/ 5 February 1999

CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER ROBBED

THE Canadian High Commissioner to South Africa, James Bartelman, was beaten and robbed of R1000 at a Sea Point hotel on Friday morning. Police said Bartelman (60) suffered a fracture to his nose after being assaulted with a stun device. The attack ended his plans to attend the opening of Parliament and he is returning to Johannesburg after being treated in a Cape Town hospital.