Property owner in hot water after guard assault

Two Okahandja-based security guards claim a local property site owner recently assaulted them, sparking police investigations and calls for better worker protection.

The men say they were assaulted while on duty at night.

Hendrik Haulamba says he had been patrolling the property on the night of 25 June before briefly sitting down inside an unused building to keep warm.

“That day it was cold. I had been patrolling outside, then I went inside and sat for a bit,” he says.

Haulamba says the owner of Human Drilling Contractors CC, Pieter Human, entered the building and attacked him without warning.

“He did not talk to me or ask me anything.

He just started beating me with a stick and said he was disciplining me,” he says.