Nala Business Chamber chief executive Ntozelizwe Mqenebe was brutally assaulted on a building site in Viljoenskroon in the Free State by three men who he alleges belong to the local construction mafia.
Four years later Mqenebe, a mechanical engineer who had visited the construction site purely on chamber business to discuss a sub-contracting dispute in 2020, says he still lives in pain after suffering spinal damage during the beating. He has had to undergo regular medical treatment for his injuries.