Seventeen days ago, Eben Meyer pulled out all the stops when he proposed to the love of his life, Sylvia Hamman - an enormous diamond ring, rose petals and a bottle of bubbly.
But yesterday, Hamman was still trying to come to terms with the stark reality that her fairy-tale romance with Meyer ended on Saturday morning when he was beaten to death in a police cell.
Meyer's body was found in the holding cells of the Durbanville police station shortly after his arrest for being "drunk in a public place".
Police spokesman Captain Frederick van Wyk said the 48-year-old father of three was detained in a cell with eight others.
"Information would suggest that he had an argument with two other detainees, which led to a fight. The incident occurred half an hour after his detention," said Van Wyk.
"The two suspects who were also being detained for being drunk, are now facing a murder charge. The circumstances surrounding the matter are being investigated." he said.
Moses Dlamini, spokesman for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, confirmed that they were investigating Meyer's death.
The men, Daniel Dyosi and Sipho Mhlanga, appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court yesterday.
Eric Ntabazalila, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority in the Western Cape, said both were arrested and charged with drinking in public on Saturday.
"They met [Meyer] in the cells when they got into a fight. No weapons were used, but it is alleged that [Meyer] died after the men hit him with their fists and banged him against the walls."
The case was postponed to May 10 when Dyosi and Mhhlanga are expected to apply for bail.
Hamman could not bring herself to attend the court proceedings.
"I'm not doing too well," she said, fighting back tears.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Afrikaner dad of 3, Eben Meyer 48, beaten to death in Durbanville SAPS cell, dumped there for alleged ''drunk' charge
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Afrikaner Eben Meyer, 48, father of three, beaten to death in Durbanville WC SAPS cell Saturday April 21 2012: worked for courier-company near Ysterplaat Air Force Base.
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The Cape Argus journalist Murray Williams reports that Durbanville woman Sylvia Hamman is mourning the death of her fiancé Eben Meyer, 48, after he was beaten to death within half an hour of having been dumped in a police cell on Friday night with eight other men. The fiancee told the Cape Argus she last saw 48-year-old Eben Meyer on Friday morning when he set off to work at a courier company near Ysterplaat air force base. Some 18 hours later, she was informed by police that he had been beaten to death in a cell at Durbanville police station.
Police spokesman Andrè Traut told the Cape Argus on Monday Meyer "had been arrested during the early hours of Saturday morning for being drunk in public".
He was detained and placed in a cell with eight others. “Meyer was assaulted and succumbed as a result of his injuries." He claimed 'it appeared HE had an argument WITH OTHER MEN.' The 'incident' had occurred at around 1.30am within half an hour of his detention. “The two suspects, who were also being detained with him in the same cell for being drunk, are now facing a murder charge,” Traut said.The two suspects are due to make a court appearance in Bellville tomorrow.”
According to a report on Monday, Meyer had been at a well-known pub in Durbanville, and had been repeatedly kicked and hit by his fellow detainees in the police cell.
Hamman said she was “devastated” at the news of Meyer’s death and blamed police.
“It must be investigated. If the police had looked after his safety, he would not be dead today.”She said they had been due to marry in September.
A family member confirmed that Meyer had three children – Naomi, 24, Sonika, 22, and Inge, 17 – from a previous marriage. - Cape Argus http://www.iol.co.za April 23 2012. GOOGLE PAGE ATTACHED.
Afrikaner Eben Meyer, 48, father of three, beaten to death in Durbanville WC SAPS cell Saturday April 21 2012: worked for courier-company near Ysterplaat Air Force Base.
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The Cape Argus journalist Murray Williams reports that Durbanville woman Sylvia Hamman is mourning the death of her fiancé Eben Meyer, 48, after he was beaten to death within half an hour of having been dumped in a police cell on Friday night with eight other men. The fiancee told the Cape Argus she last saw 48-year-old Eben Meyer on Friday morning when he set off to work at a courier company near Ysterplaat air force base. Some 18 hours later, she was informed by police that he had been beaten to death in a cell at Durbanville police station.
Police spokesman Andrè Traut told the Cape Argus on Monday Meyer "had been arrested during the early hours of Saturday morning for being drunk in public".
He was detained and placed in a cell with eight others. “Meyer was assaulted and succumbed as a result of his injuries." He claimed 'it appeared HE had an argument WITH OTHER MEN.' The 'incident' had occurred at around 1.30am within half an hour of his detention. “The two suspects, who were also being detained with him in the same cell for being drunk, are now facing a murder charge,” Traut said.The two suspects are due to make a court appearance in Bellville tomorrow.”
According to a report on Monday, Meyer had been at a well-known pub in Durbanville, and had been repeatedly kicked and hit by his fellow detainees in the police cell.
Hamman said she was “devastated” at the news of Meyer’s death and blamed police.
“It must be investigated. If the police had looked after his safety, he would not be dead today.”She said they had been due to marry in September.
A family member confirmed that Meyer had three children – Naomi, 24, Sonika, 22, and Inge, 17 – from a previous marriage. - Cape Argus http://www.iol.co.za April 23 2012. GOOGLE PAGE ATTACHED.
Kommetjie father, 53, survives stabbing on beach while walking with his daughter: 6th attack in last few months
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Kommetjie father, 53, stabbed on beach while walking with his daughter: 6th attack last few months on remote Cape Peninsula beach. April 23 2012 -- By Ilse Fredericks
Komwatch members and a Table Mountain National Park staffer surveyed the scene of the knife attack where an unidentified Kommetjie father fought for his life when he was attacked with a butcher’s knife while walking with his daughter on Long Beach says his attacker threatened to come back and kill him.
The latest attack, which took place where Long Beach meets Noordhoek Beach, brings the number of muggings in the area over the last few months to at least six.
On Sunday, a day after the attack, a trail of blood was still visible on the sand dunes and a Table Mountain National Park staffer was seen patrolling the area.
There were almost no people on the beach.
The 53-year-old victim, who asked to remain anonymous, said the attacker “was smoking weed” and had greeted them when he and his daughter passed him on the beach.
“He must have followed us and crept up on us while we were walking over a dune.”
The father said the man had a butcher’s knife “of 12 inches long” and had demanded his 18-year-old daughter’s cellphone.
“He held a knife to my daughter’s throat. I said: ‘Let her go and we’ll give it to you.’ “
The attacker then turned his attention to the father.
“I whacked him with a walking stick. He was seriously trying to injure me.”
He said the man threw what looked like a porcelain mug at him.
“I tripped and fell over on the dune. I kicked him hard a few times. I was fighting for my life. He then stabbed at me a few time before stabbing me through my leg.”
His daughter ran and watched from a distance. The mugger followed, took the phone from her and fled.
“If things had gone differently I wouldn’t be here having this conversation with you. But I am not daunted and will go back,” the father told the Cape Argus.
A security guard alerted the police and emergency services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said the mugger fled with a BlackBerry phone, a ring and R100 in cash but that no arrests have been made.
Creighton Schlebach, a committee member of the neighbourhood watch, Komwatch, said about eight to 10 of their members went to help but the perpetrator got away.
He said there were unconfirmed reported that three other possible accomplices had been in the area.
“We are very concerned about these muggings. We are working together with Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) and others but what we need is someone to throw proper money at the problem. Some cameras would really go a long way.”
Louis Liebenberg, managing director of the non-profit organisation CyberTracker Conservation, said he had asked TMNP last month to place an observation point in the area where the mugging took place.
“I do have a lot of sympathy for the rangers… they are overworked and understaffed.
“Between 2004 and 2007 there was not a single attack that we know of because we had a good system in place with 10 full-time rangers and a team of trackers.
“And that’s what kept the beach safe.”
TMNP spokeswoman Merle Collins said the attack was a concern.
“We have a really good safety plan in place. We have received a lot of compliments from people saying visibility has increased. It is very unfortunate that this incident happened after all that we’ve done.”
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato, who visited Noordhoek beach last month after several muggings, said on Sunday:
“An immediate plan is to see if we can provide the members of the neighbourhood watch with quad bikes. It is difficult to catch them (on foot) even if you can see them running in the distance. Our officials are currently investigating this option.”
He said another consideration would be to place signboards to warn tourists of the dangers.
“People don’t know the area; they don’t know its remoteness.”
Last month he said: “This is not yet a hotspot, and is still a safe beach to walk on. I want to keep it that way. That is why I want to send a strong message to the criminals in this area.” - Cape Argus
ilse.fredericks@inl.co.za
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/dad-stabbed-on-cape-beach-1.1281724
Kommetjie father, 53, stabbed on beach while walking with his daughter: 6th attack last few months on remote Cape Peninsula beach. April 23 2012 -- By Ilse Fredericks
Komwatch members and a Table Mountain National Park staffer surveyed the scene of the knife attack where an unidentified Kommetjie father fought for his life when he was attacked with a butcher’s knife while walking with his daughter on Long Beach says his attacker threatened to come back and kill him.
The latest attack, which took place where Long Beach meets Noordhoek Beach, brings the number of muggings in the area over the last few months to at least six.
On Sunday, a day after the attack, a trail of blood was still visible on the sand dunes and a Table Mountain National Park staffer was seen patrolling the area.
There were almost no people on the beach.
The 53-year-old victim, who asked to remain anonymous, said the attacker “was smoking weed” and had greeted them when he and his daughter passed him on the beach.
“He must have followed us and crept up on us while we were walking over a dune.”
The father said the man had a butcher’s knife “of 12 inches long” and had demanded his 18-year-old daughter’s cellphone.
“He held a knife to my daughter’s throat. I said: ‘Let her go and we’ll give it to you.’ “
The attacker then turned his attention to the father.
“I whacked him with a walking stick. He was seriously trying to injure me.”
He said the man threw what looked like a porcelain mug at him.
“I tripped and fell over on the dune. I kicked him hard a few times. I was fighting for my life. He then stabbed at me a few time before stabbing me through my leg.”
His daughter ran and watched from a distance. The mugger followed, took the phone from her and fled.
“If things had gone differently I wouldn’t be here having this conversation with you. But I am not daunted and will go back,” the father told the Cape Argus.
A security guard alerted the police and emergency services.
Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said the mugger fled with a BlackBerry phone, a ring and R100 in cash but that no arrests have been made.
Creighton Schlebach, a committee member of the neighbourhood watch, Komwatch, said about eight to 10 of their members went to help but the perpetrator got away.
He said there were unconfirmed reported that three other possible accomplices had been in the area.
“We are very concerned about these muggings. We are working together with Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) and others but what we need is someone to throw proper money at the problem. Some cameras would really go a long way.”
Louis Liebenberg, managing director of the non-profit organisation CyberTracker Conservation, said he had asked TMNP last month to place an observation point in the area where the mugging took place.
“I do have a lot of sympathy for the rangers… they are overworked and understaffed.
“Between 2004 and 2007 there was not a single attack that we know of because we had a good system in place with 10 full-time rangers and a team of trackers.
“And that’s what kept the beach safe.”
TMNP spokeswoman Merle Collins said the attack was a concern.
“We have a really good safety plan in place. We have received a lot of compliments from people saying visibility has increased. It is very unfortunate that this incident happened after all that we’ve done.”
Community Safety MEC Dan Plato, who visited Noordhoek beach last month after several muggings, said on Sunday:
“An immediate plan is to see if we can provide the members of the neighbourhood watch with quad bikes. It is difficult to catch them (on foot) even if you can see them running in the distance. Our officials are currently investigating this option.”
He said another consideration would be to place signboards to warn tourists of the dangers.
“People don’t know the area; they don’t know its remoteness.”
Last month he said: “This is not yet a hotspot, and is still a safe beach to walk on. I want to keep it that way. That is why I want to send a strong message to the criminals in this area.” - Cape Argus
ilse.fredericks@inl.co.za
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/dad-stabbed-on-cape-beach-1.1281724
Vrou verkrag toe drie plaas aanval
Hilda Fourie
’n Vrou is verkrag nadat sy en drie kollegas op ’n wildplaas buite Lephalale (Ellisras) aangeval is.
Lt.kol. Ronel Otto, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder in Limpopo, het gesê drie mans het die deur van die gastehuis op die plaas gister omstreeks 07:00 oopgebreek.
Volgens Otto het die aanvallers uniforms aangehad soortgelyk aan dié wat die plaas se personeel dra. Die mans was gewapen en het handskoene gedra.
Hulle het in die gastehuis ingekom en vier werkers – drie mans en ’n vrou – oorval en vasgebind.
Een van die werkers het probeer terugveg, maar hy is met ’n vuurwapen oor die kop geslaan.
“Die vrou is na ’n kamer geneem waar ’n verdagte haar verkrag het,” het Otto gesê.
“Die verdagtes het die kluis verskeie kere vergeefs probeer oopkry.
“Dit blyk die meeste wat hulle gevat het, was die vleis in die vrieskas.”
Otto het gesê die mans het te voet gevlug. Teen druktyd was daar nog geen arrestasies nie.
Mnr. Louis Meintjes, president van TLU SA, het gesê wanneer aanvallers vroue verkrag, mense met strykysters brand en hulle verniel, is die motief vir plaasaanvalle nie meer net roof nie.
“As roof die motief vir plaasaanvalle was, hoekom steel hulle nie net en gaan dan weg nie? Hoekom mense verrinneweer?
“Plaasaanvalle is intimidasie om druk op kommersiële boere te plaas.”
Luidens TLU SA se statistieke van voorvalle wat hulle in die media kry en deur lede wat voorvalle aanmeld, was daar vanjaar landwyd al 35 aanvalle op plase en kleinhoewes waartydens 13 mense vermoor is.
“Die aanvalle vanjaar neem drasties toe.
Daar is beslis nie ’n afname soos wat die polisie te kenne wil gee nie,” het Meintjes gesê.
“As ’n mens met die polisie en kenners oor plaasaanvalle praat, is daar ’n tendens dat almal roof die motief noem. Dit kan nie wees nie. As ’n vrou verkrag word, is roof nie meer die motief nie.”
’n Vrou is verkrag nadat sy en drie kollegas op ’n wildplaas buite Lephalale (Ellisras) aangeval is.
Lt.kol. Ronel Otto, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder in Limpopo, het gesê drie mans het die deur van die gastehuis op die plaas gister omstreeks 07:00 oopgebreek.
Volgens Otto het die aanvallers uniforms aangehad soortgelyk aan dié wat die plaas se personeel dra. Die mans was gewapen en het handskoene gedra.
Hulle het in die gastehuis ingekom en vier werkers – drie mans en ’n vrou – oorval en vasgebind.
Een van die werkers het probeer terugveg, maar hy is met ’n vuurwapen oor die kop geslaan.
“Die vrou is na ’n kamer geneem waar ’n verdagte haar verkrag het,” het Otto gesê.
“Die verdagtes het die kluis verskeie kere vergeefs probeer oopkry.
“Dit blyk die meeste wat hulle gevat het, was die vleis in die vrieskas.”
Otto het gesê die mans het te voet gevlug. Teen druktyd was daar nog geen arrestasies nie.
Mnr. Louis Meintjes, president van TLU SA, het gesê wanneer aanvallers vroue verkrag, mense met strykysters brand en hulle verniel, is die motief vir plaasaanvalle nie meer net roof nie.
“As roof die motief vir plaasaanvalle was, hoekom steel hulle nie net en gaan dan weg nie? Hoekom mense verrinneweer?
“Plaasaanvalle is intimidasie om druk op kommersiële boere te plaas.”
Luidens TLU SA se statistieke van voorvalle wat hulle in die media kry en deur lede wat voorvalle aanmeld, was daar vanjaar landwyd al 35 aanvalle op plase en kleinhoewes waartydens 13 mense vermoor is.
“Die aanvalle vanjaar neem drasties toe.
Daar is beslis nie ’n afname soos wat die polisie te kenne wil gee nie,” het Meintjes gesê.
“As ’n mens met die polisie en kenners oor plaasaanvalle praat, is daar ’n tendens dat almal roof die motief noem. Dit kan nie wees nie. As ’n vrou verkrag word, is roof nie meer die motief nie.”
Geskiet terwyl hy pleit
Piet Matipa
Hy het vir die rowers gesê hulle kan vat wat hulle wil, solank hulle hom en sy gesin net nie seermaak nie. Toe skiet hulle hom in die voorkop.
Mnr. Johan (Jo) Erasmus (40) se pleidooie Saterdagoggend vroeg aan vyf inbrekers in die gesin se hoewehuis naby die Rietvleidam by Pretoria het op dowe ore geval.
Sy lewensmaat, me. Aneke Garainer, wat vier maande swanger is, het gesien hoe Erasmus op die vloer val ná die skoot terwyl sy met ’n skootrekenaar na die vyf mans gestap het om dit vir hulle te gee.
Garainer het in die vroeë oggendure stemme buite die huis gehoor.
“Ek het Jo wakker gemaak en gesê daar is iemand buite die huis.”
Erasmus is met die trappe af na die grondvlak om te kyk wat aangaan. Garainer is ook na die grondvlak om haar twee kinders, Aidan (6) en Nika (8), in hul slaapkamer te gaan haal.
“Ek het my kinders na ons kamer toe gevat terwyl Jo onder besig was.”
Die vyf mans het die kombuisdeur oopgebreek en Erasmus, wat by die deur gestaan het, is bo sy regteroog geskiet net nadat hy by die inbrekers gepleit het om hulle nie leed aan te doen nie.
Garainer was op pad af om ’n skootrekenaar vir die mans te bring om hulle te paai toe sy die skoot hoor en haar lewensmaat op die kombuisvloer sien val.
“Die mans het daarna na my toe gehardloop en my met hul vuurwapen op die voorkop geslaan.”
Hulle het haar uitgevra waar nog waardevolle goed is en is uiteindelik met ’n skootrekenaar, selfone en ’n platskerm-TV weg.
“Hulle het juweliersware ook gesoek. Ek het gesê ek het nie.”
Nadat die vyf aanvallers weg is, het die kinders Garainer probeer help om Erasmus, wat baie gebloei het, in die motor te kry sodat hulle hom na ’n hospitaal kon neem.
Die kinders was histeries. Hulle is egter geen leed aangedoen nie.
Die bure het intussen opgedaag en die polisie en ’n nooddiens ontbied. Die paramedici het Erasmus op die toneel behandel en hom per ambulans na die Kalafong-hospitaal geneem, waar hy omstreeks 08:00 dood is.
