Alison Botha Was Having A Normal Day

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Alison begins speaking at the 10:20 mark. To imagine what she went through, the fight to survive and the courage to share her story to help others.

From Jan 25, 2022

Miracle is a word often associated with Alison Botha’s story. Alison’s life almost ended in 1994 after Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger stabbed her multiple times in the neck and abdomen. Botha’s harrowing ordeal started when one of her attackers forced himself into her car, ordered her into the back seat, and drove off to pick up his accomplice.

Frans and Kruger drove Alison to a deserted area of Port Elizabeth, where they raped her. The monsters tried to strangle her to death, but they failed. They then stabbed her and left her for dead, but through luck and the sheer will to live, Alison Botha survived.

Alison Botha and her friends had enjoyed a fun evening before everything turned awry. Alison’s knife-wielding attacker pounced after she’d parked her car at her apartment. “Move over, or I’ll kill you,” the attacker coldly said.

The man told Botha that he only needed her car for an hour. Frans drove to another area of Port Elizabeth to pick up Kruger. The pair then drove to a secluded spot outside the city, where they informed Botha of their intention to have sex with her.

A terrified Botha chose not to resist rape. In her book I Have Life and film Alison, Botha detailed how her body responded to the rape. To guard against pain, her body involuntarily responded as if it were aroused.

Alison Botha told the publication that she might have glossed over that fact without her co-writer’s intervention:

“I was so nervous about saying that. If I’d written the book on my own I probably would have brushed over it, but Marianne [Thamm, co-writer of I Have Life] made me see how important it was, and I have lost count of the number of women who have come to thank me for saying it.”

After raping her, Kruger and du Toit tried suffocation, but it failed. Frustrated, the pair stabbed Alison 37 times in the abdomen. They might have left Botha alone had her leg not twitched.


In a final attempt to end Alison’s life, they stabbed her in the neck 17 times. Botha talked to IOL about her experience:

“All I could see was an arm moving about my face. Left and right and left and right. His movements were making a sound. A wet sound, it was the sound of my flesh being slashed open. He was cutting my throat with the knife. Again and again and again. It felt unreal but it wasn’t. I felt no pain, but it was not a dream. This was happening.”

No one can survive that,” one of Botha’s attackers said. But they were wrong: Botha survived.

The men left Botha to die, and for a moment, she thought she would. “I know I had to at least leave a clue about who did this to me so I wrote their names in the sand and ‘I love Mom’ beneath it,” Alison said.

Determined to live, Botha decided to move towards headlights she’d seen through the bushes. As she got up, her intestines nearly fell off. She held them in using a denim shirt she found at the scene.

“It was time to move,” Alison said. “I crawled, struggling through dirt and broken glass, my one hand holding the shirt. With each successive movement I became increasingly tired. At some point I collapsed onto the sand, exhausted.”

Crawling proved too slow for Alison, so she decided to walk. After getting up, her head fell onto her back – the attackers had sliced so extensively, they’d nearly decapitated Alison. Botha walked with one hand supporting her intestines and the other her head.

“I pulled my head forward with my free hand and my vision returned, at least temporarily,” Botha explained. “As I struggled forward my sight faded in and out and I fell many times but managed to get up again until I finally reached the road.”

Tiaan Eilerd, a veterinary student, stopped to help the struggling Alison. He kept her conscious long enough for paramedics to arrive. Dr. Alexander Angelov later stated that in his sixteen years as a doctor, he’d never seen such severe injuries.

Alison’s surgery lasted three hours, and after three weeks, she left the hospital. She remembered everything about the attack, helping authorities arrest du Toit and Kruger.

The Ripper Rapists were tried and convicted in The Noordhoek Ripper Trial, one of the most high-profile cases in South Africa. Judge Chris Jansen sentenced the pair to life in prison. Their efforts at parole have been denied so far.

Botha survived because none of the 54 knife thrusts nicked a main artery. Therefore, she did not bleed to death and kept breathing through her severed trachea.

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Alison Botha story: She survived 54 stab wounds to the neck and abdomen - TheNetline

Miracle is a word often associated with Alison Botha’s story. Alison’s life almost ended in 1994 after Frans du Toit and Theuns Kruger stabbed her multiple times in the neck and abdomen. Botha’s harrowing ordeal started when one of her attackers forced himself into her car, ordered her into the...

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Alison Botha

 

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Alison (2016) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary

1h 20m

www.imdb.com

I watched this doc a couple of months ago- Alison is amazing and I seldom use that word. But she truly is.

 

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Where to watch this?

Alison (2016) ⭐ 7.5 | Documentary

1h 20m

www.imdb.com

I watched this doc a couple of months ago- Alison is amazing and I seldom use that word. But she truly is.

 

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Where to watch this?

It’s on Amazon Prime, and for purchase on Google Play and Apple TV, it appears.