Jacques Gouws. Picture: The Herald
Stress disorder leads to postponement in case of feuding neighbours
A NASTY feud between two neighbours has left one of them with post-traumatic stress disorder, the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court heard yesterday.
Saying he was being “legally strangled” by his neighbour, former policeman Jacques Gouws, representing himself, applied for a postponement based on the fact that he was unfit to stand trial.
Gouws, 49, and his neighbour, Carel du Preez, 30, have been embroiled in a feud since 2014, when Gouws allegedly assaulted Du Preez and damaged his property.
Gouws was slapped with three civil claims lodged by Du Preez at the Port Elizabeth High Court.
He allegedly called Du Preez a “bloody sexless moffie” and a “lowlife scumbag”.
Du Preez also approached the body corporate of Neapolis, South End, where both live, to have a poster removed from Gouws’s window, which he said constituted hate speech.
The poster read: “Crossdressing moffies are banned from knocking or loitering outside door. Will call SAPS.”
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