Me. Sue Bisschoff, Erasmus se ma, het gister in trane gesê haar seun was nie gewelddadig nie. “Almal was mal oor hom. Hulle het geen reg gehad om my kind te vat nie.”
Garainer het vertel dat haar kinders hom “space dad” genoem het omdat hy hulle altyd van die planete geleer het.
Sy verwag hul eersteling.
“As dit ’n seun is, gaan ek hom Jo noem. As dit nie vir hom was nie, sou ons baie erger seergekry het.”
Hy het vir die rowers gesê hulle kan vat wat hulle wil, solank hulle hom en sy gesin net nie seermaak nie. Toe skiet hulle hom in die voorkop.
Mnr. Johan (Jo) Erasmus (40) se pleidooie Saterdagoggend vroeg aan vyf inbrekers in die gesin se hoewehuis naby die Rietvleidam by Pretoria het op dowe ore geval.
Sy lewensmaat, me. Aneke Garainer, wat vier maande swanger is, het gesien hoe Erasmus op die vloer val ná die skoot terwyl sy met ’n skootrekenaar na die vyf mans gestap het om dit vir hulle te gee.
Garainer het in die vroeë oggendure stemme buite die huis gehoor.
“Ek het Jo wakker gemaak en gesê daar is iemand buite die huis.”
Erasmus is met die trappe af na die grondvlak om te kyk wat aangaan. Garainer is ook na die grondvlak om haar twee kinders, Aidan (6) en Nika (8), in hul slaapkamer te gaan haal.
“Ek het my kinders na ons kamer toe gevat terwyl Jo onder besig was.”
Die vyf mans het die kombuisdeur oopgebreek en Erasmus, wat by die deur gestaan het, is bo sy regteroog geskiet net nadat hy by die inbrekers gepleit het om hulle nie leed aan te doen nie.
Garainer was op pad af om ’n skootrekenaar vir die mans te bring om hulle te paai toe sy die skoot hoor en haar lewensmaat op die kombuisvloer sien val.
“Die mans het daarna na my toe gehardloop en my met hul vuurwapen op die voorkop geslaan.”
Hulle het haar uitgevra waar nog waardevolle goed is en is uiteindelik met ’n skootrekenaar, selfone en ’n platskerm-TV weg.
“Hulle het juweliersware ook gesoek. Ek het gesê ek het nie.”
Nadat die vyf aanvallers weg is, het die kinders Garainer probeer help om Erasmus, wat baie gebloei het, in die motor te kry sodat hulle hom na ’n hospitaal kon neem.
Die kinders was histeries. Hulle is egter geen leed aangedoen nie.
Die bure het intussen opgedaag en die polisie en ’n nooddiens ontbied. Die paramedici het Erasmus op die toneel behandel en hom per ambulans na die Kalafong-hospitaal geneem, waar hy omstreeks 08:00 dood is.
Me. Sue Bisschoff, Erasmus se ma, het gister in trane gesê haar seun was nie gewelddadig nie. “Almal was mal oor hom. Hulle het geen reg gehad om my kind te vat nie.”
Garainer het vertel dat haar kinders hom “space dad” genoem het omdat hy hulle altyd van die planete geleer het.
Sy verwag hul eersteling.
“As dit ’n seun is, gaan ek hom Jo noem. As dit nie vir hom was nie, sou ons baie erger seergekry het.”
Afrikaners often arrested on trumped-up fake charges, raped during and after their arrest while in police-custody
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THE "CULTURE" OF GANG-RAPING WHITE MEN IN SA PRISONS -- A trend has been noticed on Farmitracker.com's reports that there have been a number of clear human-rights violations by the SA police authorities where Afrikaners are arrested on trumped-up charges, often related to fraudulent sexual or hate-speech claims, and put through the ordeal of a high-profile arrest accompanied by a high level of news-media reporting: often their names and photos are published before they have been charged in a court of law. They are often also denied the right to apply for bail and are forced to spend long periods of time in trial-awaiting incarceration.
A case has now also come to light of UK businessman Sean Smith, who was arrested on 'fraud'charges, thrown in the ST Albans prison in a cell with 90 other black prisoners, where he was gang-raped up to 8 times a day for a period of 19 months - until the UK High Commissioner was able to get him bail and smuggled him from South Africa to Lesotho in the trunk of an official UK government vehicle. The businessman has contracted AIDS and also is suffering from cancer now. PICTURE OF NEWSPAER REPORT ATTACHED.
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These human-rights infringements often are accompanied by an even more brutal tendency: namely the South African Police Service often exposes such very vulnerable white men and women to gang-rapes in the SAPS holding cells, in the SAPS vans transporting them, and also by putting them not in a 'trial-awaiting' facility, but in a regular prison environment as if they have already been judged guilty.
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Some examples are outlined below:
-- SAPS sergeant Ignatius Le ROUX; arrested on trumped up charges and kept in custody for three years, was released after the case was dropped: Feb 26 2012: (pic attached)
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---Afrikaans teacher Robert van Eeden: brutally raped in police van Kuilsriver after arrested for 'hugging pupils'
17:00 Mar 9 2012 Kuilsrivier, Western Cape
-- Mr Van Heerden was ordered to reappear in the Blue Downs court on May 3 2012.
http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Onnie-verkrag-in-polisievangwa-20120324
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Fourie Johan sr.superintendent SAPS Limpopo, NOT GUILTY of trumped-up theft charges, lodges charge with Human Rights Commission: fights to get job-rights back years after he was cleared of deliberately trumped-up 'theft' charges Pietersburg – http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/739
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Afrikaans mom Yolanda Mostert; farmer Wikus Ras attacked, arrested by traffic cops on trumped up charges - Afrikaans mom and farmer badly mauled by Mpuma traffic cops 2011-10-26 ERMELO. Mrs Yolanda Mostert allegedly was badly mauled by the infamous 'red-hat traffic brigade'Wed Oct 26 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1991
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Afrikaner SAPS serg Ignatius le Roux kept in illegal custody for 3 years on trumped-up charges: released Feb 31 2012 after magistrate investigates the charges and finds that he has been kept in prison illegally for three years on trumped up charges and was not allowed lodge a complaint ...Tue Feb 28 2012 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2383
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Nylstroom: Du Preez family arrested on farm, SAPS commander shouting: "Shoot dead anyone who resists...'
Nylstroom Court rules that the Du Preez family was arrested on trumped up charges after viewing the video: Du Preez family was arrested by a huge SAPS contingent Sun Aug 15 2010 NO CHARGES. http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/459
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Bouwer, Adv. Marius, SAPS anti-corruption unit, awarded R600,000 damages FALSE SAPS ARREST, TORTURE - Afrikaner ex-commander of SAPS anti-corruption unit arrested ON TRUMPED UP MURDER-CHARGE AND FALSE CLAIMS OF MEMBERSHIP OF 'BOEREMAG' (which is not illegal in SA) Thu Dec 18 2003 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/738
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Van der Mescht Sakkie firearm-control-officer Rustenburg false SAPS arrest
Sakkie van der Mescht dumped in Rustenburg cell, threatened with gang-rape – forced to sign fake 'confession' 23/07/2008 Linda de Beer, Beeld - Rustenburg: Wed Jul 23 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/740
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Afrikaans SAPS widow Margaretha (Liza) de Bruin sues gov't for repeated false arrests
Afrikaans SAPS widow Margaretha Liza de Bruin sues SAPS for repeated false arrests 2011-11-02 source: Beeld journalist Hanti Otto - Margaretha (Liza) de Bruin, the widow of sergean ...
Wed Nov 2 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2018
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Van Eeden Tobie LtCol SADF 121Battallion CLEARED OF TRUMPED-UP CHARGES IN APPEAL COURT - Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE -- Lt.col. Tobie van Eeden Fri Oct 17 2008
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Labuschagne Ferdinand Maj. SADF 121Bn NOT GUILTY OF TRUMPEDUP ATTMPD MURDER APPEALS COURT -Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE Fri Oct 17 2008
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Short, Gerhardt and Rene, arrested on trumped-up charges: not guilty of attempted murder, De Wildt, Magalies
"TODAY WE ARE GOING TO ARREST A BOER’ hatespeech against arrested men: De Wildt, Brits, Magalies crime wave came to a crashing stop on Sept 9 2009... the very day that Gerhard and Rene Short were falsely arrested: Sun Aug 15 2010
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Below, some incidents listed on Farmitracker where Afrikaners are arrested on fake charges, often raped and/or racially abused while in police custody: also denied legal human rights in the judicial system: even the deputy police minister claims 'all whites are criminals and should get higher sentences'..
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Van Eeden Tobie LtCol SADF 121Battallion CLEARED OF TRUMPED-UP CHARGES IN APPEAL COURT
Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE -- Lt.col. Tobie va ...
Fri Oct 17 2008
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Sasolburg cops part of murder/farm-attack gang waging reign of terror against rural Afrikaners: yet they are still working warns judge C J Musi
Reign of terror targets whites from police-stations: A judge who jailed Sasolburg Club 40 manager Ignatius Michael Grobler's killer this week is worried: Judge C J Musi note ...
Fri Jun 3 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1343
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Short, Gerhardt and Rene, arrested on trumped-up charges: not guilty of attempted murder, De Wildt, Magalies - "TODAY WE ARE GOING TO ARREST A BOER’ hatespeech against arrested men: De Wildt, Brits, Magalies crime wave came to a crashing stop on Sept 9 2009... the very day that Gerhard and Rene Short were falsely arreste ...
Sun Aug 15 2010
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Labuschagne Ferdinand Maj. SADF 121Bn NOT GUILTY OF TRUMPEDUP ATTMPD MURDER APPEALS COURT -two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE
Fri Oct 17 2008
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Le Grange father Joseph, son Pieter, friend Hendrik vdWesthuizen
UNFAIR TRIAL RACIAL-PREJUDICE JUDGE FRANS KGOMO APPEAL COURT Three Afrikaners in Prieska had an unfair trial because of anti-Afrikaner judge Frans Kgomo - Supreme court of appeal rules...Thu Sep 18 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/743
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Pretorius, Lets, Afrikaners abused in prison radio interview Feb 8 2008
Pretorius, Lets, trial-awaiting Afrikaners are racially-abused in Pretoria high security prison - radio interview Feb 8 2008 RACIST ABUSE IN PRISON: listen to the radio interview - Fri Feb 8 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/217
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Ratte: 10 arrested Afrikaners spat at by muslim outside Witbank court room
Israeli pro-Boer activist Avigdor Eskin -- on fact-finding mission in South Africa – also attends arrested Boers’ court-appearance in Witbank..Mon Oct 11 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/638
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Ratte, Willem, decorated 32Battallion leader, again arrested on trumped-up weapons charges
-- Cmdr Willem Ratte arrested again - OCT 11 2010 Ratte was teaching unemployed Afrikaners a new artisan trade at the internal-refuge ... evidence emerged that the police had planted weapons and searched an adjacent farm to locate some marijuana.
--- All these charges were dropped later but he had to go on a hunger-strike before they would do so: Mon Oct 11 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/601
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Cwele, Sheryl, wife of Intelligence/Security minister Siyabonga Cwele, charged with luring white women into drug-running syndicate
PIETERMARITZBURG (Sapa) – Sheryl Cwele, wife of Intelligence/Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, recruited Afrikaans woman Tessa Beetge as a drug-mule,
http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/639
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"Whites punished too lightly for crimes"says new depy-police minister Maggie Sotyu - In a public rant outside parliament, brand-new deputy-police minister Maggie Sotyu shouted that 'whites are punished too lightly for crimes, all whites are criminals...;
2010-11-09 Fri Nov 12 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/718
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Why are Pretoria cops so violent against Afrikaners and Foreigners?
Disabled Boer couple assaulted by racist cops: and Many other incidents: http://bit.ly/hHzPn6 ...
Fri Jun 24 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1411
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Two racist Indian-SA cops who massacred 4 unarmed white men were sentenced to 205 years combined prison
Wednesday, 29 September 2010 Racist cops who massacred 4 whites sentenced to 205 years.......Massacre of four white men by two Indian-SA cops who picked a racist fight Wed Sep 29 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/595
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Olivier - two Afrikaans smallholders, arrested for self-defence killing of armed attacker who tried to kill him at Kameeldrift Sept20 2010 DENIED BAIL HEARING -2010-09-20 Two Afrikaner smallholders arrested after alleged death of farm-attacker - Uitzicht, Kameeldrift 2010-09-23 09:43 Picture: Mrs Elize Olivier burst into tears Fri Sep 24 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/583
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Scheepers, Roelien, teacher Ermelo, kidnapped, drugged by Nigerians, VICTIM also gets charged...This disjointed story by Rapport journalist Willem Pelser seems to imply that 32-year-old teacher and mom of two, Roelien Scheepers, was locked up by a Nigerian criminal/dru ...
Sun Aug 15 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/458
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City Press newspaper found guilty of spreading political propaganda against Afrikaners: Blackwash group organiser Andile Mngxitama – importantly, a policy adviser of the ANC-run European Union-funded Foundation for Human Rights – has been found guilty of spreading anti-Afrikaner propaganda.
Mon Jul 12 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/234
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Afrikaners increasingly targetted, abused, humiliated by black-racist ANC-officials
Summary: anti-white racism crimen-injuria complaint against Black SAPS brig Vuyokazi Ndebele Sat Oct 22 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1984
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Zimbabwe journalist incites genocide against Afrikaners, writes: 'ANC needs to kill the Boers: it's the only way Power will be theirs'... by Caesar Zvayi
He attended the 100th-anniversary celebrations in Bloemfontein as one o ...
Thu Jan 19 2012 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2254
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Homeless Afrikaners Chris and Chrissie Knoll chased from shelter by SAPS with teargas Nelspruit -Elderly, homeless Afrikaner couple Chris and Chrissie Knol chased from shack by municipality twice - with teargas.May 2 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1215
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Afrikaners beaten in Koffiefontein after objecting to antiwhite hatespeech in Post Office - White woman beaten in Koffiefontein after objecting to anti-white hatespeech in PO 2011-07-12
Previously a white man was also beaten up by a young black man while withdrawing cash and being subjected to hatespeech ...
Tue Jul 12 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1514
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Khabisi Mosunkutu, ANC-politician, death threats to Afrikaner politicians Aug 13 2008
“We will find places for your children in the orphanage’ – death threat by ANC politician Khabisi Mosunkutu (Gauteng provincial former agricultural-minister) August 13 2008 ...
Wed Aug 13 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/219
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Social welfare agency SASSA refuses aid to 600,000 Poor Whites,
Social-welfare agency SASSA refuses to admit that there any " poor whites "...refuse food-aid, social-welfare benefits to more than 600,000 of the 3-million Afrikaner whites
Sun Jul 25 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/349
THE "CULTURE" OF GANG-RAPING WHITE MEN IN SA PRISONS -- A trend has been noticed on Farmitracker.com's reports that there have been a number of clear human-rights violations by the SA police authorities where Afrikaners are arrested on trumped-up charges, often related to fraudulent sexual or hate-speech claims, and put through the ordeal of a high-profile arrest accompanied by a high level of news-media reporting: often their names and photos are published before they have been charged in a court of law. They are often also denied the right to apply for bail and are forced to spend long periods of time in trial-awaiting incarceration.
A case has now also come to light of UK businessman Sean Smith, who was arrested on 'fraud'charges, thrown in the ST Albans prison in a cell with 90 other black prisoners, where he was gang-raped up to 8 times a day for a period of 19 months - until the UK High Commissioner was able to get him bail and smuggled him from South Africa to Lesotho in the trunk of an official UK government vehicle. The businessman has contracted AIDS and also is suffering from cancer now. PICTURE OF NEWSPAER REPORT ATTACHED.
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These human-rights infringements often are accompanied by an even more brutal tendency: namely the South African Police Service often exposes such very vulnerable white men and women to gang-rapes in the SAPS holding cells, in the SAPS vans transporting them, and also by putting them not in a 'trial-awaiting' facility, but in a regular prison environment as if they have already been judged guilty.
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Some examples are outlined below:
-- SAPS sergeant Ignatius Le ROUX; arrested on trumped up charges and kept in custody for three years, was released after the case was dropped: Feb 26 2012: (pic attached)
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---Afrikaans teacher Robert van Eeden: brutally raped in police van Kuilsriver after arrested for 'hugging pupils'
17:00 Mar 9 2012 Kuilsrivier, Western Cape
-- Mr Van Heerden was ordered to reappear in the Blue Downs court on May 3 2012.
http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Onnie-verkrag-in-polisievangwa-20120324
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Fourie Johan sr.superintendent SAPS Limpopo, NOT GUILTY of trumped-up theft charges, lodges charge with Human Rights Commission: fights to get job-rights back years after he was cleared of deliberately trumped-up 'theft' charges Pietersburg – http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/739
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Afrikaans mom Yolanda Mostert; farmer Wikus Ras attacked, arrested by traffic cops on trumped up charges - Afrikaans mom and farmer badly mauled by Mpuma traffic cops 2011-10-26 ERMELO. Mrs Yolanda Mostert allegedly was badly mauled by the infamous 'red-hat traffic brigade'Wed Oct 26 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1991
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Afrikaner SAPS serg Ignatius le Roux kept in illegal custody for 3 years on trumped-up charges: released Feb 31 2012 after magistrate investigates the charges and finds that he has been kept in prison illegally for three years on trumped up charges and was not allowed lodge a complaint ...Tue Feb 28 2012 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2383
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Nylstroom: Du Preez family arrested on farm, SAPS commander shouting: "Shoot dead anyone who resists...'
Nylstroom Court rules that the Du Preez family was arrested on trumped up charges after viewing the video: Du Preez family was arrested by a huge SAPS contingent Sun Aug 15 2010 NO CHARGES. http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/459
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Bouwer, Adv. Marius, SAPS anti-corruption unit, awarded R600,000 damages FALSE SAPS ARREST, TORTURE - Afrikaner ex-commander of SAPS anti-corruption unit arrested ON TRUMPED UP MURDER-CHARGE AND FALSE CLAIMS OF MEMBERSHIP OF 'BOEREMAG' (which is not illegal in SA) Thu Dec 18 2003 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/738
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Van der Mescht Sakkie firearm-control-officer Rustenburg false SAPS arrest
Sakkie van der Mescht dumped in Rustenburg cell, threatened with gang-rape – forced to sign fake 'confession' 23/07/2008 Linda de Beer, Beeld - Rustenburg: Wed Jul 23 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/740
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Afrikaans SAPS widow Margaretha (Liza) de Bruin sues gov't for repeated false arrests
Afrikaans SAPS widow Margaretha Liza de Bruin sues SAPS for repeated false arrests 2011-11-02 source: Beeld journalist Hanti Otto - Margaretha (Liza) de Bruin, the widow of sergean ...
