white, similarly branded BMW SUV. A Mercedes Benz Sedan, a black Mercedes Benz Bus, a grey Mercedes Benz Bus and other vehicles we were unable to identify at the time.
Barend managed to take alternative routes to try to get to the police station, but at times we had to go over sidewalks to get away from the vehicles chasing us and pushing us off the road.
We managed to get to the police station and we immediately got out and ran inside. I shouted for help and told the police officers that we were being chased by armed men.
The officers took us into the “Radio Room”. We could see what was going on outside and we had a view of our vehicle, with its fully smashed window, and our dog sitting inside. My fiancé was still recording everything on his phone.
There were multiple men outside, these were not police officers, they were the men that blocked us at Caster Bridge circle, chased us through the streets of White River, and pulled firearms on us. They had now gathered outside the police station. Some of them stayed outside and surrounded our vehicle, and others came inside the police station requesting that the police must “let us out” and that they wanted our cell phones.