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Original Post Date: 2007-06-11 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Chris Makhaye
Not many people shot point blank in the head live to tell the tale. But the family of Cyprian Mncwabe are thanking their ancestors for sparing his life, enabling him to see his 29th birthday on Monday.
This Camperdown security guard miraculously survived after being shot, execution-style, through the back of his head. The bullet ripped into the lower back of his head, and through a gum and teeth, before blasting out through his nostril.
“In the past, two of my colleagues have been shot in front of me, one of them dying on the spot. But on Sunday it was my turn. I was dead… only my forefathers saved me,” said Mncwabe.
Last Sunday evening he was going about his duties at Camperdown’s Spar supermarket when a bakkie sped towards him. It had five occupants; four men and a woman. “They were drunk and very rude. They asked if I saw the men they were chasing. They said a man had tried to steal a tyre from the back of their bakkie. They wanted to look for him inside the place I was guarding and I told them that they couldn’t,” he said.
“One of the men pretended to be talking to me, grabbed me, and the other men started hitting me,” said Mncwabe.
“They took my service gun and assaulted me further. They forced me to climb into the bakkie and drove off over the N3 highway,” he said from his hospital in Pietermaritzburg.
“They stopped at nearby veld and I was forced out of the bakkie, assaulted more. It was very dark. One of them said I had done nothing wrong but the others said I should be killed for being rude,” he said.
Mncwabe said he pleaded with the men to spare his life but was punched and kicked instead. “One of them pulled a gun and shot me in the back of the head and I fell down. “Afterwards, one of them jumped on my chest to check if I was still alive. One said ‘this dog is dead’. He came to me and poked my eyes and I pretended to be dead. He proclaimed me dead and the bakkie sped off,” said Mncwabe, adding that his eyes are still painful.
Mncwabe said after his assailant had left, he crawled towards the main road. “I could see the pool of my blood as I struggled towards the road. It was freezing cold and I was losing strength,” he said.
But he kept on going. He fell down on the main road and was spotted by a passing security guard patrol car. Police and an ambulance were called to the scene. By then Mncwabe had lost consciousness.
Police spokesman Supt Joshua Gwala said cases of attempted murder and firearm theft had been opened. “We cannot rule out robbery as the motive for the attack because his firearm was also stolen.”
A doctor at the hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mncwabe had been extremely fortunate. “Had the bullet struck an inch away he could have died. It could have destroyed his brain, it could have destroyed his aorta or the spinal cord. Had it touched any of these vital organs he would have been gone,” said the doctor.
Mncwabe’s parents, Joseph and Thema, are just glad that their only son is still alive.
“We thank the ancestors for saving him. He has escaped many incidents throughout the six years he has been a security guard. Maybe it’s time he quit,” said his mother.
She said the family would take a cake to the hospital tomorrow to celebrate her son’s birthday.