Wed Nov 2 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2018
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Van Eeden Tobie LtCol SADF 121Battallion CLEARED OF TRUMPED-UP CHARGES IN APPEAL COURT - Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE -- Lt.col. Tobie van Eeden Fri Oct 17 2008
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Labuschagne Ferdinand Maj. SADF 121Bn NOT GUILTY OF TRUMPEDUP ATTMPD MURDER APPEALS COURT -Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE Fri Oct 17 2008
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Short, Gerhardt and Rene, arrested on trumped-up charges: not guilty of attempted murder, De Wildt, Magalies
"TODAY WE ARE GOING TO ARREST A BOER’ hatespeech against arrested men: De Wildt, Brits, Magalies crime wave came to a crashing stop on Sept 9 2009... the very day that Gerhard and Rene Short were falsely arrested: Sun Aug 15 2010
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Below, some incidents listed on Farmitracker where Afrikaners are arrested on fake charges, often raped and/or racially abused while in police custody: also denied legal human rights in the judicial system: even the deputy police minister claims 'all whites are criminals and should get higher sentences'..
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Van Eeden Tobie LtCol SADF 121Battallion CLEARED OF TRUMPED-UP CHARGES IN APPEAL COURT
Two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE -- Lt.col. Tobie va ...
Fri Oct 17 2008
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Sasolburg cops part of murder/farm-attack gang waging reign of terror against rural Afrikaners: yet they are still working warns judge C J Musi
Reign of terror targets whites from police-stations: A judge who jailed Sasolburg Club 40 manager Ignatius Michael Grobler's killer this week is worried: Judge C J Musi note ...
Fri Jun 3 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1343
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Short, Gerhardt and Rene, arrested on trumped-up charges: not guilty of attempted murder, De Wildt, Magalies - "TODAY WE ARE GOING TO ARREST A BOER’ hatespeech against arrested men: De Wildt, Brits, Magalies crime wave came to a crashing stop on Sept 9 2009... the very day that Gerhard and Rene Short were falsely arreste ...
Sun Aug 15 2010
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Labuschagne Ferdinand Maj. SADF 121Bn NOT GUILTY OF TRUMPEDUP ATTMPD MURDER APPEALS COURT -two senior Afrikaner officers of 121 Battallion cleared of trumped-up charges by Appeal Court NOT GUILTY OF CONSPIRING TO MURDER BLACK MAJOR M MANEKWANE
Fri Oct 17 2008
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Le Grange father Joseph, son Pieter, friend Hendrik vdWesthuizen
UNFAIR TRIAL RACIAL-PREJUDICE JUDGE FRANS KGOMO APPEAL COURT Three Afrikaners in Prieska had an unfair trial because of anti-Afrikaner judge Frans Kgomo - Supreme court of appeal rules...Thu Sep 18 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/743
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Pretorius, Lets, Afrikaners abused in prison radio interview Feb 8 2008
Pretorius, Lets, trial-awaiting Afrikaners are racially-abused in Pretoria high security prison - radio interview Feb 8 2008 RACIST ABUSE IN PRISON: listen to the radio interview - Fri Feb 8 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/217
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Ratte: 10 arrested Afrikaners spat at by muslim outside Witbank court room
Israeli pro-Boer activist Avigdor Eskin -- on fact-finding mission in South Africa – also attends arrested Boers’ court-appearance in Witbank..Mon Oct 11 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/638
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Ratte, Willem, decorated 32Battallion leader, again arrested on trumped-up weapons charges
-- Cmdr Willem Ratte arrested again - OCT 11 2010 Ratte was teaching unemployed Afrikaners a new artisan trade at the internal-refuge ... evidence emerged that the police had planted weapons and searched an adjacent farm to locate some marijuana.
--- All these charges were dropped later but he had to go on a hunger-strike before they would do so: Mon Oct 11 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/601
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Cwele, Sheryl, wife of Intelligence/Security minister Siyabonga Cwele, charged with luring white women into drug-running syndicate
PIETERMARITZBURG (Sapa) – Sheryl Cwele, wife of Intelligence/Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele, recruited Afrikaans woman Tessa Beetge as a drug-mule,
http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/639
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"Whites punished too lightly for crimes"says new depy-police minister Maggie Sotyu - In a public rant outside parliament, brand-new deputy-police minister Maggie Sotyu shouted that 'whites are punished too lightly for crimes, all whites are criminals...;
2010-11-09 Fri Nov 12 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/718
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Why are Pretoria cops so violent against Afrikaners and Foreigners?
Disabled Boer couple assaulted by racist cops: and Many other incidents: http://bit.ly/hHzPn6 ...
Fri Jun 24 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1411
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Two racist Indian-SA cops who massacred 4 unarmed white men were sentenced to 205 years combined prison
Wednesday, 29 September 2010 Racist cops who massacred 4 whites sentenced to 205 years.......Massacre of four white men by two Indian-SA cops who picked a racist fight Wed Sep 29 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/595
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Olivier - two Afrikaans smallholders, arrested for self-defence killing of armed attacker who tried to kill him at Kameeldrift Sept20 2010 DENIED BAIL HEARING -2010-09-20 Two Afrikaner smallholders arrested after alleged death of farm-attacker - Uitzicht, Kameeldrift 2010-09-23 09:43 Picture: Mrs Elize Olivier burst into tears Fri Sep 24 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/583
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Scheepers, Roelien, teacher Ermelo, kidnapped, drugged by Nigerians, VICTIM also gets charged...This disjointed story by Rapport journalist Willem Pelser seems to imply that 32-year-old teacher and mom of two, Roelien Scheepers, was locked up by a Nigerian criminal/dru ...
Sun Aug 15 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/458
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City Press newspaper found guilty of spreading political propaganda against Afrikaners: Blackwash group organiser Andile Mngxitama – importantly, a policy adviser of the ANC-run European Union-funded Foundation for Human Rights – has been found guilty of spreading anti-Afrikaner propaganda.
Mon Jul 12 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/234
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Afrikaners increasingly targetted, abused, humiliated by black-racist ANC-officials
Summary: anti-white racism crimen-injuria complaint against Black SAPS brig Vuyokazi Ndebele Sat Oct 22 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1984
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Zimbabwe journalist incites genocide against Afrikaners, writes: 'ANC needs to kill the Boers: it's the only way Power will be theirs'... by Caesar Zvayi
He attended the 100th-anniversary celebrations in Bloemfontein as one o ...
Thu Jan 19 2012 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/2254
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Homeless Afrikaners Chris and Chrissie Knoll chased from shelter by SAPS with teargas Nelspruit -Elderly, homeless Afrikaner couple Chris and Chrissie Knol chased from shack by municipality twice - with teargas.May 2 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1215
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Afrikaners beaten in Koffiefontein after objecting to antiwhite hatespeech in Post Office - White woman beaten in Koffiefontein after objecting to anti-white hatespeech in PO 2011-07-12
Previously a white man was also beaten up by a young black man while withdrawing cash and being subjected to hatespeech ...
Tue Jul 12 2011 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/1514
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Khabisi Mosunkutu, ANC-politician, death threats to Afrikaner politicians Aug 13 2008
“We will find places for your children in the orphanage’ – death threat by ANC politician Khabisi Mosunkutu (Gauteng provincial former agricultural-minister) August 13 2008 ...
Wed Aug 13 2008 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/219
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Social welfare agency SASSA refuses aid to 600,000 Poor Whites,
Social-welfare agency SASSA refuses to admit that there any " poor whites "...refuse food-aid, social-welfare benefits to more than 600,000 of the 3-million Afrikaner whites
Sun Jul 25 2010 http://www.boerentrepreneur.com/farmitracker/reports/view/349
Man veg om lewe ná skoot
Jana van der Merwe
’n BLOEMFONTEINSE pa het gisteraand in ’n kritieke toestand in die Mediclinic Bloemfontein om sy lewe geveg nadat hy gistermiddag in ’n rooftog deur twee mans oorval en koelbloedig in die voorkop geskiet is.
Mnr. Gerhard Fourie (44) se vrou, Anneke, en seun, Gerhard (16), het die hele aand in die intensiewesorgeenheid by hom gewaak nadat hy gister omstreeks 15:00 buite die onderneming Electro Trust, elektriese kontrakteurs, oorval en beroof is.
Fourie, ’n finansiële klerk, het net by die werk aangekom nadat hy ’n bedrag van sowat R10 000 vir werkers by die bank gaan haal het.
’n Kollega het gesien hoe twee mans Fourie buite sy wit Fiat-bakkie aanval. Sy het ook gesien hoe een die vuurwapen teen sy voorkop druk en die sneller trek.
“Hy het pas die bakkie gesluit toe twee mans op hom afstorm en hom aanhoudend begin slaan.”
Sy het histeries vir haar mans-kollegas agter in die kantoor geskree om te kom help.
“Die volgende oomblik het die lang een ’n vuurwapen uitgepluk. Hy het dit teen sy voorkop gedruk. Toe skiet hulle hom. Ek het net bloed gesien. Hy het net die heeltyd probeer keer,” het sy verslae gesê.
Volgens polisielede op die toneel was vier rowers betrokke. Nóg twee rowers het in die straat in ’n ou wit Toyota Corolla gewag. Die rowers het met dié motor met die geld in ’n sak gevlug.
’n Groot plas bloed en ’n leë doppie van ’n 9mm-pistool het op die toneel naby Fourie se bakkie agtergebly.
Na verneem word, is Fourie se beursie ’n paar blokke verder in Hospitaalpark opgetel.
Mev. Liezl van Wyk, van ’n nabye onderneming, het net die skoot gehoor.
“Ek het eers gedink daar was ’n ongeluk en het uitgehardloop. Toe sien ek die Corolla wat wegjaag. Die nommerplate was toegeplak; ’n mens kon niks sien nie.”
Teen druktyd was die verdagtes nog op vrye voet.
’n BLOEMFONTEINSE pa het gisteraand in ’n kritieke toestand in die Mediclinic Bloemfontein om sy lewe geveg nadat hy gistermiddag in ’n rooftog deur twee mans oorval en koelbloedig in die voorkop geskiet is.
Mnr. Gerhard Fourie (44) se vrou, Anneke, en seun, Gerhard (16), het die hele aand in die intensiewesorgeenheid by hom gewaak nadat hy gister omstreeks 15:00 buite die onderneming Electro Trust, elektriese kontrakteurs, oorval en beroof is.
Fourie, ’n finansiële klerk, het net by die werk aangekom nadat hy ’n bedrag van sowat R10 000 vir werkers by die bank gaan haal het.
’n Kollega het gesien hoe twee mans Fourie buite sy wit Fiat-bakkie aanval. Sy het ook gesien hoe een die vuurwapen teen sy voorkop druk en die sneller trek.
“Hy het pas die bakkie gesluit toe twee mans op hom afstorm en hom aanhoudend begin slaan.”
Sy het histeries vir haar mans-kollegas agter in die kantoor geskree om te kom help.
“Die volgende oomblik het die lang een ’n vuurwapen uitgepluk. Hy het dit teen sy voorkop gedruk. Toe skiet hulle hom. Ek het net bloed gesien. Hy het net die heeltyd probeer keer,” het sy verslae gesê.
Volgens polisielede op die toneel was vier rowers betrokke. Nóg twee rowers het in die straat in ’n ou wit Toyota Corolla gewag. Die rowers het met dié motor met die geld in ’n sak gevlug.
’n Groot plas bloed en ’n leë doppie van ’n 9mm-pistool het op die toneel naby Fourie se bakkie agtergebly.
Na verneem word, is Fourie se beursie ’n paar blokke verder in Hospitaalpark opgetel.
Mev. Liezl van Wyk, van ’n nabye onderneming, het net die skoot gehoor.
“Ek het eers gedink daar was ’n ongeluk en het uitgehardloop. Toe sien ek die Corolla wat wegjaag. Die nommerplate was toegeplak; ’n mens kon niks sien nie.”
Teen druktyd was die verdagtes nog op vrye voet.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Nelspruit cop arrested for selling firearm which was crucial evidence in Bushbuckridge armed robbery
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Cop held for selling evidence gun
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-cour...-gun-1.1278187
April 17 2012 By SAPA - A policeman was arrested in Nelspruit for selling a firearm that was crucial evidence in an armed robbery case, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday.Colonel Leonard Hlathi said the 50-year-old captain, stationed at Acornhoek, was arrested on Monday.The firearm he sold was being kept as evidence in the police's store room.“Police had confiscated the firearm, which was used in an armed robbery in Bushbuckridge last year.”Hlathi said police were tipped off about the deal and able to arrest the policeman.“He was still in possession of the firearm, ammunition and money.”The policeman was charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice. He was expected to appear in the Acornhoek Magistrate's Court soon. - Sapa
Cop held for selling evidence gun
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-cour...-gun-1.1278187
April 17 2012 By SAPA - A policeman was arrested in Nelspruit for selling a firearm that was crucial evidence in an armed robbery case, Mpumalanga police said on Tuesday.Colonel Leonard Hlathi said the 50-year-old captain, stationed at Acornhoek, was arrested on Monday.The firearm he sold was being kept as evidence in the police's store room.“Police had confiscated the firearm, which was used in an armed robbery in Bushbuckridge last year.”Hlathi said police were tipped off about the deal and able to arrest the policeman.“He was still in possession of the firearm, ammunition and money.”The policeman was charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice. He was expected to appear in the Acornhoek Magistrate's Court soon. - Sapa
Anne Robb stabbed 23 times in Sedgefield. Attackers receive 20 year sentence
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Simeon Nel (21) and Rudolph Windwaai (19),two tik addicts who stabbed Anne Robb (79) a total of 23 times while holding her down in her bed in an ‘unprovoked, unnecessary and merciless attack’ in February 2010 in Sedgefield have each been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, says a report in The Herald.
http://thegremlin.co.za/sedgefield-news/wordpress/2012/01/26/sedgefield-pensioner-attackers-get-20-years/
Simeon Nel (21) and Rudolph Windwaai (19),two tik addicts who stabbed Anne Robb (79) a total of 23 times while holding her down in her bed in an ‘unprovoked, unnecessary and merciless attack’ in February 2010 in Sedgefield have each been sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, says a report in The Herald.
http://thegremlin.co.za/sedgefield-news/wordpress/2012/01/26/sedgefield-pensioner-attackers-get-20-years/
Antique dealer David Nolte, 36 murdered 18 March 2012 Potchefstroom
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Antque dealer David Nolte, 36, was murdered in his apartment in Potchefstroom on Sunday March 18 2012. On April 17 2012 the murder-suspect was arraigned for the murder: allegedly a homeless man whom Nolte had been caring for until the man could find a job. The identity of the homeless man cannot be released until he has been asked to plead.
The murdered man's father, the influential local businessman David Nolte senior, got concerned about a telephone conversation with a man claiming to be his son - and alerted the SAPS, who together with the father went to the son's apartment and discovered the murder - two days later. The murder-suspect was arrested in Pretoria with Nolte's robbed vehicle and other stolen goods, said SAPS Capt
Pelonomi Makau.
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Nolte se broer, Rocco, het gister vertel die verdagte het glo ’n paar weke by David jr. gewoon nadat sy broer hom oor die man ontferm het.
Die vermoorde mnr. Nolte het glo vir die man gesê hy kan ’n tydjie by hom woon om aan die gang te kom en werk te kry.
Toe dit nie binne die ooreengekome tyd gebeur nie, het Nolte glo die dag van die moord aan sy huismaat gesê hy moet uittrek.
Nolte het ’n steekwond in die nek gehad.
Nolte se familie het gister vertel hy het ’n groot belangstelling in die antiekbedryf gehad. Die antiekwinkel in Potchefstroom wat Nolte bedryf het, is een van talle ondernemings wat sy familie in die stad het.
Volgens Nolte sr. het hy die Sondagaand, vermoedelik nadat sy seun al vermoor is, ’n oproep van hul veiligheidsmaatskappy gekry dat die alarm in die antiekwinkel afgegaan het.
“Die veiligheidsmense het David op sy selfoon gebel. ’n Man het opgetel en gesê hy is David Nolte en in die winkel. Ek het die veiligheidsmense gerus gestel dat David my seun is.”
Nolte sr. het daarna vir sy seun ’n SMS gestuur. Hy het nie gereageer nie, maar Nolte was nie bekommerd nie omdat hy sy selfoon dikwels ná werkure afgesit het.
Toe Nolte se ouers teen Dinsdagoggend steeds nie met hom kon kontak maak nie, is hulle na sy woonstel.
“Sy motor was weg,” het Nolte sr. gesê. “Die polisie en ’n slotoopmaker het later gekom en die plek oopgemaak.”
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Antiekhandelaar-se-dood-1-in-hof-20120325
Antque dealer David Nolte, 36, was murdered in his apartment in Potchefstroom on Sunday March 18 2012. On April 17 2012 the murder-suspect was arraigned for the murder: allegedly a homeless man whom Nolte had been caring for until the man could find a job. The identity of the homeless man cannot be released until he has been asked to plead.
The murdered man's father, the influential local businessman David Nolte senior, got concerned about a telephone conversation with a man claiming to be his son - and alerted the SAPS, who together with the father went to the son's apartment and discovered the murder - two days later. The murder-suspect was arrested in Pretoria with Nolte's robbed vehicle and other stolen goods, said SAPS Capt
Pelonomi Makau.
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The rest of the article in Afrikaans:
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Nolte se broer, Rocco, het gister vertel die verdagte het glo ’n paar weke by David jr. gewoon nadat sy broer hom oor die man ontferm het.
Die vermoorde mnr. Nolte het glo vir die man gesê hy kan ’n tydjie by hom woon om aan die gang te kom en werk te kry.
Toe dit nie binne die ooreengekome tyd gebeur nie, het Nolte glo die dag van die moord aan sy huismaat gesê hy moet uittrek.
Nolte het ’n steekwond in die nek gehad.
Nolte se familie het gister vertel hy het ’n groot belangstelling in die antiekbedryf gehad. Die antiekwinkel in Potchefstroom wat Nolte bedryf het, is een van talle ondernemings wat sy familie in die stad het.
