The Maritzburg United fan told TimesLIVE that his search had not yet been successful and that he had retained a private investigator to track him down. “I’ve been on the phone the entire morning trying to find him. When I saw the pictures on Twitter on Sunday morning‚ I thought to myself, 'No human being should go to work and be assaulted like that'.

“I’m sure in a perfect world‚ he would have loved to stay home with his family on a Saturday night. He went to work to feed his family and that had to happen to him.

“It’s unacceptable. What makes it worse is that this gentleman is probably a breadwinner and will have to return to work as soon as he is healed. That in itself is traumatic.”

Josephs said he was hoping to track downthe guard within the next few days.

“I’m hoping I can find him within the next few days so that I fly down to Durban and meet him.

“Whatever he was getting at his company‚ I would match that.”