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The alleged assault took place amid violent clashes outside Brackenfell High School on Monday.
Members of the EFF protest outside Brackenfell High School. Image: EFF Western Cape / Twitter.
CAPE TOWN – An Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supporter filed a criminal assault complaint Wednesday after she was attacked by a man with a baseball bat outside a Brackenfell school.
The alleged assault took place amid violent clashes outside Brackenfell High School on Monday.
Some parents, community members and supporters had come out to confront and intimidate EFF members who were there to demonstrate against accusations of racism stemming from a private tuition party attended by some white students, parents and teachers.
Video footage captured by journalist Wesley Fester shows 22-year-old Sibongile Nkasayi being hit with what looks like a baseball bat.
His attacker is a man wearing a black vest, a cap and a buff that covers his mouth and nose.
He first pushes her and then starts hitting her on the back, all this while a group tries to force EFF protesters away from the school gates.
Nkasayi said she wanted her dignity restored: “He humiliated me in front of all of South Africa. It made me feel like I wasn’t a woman, like I was garbage. He said it himself. “
He filed a criminal complaint for assault at the Brackenfell Police Station on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the case against Jaco Pretorius, arrested for firing a compressed air pistol in Monday’s conflict, was postponed to January.
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