Volgens Nolte sr. het hy die Sondagaand, vermoedelik nadat sy seun al vermoor is, ’n oproep van hul veiligheidsmaatskappy gekry dat die alarm in die antiekwinkel afgegaan het.
“Die veiligheidsmense het David op sy selfoon gebel. ’n Man het opgetel en gesê hy is David Nolte en in die winkel. Ek het die veiligheidsmense gerus gestel dat David my seun is.”
Nolte sr. het daarna vir sy seun ’n SMS gestuur. Hy het nie gereageer nie, maar Nolte was nie bekommerd nie omdat hy sy selfoon dikwels ná werkure afgesit het.
Toe Nolte se ouers teen Dinsdagoggend steeds nie met hom kon kontak maak nie, is hulle na sy woonstel.
“Sy motor was weg,” het Nolte sr. gesê. “Die polisie en ’n slotoopmaker het later gekom en die plek oopgemaak.”
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Antiekhandelaar-se-dood-1-in-hof-20120325
Weermag ‘kan SA tans nie beskerm’
James-Brent Styan
KAAPSTAD.– Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW) het nie tans die vermoë om Suid-Afrika te beskerm nie.
Luidens ’n konsepverdedigingsoorsig van die SANW wat Die Burger gister onder oë gehad het, het die weermag só agteruitgegaan dat dit selfs met onmiddellike ingryping deur die regering tot tien jaar kan duur om die weermag weer tot die vlak van ’n “beperkte” verdedigingsvermoë te kry.
Dit blyk ook die weermag het nie die vermoë om die landsgrense te bewaak nie. Boonop het Suid-Afrika slegs ’n beperkte bewustheid van wat in sy lugruim aangaan en is daar byna geen maritieme bewustheid van die kuslyn nie.
Die konsepdokument is opgestel deur ’n oorsigkomitee onder leiding van mnr. Roelf Meyer, gewese minister van verdediging.
Me. Lindiwe Sisulu, minister van verdediging, het die komitee verlede jaar aangestel om ’n indiepte-oorsig van die SANW te doen, die eerste sedert 1998.
Meyer het gesê die nuwe oorsig sal die weermag se pad vir die volgende 30 jaar aandui.
“Die oorsig is ’n beleid-en-strategiedokument.”
Meyer het gister gesê die doel van die oorsig was nie om ’n oudit van die SANW te doen nie.
“Dit is eintlik ’n stuk gereedskap wat die minister kan gebruik om vir meer geld te gaan vra.”
Mnr. Siphiwe Dlamini, woordvoerder van die departement van verdediging, het gesê Sisulu sal die finale dokument aan die parlement voorlê.
“Met die vorige oorsig is die fout gemaak waar ’n magsbeleid ontwerp is wat onbekostigbaar was om toe te pas.”
- Die Burger
KAAPSTAD.– Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW) het nie tans die vermoë om Suid-Afrika te beskerm nie.
Luidens ’n konsepverdedigingsoorsig van die SANW wat Die Burger gister onder oë gehad het, het die weermag só agteruitgegaan dat dit selfs met onmiddellike ingryping deur die regering tot tien jaar kan duur om die weermag weer tot die vlak van ’n “beperkte” verdedigingsvermoë te kry.
Dit blyk ook die weermag het nie die vermoë om die landsgrense te bewaak nie. Boonop het Suid-Afrika slegs ’n beperkte bewustheid van wat in sy lugruim aangaan en is daar byna geen maritieme bewustheid van die kuslyn nie.
Die konsepdokument is opgestel deur ’n oorsigkomitee onder leiding van mnr. Roelf Meyer, gewese minister van verdediging.
Me. Lindiwe Sisulu, minister van verdediging, het die komitee verlede jaar aangestel om ’n indiepte-oorsig van die SANW te doen, die eerste sedert 1998.
Meyer het gesê die nuwe oorsig sal die weermag se pad vir die volgende 30 jaar aandui.
“Die oorsig is ’n beleid-en-strategiedokument.”
Meyer het gister gesê die doel van die oorsig was nie om ’n oudit van die SANW te doen nie.
“Dit is eintlik ’n stuk gereedskap wat die minister kan gebruik om vir meer geld te gaan vra.”
Mnr. Siphiwe Dlamini, woordvoerder van die departement van verdediging, het gesê Sisulu sal die finale dokument aan die parlement voorlê.
“Met die vorige oorsig is die fout gemaak waar ’n magsbeleid ontwerp is wat onbekostigbaar was om toe te pas.”
- Die Burger
Rowers ry vrou met gekaapte kar dood
Lourensa Eckard
’n Skoonmaker is gisteroggend in Bedfordview aan die Rand doodgery toe twee mans in ’n gekaapte motor vir die polisie probeer wegjaag het.
Hulle het me. Sylvia Elliot se motor kort tevore gekaap. Haar honde was nog daarin.
Elliot het met Fluffy, ’n wit Skotse terriër, en Dory, ’n miniatuur-dobermann, in die Oriol-park gaan stap toe sy twee mans sien nader kom het.
“Die mans het verdag gelyk, toe roep ek my hondjies en klim in die kar,” het sy gesê.
Net toe sy haar deur toegemaak het, het een van die mans by haar venster verskyn en die motor se sleutels gevra.
Sy het die sleutels van haar silwerblou Honda Jazz, sowel as haar selfoon en handsak, vir hom gegee.
“Toe ek my sleutels vir hom gee, slaan hy my teen die kop met ’n stok en pluk my uit die kar.”
Volgens sers. Mduduzi Nhlabathi, woordvoerder van die Bedfordview-polisie, het die mans weggejaag en talle rooi verkeersligte verontagsaam.
Twee lede van die metropolisie was besig met wetstoepassing toe hulle die motor aangejaag sien kom.
Hulle het die motor met ’n loeiende sirene en blou ligte agternagesit, maar die 21-jarige bestuurder het hom nie daaraan gesteur nie.
Die motor het in Bedford Mews om ’n draai gejaag en die skoonmaker (33) getref. Sy is op slag dood.
Die bestuurder het met die slag beheer oor die motor verloor en in ’n muur vas gejaag.
Die man het uit die motor geklim en probeer weghardloop, maar polisielede het hom platgetrek en gearresteer.
Volgens me. Riana Taljaard, ’n familielid van Elliot, het die man beweer die polisie kan hom nie arresteer nie omdat hy minderjarig is, maar hulle het in sy ID-boekie gesien hy is 21 jaar oud.
Fluffy was nog in die motor, maar die ander kaper en Dory was skoonveld. ’n Gesinsvriend het Dory later die dag by ’n golfbaan by Gilloolys gevind.
Elliot is na die Bedford Gardens-hospitaal geneem.
Haar kakebeen is gekraak en sy het steke aan haar oor gekry.
“Dit was onnodig om my te slaan; ek was reg om my kar aan hulle te oorhandig,” het sy gesê.
Die oorledene se naam is nog nie bekend gemaak nie.
Volgens Nhlabathi word ’n saak van motorkaping ondersoek en nog ’n verdagte gesoek.
’n Skoonmaker is gisteroggend in Bedfordview aan die Rand doodgery toe twee mans in ’n gekaapte motor vir die polisie probeer wegjaag het.
Hulle het me. Sylvia Elliot se motor kort tevore gekaap. Haar honde was nog daarin.
Elliot het met Fluffy, ’n wit Skotse terriër, en Dory, ’n miniatuur-dobermann, in die Oriol-park gaan stap toe sy twee mans sien nader kom het.
“Die mans het verdag gelyk, toe roep ek my hondjies en klim in die kar,” het sy gesê.
Net toe sy haar deur toegemaak het, het een van die mans by haar venster verskyn en die motor se sleutels gevra.
Sy het die sleutels van haar silwerblou Honda Jazz, sowel as haar selfoon en handsak, vir hom gegee.
“Toe ek my sleutels vir hom gee, slaan hy my teen die kop met ’n stok en pluk my uit die kar.”
Volgens sers. Mduduzi Nhlabathi, woordvoerder van die Bedfordview-polisie, het die mans weggejaag en talle rooi verkeersligte verontagsaam.
Twee lede van die metropolisie was besig met wetstoepassing toe hulle die motor aangejaag sien kom.
Hulle het die motor met ’n loeiende sirene en blou ligte agternagesit, maar die 21-jarige bestuurder het hom nie daaraan gesteur nie.
Die motor het in Bedford Mews om ’n draai gejaag en die skoonmaker (33) getref. Sy is op slag dood.
Die bestuurder het met die slag beheer oor die motor verloor en in ’n muur vas gejaag.
Die man het uit die motor geklim en probeer weghardloop, maar polisielede het hom platgetrek en gearresteer.
Volgens me. Riana Taljaard, ’n familielid van Elliot, het die man beweer die polisie kan hom nie arresteer nie omdat hy minderjarig is, maar hulle het in sy ID-boekie gesien hy is 21 jaar oud.
Fluffy was nog in die motor, maar die ander kaper en Dory was skoonveld. ’n Gesinsvriend het Dory later die dag by ’n golfbaan by Gilloolys gevind.
Elliot is na die Bedford Gardens-hospitaal geneem.
Haar kakebeen is gekraak en sy het steke aan haar oor gekry.
“Dit was onnodig om my te slaan; ek was reg om my kar aan hulle te oorhandig,” het sy gesê.
Die oorledene se naam is nog nie bekend gemaak nie.
Volgens Nhlabathi word ’n saak van motorkaping ondersoek en nog ’n verdagte gesoek.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Lokval-moord
Ügen Vos
'n Voormalige provinsiale krieketspeler wat destyds as “die volgende Graeme Pollock” beskryf is, is gister helder oordag in ’n fyn beplande aanval by ’n vulstasie koelbloedig doodgeskiet.
Mnr. Louis Vorster (46) het gister omstreeks 13:50 by die Total-vulstasie naby die Lanseria-afrit op die N14-snelweg tussen Krugersdorp en Pretoria stilgehou om ’n paar goedjies in die kitswinkel te koop.
Toe hy enkele minute later van die vulstasie se parkeerterrein wou vertrek, het ’n silwer Polo GTI reg agter sy Toyota ingetrek en sy pad versper.
Drie rowers het sy motors van alle kante omsingel. Een het sy deur oopgemaak en hom drie keer geskiet. Nog een het die deur aan die passasierskant oopgemaak en ’n pakkie gevat.
Die aanvallers het vinnig in hul motor geklim en weggery.
’n Kennis van Vorster wat op die toneel was, het na verneem word aan personeellede van die vulstasie gesê hy vermoed dat Vorster ’n pakkie met diamante by hom gehad het.
Die polisie wou dit nie bevestig nie. Volgens hulle is die ondersoek nog in ’n vroeë stadium en sal alle inligting opgevolg word.
Die kennis het gesê die diamante is moontlik die rede vir die sluipmoord.
Vorster, wat op pad na die Lanseria-lughawe by die vulstasie stilgehou het, het na verneem word ’n groot wildplaas in Namibië besit.
Hy het verlede jaar nog vir ’n klub in Namibië gespeel en gedroom om dié land eendag in die Wêreldbeker-krieketreeks te verteenwoordig.
Vorster het na verneem word ook verskeie vulstasies in Pretoria besit en was onder meer betrokke by beesboerderye.
Sy onderneming Morgan Air het uitvoerblomme en -vrugte na Europa vervoer. Hy was ’n baie suksesvolle sakeman, is gesê.
Op veiligheidsvideo’s van die vulstasie se kringtelevisie kan duidelik " gesien word hoe die aanvallers hom spesifiek geteiken het. Hulle het by ’n petrolpomp stilgehou en op ’n afstand stelling ingeneem terwyl hulle gewag het dat hy uit die winkel kom.
Dit is op die video duidelik dat hulle net belanggestel het in die pakkie op die voorste sitplek.
Die man wat hom geskiet het, het vermoedelik ’n knaldemper aan sy vuurwapen gehad, want verskeie ooggetuies het gesê die skote het “baie vreemd” geklink en was “sagter as wat ’n mens sou verwag”.
Lt.kol. Tshisikhawe Ndou, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gister gesê hy kan niks oor die voorval sê nie.
Vorster, ’n linkshandige kolwer wat vir onder meer Namibië, Matabeleland, Transvaal, Noord-Transvaal, Noordwes en Worcestershire in Brittanje gespeel het, het sy loopbaan in eersterangse krieket in die 1985-’86-seisoen begin.
Hy het 4 786 lopies teen ’n gemiddelde van 33.23 lopies aangeteken, met 188 lopies sy beste in 'n kolfbeurt.
Sy laaste wedstryd in eersterangse krieket was vir Namibië teen Oostelikes, in Oktober 2009 in Windhoek.
Vorster is in 1966 in Potchefstroom gebore en word oorleef deur sy vrou, Rika, en ’n tienerseun.
’n Geskokte mnr. Joubert Strydom, voormalige Noord-Transvaalse spanmaat van Vorster, het gisteraand vertel van Vorster se droom om Namibië in die Wêreldbeker-kriekettoernooi te verteenwoordig.
“Hy was nog altyd ’n knap ou en ’n baie goeie kolwer. Hy was iemand met wie jy gemaklik oor krieket kon gesels, veral oor die taktiese en sielkundige aspekte van die spel.”
Mnr. Hugh Page, wat saam met Vorster in Transvaal se “mean machine”-era gespeel het, het gesê sy vriend sou hom beslis nie met skelmstreke opgehou het nie.
“Louis was ’n helse goeie sakeman en ’n stil, nederige familieman wat altyd ’n lae profiel gehandhaaf het.
“Hy was ’n fantastiese mens en ek is diep geskok en heeltemal verpletter oor sy dood,” het Page gesê.
'n Voormalige provinsiale krieketspeler wat destyds as “die volgende Graeme Pollock” beskryf is, is gister helder oordag in ’n fyn beplande aanval by ’n vulstasie koelbloedig doodgeskiet.
Mnr. Louis Vorster (46) het gister omstreeks 13:50 by die Total-vulstasie naby die Lanseria-afrit op die N14-snelweg tussen Krugersdorp en Pretoria stilgehou om ’n paar goedjies in die kitswinkel te koop.
Toe hy enkele minute later van die vulstasie se parkeerterrein wou vertrek, het ’n silwer Polo GTI reg agter sy Toyota ingetrek en sy pad versper.
Drie rowers het sy motors van alle kante omsingel. Een het sy deur oopgemaak en hom drie keer geskiet. Nog een het die deur aan die passasierskant oopgemaak en ’n pakkie gevat.
Die aanvallers het vinnig in hul motor geklim en weggery.
’n Kennis van Vorster wat op die toneel was, het na verneem word aan personeellede van die vulstasie gesê hy vermoed dat Vorster ’n pakkie met diamante by hom gehad het.
Die polisie wou dit nie bevestig nie. Volgens hulle is die ondersoek nog in ’n vroeë stadium en sal alle inligting opgevolg word.
Die kennis het gesê die diamante is moontlik die rede vir die sluipmoord.
Vorster, wat op pad na die Lanseria-lughawe by die vulstasie stilgehou het, het na verneem word ’n groot wildplaas in Namibië besit.
Hy het verlede jaar nog vir ’n klub in Namibië gespeel en gedroom om dié land eendag in die Wêreldbeker-krieketreeks te verteenwoordig.
Vorster het na verneem word ook verskeie vulstasies in Pretoria besit en was onder meer betrokke by beesboerderye.
Sy onderneming Morgan Air het uitvoerblomme en -vrugte na Europa vervoer. Hy was ’n baie suksesvolle sakeman, is gesê.
Op veiligheidsvideo’s van die vulstasie se kringtelevisie kan duidelik " gesien word hoe die aanvallers hom spesifiek geteiken het. Hulle het by ’n petrolpomp stilgehou en op ’n afstand stelling ingeneem terwyl hulle gewag het dat hy uit die winkel kom.
Dit is op die video duidelik dat hulle net belanggestel het in die pakkie op die voorste sitplek.
Die man wat hom geskiet het, het vermoedelik ’n knaldemper aan sy vuurwapen gehad, want verskeie ooggetuies het gesê die skote het “baie vreemd” geklink en was “sagter as wat ’n mens sou verwag”.
Lt.kol. Tshisikhawe Ndou, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gister gesê hy kan niks oor die voorval sê nie.
Vorster, ’n linkshandige kolwer wat vir onder meer Namibië, Matabeleland, Transvaal, Noord-Transvaal, Noordwes en Worcestershire in Brittanje gespeel het, het sy loopbaan in eersterangse krieket in die 1985-’86-seisoen begin.
Hy het 4 786 lopies teen ’n gemiddelde van 33.23 lopies aangeteken, met 188 lopies sy beste in 'n kolfbeurt.
Sy laaste wedstryd in eersterangse krieket was vir Namibië teen Oostelikes, in Oktober 2009 in Windhoek.
Vorster is in 1966 in Potchefstroom gebore en word oorleef deur sy vrou, Rika, en ’n tienerseun.
’n Geskokte mnr. Joubert Strydom, voormalige Noord-Transvaalse spanmaat van Vorster, het gisteraand vertel van Vorster se droom om Namibië in die Wêreldbeker-kriekettoernooi te verteenwoordig.
“Hy was nog altyd ’n knap ou en ’n baie goeie kolwer. Hy was iemand met wie jy gemaklik oor krieket kon gesels, veral oor die taktiese en sielkundige aspekte van die spel.”
Mnr. Hugh Page, wat saam met Vorster in Transvaal se “mean machine”-era gespeel het, het gesê sy vriend sou hom beslis nie met skelmstreke opgehou het nie.
“Louis was ’n helse goeie sakeman en ’n stil, nederige familieman wat altyd ’n lae profiel gehandhaaf het.
“Hy was ’n fantastiese mens en ek is diep geskok en heeltemal verpletter oor sy dood,” het Page gesê.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Freedom Front: poverty of Afrikaners has increased by 400% - hundreds of squatter camps and people desperately hungry
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Freedom Front party statement:
April 14 2012: Although the ANC-regime has not even researched whether its own black-economic-empowerment laws could be the direct cause for the dramatic 400% rise in the impoverishment rate of the country’s 3,5-million white Afrikaners – labour minister Mildred Oliphant vehemently denied this in parliament last week.:
" The black-economic-empowerment laws from this year will bar 93% of all the whites from the SA labour market from this year. "White male breadwinners were already barred since 2006. Now white women and even the white disabled will face the axe from the regime’s draconic, nazi-style black-economic-empowerment laws.
