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WIndies president carjacked in South Africa
AFP
25 November 1998
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 25 (AFP) - The president of the West Indies Cricket Board
and his wife were on Wednesday carjacked in Soweto, the sprawling township
attached to Johannesburg, a South African cricket official said.
Pat Rousseau, his wife Hester, Jamaican journalist Tony Becca and a local
cricket official were held up by three armed men as they were walking back to
their car after visiting the Soweto Cricket Oval, United Cricket Board (UCB)
official Imtiaz Patel told AFP.
The attackers forced the group to lie on the ground, took money and jewellery from Hester Rousseau and then drove off with their car, Patel
said. The West Indians, on their first official tour of South Africa, played their
first game against an invitational side at the Soweto Cricket Oval on November
11.
The first Test starts on Thursday at the Wanderers ground in Johannesburg.
UCB managing director Ali Bacher told AFP that Rousseau had handled the incident ``superbly.''
Bacher said: ``Nobody was injured, thank God.'' He said the Jamaican, who arrived in South Africa on Tuesday, did not
want to comment about the incident, but had indicated he might speak to the media about it on Thursday.
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