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 'I was Nell's shooting victim five years ago'
    Baldwin Ndaba
    February 13 2008 at 07:14AM
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Petros Mabe has a permanent reminder of being shot by murder accused Johan Nell five years ago - he has to wear a colostomy bag forever.

Mabe (48) suffered near fatal gunshot wounds while collecting grass alongside a railway line situated near Nell's family farm.

Nell shot him twice once in the back and once in his hand.

Mabe told The Star that Nell robbed him of his livelihood and income, saying that while working as a grass collector he was making a monthly income of between R2 000 and R3 000 by selling grass to various farmers in North West.
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"I was never compensated for my injuries," he said.

Mabe recounted his ordeal just hours after Nell, now 18, appeared in court on charges of murder and attempted murder.

On Tuesday, Mabe expressed his anger at the justice department for not allowing him to testify against Nell when the matter was heard in the Swartruggens magistrate's court five years ago.

The court found Nell guilty of negligently using a firearm and gave him a suspended sentence because he was just 13 years old at the time.

Recounting his ordeal, Mabe said he was collecting grass with his then girlfriend near the railway line situated next to Nell's farm. With them was their then 8-year-old child, Serame.

"While I was cutting grass, I heard several shots being fired in the veld. Johan Nell came to the fence and asked me whether I am making a lot of money from selling grass.

"I then told him to ask his father how much he would charge me if I cut grass on their farm. On his return, he said his father said I should set the price myself.

A few minutes later, he lifted his hunting rifle and started firing shots at me," Mabe said.

He said he screamed to his girlfriend to run away and he took cover under the bridge only then realising he had been shot.


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