Above: Afrikaner-impoverishment rose by 400% since 1994 – the fastest such rate for any minority in the country, warned Freedom Front MP Advocate Anton Alberts.
Poor Afrikaners are not ‘entitled’ to government benefits or food-aid stamps: because the ANC-regime claims ‘there are no poor whites’…
Yet the Afrikaners are not ‘entitled’ to survival-benefits from the government – not even food-aid stamps; despite the fact that SA president Jacob Zuma personally visited two Afrikaner squatter camps with a large media contingent – and promised that the Afrikaners would also get government help. That was two years ago.
Freedom Front Plus MP Adv Anton Alberts warns that the ANC-regime is in total denial about the grinding poverty suffered by the Afrikaner minority. “Specifically labour minister Ms Mildred Oliphant, who told parliament that ‘there was no correlation between ‘affirmative action’ and white poverty ’in response to our formal questions about the issue,” said Alberts.
We asked the Minister, against the background of Pres Jacob Zuma’s visits to white squatter camps, to also make good the president’s promises to also help those white communities. We asked whether the government had at least done a study to establish the link between affirmative action and white poverty.
“The Minister’s illogical reply was shocking: she stated clearly that she has not done such a study ‘ because there is no correlation’. The question remains which means she then used to establish that there was no correlation if she had not undertaken a study on the subject? Did her response simply come from the sky like some kind of revelation?” he asked.
Alberts also slammed the fact that the Minister refused to carry out such an investigation – but that ‘ if such research were to be undertaken it would include all the people living beneath the poverty-line’.
“This viewpoint of this Minister stands in shrill contrast with the solemn undertaking by her own President -- who publicly undertook to ‘look into the problem of white poverty”.
Alberts pointed out that at the moment the Black Economic Empowerment laws greatly discriminate against white male breadwinners since 2003. “That fact alone would justify a special study to determine whether this law is a fair law or whether it has an effect on white poverty. It has been the FF+ ‘s own experience at white squatter camps, as well as the research undertaken by independent groups, that there is a direct causal effect between black-economic-empowerment laws and poverty of the Afrikaners. That fact alone should provide enough grounds for the Department to launch an investigation.’
Alberts said he would provide the existing independent research which has been done to the Minister and discuss this urgent issue with President Zuma once again. “The time to phase out affirmative action has arrived,’ he concluded.” Spokesman FF+: Kol. Piet Uys : info@vf.co.za of 0861 700 700 / 012-6650564
http://www.vf.co.za
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Documentary research into Afrikaner poverty:
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The rapid increase of ‘white’ squatter-camps: Afrikaners are growing impoverished at the rate of 400% annually: new squatter camps recorded from Jan 2010 to Feb 2012: http://www.farmitracker.com
“White poverty” paid off for Reuters photographer Finnbar O’Reilly, who sold his striking series of photographs of dirt-poor Afrikaners to a huge number of international publications, including to the Yew York Times: “White poverty in South Africa: Little Sympathy” . The picture below is accountant Vernon Nel, living in a tent he shares with six other people. He’s unemployable: white males were rapidly barred from the SA labour market after 2006 by the ANC regime’s black-economic-empowerment laws:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/behind-45/ and http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/poverty_within_white_south_afr.html
SA demographer Prof Flip Smit: June 24 2010: ‘600,000 Afrikaners in poverty’: “Chantelle”, commenting on this article: - Junie 25, 2010 “ My husband was a worker at Aurora (Padmodzi gold mines, owned by the Zuma/Mandela families) until three weeks ago. There have not been any salaries paid from them for the past few months. We now are homeless and jobless and some nights we don’t even have money to buy bread and milk for the baby, Dean. We have nicknamed Dean the Pamodzi baby.
“http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Duisende-Afrikaners-verval-in-armoede-20100625
Research by SA Prof Lawrence Schlemmer: 18 Jan 2010: “Today 430,0000 white people out of a total ‘white’ population of 4,5m, are too poor to live in ‘traditional white areas’.
research by Prof Lawrence Schlemmer: 18 Jan 2010: Today 430,0000 white people out of a total ‘white’ population of 4,5m, are too poor to live in ‘traditional white areas’. http://www.scribd.com/doc/25366368/Blanke-Armoede-in-Suid-Afrika
Afrikaans anti-apartheid activist author Breyten Breytenbach: Sept26 2011: documentary http://kyknet.dstv.com/2011/09/26/wit-armoede-in-suid-afrika/
Dutch journalist Elles van Gelder gloats: “Now the whites are also begging in South Africa”: she visited the Eagles Nest Squatter camp and interviewed a clearly very traumatised Afrikaner veteran of the Angolan war: http://www.ellesvangelder.nl/work/121/ also: http://www.ellesvangelder.nl/work/108/
Solidarity trade union: ‘The reality of white poverty”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T11KM0YI28
ANC creates new white underclass in South Africa (Dutch) http://www.reuters.com/nl.mk.gd/news/
Freedom Front party statement:
April 14 2012: Although the ANC-regime has not even researched whether its own black-economic-empowerment laws could be the direct cause for the dramatic 400% rise in the impoverishment rate of the country’s 3,5-million white Afrikaners – labour minister Mildred Oliphant vehemently denied this in parliament last week.:
" The black-economic-empowerment laws from this year will bar 93% of all the whites from the SA labour market from this year. "White male breadwinners were already barred since 2006. Now white women and even the white disabled will face the axe from the regime’s draconic, nazi-style black-economic-empowerment laws.
Above: Afrikaner-impoverishment rose by 400% since 1994 – the fastest such rate for any minority in the country, warned Freedom Front MP Advocate Anton Alberts.
Poor Afrikaners are not ‘entitled’ to government benefits or food-aid stamps: because the ANC-regime claims ‘there are no poor whites’…
Yet the Afrikaners are not ‘entitled’ to survival-benefits from the government – not even food-aid stamps; despite the fact that SA president Jacob Zuma personally visited two Afrikaner squatter camps with a large media contingent – and promised that the Afrikaners would also get government help. That was two years ago.
Freedom Front Plus MP Adv Anton Alberts warns that the ANC-regime is in total denial about the grinding poverty suffered by the Afrikaner minority. “Specifically labour minister Ms Mildred Oliphant, who told parliament that ‘there was no correlation between ‘affirmative action’ and white poverty ’in response to our formal questions about the issue,” said Alberts.
We asked the Minister, against the background of Pres Jacob Zuma’s visits to white squatter camps, to also make good the president’s promises to also help those white communities. We asked whether the government had at least done a study to establish the link between affirmative action and white poverty.
“The Minister’s illogical reply was shocking: she stated clearly that she has not done such a study ‘ because there is no correlation’. The question remains which means she then used to establish that there was no correlation if she had not undertaken a study on the subject? Did her response simply come from the sky like some kind of revelation?” he asked.
Alberts also slammed the fact that the Minister refused to carry out such an investigation – but that ‘ if such research were to be undertaken it would include all the people living beneath the poverty-line’.
“This viewpoint of this Minister stands in shrill contrast with the solemn undertaking by her own President -- who publicly undertook to ‘look into the problem of white poverty”.
Alberts pointed out that at the moment the Black Economic Empowerment laws greatly discriminate against white male breadwinners since 2003. “That fact alone would justify a special study to determine whether this law is a fair law or whether it has an effect on white poverty. It has been the FF+ ‘s own experience at white squatter camps, as well as the research undertaken by independent groups, that there is a direct causal effect between black-economic-empowerment laws and poverty of the Afrikaners. That fact alone should provide enough grounds for the Department to launch an investigation.’
Alberts said he would provide the existing independent research which has been done to the Minister and discuss this urgent issue with President Zuma once again. “The time to phase out affirmative action has arrived,’ he concluded.” Spokesman FF+: Kol. Piet Uys : info@vf.co.za of 0861 700 700 / 012-6650564
http://www.vf.co.za
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Documentary research into Afrikaner poverty:
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The rapid increase of ‘white’ squatter-camps: Afrikaners are growing impoverished at the rate of 400% annually: new squatter camps recorded from Jan 2010 to Feb 2012: http://www.farmitracker.com
“White poverty” paid off for Reuters photographer Finnbar O’Reilly, who sold his striking series of photographs of dirt-poor Afrikaners to a huge number of international publications, including to the Yew York Times: “White poverty in South Africa: Little Sympathy” . The picture below is accountant Vernon Nel, living in a tent he shares with six other people. He’s unemployable: white males were rapidly barred from the SA labour market after 2006 by the ANC regime’s black-economic-empowerment laws:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/behind-45/ and http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/07/poverty_within_white_south_afr.html
SA demographer Prof Flip Smit: June 24 2010: ‘600,000 Afrikaners in poverty’: “Chantelle”, commenting on this article: - Junie 25, 2010 “ My husband was a worker at Aurora (Padmodzi gold mines, owned by the Zuma/Mandela families) until three weeks ago. There have not been any salaries paid from them for the past few months. We now are homeless and jobless and some nights we don’t even have money to buy bread and milk for the baby, Dean. We have nicknamed Dean the Pamodzi baby.
“http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Duisende-Afrikaners-verval-in-armoede-20100625
Research by SA Prof Lawrence Schlemmer: 18 Jan 2010: “Today 430,0000 white people out of a total ‘white’ population of 4,5m, are too poor to live in ‘traditional white areas’.
research by Prof Lawrence Schlemmer: 18 Jan 2010: Today 430,0000 white people out of a total ‘white’ population of 4,5m, are too poor to live in ‘traditional white areas’. http://www.scribd.com/doc/25366368/Blanke-Armoede-in-Suid-Afrika
Afrikaans anti-apartheid activist author Breyten Breytenbach: Sept26 2011: documentary http://kyknet.dstv.com/2011/09/26/wit-armoede-in-suid-afrika/
Dutch journalist Elles van Gelder gloats: “Now the whites are also begging in South Africa”: she visited the Eagles Nest Squatter camp and interviewed a clearly very traumatised Afrikaner veteran of the Angolan war: http://www.ellesvangelder.nl/work/121/ also: http://www.ellesvangelder.nl/work/108/
Solidarity trade union: ‘The reality of white poverty”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T11KM0YI28
ANC creates new white underclass in South Africa (Dutch) http://www.reuters.com/nl.mk.gd/news/
Attacks grow against Afrikaners: Free State
Farmitracker postings show that attacks against the 100,000 Afrikaners in the Free State increased from 1.5 monthly average to TEN a month after Jan 8 2012 -- when SA pres Jacob Zuma publicly sang that horrid hatespeech song Shoot the Boer .
In the Free State alone there were thirty violent attacks within three months (ten a month) against Afrikaners after Zuma sang the Shoot the Boer song -- as compared to the previous three-year-total of 58 attacks (= average 1.5 attacks a month) from Dec 31 2008 to Dec 31 2011. (maps below)
There has also been a dramatic increase in the cross-border violent live-stock rustling incidents by large, heavily-armed Sotho-citizens, many former gold-miners, who are targetting Afrikaner farmers along the borders of Lesotho.
With 100,000 Afrikaners in the Free State, this represents an attack rate of 17.24 per capita for this small ethnic minority – which represents only one-third of the total FS population.
In one mob-attack by black township dwellers against a Free State police staton, the local ANC-MEC in charge of security ordered the cops to ‘use maximum force’; attacks against Afrikaners included the murder of Bloemhof farmer At van der Merwe on Apr 3; Heilbron farmer Christo van Rensburg who survived a molotov-cocktail attack on Apr 10; five Afrikaner families were kidnapped from their homes in one small suburb: Uitsig, Bloemfontein; Harrismith farmer Tjokkie Venter was stabbed in the face by illegal squatters on a government-owned farm; workers Chris Grobler and Eugene Lloyd survive an attack on a Kroonstad farm; and an ANC-official of the Sasolburg town council ran his car at breakneck speed at the popular Afrikaans singer Zak van Niekerk, killing him and critically injuring his friend;
In the Free State alone there were thirty violent attacks within three months (ten a month) against Afrikaners after Zuma sang the Shoot the Boer song -- as compared to the previous three-year-total of 58 attacks (= average 1.5 attacks a month) from Dec 31 2008 to Dec 31 2011. (maps below)
There has also been a dramatic increase in the cross-border violent live-stock rustling incidents by large, heavily-armed Sotho-citizens, many former gold-miners, who are targetting Afrikaner farmers along the borders of Lesotho.
With 100,000 Afrikaners in the Free State, this represents an attack rate of 17.24 per capita for this small ethnic minority – which represents only one-third of the total FS population.
In one mob-attack by black township dwellers against a Free State police staton, the local ANC-MEC in charge of security ordered the cops to ‘use maximum force’; attacks against Afrikaners included the murder of Bloemhof farmer At van der Merwe on Apr 3; Heilbron farmer Christo van Rensburg who survived a molotov-cocktail attack on Apr 10; five Afrikaner families were kidnapped from their homes in one small suburb: Uitsig, Bloemfontein; Harrismith farmer Tjokkie Venter was stabbed in the face by illegal squatters on a government-owned farm; workers Chris Grobler and Eugene Lloyd survive an attack on a Kroonstad farm; and an ANC-official of the Sasolburg town council ran his car at breakneck speed at the popular Afrikaans singer Zak van Niekerk, killing him and critically injuring his friend;
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Toeriste beroof 2 dae ná moord in Hazyview
Buks Viljoen
Vier Duitse toeriste is eergisternag by ’n vakansieoord naby Hazyview in Mpumalanga oorval en beroof.
Dit het gebeur skaars 48 uur nadat mnr. Dave Foxon, bestuurder van die Umbhaba-lodge daar, in sy huis voor sy vrou en seuntjies vermoor is.
In die jongste voorval het drie gewapende rowers eergisternag by die Böhm’s Zeederberg Country House toegeslaan. Hulle het ’n bejaarde Duitse egpaar vasgebind en van al hul besittings beroof, het sers. Gerald Sedibe, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Die bende het daarna goedere uit ’n ander kamer gesteel waar ’n Duitse man en sy seun geslaap het.
Beeld verneem daar was die afgelope vier weke 13 gewapende aanvalle in Hazyview.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, wou nie gister statistieke daaroor bekend maak nie. “Daar is geen krisis in Hazyview of enige ander plek in Mpumalanga nie,” het hy gesê.
“Ons doen patrollies. Sakelui en toerisme-ondernemings weet egter hulle moet ook hul eie veiligheid opskerp. Dit is deesdae die norm in die land.”
Intussen het die gemeenskap gister ’n noodforum, Hazyview Emergency Local Policing (Help), op die been gebring.
Mnr. André Botes, sameroeper, het gesê die doel is om met behulp van ’n radionetwerk beter kommunikasie binne die gemeenskap te bewerkstellig.
Vier Duitse toeriste is eergisternag by ’n vakansieoord naby Hazyview in Mpumalanga oorval en beroof.
Dit het gebeur skaars 48 uur nadat mnr. Dave Foxon, bestuurder van die Umbhaba-lodge daar, in sy huis voor sy vrou en seuntjies vermoor is.
In die jongste voorval het drie gewapende rowers eergisternag by die Böhm’s Zeederberg Country House toegeslaan. Hulle het ’n bejaarde Duitse egpaar vasgebind en van al hul besittings beroof, het sers. Gerald Sedibe, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Die bende het daarna goedere uit ’n ander kamer gesteel waar ’n Duitse man en sy seun geslaap het.
Beeld verneem daar was die afgelope vier weke 13 gewapende aanvalle in Hazyview.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, wou nie gister statistieke daaroor bekend maak nie. “Daar is geen krisis in Hazyview of enige ander plek in Mpumalanga nie,” het hy gesê.
“Ons doen patrollies. Sakelui en toerisme-ondernemings weet egter hulle moet ook hul eie veiligheid opskerp. Dit is deesdae die norm in die land.”
Intussen het die gemeenskap gister ’n noodforum, Hazyview Emergency Local Policing (Help), op die been gebring.
Mnr. André Botes, sameroeper, het gesê die doel is om met behulp van ’n radionetwerk beter kommunikasie binne die gemeenskap te bewerkstellig.
Jacobus Paulus Botha and Alice Botha, brains bashed in 12 Feb 2010 Benoni: TRIAL DELMAS FROM APRIL 16 2012 CASE 548/02/2010
Description
Jack and Alice Botha murdered (brains bashed in) on 12 feb 2010 in Benoni: case 548/02/2010: trial date set APRIL 16 to 25 APRIL 2012 Delmas High Court:
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suspects' names: David Kgoatla, Stephen (Mchacho) Seipeng. (Third suspect Abel Skyzer Mokoena was excused from court in Oct 2011, because of insufficient evidence_.
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Jack and Alice Botha attacked in Benoni: 12 February 2010: case 548/02/2010 trial date set for 16 to 25 April 2012
Delmas High Court: suspects' names: David Kgoatla, Stephen (Mchacho) Seipeng.
Third suspect Abel Skyzer Mokoena was excused from court in oct 2011, because of insufficient evidence.
Details:
Jacobus Paulus Botha and Alice Botha, murdered 12 Feb 2010 Benoni - trial: 2 black male suspects postponed to April 16 2012 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO RESIDING JUDGE:
Daughter Alice Botha-Muller wrote previously: - DELMAS COURT Oct 2011: the start of the double murder trial of three black male suspects in the slaughter of my parents Jacobus Paulus Botha (Jack) and Alice Botha was postponed because there was no residing judge available. The trial is being held at court in Delmas, AND STARTED with three suspects. It was postponed to 16 April 2012 - but only with two suspects: the third man was dismissed because there was 'insufficient evidence' of his involvement.The reason for the postponement was ridiculous: all the witnesses, the attorneys, the state prosecutors were on hand, and there was a judge a Mrs Karelse: but she was not the 'residing judge' - who was NOT at the trial. So the case was postponed again. Judge Karelse was merely there to postpone the case and to announce that the third suspect was free to go. The family has questions about the inaccurate death-certificate date and also about the 'poor police investigation' and will raise this with the authorities, she writes.
Meanwhile the suspect who was found in my sister's house during the attack was in shackles in court and allowed to just walk amongst the family in court.
We have complained to the public prosecutor about the fact that the suspects are so close to us but she said it was 'an old court room' .
The evidence in the docket is that my mother was strangled to death, raped and sustained horrendous injuries to her head - leading to her death.
She was already dead when my sister arrived and discovered them she must have died between 9 and 10 o'clock and the rest of the family arrived at 11am.
