‘UCT students’ caught in race-bashing row

by five University of Cape Town (UCT) students, who hurled racial slurs at her following a drunken binge.

She sustained wounds in the rib area and had facial cuts that needed stitches.

Her only sin was to help a man they had assaulted, she said.

Adonis is a cleaner at the Stadium on Main Centre near the TigerTiger Club.

“They had kicked the man in the face and I picked him up.

“When I got to the parking area they started swearing at me, they called me coloured b*tch, coloured c*nt, they kicked me in my face and ribs. I am a mother of six, how would they have felt if someone beat up their mothers? I said to them: ‘Boys you can run but I leave you in the hands of the Lord’.”

She took the registration number of their car and reported them to police.

She said the investigating officer called her two days later and told her that her alleged attackers were UCT students and said that they were willing to pay her if she dropped the complaint against them.

Adonis said she made it clear she wanted justice, but was surprised this week when prosecutor Nathan Johnson called her to confirm the case was indeed dropped. She said she never gave the police any indication she wanted the case dropped. On Friday she met with Johnson who undertook to pursue the matter. Johnson declined to comment.

Meanwhile, the case Adonis said she witnessed in January involved Djavan Arrigone, a Boss Models SA model and UCT student. He is facing assault and crimen injuria charges in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court relating to the attack on Pius Nomgcana.

Arrigone, who pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court early in the year, was due to appear in court again on Friday but the matter was postponed when his lawyer, Ilse Taylor, said he had been booked off following a car accident he was involved in recently.

ACCUSED: Djavan Arrigone