Help Johan to get legs

Johan Mulder chooses to remain positive despite the battle that lays ahead.

“I thank God I am alive, even if it means having no feet,” he said from his bed in the Far East Hospital in Springs.

This 34-year-old boilermaker lost both his legs in what can only be described as a freak accident on March 1.

Mulder was alone in the field in the late afternoon, cutting grass for bales on his small holding in Modder East Orchards when disaster struck.

“I got snagged by a tree branch while cutting around the trunk. Despite holding on for dear life, I was pulled down in between the front and rear wheels of the tractor.”

Mulder remembers thinking he was about to die.

“I tried to wiggle away but then the tractor's rear wheel pinned me down.”

The tractor was still running resulting in the rear wheel moving over his lower abdomen. Within a flash, the slasher ripped Mulder’s calves to shreds.

“The pain was unbearable. I laid there under the tree for what seemed like 10 minutes, moving in and out consciousness,”  Mulder told Streeknews. Read More