A HANOVER Park teen is lucky to be alive after he and his 17-year-old cousin were attacked with a wine bottle during an altercation during a soccer match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zaid Hendricks, who is a 16-year-old Grade Ten learner at Crystal Senior Secondary School, is currently being treated at Groote Schuur Hospital.<\/p>\n
His concerned mother Nuraan Hendricks, said her son was born with hyperthyroidism – a condition that can heighten the risk of stroke and heart palpitations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is now in a critical condition in hospital after he and his cousin, Nathier Hendricks, were attacked in Halman\u2019s Walk in Hanover Park on New Year\u2019s Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She explained that doctors were monitoring Zaid\u2019s condition to prevent swelling and had considered surgery. The family has since opened a case with the police.<\/p>\n
Neighbours accused of being part of the attack had their home vandalised following the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hendricks said an afternoon of soccer became a nightmare when an altercation began between the neighbours and her family when a wynglas was left broken by the ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She explained: \u201cThey were playing soccer. Neighbours were drinking. One of the boys mistakenly kicked ball against the glass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAn off-duty police officer and relatives and friends complained and said the boys had attitude. I said I can buy another champagne glass. They said, \u2018You need to fix this child\u2019s attitude.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe policewoman took the child\u2019s ball. There was a misunderstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hendricks said the next moment, she heard her son and his cousin had been attacked with a wine bottle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She detailed: \u201cI did not see him [the attacker] throwing a glass bottle on my son’s head. I was barefoot and just ran. I got in the car with him and his cousin. We had to go to Heideveld Hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cousin was also stabbed in the back with a bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hendricks added that her son was rushed to Groote Schuur Hospital where doctors determined that he had suffered a fractured skull and that the neighbour’s home was vandalised following the incident:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son is now in neurology. He threw my child so hard with that bottle. Skull fractured. A piece punctured the brain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police spokesperson, Sergeant Wesley Twigg confirmed that a case had been opened following the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A HANOVER Park teen is lucky to be alive after he and his 17-year-old cousin were attacked with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3493,3492,3489,3495,3494,3498,3497,3499,3496,3491,131,3490],"class_list":{"0":"post-4381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-attacker","9":"tag-boy","10":"tag-ca-family","11":"tag-crystal-senior","12":"tag-groote-schuur-hospital","13":"tag-halman","14":"tag-hanover-park","15":"tag-heideveld-hospital","16":"tag-new-years-day","17":"tag-nuraan-hendricks","18":"tag-south-africa","19":"tag-zaid-hendricks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}