However the death-certificate lists her as dying on 13 February but that's rubbish, the police-forensic investigator arrived at that time between 1 and 2am but she was long dead then.
My father's brain injuries also were directly linked to his death according to the forensic report. There are several things which worry the family about this:
the police conducted a poor investigation, but we will discuss this with the authorities before the trial resumes in April 2011.
Alice Botha-Muller: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719367811
Jack and Alice Botha murdered (brains bashed in) on 12 feb 2010 in Benoni: case 548/02/2010: trial date set APRIL 16 to 25 APRIL 2012 Delmas High Court:
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suspects' names: David Kgoatla, Stephen (Mchacho) Seipeng. (Third suspect Abel Skyzer Mokoena was excused from court in Oct 2011, because of insufficient evidence_.
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Jack and Alice Botha attacked in Benoni: 12 February 2010: case 548/02/2010 trial date set for 16 to 25 April 2012
Delmas High Court: suspects' names: David Kgoatla, Stephen (Mchacho) Seipeng.
Third suspect Abel Skyzer Mokoena was excused from court in oct 2011, because of insufficient evidence.
Details:
Jacobus Paulus Botha and Alice Botha, murdered 12 Feb 2010 Benoni - trial: 2 black male suspects postponed to April 16 2012 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO RESIDING JUDGE:
Daughter Alice Botha-Muller wrote previously: - DELMAS COURT Oct 2011: the start of the double murder trial of three black male suspects in the slaughter of my parents Jacobus Paulus Botha (Jack) and Alice Botha was postponed because there was no residing judge available. The trial is being held at court in Delmas, AND STARTED with three suspects. It was postponed to 16 April 2012 - but only with two suspects: the third man was dismissed because there was 'insufficient evidence' of his involvement.The reason for the postponement was ridiculous: all the witnesses, the attorneys, the state prosecutors were on hand, and there was a judge a Mrs Karelse: but she was not the 'residing judge' - who was NOT at the trial. So the case was postponed again. Judge Karelse was merely there to postpone the case and to announce that the third suspect was free to go. The family has questions about the inaccurate death-certificate date and also about the 'poor police investigation' and will raise this with the authorities, she writes.
Meanwhile the suspect who was found in my sister's house during the attack was in shackles in court and allowed to just walk amongst the family in court.
We have complained to the public prosecutor about the fact that the suspects are so close to us but she said it was 'an old court room' .
The evidence in the docket is that my mother was strangled to death, raped and sustained horrendous injuries to her head - leading to her death.
She was already dead when my sister arrived and discovered them she must have died between 9 and 10 o'clock and the rest of the family arrived at 11am.
However the death-certificate lists her as dying on 13 February but that's rubbish, the police-forensic investigator arrived at that time between 1 and 2am but she was long dead then.
My father's brain injuries also were directly linked to his death according to the forensic report. There are several things which worry the family about this:
the police conducted a poor investigation, but we will discuss this with the authorities before the trial resumes in April 2011.
Alice Botha-Muller: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=719367811
Aanvallers brand boer
Marlene Jordaan
Heilbron. – Sy sal nooit die gesig vergeet nie toe haar man met net sy kouse aan, en met erge brandwonde, by die huis ingehardloop het nadat hy deur plaasaanvallers aan die brand gesteek is.
So vertel mev. Connie Jansen van Rensburg oor die plaasaanval waarin haar man, Christo (36), Dinsdag omstreeks 22:00 op die plaas Page’s Bargain deur sy oop bakkievenster met ’n petrolbom gegooi is.
Hy is ook met ’n ysterpyp en klip geslaan en byna met ’n mes gesteek nadat hy weens die vlamme uit die bakkie gespring het.
“Gelukkig was daar goed in sy sak en hy het ’n dik baadjie aangehad. Die mes het nie deurgegaan nie. Hulle het hom ook probeer terugdruk in die brandende bakkie,” sê mev. Jansen van Rensburg. “Toe gooi hulle wéér petrol oor hom en steek hom weer aan die brand.”
Haar man het in die grond gerol en van al sy klere ontslae geraak. Hy het daarna sowat 200 m na die plaashuis gehardloop en om hulp geroep.
Jansen van Rensburg, ’n deeltydse boer, het pas van sy werk by Clover teruggekom en het net op die grondpad na die plaashuis gedraai toe hy aangeval is.
“My man het verskriklik hard terugbaklei en geskree. Toe ek die ligte aansit, moes hulle geskrik en die pad gevat het. Een het ’n klapmus aangehad. My man sê hy sal nooit die ander een se gesig vergeet nie.”
Mnr. Jansen van Rensburg is na sy huisdokter op Heilbron geneem wat sy brandwonde behandel het, waarna hy na die Mediclinic Vereeniging gebring is.
Me. Selka-Ann Badenhorst, hospitaalwoordvoerder, sê hoewel hy baie pyn verduur, gaan dit onder omstandighede goed met Jansen van Rensburg.
Hy het tweede- en derdegraadse brandwonde opgedoen.
Die uitgebrande bakkie van mnr. Christo Jansen van Rensburg staan gister by die ingang na die plaas Page’s Bargain waar hy met ’n petrolbom aangeval is. Hy is, nadat hy uit die bakkie gespring het, ook met ’n ysterpyp en klip geslaan en byna met ’n mes gesteek. Foto: Marlene Jordaan.
Heilbron. – Sy sal nooit die gesig vergeet nie toe haar man met net sy kouse aan, en met erge brandwonde, by die huis ingehardloop het nadat hy deur plaasaanvallers aan die brand gesteek is.
So vertel mev. Connie Jansen van Rensburg oor die plaasaanval waarin haar man, Christo (36), Dinsdag omstreeks 22:00 op die plaas Page’s Bargain deur sy oop bakkievenster met ’n petrolbom gegooi is.
Hy is ook met ’n ysterpyp en klip geslaan en byna met ’n mes gesteek nadat hy weens die vlamme uit die bakkie gespring het.
“Gelukkig was daar goed in sy sak en hy het ’n dik baadjie aangehad. Die mes het nie deurgegaan nie. Hulle het hom ook probeer terugdruk in die brandende bakkie,” sê mev. Jansen van Rensburg. “Toe gooi hulle wéér petrol oor hom en steek hom weer aan die brand.”
Haar man het in die grond gerol en van al sy klere ontslae geraak. Hy het daarna sowat 200 m na die plaashuis gehardloop en om hulp geroep.
Jansen van Rensburg, ’n deeltydse boer, het pas van sy werk by Clover teruggekom en het net op die grondpad na die plaashuis gedraai toe hy aangeval is.
“My man het verskriklik hard terugbaklei en geskree. Toe ek die ligte aansit, moes hulle geskrik en die pad gevat het. Een het ’n klapmus aangehad. My man sê hy sal nooit die ander een se gesig vergeet nie.”
Mnr. Jansen van Rensburg is na sy huisdokter op Heilbron geneem wat sy brandwonde behandel het, waarna hy na die Mediclinic Vereeniging gebring is.
Me. Selka-Ann Badenhorst, hospitaalwoordvoerder, sê hoewel hy baie pyn verduur, gaan dit onder omstandighede goed met Jansen van Rensburg.
Hy het tweede- en derdegraadse brandwonde opgedoen.
Die uitgebrande bakkie van mnr. Christo Jansen van Rensburg staan gister by die ingang na die plaas Page’s Bargain waar hy met ’n petrolbom aangeval is. Hy is, nadat hy uit die bakkie gespring het, ook met ’n ysterpyp en klip geslaan en byna met ’n mes gesteek. Foto: Marlene Jordaan.
Geskiet voor sy gesin
Gerhard Pretorius en Buks Viljoen
’n Swanger vrou van Hazyview moes saam met haar driejarige seun en vyf maande oue baba toekyk hoe ’n rower haar man vermoor.
Mnr. David Foxon (43), hoofbestuurder van die Umbhaba Lodge, is eergister net ná 20:00 in sy kombuis voor sy vrou, Bianca, en seuntjies, Regan en Braydon, geskiet.
Hy is twee keer in die kop en een keer in die been getref.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n man is gistermiddag laat in verband met die moord in hegtenis geneem.
Twee mans het eergisteraand by die huis ingekom omdat die motorhuisdeur glo oop was.
Die Foxon-gesin het blykbaar aangesit vir aandete toe hulle oorval is.
Hlathi het gesê die rowers het Foxon se hande vasgebind, maar hy kon loskom en het toe een van die rowers gekonfronteer.
“Hy is toe in die proses doodgeskiet.”
Die ander rower was by Foxon se motor wat reeds geluier het.
Mev. Foxon het na buite gehardloop waar ’n beampte van die Hi-Tech-veiligheidsmaatskappy haar gekry het terwyl sy gil: “Help, hulle het my man geskiet!”
Mnr. Jan de Beer, bedryfsbestuurder van Hi-Tech en ’n oudpolisieman, het gesê dit is een van die tonele wat hy nooit weer wil sien nie.
“Ek moes een van my goeie vriende se lyk uit ’n plas bloed optel.
“Hoekom moes ’n wonderlike pa, ’n goeie sportman en ’n geliefde persoon op so ’n onnodige manier vermoor word?
“Die toerismegemeenskap en gemeenskap van Hazyview is geskok deur Dave se dood,” het De Beer gesê.
Me. Linda Grimbeek, woordvoerder van die Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (LCBT), het gesê Foxon was werklik ’n man wat die gemeenskap se belange op die hart gedra het.
“Hy was ’n jong man in sy posisie wat altyd baie professioneel was.
“Hy was ’n geliefde persoon in die omgewing en in die toerismebedryf.”
Volgens Grimbeek het die Hazyview-omgewing verlede jaar erg onder misdaad deurgeloop.
Die Blue Mountain Lodge het verlede jaar sy deure daaroor gesluit.
Mnr. Ken Robertson, DA-raadslid in Hazyview, het gister gesê: “Die sinnelose aanval en moord is nog een in ’n reeks van gewapende rooftogte en moorde in die omgewing en die gemeenskap leef nou al in konstante vrees.”
Hy het ’n beroep op die polisie gedoen om misdaadbekamping in die Hazyview-gebied te verskerp en meer mannekrag en hulpbronne beskikbaar te stel.
- Hlathi het gevra enigiemand met inligting oor die voorval moet kapt. Jacob Mbuyane, ondersoekbeampte, by 082 449 0231 of 013 737 8285 bel.
’n Swanger vrou van Hazyview moes saam met haar driejarige seun en vyf maande oue baba toekyk hoe ’n rower haar man vermoor.
Mnr. David Foxon (43), hoofbestuurder van die Umbhaba Lodge, is eergister net ná 20:00 in sy kombuis voor sy vrou, Bianca, en seuntjies, Regan en Braydon, geskiet.
Hy is twee keer in die kop en een keer in die been getref.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n man is gistermiddag laat in verband met die moord in hegtenis geneem.
Twee mans het eergisteraand by die huis ingekom omdat die motorhuisdeur glo oop was.
Die Foxon-gesin het blykbaar aangesit vir aandete toe hulle oorval is.
Hlathi het gesê die rowers het Foxon se hande vasgebind, maar hy kon loskom en het toe een van die rowers gekonfronteer.
“Hy is toe in die proses doodgeskiet.”
Die ander rower was by Foxon se motor wat reeds geluier het.
Mev. Foxon het na buite gehardloop waar ’n beampte van die Hi-Tech-veiligheidsmaatskappy haar gekry het terwyl sy gil: “Help, hulle het my man geskiet!”
Mnr. Jan de Beer, bedryfsbestuurder van Hi-Tech en ’n oudpolisieman, het gesê dit is een van die tonele wat hy nooit weer wil sien nie.
“Ek moes een van my goeie vriende se lyk uit ’n plas bloed optel.
“Hoekom moes ’n wonderlike pa, ’n goeie sportman en ’n geliefde persoon op so ’n onnodige manier vermoor word?
“Die toerismegemeenskap en gemeenskap van Hazyview is geskok deur Dave se dood,” het De Beer gesê.
Me. Linda Grimbeek, woordvoerder van die Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (LCBT), het gesê Foxon was werklik ’n man wat die gemeenskap se belange op die hart gedra het.
“Hy was ’n jong man in sy posisie wat altyd baie professioneel was.
“Hy was ’n geliefde persoon in die omgewing en in die toerismebedryf.”
Volgens Grimbeek het die Hazyview-omgewing verlede jaar erg onder misdaad deurgeloop.
Die Blue Mountain Lodge het verlede jaar sy deure daaroor gesluit.
Mnr. Ken Robertson, DA-raadslid in Hazyview, het gister gesê: “Die sinnelose aanval en moord is nog een in ’n reeks van gewapende rooftogte en moorde in die omgewing en die gemeenskap leef nou al in konstante vrees.”
Hy het ’n beroep op die polisie gedoen om misdaadbekamping in die Hazyview-gebied te verskerp en meer mannekrag en hulpbronne beskikbaar te stel.
- Hlathi het gevra enigiemand met inligting oor die voorval moet kapt. Jacob Mbuyane, ondersoekbeampte, by 082 449 0231 of 013 737 8285 bel.
Geskiet voor sy gesin
Gerhard Pretorius en Buks Viljoen
’n Swanger vrou van Hazyview moes saam met haar driejarige seun en vyf maande oue baba toekyk hoe ’n rower haar man vermoor.
Mnr. David Foxon (43), hoofbestuurder van die Umbhaba Lodge, is eergister net ná 20:00 in sy kombuis voor sy vrou, Bianca, en seuntjies, Regan en Braydon, geskiet.
Hy is twee keer in die kop en een keer in die been getref.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n man is gistermiddag laat in verband met die moord in hegtenis geneem.
Twee mans het eergisteraand by die huis ingekom omdat die motorhuisdeur glo oop was.
Die Foxon-gesin het blykbaar aangesit vir aandete toe hulle oorval is.
Hlathi het gesê die rowers het Foxon se hande vasgebind, maar hy kon loskom en het toe een van die rowers gekonfronteer.
“Hy is toe in die proses doodgeskiet.”
Die ander rower was by Foxon se motor wat reeds geluier het.
Mev. Foxon het na buite gehardloop waar ’n beampte van die Hi-Tech-veiligheidsmaatskappy haar gekry het terwyl sy gil: “Help, hulle het my man geskiet!”
Mnr. Jan de Beer, bedryfsbestuurder van Hi-Tech en ’n oudpolisieman, het gesê dit is een van die tonele wat hy nooit weer wil sien nie.
“Ek moes een van my goeie vriende se lyk uit ’n plas bloed optel.
“Hoekom moes ’n wonderlike pa, ’n goeie sportman en ’n geliefde persoon op so ’n onnodige manier vermoor word?
“Die toerismegemeenskap en gemeenskap van Hazyview is geskok deur Dave se dood,” het De Beer gesê.
Me. Linda Grimbeek, woordvoerder van die Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (LCBT), het gesê Foxon was werklik ’n man wat die gemeenskap se belange op die hart gedra het.
“Hy was ’n jong man in sy posisie wat altyd baie professioneel was.
“Hy was ’n geliefde persoon in die omgewing en in die toerismebedryf.”
Volgens Grimbeek het die Hazyview-omgewing verlede jaar erg onder misdaad deurgeloop.
Die Blue Mountain Lodge het verlede jaar sy deure daaroor gesluit.
Mnr. Ken Robertson, DA-raadslid in Hazyview, het gister gesê: “Die sinnelose aanval en moord is nog een in ’n reeks van gewapende rooftogte en moorde in die omgewing en die gemeenskap leef nou al in konstante vrees.”
Hy het ’n beroep op die polisie gedoen om misdaadbekamping in die Hazyview-gebied te verskerp en meer mannekrag en hulpbronne beskikbaar te stel.
- Hlathi het gevra enigiemand met inligting oor die voorval moet kapt. Jacob Mbuyane, ondersoekbeampte, by 082 449 0231 of 013 737 8285 bel.
’n Swanger vrou van Hazyview moes saam met haar driejarige seun en vyf maande oue baba toekyk hoe ’n rower haar man vermoor.
Mnr. David Foxon (43), hoofbestuurder van die Umbhaba Lodge, is eergister net ná 20:00 in sy kombuis voor sy vrou, Bianca, en seuntjies, Regan en Braydon, geskiet.
Hy is twee keer in die kop en een keer in die been getref.
Kol. Leonard Hlathi, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n man is gistermiddag laat in verband met die moord in hegtenis geneem.
Twee mans het eergisteraand by die huis ingekom omdat die motorhuisdeur glo oop was.
Die Foxon-gesin het blykbaar aangesit vir aandete toe hulle oorval is.
Hlathi het gesê die rowers het Foxon se hande vasgebind, maar hy kon loskom en het toe een van die rowers gekonfronteer.
“Hy is toe in die proses doodgeskiet.”
Die ander rower was by Foxon se motor wat reeds geluier het.
Mev. Foxon het na buite gehardloop waar ’n beampte van die Hi-Tech-veiligheidsmaatskappy haar gekry het terwyl sy gil: “Help, hulle het my man geskiet!”
Mnr. Jan de Beer, bedryfsbestuurder van Hi-Tech en ’n oudpolisieman, het gesê dit is een van die tonele wat hy nooit weer wil sien nie.
“Ek moes een van my goeie vriende se lyk uit ’n plas bloed optel.
“Hoekom moes ’n wonderlike pa, ’n goeie sportman en ’n geliefde persoon op so ’n onnodige manier vermoor word?
“Die toerismegemeenskap en gemeenskap van Hazyview is geskok deur Dave se dood,” het De Beer gesê.
Me. Linda Grimbeek, woordvoerder van die Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (LCBT), het gesê Foxon was werklik ’n man wat die gemeenskap se belange op die hart gedra het.
“Hy was ’n jong man in sy posisie wat altyd baie professioneel was.
“Hy was ’n geliefde persoon in die omgewing en in die toerismebedryf.”
Volgens Grimbeek het die Hazyview-omgewing verlede jaar erg onder misdaad deurgeloop.
Die Blue Mountain Lodge het verlede jaar sy deure daaroor gesluit.
Mnr. Ken Robertson, DA-raadslid in Hazyview, het gister gesê: “Die sinnelose aanval en moord is nog een in ’n reeks van gewapende rooftogte en moorde in die omgewing en die gemeenskap leef nou al in konstante vrees.”
Hy het ’n beroep op die polisie gedoen om misdaadbekamping in die Hazyview-gebied te verskerp en meer mannekrag en hulpbronne beskikbaar te stel.
