A LEGAL row is brewing following an alleged assault on the financial director of a top East London company and his wife on their family farm in the Western Cape.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has now instructed the director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the Western Cape to explain why he refused to criminally charge a senior sea fisheries official and others after they allegedly assaulted former Springbok gymnast Adrian Steyn and his wife in 2009.
Steyn, the financial director of JobLaw, a labour law company with its head office in East London, and his wife Adelia, who was allegedly assaulted in full view of their two young children at their family farm at Stanford, near Hermanus, are now claiming R2-million from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
JobLaw is headed by advocate Leon Langeveld, a former acting attorney-general in Bhisho . Steyn, SA gymnastics champion in 1994, was also in Team SA at the Commonwealth Games.
His attorney, Carlo Swanepoel, said they were only waiting for a court date to proceed with the civil case.
He has meanwhile laid a complaint with the NPA against the Western Cape DPP, and acting deputy NPA director advocate Thoko Majokweni has instructed the DPP to send her a copy of the police docket and the reasons for his refusal .
A Cape Town high court summons has been served on the Minister of Environment and Tourism, the Western Cape MEC for environment and development planning, a number of officials including Hendrick Vermeulen, and two other witnesses including Vermeulen’ s father Cecil.
In an affidavit , Steyn described the incident on May 2 2009. He said he noticed a vehicle carrying Hendrick Vermeulen, his father and other passengers on the farm while the family were having a braai .
He confronted them but the driver tried to drive away. Steyn then fired a warning shot into the ground and demanded to see their IDs. While the driver showed him ID , Vermeulen and others overpowered him and took his gun . His wife was allegedly hit by the elbow of one of the men .
Steyn was put in a cell at the Hermanus police station. When Vermeulen released him he told him that he (Vermeulen) was an undercover inspector of the Marine Coastal Management unit.
Steyn said Vermeulen later threatened over the phone that he would lay a criminal charge if Steyn persisted with civil action .
EL ex-Springbok takes on state officials and Fisheries Minister
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has now instructed the director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the Western Cape to explain why he refused to criminally charge a senior sea fisheries official and others after they allegedly assaulted former Springbok gymnast Adrian Steyn and his wife in 2009.
Steyn, the financial director of JobLaw, a labour law company with its head office in East London, and his wife Adelia, who was allegedly assaulted in full view of their two young children at their family farm at Stanford, near Hermanus, are now claiming R2-million from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
JobLaw is headed by advocate Leon Langeveld, a former acting attorney-general in Bhisho . Steyn, SA gymnastics champion in 1994, was also in Team SA at the Commonwealth Games.
His attorney, Carlo Swanepoel, said they were only waiting for a court date to proceed with the civil case.
He has meanwhile laid a complaint with the NPA against the Western Cape DPP, and acting deputy NPA director advocate Thoko Majokweni has instructed the DPP to send her a copy of the police docket and the reasons for his refusal .
A Cape Town high court summons has been served on the Minister of Environment and Tourism, the Western Cape MEC for environment and development planning, a number of officials including Hendrick Vermeulen, and two other witnesses including Vermeulen’ s father Cecil.
In an affidavit , Steyn described the incident on May 2 2009. He said he noticed a vehicle carrying Hendrick Vermeulen, his father and other passengers on the farm while the family were having a braai .
He confronted them but the driver tried to drive away. Steyn then fired a warning shot into the ground and demanded to see their IDs. While the driver showed him ID , Vermeulen and others overpowered him and took his gun . His wife was allegedly hit by the elbow of one of the men .
Steyn was put in a cell at the Hermanus police station. When Vermeulen released him he told him that he (Vermeulen) was an undercover inspector of the Marine Coastal Management unit.
Steyn said Vermeulen later threatened over the phone that he would lay a criminal charge if Steyn persisted with civil action .
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