DA to support Free State farmer Alison Oates in court following 5-year struggle for justice
29 September 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will tomorrow be in the Harrismith Magistrate Court to support Free State farmer and DA councillor, Alison Oates, where she will hopefully finally get the justice she rightly deserves after a five-year struggle to see her attackers investigated, prosecuted and sentenced.
In 2015, Ms Oates survived a three-hour attack by two men who demanded money and guns from her one late afternoon. When she was unable to provide either, they tortured, raped and tried to kill her.
The DA hopes that her attackers received the harshest possible sentence.
Had it not been for the intervention of the DA’s Court Watching Briefs Unit in ensuring that her case see the inside of a courtroom, Ms Oates would still be living in close proximity to one of her alleged attackers.