Afrikaner women targetted in murders

Summary: Smallholder Christa du Toit shot dead at Uitzicht; Part-time SAPS canteen worker Jacoba Coetzee of Ermelo was axed to death next to her bible; Two smallholders at the Kameeldrift region near Pretoria – which has the highest farm-attack rates in the country – were arrested after shooting dead an unknown black man who had climbed into their window in the middle of the night;

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2010-09-23 Christa du Toit, smallholder Swazina Park Uitzicht Pretoria, killed with headshot, gardener Nyasha Mabure, 19 being sought:

September 23 2010 - Swazina Park, Uitzicht smallholdings – Pretoria . Afrikaner smallholder Christa Du Toit had just opened the electronic gates to her gardener when she was attacked, throttled and then shot dead with one shot to the head.

After shooting Mrs du Toit dead, the murderer attacked her housefriend Mrs Mickey Coetzee, 48, beating her brutally in the face. He then forced her and the housekeeper to walk four times over the body -- and then he kicked Mrs Fourie’s body . Nothing was robbed. http://www.beeld.com/Galleries/Image/Fotos/Vermaak/Hy%20skop%20werkgewer%20se%20lyk%20na%20kopskoot

Beside her fiancee André du Plessis (54) Mrs Du Toit leaves two children, Amanda, 26 and Leon 31. “It was terrifying. One moment you were talking with her, you come back and she’s dead with a shot in her head,’ said the badly beaten Mrs Coetzee in an interview with Beeld newspaper.

Mrs Christa Du Toit, Mrs Coetzee and housekeeper Mrs Maurine Mambo (30), were alone at the secured homestead after Mrs du Toit’s fiancee André du Plessis (54) had left for work in Kempton Park.
Things were not as usual that morning: both gardeners had failed to show up for work. Shortly after Mr du Plessis had left, housekeeper Mrs Mambo suddenly saw that Mrs du Toit was being throttled by one of the gardeners. She rushed to the adjacent flat of Mrs Coetzee, warning that “Mrs Du Toit was being held hostage.”

The attacker came in, pushed a gun against Mrs Coetzee’s head and forced the two women into the bathroom, demanding money, before taking them to the main house. “When we walked into the hallway we saw Christa on the ground. He forced us to walk four times across her body. I asked him whether Christa was dead, and the man kicked her body and told us to shut up.’ Mrs Mambo then saw her chance, grabbed the gardener’s gun, throwing it into the air. As it fell to pieces on the ground the housekeeper rushed away to seek help from a neighbour. In the meantime Mrs Coetzee was being so brutally beaten by the murderer that she passed out. When she came to, he was gone.