- Hlathi het gevra enigiemand met inligting oor die voorval moet kapt. Jacob Mbuyane, ondersoekbeampte, by 082 449 0231 of 013 737 8285 bel.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Two of 5 black males accused of bludgeoning, trying to cut throat of Mrs Anita van Niekerk, released on mere R500 bail
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Five black males in court for nearly cutting throat of Mrs Anita van Niekerk, 62, Limpopo --
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2012-04-10 POTGIETERSRUST - Two men, Johannes Mathobela 20 and Lerato Mkomane, given bail of a mere R500 each. SAPS lt-col Ronel Otto said the five men suspected of nearly cutting Mrs van Niekerk's throat and killing her, were referred to trial to the Potgietersrust/Mokopane regional court on 2 May 2012. The two men on bail were also ordered to appear that day. They are accused of attacking, bludgeoning and badly injuring Mrs van Niekerk while also trying to cut her throat.
They only "stole" some cash and a cellphone.
Despite the excessive violence, the SAPS are treating this is just another 'ordinary robbery'.'
http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vyf-in-hof-vir-aanval-op-vrou-20120410
Five black males in court for nearly cutting throat of Mrs Anita van Niekerk, 62, Limpopo --
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2012-04-10 POTGIETERSRUST - Two men, Johannes Mathobela 20 and Lerato Mkomane, given bail of a mere R500 each. SAPS lt-col Ronel Otto said the five men suspected of nearly cutting Mrs van Niekerk's throat and killing her, were referred to trial to the Potgietersrust/Mokopane regional court on 2 May 2012. The two men on bail were also ordered to appear that day. They are accused of attacking, bludgeoning and badly injuring Mrs van Niekerk while also trying to cut her throat.
They only "stole" some cash and a cellphone.
Despite the excessive violence, the SAPS are treating this is just another 'ordinary robbery'.'
http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vyf-in-hof-vir-aanval-op-vrou-20120410
Colin Becker, and his 16 tenants, attacked by armed gang, First Avenue Home, Edenvale Jhb
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Colin Becker and his 16 white tenants attacked by armed gang, First Avenue home, Edenvale, Jhb
5 April 2012 Charmaine Slater EDENVALE - According to home owner, Mr Colin Becker two of the black male attackers were armed with guns, two others had sticks and the fifth man was armed with a knife.
The men entered the house through the back door at Sunday about 7.45pm.“They took what they could, watches, wallets and 12 Blackberry cellular phones,” Mr Becker said.
He added that before the men fled they tied everyone up with shoe laces and neck ties.“We live approximately 200 metres from the guard house on First Avenue. When I told the guard to call the SAPS he said he was trying to do so. Apparently he saw what had happened but when he pushed the panic button no one responded,” Mr Becker said.
Mr Becker then called 10111 and the SAPS arrived within 10 minutes.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/bedfordview-edenvale/bedfordview-edenvale-news-crime?oid=5348474&sn=Detail&pid=217412&16-held-up-in-Edenvale-house
Colin Becker and his 16 white tenants attacked by armed gang, First Avenue home, Edenvale, Jhb
5 April 2012 Charmaine Slater EDENVALE - According to home owner, Mr Colin Becker two of the black male attackers were armed with guns, two others had sticks and the fifth man was armed with a knife.
The men entered the house through the back door at Sunday about 7.45pm.“They took what they could, watches, wallets and 12 Blackberry cellular phones,” Mr Becker said.
He added that before the men fled they tied everyone up with shoe laces and neck ties.“We live approximately 200 metres from the guard house on First Avenue. When I told the guard to call the SAPS he said he was trying to do so. Apparently he saw what had happened but when he pushed the panic button no one responded,” Mr Becker said.
Mr Becker then called 10111 and the SAPS arrived within 10 minutes.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/bedfordview-edenvale/bedfordview-edenvale-news-crime?oid=5348474&sn=Detail&pid=217412&16-held-up-in-Edenvale-house
Fred Jorgenson, 62, descendant of 1882 Norwegian settlers, murdered on farm Louisiana No 40, Port Shepstone, Case Nr 55/2011 trial starts 3 May 2012
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Lita Cross Fourie writes of a previously unreported farm-murder on November 3 2011: Fourie, who runs the charity Tabita and helps traumatised victims of farm murders, writes that the trial of six of the ten murderers of farmer Fred Jorgenson, 62, of Port Shepstone on November 3 2011 -- starts on 3 May 2012 in KZN. Mr Jorgenson was murdered on his farm Louisiana No. 40: stabbed to death with four knife-wounds.
The number of attackers totaled TEN of whom SIX were arrested and charged: all were black South African males. They also badly attacked his wife Tokkie. She survived her ordeal.
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The case number is 55/2011/ Port Shepstone 3 November 2011. The trial starts on 3 May 2012 in KwaZuluNatal.
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Mr Jorgenson's Norwegian Lutheran forebears settled in South Africa in an organised migration of European protestants from 1882 - who landed in then-Port Natal and were given land-parcels by the British authorities of that time - when the Boers had also been running their independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. (document attached)
Lita Cross Fourie writes of a previously unreported farm-murder on November 3 2011: Fourie, who runs the charity Tabita and helps traumatised victims of farm murders, writes that the trial of six of the ten murderers of farmer Fred Jorgenson, 62, of Port Shepstone on November 3 2011 -- starts on 3 May 2012 in KZN. Mr Jorgenson was murdered on his farm Louisiana No. 40: stabbed to death with four knife-wounds.
The number of attackers totaled TEN of whom SIX were arrested and charged: all were black South African males. They also badly attacked his wife Tokkie. She survived her ordeal.
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The case number is 55/2011/ Port Shepstone 3 November 2011. The trial starts on 3 May 2012 in KwaZuluNatal.
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Mr Jorgenson's Norwegian Lutheran forebears settled in South Africa in an organised migration of European protestants from 1882 - who landed in then-Port Natal and were given land-parcels by the British authorities of that time - when the Boers had also been running their independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. (document attached)
Frans Swemmer, 89, WWII and Korean War SA fighter pilot: beaten to death Monument Park Pretoria for cellphone, some household goods: black man confess
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PRETORIA HIGH COURT - April 10 2012 - A 37-year-old black man on Tuesday told the High Court in Pretoria he had taken part in the violent murder aof World War II SA fighter pilot Frans Swemmer, 89, on November 14 2009. Judge Cynthia Pretorius found Albert Mothiba guilty of murdering Monument Park pensioner Swemmer, 89, and robbing him of his car, cellphone and household goods.
Mothiba, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was earlier sent for mental observation but was found fit to stand trial.
His co-accused David Maluleka pleaded not guilty to the charges.Maluleka's trial was separated from Mothiba's and was postponed to September 25.
Swemmer, who survived World War II and the Korean War as a fighter pilot for the South African Air Force, was found in a pool of blood in his house after apparently being dragged there from his garage.
His girlfriend and a neighbour found his body the next day after the neighbour repeatedly phoned a security company because she was worried that Swemmer's garage was standing open.
His car was not there, but the neighbour was told that nothing was amiss.
Mothiba said in a statement he knew Maluleka was a robber and had agreed to help him with a "job" because he "basically lived on the street and was desperate for some form of income".
He said it was Maluleka's idea to go to Swemmer's house, but they left after Maluleka took beer and wine out of the garage, as Swemmer was not home.
They went to a park to drink, where they were joined by a third man, Pascal Maremane.
Maluleka and Maremane left, but returned after a while and told him that Swemmer had returned home.
Maluleka suggested that they should return to the house.
He appeared to know Swemmer, because he said "the owner had a lot of money in the house".
Mothiba said he waited outside the house while the other two men went in. After a while, Maluleka came out of the garage.
He had a hammer in his hand and his clothes were smeared with blood.
Maluleka opened the gate for him and when he went into the garage, he saw the elderly home owner lying next to the car in a pool of blood.
Maremane was assaulting the man with a hammer and he could see that the man was seriously injured.
According to Mothiba, Maluleka invited him to kick the victim, whereupon he kicked Swemmer twice in the chest.
The other two then pulled Swemmer into the house before they ransacked the house.
Mothiba admitted that he had taken part in the robbery knowing that the owner could be killed and had reconciled himself to what the others did, although he did not take part in the initial assault on Swemmer.
He said he had foreseen that kicking Swemmer could hasten his death and claimed he'd 'accepted that the elderly victim was already dying at that stage".
Mothiba was arrested in Hammanskraal while driving Swemmer's car.He made a full confession and also pointed out Maluleka to the police.He told the court he was willing to testify against Maluleka.Mothiba's trial was postponed to May 29 for sentencing .
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http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/local-news?oid=270793&sn=Detail&pid=146826&PTA-fighter-pilot-murderer-confesses
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ORIGINAL CRIME REPORT:
November 14 2009 at 10:59AM
By Greame Hoskens
Crime Reporter
A Pretoria pensioner, who fought and survived both World War 2 and the Korean War as a fighter pilot, was found bludgeoned to death at his home.
Frans Swemmer, 89, was found dead in the garage of his Waterkloof home yesterday morning by his girlfriend of 14 years, Anita Stander, 71.
Stander discovered Swemmer's badly battered body lying sprawled in the passage of his Orion Street home where he had been dragged from the garage.
'When I spoke to them later they said they could not see anything that was suspicious'
A blood trail and a brown leather shoe outside the front door indicated from where Swemmer's killers had dragged him into his house.
It is believed that Swemmer, whose white Mercedes-Benz, pistol, clothes and household appliances were stolen, was beaten on the head with a sledgehammer at about 7pm on Thursday night after he went to investigate the theft of beers from his fridge in the garage.
Within hours of Swemmer's body being found yesterday, police arrested a man driving his car in Hammanskraal.
Word of a suspect's arrest quickly spread throughout Orion Street as neighbours and friends telephoned one another to tell of the arrest.
A neighbour, who declined to be named, said he hoped the police would "kill the bastard".
Sitting on the grass pavement outside Swemmer's home as police forensic investigators searched for clues, Stander said the last time she spoke to Swemmer was when he had telephoned her at 6pm to say that thieves had stolen his beers.
While police took fingerprints from a black palisade fence outside the home, Stander described what she saw when she found Swemmer's body. "I could not believe it. It was awful. How could someone do that to a person who was so kind and caring? It is absolutely humiliating and degrading to die like that," she said.
Stander said she had become worried when Swemmer's neighbour and close friend, Martie Kotze, 76, telephoned her on Thursday night to tell her that something was wrong at Swemmer's house.
"She told me that the garage door was open and that the lights were on, but she could not see him or his car. I thought it was strange and tried to phone him, but his home phone just rang and his cellphone was off.
"I became worried because I had spoken to him earlier.
"I told him to phone the police and he said he would and then he would phone me back, but he never did and now he never will," she said, adding that Swemmer had fought in World War 2 and the Korean War as a fighter pilot for the South African Air Force.
It is believed that Swemmer's killers surprised and overpowered him when he went back to his garage after talking to Stander.
Stander, who described Swemmer as a friendly, but quiet person who kept to himself, said she told Kotze to phone his security company. "They sent out patrols twice but could not find him.
"I do not understand how they could not see the blood in the open garage or the blood trail. It just does not make any sense, especially when they reported that there was nothing wrong at the house," she said angrily, adding that when the guards arrived yesterday she had already found Swemmer.
Martie Kotze confirmed she had telephoned the company several times and asked them to check on Swemmer. "When I spoke to them later they said they could not see anything that was suspicious and that the house was all locked up. I thought it strange, but thought that Frans had maybe gone out to visit a friend," she said.
Stander said that she and Swemmer had been very close friends for 14 years and had done many things together. "We often went out and he was my very close friend. I had a very special place for him in my heart," she said, while she was comforted by her daughter Anita Botha.
Police spokeswoman Lynnette Erasmus confirmed that a man had been arrested and taken in for questioning after he was found driving Swemmer's car in Hammanskraal.
"The man was arrested shortly after police circulated a description of the car," she said.
She said when police arrived they found the entire house ransacked and a blood trail leading from the garage to the house. "In the garage police found a hammer and a large pool of blood, and blood all over the walls," she said.
This article was originally published on page 1 of Pretoria News on November 14, 2009 http://www.32battalion.org/forum/showthread.php?t=872
PRETORIA HIGH COURT - April 10 2012 - A 37-year-old black man on Tuesday told the High Court in Pretoria he had taken part in the violent murder aof World War II SA fighter pilot Frans Swemmer, 89, on November 14 2009. Judge Cynthia Pretorius found Albert Mothiba guilty of murdering Monument Park pensioner Swemmer, 89, and robbing him of his car, cellphone and household goods.
Mothiba, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was earlier sent for mental observation but was found fit to stand trial.
His co-accused David Maluleka pleaded not guilty to the charges.Maluleka's trial was separated from Mothiba's and was postponed to September 25.
Swemmer, who survived World War II and the Korean War as a fighter pilot for the South African Air Force, was found in a pool of blood in his house after apparently being dragged there from his garage.
His girlfriend and a neighbour found his body the next day after the neighbour repeatedly phoned a security company because she was worried that Swemmer's garage was standing open.
His car was not there, but the neighbour was told that nothing was amiss.
Mothiba said in a statement he knew Maluleka was a robber and had agreed to help him with a "job" because he "basically lived on the street and was desperate for some form of income".
He said it was Maluleka's idea to go to Swemmer's house, but they left after Maluleka took beer and wine out of the garage, as Swemmer was not home.
They went to a park to drink, where they were joined by a third man, Pascal Maremane.
Maluleka and Maremane left, but returned after a while and told him that Swemmer had returned home.
Maluleka suggested that they should return to the house.
He appeared to know Swemmer, because he said "the owner had a lot of money in the house".
Mothiba said he waited outside the house while the other two men went in. After a while, Maluleka came out of the garage.
He had a hammer in his hand and his clothes were smeared with blood.
Maluleka opened the gate for him and when he went into the garage, he saw the elderly home owner lying next to the car in a pool of blood.
Maremane was assaulting the man with a hammer and he could see that the man was seriously injured.
According to Mothiba, Maluleka invited him to kick the victim, whereupon he kicked Swemmer twice in the chest.
The other two then pulled Swemmer into the house before they ransacked the house.
Mothiba admitted that he had taken part in the robbery knowing that the owner could be killed and had reconciled himself to what the others did, although he did not take part in the initial assault on Swemmer.
He said he had foreseen that kicking Swemmer could hasten his death and claimed he'd 'accepted that the elderly victim was already dying at that stage".
Mothiba was arrested in Hammanskraal while driving Swemmer's car.He made a full confession and also pointed out Maluleka to the police.He told the court he was willing to testify against Maluleka.Mothiba's trial was postponed to May 29 for sentencing .
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http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/local-news?oid=270793&sn=Detail&pid=146826&PTA-fighter-pilot-murderer-confesses
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ORIGINAL CRIME REPORT:
November 14 2009 at 10:59AM
By Greame Hoskens
Crime Reporter
A Pretoria pensioner, who fought and survived both World War 2 and the Korean War as a fighter pilot, was found bludgeoned to death at his home.
Frans Swemmer, 89, was found dead in the garage of his Waterkloof home yesterday morning by his girlfriend of 14 years, Anita Stander, 71.
Stander discovered Swemmer's badly battered body lying sprawled in the passage of his Orion Street home where he had been dragged from the garage.
'When I spoke to them later they said they could not see anything that was suspicious'
A blood trail and a brown leather shoe outside the front door indicated from where Swemmer's killers had dragged him into his house.
It is believed that Swemmer, whose white Mercedes-Benz, pistol, clothes and household appliances were stolen, was beaten on the head with a sledgehammer at about 7pm on Thursday night after he went to investigate the theft of beers from his fridge in the garage.
Within hours of Swemmer's body being found yesterday, police arrested a man driving his car in Hammanskraal.
Word of a suspect's arrest quickly spread throughout Orion Street as neighbours and friends telephoned one another to tell of the arrest.
A neighbour, who declined to be named, said he hoped the police would "kill the bastard".
Sitting on the grass pavement outside Swemmer's home as police forensic investigators searched for clues, Stander said the last time she spoke to Swemmer was when he had telephoned her at 6pm to say that thieves had stolen his beers.
While police took fingerprints from a black palisade fence outside the home, Stander described what she saw when she found Swemmer's body. "I could not believe it. It was awful. How could someone do that to a person who was so kind and caring? It is absolutely humiliating and degrading to die like that," she said.
Stander said she had become worried when Swemmer's neighbour and close friend, Martie Kotze, 76, telephoned her on Thursday night to tell her that something was wrong at Swemmer's house.
"She told me that the garage door was open and that the lights were on, but she could not see him or his car. I thought it was strange and tried to phone him, but his home phone just rang and his cellphone was off.
"I became worried because I had spoken to him earlier.
"I told him to phone the police and he said he would and then he would phone me back, but he never did and now he never will," she said, adding that Swemmer had fought in World War 2 and the Korean War as a fighter pilot for the South African Air Force.
It is believed that Swemmer's killers surprised and overpowered him when he went back to his garage after talking to Stander.
Stander, who described Swemmer as a friendly, but quiet person who kept to himself, said she told Kotze to phone his security company. "They sent out patrols twice but could not find him.
"I do not understand how they could not see the blood in the open garage or the blood trail. It just does not make any sense, especially when they reported that there was nothing wrong at the house," she said angrily, adding that when the guards arrived yesterday she had already found Swemmer.
Martie Kotze confirmed she had telephoned the company several times and asked them to check on Swemmer. "When I spoke to them later they said they could not see anything that was suspicious and that the house was all locked up. I thought it strange, but thought that Frans had maybe gone out to visit a friend," she said.
Stander said that she and Swemmer had been very close friends for 14 years and had done many things together. "We often went out and he was my very close friend. I had a very special place for him in my heart," she said, while she was comforted by her daughter Anita Botha.
Police spokeswoman Lynnette Erasmus confirmed that a man had been arrested and taken in for questioning after he was found driving Swemmer's car in Hammanskraal.
"The man was arrested shortly after police circulated a description of the car," she said.
She said when police arrived they found the entire house ransacked and a blood trail leading from the garage to the house. "In the garage police found a hammer and a large pool of blood, and blood all over the walls," she said.
