FLEEING ‘THE DEVIL IN HIS EYES’
‘WHEN I OPENED MY EYES AND SAW THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS, I KNEW – TODAY IS THE DAY I DIE’
THE abuse happened mostly behind closed doors. She’d hide the signs the next day with sunglasses and makeup and tell no one – not even her parents.
“I covered it up, pretended it hadn’t happened,” Nicoleen Swart says. “Why? To protect him. Because each time he promised he’d never do it again.”
But those days are over now. Nicoleen (35) is no longer with her abusive husband, Jaco Swart – the man who became the latest face of domestic violence in SA after video footage of him punching, kicking and headbutting her at his second-hand car dealership
