The tale of two corpses in two cities: Ettienne Gert Coetzer of Claremont Pretoria; and Marie Goosen of Parys…
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Ettienne Gert Coetzer, 66, corpse of murdered Afrikaner builder, found in Shosanguve Jan 29 2011
2011-02-01 The mutilated corpse of an independent Afrikaner builder, Ettienne Gert Coezter, 66, was found dumped in Soshanguve township three days after he went missing from his home in Claremont, Pretoria.
Three of his black colleagues at the construction company in Capital Park were arrested for his murder, confirmed w/o Patrick Zimu. All three male suspects are from Soshanguve. They are scheduled for a remand appearance soon, he said. Mr Coetzer was assaulted, throttled to death and then his body was dumped without any identification in a veld in Soshanguve extention 12. His torched bakkie was found Saturday-morning along the Rosslyn road north of Pretoria. One of the three suspects ‘was like a son to him,’ said the victim’s shocked son Mark, 39. His mother Dawn (63), had last heard from him on Friday-evening when he phoned her. The torched bakkie was discovered at 2am Saturday-morning and later that morning his body was also found. When the murdered man’s colleague then also disappeared without a trace, the SAPS launched a search for him and located him in Soshanguve. After questioning the worker, the other two also were arrested. “The first arrested worker had worked with my father for the past six years and they were very close,’ said Mark. “His arrest has shocked my mother tremendously because he was the very last man we would have suspected of participating in my father’s murder. Mr Coetzer sr. also leaves behind his daughters Tanya Blignaut, Bernedett Hoal and Merina Judd. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-vas-na-man-se-lyk-gekry-is-20110201
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Corpse of Mrs Marie Goosen, 67, of Parys, floated past some hundred horrified Vaal river wedding guests while Annelize and Sheldron Rostron posed for their pictures…
Jan 29 2011 – Saturday. While the newly-weds Annelize and Sheldon Rostron were posing for their wedding pictures next to the Vaal river ‘s Sioleh resort, their 105 horrified wedding-guests watched the corpse of an Afrikaner woman float past behind the couple at around 5pm.
Picture: photographer Mario van de Wall Beeld 082 570 7179
“We were smiling happily for the camera when the flower-girls started screaming and all the guests ran to the river’s edge, pointing and shouting,’ said Annelize in an interview with Beeld newspaper.
An emergency-service member was also seen following the floating dead woman in a canoo. She was identified as 67-year-year old Mrs Marie Goosen of Parys, who, it is being believed, drowned while she was trimming a tree near her riverside home along the river’s edge 16km away from Sioleh.
•Mrs Goosen’s husband Gert had left their home at around 4pm and found her missing two hours later upon his return. Police found scuff-marks on a slippery tree-trunk and her shears nearby. SAPS spokesman Maselela Langa said they were notified by other residents who had also spotted Mrs Goosen’s remains floating downriver from Parys.
Emergency-service personnel and police divers were trying to retrieve her in the rapidly-flowing river, following her trail in a rubber boat and a canoe, reported Beeld journalist Tom de Wet. She was eventually retrieved at around 18:00 some 20km from her home near Vredefort. Her son Johan Claassen (48), a pharmacist in Parys, said his mother had just undergone major surgery to repair damage done to her jaw by a dentist four years earlier due to a broken drill-bit severing nerves and injuring her jaw-bone. “She had just started eating properly for the first time since then, after her recent surgery,’ he said.She is also survived by a daughter Mrs Zita de Lange (40), and four grandchildren, Dean (18), Darren (16), Samantha (15) and Danielle (13).’A cremation-service was scheduled at the Dutch Reformed Church in Parys. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lyk-in-rivier-skok-gaste-20110131
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