Reyneke Gert 71 murdered Kameeldrift smallholding nothing robbed

2010-10-17 Gert Reyneke, 71, murdered on Kameeldrift smallholding, Pretoria, nothing robbed.
2010-10-18 Gert Reyneke, 71, had gone to visit his granddaughter at a smallholding in Kameeldrift near Pretoria to make a wrought-iron bed for her 14th birthday. Instead, the unarmed old Afrikaner was shot to death by persons unknown – who did not steal anything.

Reyneke Gert 71 murdered Kameeldrift smallholdings Oct172010 NOTHING ROBBED Hilda Fourie of Beeld newspaper said Gert and wife Johanna, 67, arrived from Bloemfontein on Friday to visit his daughter Mrs Thiana Gericke, 45 and to help celebrate his granddaughter Danelle Gericke’s 14th birthday. The Reyneke couple had celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary earlier in the month. They were staying in a flat just metres away from the main homestead. His wife woke up around 1am on Friday from the sound of glass breaking. Her husband also woke up and looked out the window, with Mrs Reyneke warning him to ‘be careful’ while he walked to the room next door where the sound had come from. Then she heard a shot. She looked carefully around the corner and saw her husband lying on his face, bleeding. He was shot in the chest from about a meter away. Mrs Reyneke locked herself in the bedroom and tried phoning her daughter and son-in-law Org Geringer, 43, but was unable to do so. However Mrs Geringer woke up from the gunshot and she woke up her husband who got up to fetch his cellphone from his car. When he noticed the text-message from his mother-in-law he rushed to the guest-flat but Mr Reyneke was dead. “It’s so senseless,’ said their daughter. “The most innocent of people just killed in one careless moment.” He also leaves another daughter Ms Charné Reyneke (42. SAPS captain Jan Sepato, confirmed the murder.Nobody was arrested. Police haven’t a clue who or how many people to even search for and also did not send an SAPS dog-tracker team shortly after the farm-attack. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Oupa-kuier-op-hoewe-geskiet-20101018