Guard lied about manager assault
A local security guard has been exposed as a liar -after accusing his former manager of assaulting him while on the job.
|||Cape Town - A local security guard has been exposed as a liar after accusing his former manager of assaulting him while on the job.
Mkhumbuzi Jamangile, 34, alleged that Praveen Moodley beat him up for leaving AVG Security Services and starting work at a different company.
Surveillance camera footage showed the guard, at his office at a Rondebosch mall, getting into a scuffle with the manager.
Jamangile claimed that he was assaulted so badly that he had to be hospitalised at Groote Schuur for an aggravated hernia.
He also complained that he had not been paid in full for two months, and that he had faxed his resignation letter to AVG on August 6.
Jamangile said: “He [Moodley] shoved me around, always checking if someone was looking and he beat me so hard, I was in hospital.
“His punching and kicking had, according to doctors, affected my hernia.
“He deserves to go to jail for this attack.”
Asked to comment at the time, Moodley would only say: “I am guilty of nothing.
“Anyone who has seen the footage can see I did nothing wrong.”
Now, the company has hit back at Jamangile, claiming he did not resign from AVG, but actually took annual leave from August 6 to 25.
The company says in a statement: “At the time of the incident, Mr Jamangile was in fact on annual leave with our company, but was found to be deceitful in that he in the interim had also signed a contract with another security provider, which is illegal in the industry, and as a result when this came to our attention, he retaliated in an attempt to displace his wrongdoing.”
The security firm insists that it was Jamangile who attacked Moodley, after the manager photographed the guard wearing the uniform of another company.
According to the statement, “the footage, which Mr Jamangile touted as being proof of the assault against him, very clearly shows himself retaliating against Mr Moodley in an attempt to retrieve Mr Moodley’s cellphone, which contained photographic evidence of Mr Jamangile on duty in full uniform of another security provider.”
Meanwhile, the guard is standing by his story.
This despite the fact that he failed to produce a copy of the resignation letter he claimed to have faxed to AVG.
And hospital reports he showed to Daily Voice were dated August 10 – four days after the alleged attack.
*The Daily Voice retracts the article and apologises unreservedly to AVG Security Services and Mr Moodley for any distress or damages suffered as a result of the reportage.
Daily Voice