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IN PAIN: Golf instructor Nathan Maluleka in ICU at Sunninghill Hospital with a broken jaw and concussion due to head trauma. He was attacked at World of Golf in Woodmead.

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A 60-year-old golf instructor is in a serious but stable condition in the intensive care unit at Sunninghill Hospital after being attacked with a golf club.

Nathan Maluleke suffered a broken jaw and concussion because of head trauma. He also lost some teeth in the attack.

Maluleke's crime was trying to protect the integrity of his workplace - Vodacom World of Golf in Woodmead, north of Johannesburg.

His wife, Busi Maluleke, said: "I had come to pick up my husband from work. I had just arrived and had pulled over in the parking lot.

"As I was getting out of the car for my husband to drive us, we noticed a group that was making a lot of noise, using vulgar language and the K-word was also right up there being used repeatedly."

She said after her husband put his golf bag in the boot, he approached the woman walking behind two young men in the group.

"My husband went there to ask her to tone it down as the language being used was not good for the integrity of the place and was generally offensive," she said.

Maluleke said that as her husband tried to reason with the woman, the elder looking of the two boys turned back and attacked the elderly man physically.

"A scuffle broke out, with other patrons trying to intervene. I did not see what happened but all of a sudden Nathan was on the ground bleeding after being hit over the head with a golf club.

"The woman's husband admitted to have continued hitting him and punching him as he showed off his hands to other people," she said.

Maluleke said, from the pieces of information she could gather, the family's anger was sparked by an employee who had mistakenly stepped on a pair of expensive sunglasses that belonged to one of the two boys.

"The owner of the place, who seems to know the violent family very well, tried to convince my husband not to open a case, saying they would look after him. But I insisted and refused to leave until a case was registered," she said.

Midrand police confirmed that a case was registered last night but could not elaborate on details.

World of Golf could not be reached for comment last night. Staff there said management would only be available today.

- moengk@sowetan.co.za

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Jan 14, 2013

zuluchick

ok ok im all for intergration and that other buuuls.hit but these white people need a smackdown now =/
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Jan 14, 2013

Mosquer

Maburunyana a a tella straight!
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Jan 14, 2013

Msiphos00

We are still far from reconciliation - White people will never trust us things like this will happen every now and then
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Jan 14, 2013

Nastradamas

wishing you a speedy recovery old man
these white people will never change, democracy or not
they still think and believe that we belong somewhere alone
not with them, ive seen a couple of isht around, i even got the hustle
myself when i went with my girlfriend to have dinner at Dros
you could even see their looks like we weren't even allowed to dine at the place
Nx !!!!!!!
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Jan 14, 2013

swona

this will never end can white guys come out and tell me it will find a place and time where we'll all leave together as humans? even the poor once around Kempton and the middle class towards rich of glenmarraise, they make you feel you are an intruder they will insult you on the traffic lights and so on and on! forgeting this is our country too!
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Jan 14, 2013

Pitso.MCCMA.SAFA

Let me tell you the secret of white people:White people dont compromise. Reconciliation is the gospel of only black society and that gospel automatically makes black people to fell inferior and desperate. What happened to the gentlemen it looks legal and less intensive,but if that could happen to a white guy the big dictionaries of the law would be opened to sentence the culprit lifetimw in jail.
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Jan 14, 2013

moemish

Racism is still alive n it ain goin nowhere!! it will always be black n white n sumtimes i dont blame Malema for sayin and actin so stupidly when it comes to racial issues!!!
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Jan 14, 2013

MoNati

I see all the black racist's is out in full swing today
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Jan 14, 2013

fikas

Hope AFRIFORUM, DA, Solidarity and all fuckers will condem this cowardly ACT
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Jan 14, 2013

fikas

Black Racist??? what do you mean???
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