A 62-year-old man from Boikhutso Township in Lichtenburg in the North West is demanding justice, after being mauled by a lion last month, while working at a game lodge and predator park in Ottoshoop near Zeerust. It is alleged that Piet Monatle was mauled by the lion while he and his colleagues were offloading lions from a trailer.
It is further alleged that Monatle’s employer fled the scene as he was being mauled, leaving him to be rescued by his colleagues. The employer is also alleged to have instructed Monatle to tell the doctors who attended to him, that he was attacked by dogs.
Monatle says his close encounter with death began with the transportation of sedated lions from Nietverdiend, some 90 kilometres from the predator park at Ottoshoop.
“The sedative usually lasts 30 minutes. When they arrived here they were already waking up. Then he said to us that we should go in and pull the lion by its tail. But nobody knows exactly what happened after that.” And before Monatle knew it the lion attacked him.
“It then hit me so hard with its paw that I fell into the trailer. And it tried to pull me deeper into the trailer. The people I was with wanted to flee but I begged them to help me because I was dying. They then grabbed and pulled me by my feet. At the time the lion was looking straight into my eyes and it was so close and breathing straight into my face. The owner ran to the van and just said the others must help me.”
Monatle says all he wants now is justice and compensation. All I want is for that white man to pay me R3 million, then I will be able to survive, because I’m already old. So it will help me survive because I’ll never work again.
Source: eNCA
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