This article was originally published on page 1 of Pretoria News on November 14, 2009 http://www.32battalion.org/forum/showthread.php?t=872
Little girl, 6, murdered in Turffontein: picked up by white man in white vehicle, child REMAINS UNIDENTIFIED
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Little girl, 6, found murdered in Turffontein: police searching for white man in white vehicle who picked her up and dumped her again:Body dumped in service lane. No arrest have been made. 5 April 2012 journalist: Lucky Thusi - BEDFORDVIEW - An unidentified young girl was found murdered in the service lane between Hay and Eloff streets, Turffontein, on Wednesday afternoon April 4. It is alleged a white man driving a white car took the child and killed her. According to one of the resident’s who was on the scene, the man frequents the area. "I had come home from work when I saw people gathering and police and an ambulance were at the scene.
Upon investigating I found out the body of a little girl of about six years had been found. "I heard this man lured the young girl into his car, took her away, then came back to dump her there," explained the eyewitness. Stanley Brook who lives next to scene where this incident happened said, "It’s been ages since I reported this service lane to be cleaned. I phoned Pikitup and I was told that they only pick up rubbish. "A councillor was alerted about this lane, however, nothing has been done," he said.Police confirmed the "incident". SAPS Warrant Officer Lorraine van Emmerik from Booysens Police said they are still waiting for the report from the pathologist and gathering information from witnesses.
If anyone has any information which could lead to the man’s arrest, please phone Booysens Police Station 011 433 5269. NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE CHILD'S IDENTITY NOR WHAT SHE WAS DOING ALONE IN A LITTLE BACK ALLEY. NOR WHERE HER PARENTS WERE.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/joburg-south/joburg-south-news-general?oid=5348416&sn=Detail&pid=1171163&Little-girl-murdered
Little girl, 6, found murdered in Turffontein: police searching for white man in white vehicle who picked her up and dumped her again:Body dumped in service lane. No arrest have been made. 5 April 2012 journalist: Lucky Thusi - BEDFORDVIEW - An unidentified young girl was found murdered in the service lane between Hay and Eloff streets, Turffontein, on Wednesday afternoon April 4. It is alleged a white man driving a white car took the child and killed her. According to one of the resident’s who was on the scene, the man frequents the area. "I had come home from work when I saw people gathering and police and an ambulance were at the scene.
Upon investigating I found out the body of a little girl of about six years had been found. "I heard this man lured the young girl into his car, took her away, then came back to dump her there," explained the eyewitness. Stanley Brook who lives next to scene where this incident happened said, "It’s been ages since I reported this service lane to be cleaned. I phoned Pikitup and I was told that they only pick up rubbish. "A councillor was alerted about this lane, however, nothing has been done," he said.Police confirmed the "incident". SAPS Warrant Officer Lorraine van Emmerik from Booysens Police said they are still waiting for the report from the pathologist and gathering information from witnesses.
If anyone has any information which could lead to the man’s arrest, please phone Booysens Police Station 011 433 5269. NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE CHILD'S IDENTITY NOR WHAT SHE WAS DOING ALONE IN A LITTLE BACK ALLEY. NOR WHERE HER PARENTS WERE.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/joburg-south/joburg-south-news-general?oid=5348416&sn=Detail&pid=1171163&Little-girl-murdered
Van Dyk family with little baby girl shot at while driving in Pretoria North
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Van Dyk family shot at inside car with baby daughter inside: drunken man arrested Pretoria North - Beeld journalist Hilda Fourie: Date publication: 2012-04-09 Deon van Dyk's little baby daughter was screaming bloody murder after a falling-down drunk man shot at their car with an airgun. Said advertising representative Van Dyk: "Things could have been so much worse: he could have shot her if the window had been open.'Van Dyk, wife Amanda and seven-month old daughter Deonél were enroute home on Thursday 19h30 on Zambesi Drive Pretoria when they were shot out by the man, who was driving around shooting from his car at other vehicles. The man was arrested.The 31-year-old appears in Pretoria North magistrate's court charged with reckless, drunken driving and attempted murder. He hit Van Dyk's car three times and another motorists' car seven times. Van Dyk said he and the other man pulled the drunk over inside his car. He was 'so drunk he could not stand up on his feet.' The SAPS found the airgun inside the man's car.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Skieter-kon-nie-regop-staan-20120409
Van Dyk family shot at inside car with baby daughter inside: drunken man arrested Pretoria North - Beeld journalist Hilda Fourie: Date publication: 2012-04-09 Deon van Dyk's little baby daughter was screaming bloody murder after a falling-down drunk man shot at their car with an airgun. Said advertising representative Van Dyk: "Things could have been so much worse: he could have shot her if the window had been open.'Van Dyk, wife Amanda and seven-month old daughter Deonél were enroute home on Thursday 19h30 on Zambesi Drive Pretoria when they were shot out by the man, who was driving around shooting from his car at other vehicles. The man was arrested.The 31-year-old appears in Pretoria North magistrate's court charged with reckless, drunken driving and attempted murder. He hit Van Dyk's car three times and another motorists' car seven times. Van Dyk said he and the other man pulled the drunk over inside his car. He was 'so drunk he could not stand up on his feet.' The SAPS found the airgun inside the man's car.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Skieter-kon-nie-regop-staan-20120409
Monday, April 9, 2012
Farmer At van der Merwe killed in armed attack near Bloemhof April 3 2012
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Farmer murdered in armed attack near Bloemhof between Schweizer-Renecke and Bloemhof on the farm 7 fontein, oom At van der Merwe was killed in an armed farm attack.
Farmer murdered in armed attack near Bloemhof between Schweizer-Renecke and Bloemhof on the farm 7 fontein, oom At van der Merwe was killed in an armed farm attack.
Disabled farmer Des Hart, 70, Ohrigstad, dies from stabbing injuries during farm attack, April 7 2012
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Disabled farmer Des Hart, 70, Ohrigstad, dies from stabbing injuries during farm attack, April 7 2012
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Disabled farmer Des Hart, 70, of Ohrigstad, who used crutches to get around, was attacked by a group of black males. They kicked his legs from beneath him so that he fell down, and then stabbed him.
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-- Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:12 AM - "Subject: nog 'n boer sterf. Ek wil jou net verwittig van vriende van ons wie se vader Des Hart van Origstad omgewing aan sy wonde beswyk het na hul sy lewe probeer red het na 'n aanval op sy plaas daar in die omgewing . Hy is glo met 'n mes gesteek en sy been afgskop wyl hy reeds met krukke geloop het , hy was om en by oor die sewntig jaar oud . Aanvallers was glo vorige werkers op die plaas . Ons wil net ons meegevoel uitspreek aan sy familie en veral sy dogter Johanna van Supaquick bande Hazyview hier by ons. JLG, Kiepersol. "
Disabled farmer Des Hart, 70, Ohrigstad, dies from stabbing injuries during farm attack, April 7 2012
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Disabled farmer Des Hart, 70, of Ohrigstad, who used crutches to get around, was attacked by a group of black males. They kicked his legs from beneath him so that he fell down, and then stabbed him.
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-- Saturday, April 7, 2012 10:12 AM - "Subject: nog 'n boer sterf. Ek wil jou net verwittig van vriende van ons wie se vader Des Hart van Origstad omgewing aan sy wonde beswyk het na hul sy lewe probeer red het na 'n aanval op sy plaas daar in die omgewing . Hy is glo met 'n mes gesteek en sy been afgskop wyl hy reeds met krukke geloop het , hy was om en by oor die sewntig jaar oud . Aanvallers was glo vorige werkers op die plaas . Ons wil net ons meegevoel uitspreek aan sy familie en veral sy dogter Johanna van Supaquick bande Hazyview hier by ons. JLG, Kiepersol. "
Four black males torture two AFrikaner men for 2hrs: Jimmy Kruger 82, Leon Landman 62, 'grateful they were left alive'
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Four black males torture two Afrikaner men for two hours: victims Jimmy Kruger 82, son-in-law Leon Landman 62: Paardefontein, Kameeldrift smallholding survive --
Hilda Fourie Beeld newspaper: April 8 2012 - Four black male attackers spent two hours torturing 82-year-old Jimmy Kruger and his son-in-law Leon Landman, 62 during an armed attack against their smallholding north of Pretoria. This is the second reported attack on the crime-ridden smallholdings this week. The men said they 'were grateful that they were allowed to live.'
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http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rowers-martel-2-ure-lank-20120409
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The two Afrikaner men said they were watching TV at around 20h40 while the rest of the family was in Oudtshoorn at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.
A bell attached to their security gate started tinkling and the dog Jackie started barking simultaneously. For some reason Kruger went outside in the dark and opened the security gate:
and one black male stormed into his room with a firearm pointing at him. Kruger said he struggled with the gunman.
"When I looked again three more stood there, pointing their weapons into my face. I am a 1930s model and I cannot fight against four of them'.Kruger was tied up and dragged to Landman's room - and for two hours the two Afrikaners were beaten, kicked in the face, and tortured. The Landman's Volkswagen Passat was loaded with their laptops, TVs, cameras, jewellery. After two hours the four men fled.
SAPS capt Jan Sepato said the vehicle was found abandoned in Mamelodi township nearby.The elderly Kruger was admitted to a local hospital for observation, because he was badly bruised and beaten up.
Four black males torture two Afrikaner men for two hours: victims Jimmy Kruger 82, son-in-law Leon Landman 62: Paardefontein, Kameeldrift smallholding survive --
Hilda Fourie Beeld newspaper: April 8 2012 - Four black male attackers spent two hours torturing 82-year-old Jimmy Kruger and his son-in-law Leon Landman, 62 during an armed attack against their smallholding north of Pretoria. This is the second reported attack on the crime-ridden smallholdings this week. The men said they 'were grateful that they were allowed to live.'
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http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rowers-martel-2-ure-lank-20120409
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The two Afrikaner men said they were watching TV at around 20h40 while the rest of the family was in Oudtshoorn at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees.
A bell attached to their security gate started tinkling and the dog Jackie started barking simultaneously. For some reason Kruger went outside in the dark and opened the security gate:
and one black male stormed into his room with a firearm pointing at him. Kruger said he struggled with the gunman.
"When I looked again three more stood there, pointing their weapons into my face. I am a 1930s model and I cannot fight against four of them'.Kruger was tied up and dragged to Landman's room - and for two hours the two Afrikaners were beaten, kicked in the face, and tortured. The Landman's Volkswagen Passat was loaded with their laptops, TVs, cameras, jewellery. After two hours the four men fled.
SAPS capt Jan Sepato said the vehicle was found abandoned in Mamelodi township nearby.The elderly Kruger was admitted to a local hospital for observation, because he was badly bruised and beaten up.
Fred Jorgenson, 62, descendant of 1882 Norwegian settlers, murdered on farm Louisiana No 40, Port Shepstone, Case Nr 55/2011 trial starts 3 May 2012
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Lita Cross Fourie writes of a previously unreported farm-murder on November 3 2011: Fourie, who runs the charity Tabita and helps traumatised victims of farm murders, writes that the trial of six of the ten murderers of farmer Fred Jorgenson, 62, of Port Shepstone on November 3 2011 -- starts on 3 May 2012 in KZN. Mr Jorgenson was murdered on his farm Louisiana No. 40: stabbed to death with four knife-wounds.
The number of attackers totaled TEN of whom SIX were arrested and charged: all were black South African males. They also badly attacked his wife Tokkie. She survived her ordeal.
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The case number is 55/2011/ Port Shepstone 3 November 2011. The trial starts on 3 May 2012 in KwaZuluNatal.
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Mr Jorgenson's Norwegian Lutheran forebears settled in South Africa in an organised migration of European protestants from 1882 - who landed in then-Port Natal and were given land-parcels by the British authorities of that time - when the Boers had also been running their independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. (document attached)
Lita Cross Fourie writes of a previously unreported farm-murder on November 3 2011: Fourie, who runs the charity Tabita and helps traumatised victims of farm murders, writes that the trial of six of the ten murderers of farmer Fred Jorgenson, 62, of Port Shepstone on November 3 2011 -- starts on 3 May 2012 in KZN. Mr Jorgenson was murdered on his farm Louisiana No. 40: stabbed to death with four knife-wounds.
The number of attackers totaled TEN of whom SIX were arrested and charged: all were black South African males. They also badly attacked his wife Tokkie. She survived her ordeal.
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The case number is 55/2011/ Port Shepstone 3 November 2011. The trial starts on 3 May 2012 in KwaZuluNatal.
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Mr Jorgenson's Norwegian Lutheran forebears settled in South Africa in an organised migration of European protestants from 1882 - who landed in then-Port Natal and were given land-parcels by the British authorities of that time - when the Boers had also been running their independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. (document attached)
Gesin oorval en ontvoer
Christal-Lize Thomas
“Ek het heeltyd gebid, stilgebly en net gedoen wat hulle sê.”
Só sê mnr. Thys Rossouw (36) nadat hy, sy verloofde en haar vierjarige dogtertjie Saterdag in die vroeë oggendure deur drie gewapende mans in hul meenthuis in Uitsig, Bloemfontein, oorval, aangehou, met die dood gedreig, ontvoer en beroof is.
Die paartjie en kind is deur die rowers ontvoer om geld by ’n kitsbank te gaan trek. ’n Polisievoertuig wat naby die kitsbank verbygery het, was die paartjie en kind se redding.
Minstens vyf gesinne van Uitsig is reeds sedert verlede jaar deur ’n kapmes-bende in hul huise oorval en beroof.
Rossouw sê hul hond het aan die blaf gegaan. Die volgende oomblik is hul meenthuis se agterdeur oopgeskop. “Toe ons weer sien, het drie mans in ons slaapkamer gestaan.”
Sy verloofde se 15-jarige seun het in ’n ander slaapkamer weggekruip.
Een van die rowers het ’n vuurwapen gehad en die ander was met kapmesse gewapen.
“Wat kan ’n mens doen? Hulle het geld gesoek.”
Die paartjie het nie geld in die huis gehad nie en albei se ringe is afgeneem. Rossouw sê die man met die vuurwapen het verskeie kere gedreig hulle sal geskiet word, sou hulle iets probeer.
Die paartjie en kind is toe in Rossouw se motor ontvoer om geld uit Rossouw se bankrekening te gaan onttrek. Die rowers het gesê hulle wil R3000 hê, of die kind word doodgemaak. “Ons is eers na ’n kitsbank in Fauna, maar dit was gesluit. Hulle het toe gesê ek neuk rond.”
Die rowers het gesê Rossouw moet na die kitsbank by die Shell-vulstasie in Rocklands ry.
“Een van die rowers met ’n panga het agter my gestaan toe ek geld trek.”
Terwyl hy die geld aan een van die rowers gegee het, het ’n polisievoertuig verbygery. “Ek het om hulp geskree.”
Rossouw het die geld uit die rower se hand gegryp en die rowers het weggehardloop.
Kapt. Rulene Kühn, polisiewoordvoerder, sê een van die polisiemanne in die voertuig het die rowers agternagesit, maar kon hulle nie inhaal nie.
Klagte van huisroof en ontvoering word ondersoek.
- Volksblad
“Ek het heeltyd gebid, stilgebly en net gedoen wat hulle sê.”
Só sê mnr. Thys Rossouw (36) nadat hy, sy verloofde en haar vierjarige dogtertjie Saterdag in die vroeë oggendure deur drie gewapende mans in hul meenthuis in Uitsig, Bloemfontein, oorval, aangehou, met die dood gedreig, ontvoer en beroof is.
Die paartjie en kind is deur die rowers ontvoer om geld by ’n kitsbank te gaan trek. ’n Polisievoertuig wat naby die kitsbank verbygery het, was die paartjie en kind se redding.
Minstens vyf gesinne van Uitsig is reeds sedert verlede jaar deur ’n kapmes-bende in hul huise oorval en beroof.
Rossouw sê hul hond het aan die blaf gegaan. Die volgende oomblik is hul meenthuis se agterdeur oopgeskop. “Toe ons weer sien, het drie mans in ons slaapkamer gestaan.”
Sy verloofde se 15-jarige seun het in ’n ander slaapkamer weggekruip.
Een van die rowers het ’n vuurwapen gehad en die ander was met kapmesse gewapen.
“Wat kan ’n mens doen? Hulle het geld gesoek.”
Die paartjie het nie geld in die huis gehad nie en albei se ringe is afgeneem. Rossouw sê die man met die vuurwapen het verskeie kere gedreig hulle sal geskiet word, sou hulle iets probeer.
Die paartjie en kind is toe in Rossouw se motor ontvoer om geld uit Rossouw se bankrekening te gaan onttrek. Die rowers het gesê hulle wil R3000 hê, of die kind word doodgemaak. “Ons is eers na ’n kitsbank in Fauna, maar dit was gesluit. Hulle het toe gesê ek neuk rond.”
Die rowers het gesê Rossouw moet na die kitsbank by die Shell-vulstasie in Rocklands ry.
“Een van die rowers met ’n panga het agter my gestaan toe ek geld trek.”
Terwyl hy die geld aan een van die rowers gegee het, het ’n polisievoertuig verbygery. “Ek het om hulp geskree.”
Rossouw het die geld uit die rower se hand gegryp en die rowers het weggehardloop.
Kapt. Rulene Kühn, polisiewoordvoerder, sê een van die polisiemanne in die voertuig het die rowers agternagesit, maar kon hulle nie inhaal nie.
Klagte van huisroof en ontvoering word ondersoek.
- Volksblad
‘Dis g’n gewone moord’
Charné Kemp
Griekwastad. – Die polisie het laat blyk hulle het dalk reeds die antwoorde op die vrae wat deur die mense van Griekwastad gevra word ná die gesinstragedie op ’n plaas hier waarin ’n egpaar en hul tienerdogter in ’n koeëlreën dood is.
Een van die eerste mense op dié Noord-Kaapse moordplaas het die toneel wat hom begroet het ook gister beskryf as “geen gewone misdaadtoneel nie”.
“Daar was geen tekens van inbraak nie. Die huis is ook nie omgekeer soos ons al by ander plaasmoorde gesien het nie. Ek wonder baie oor dit wat hom daar afgespeel het,” het mnr. Joey Scholtz, voorsitter van die Griekwastad-Agri-Hay-boerevereniging, gister gesê te midde van wye bespiegeling in dié rustige dorp oor die treurspel.
Mnr. Deon Steenkamp (41), sy vrou, Christelle (40), en hul 14-jarige dogter, Marthella, ’n gr. 9-leerling aan die Hoër Meisieskool Oranje, is in die tragedie doodgeskiet.
Die gesin se 15-jarige seun, Don, ’n gr.10-leerling aan Grey-kollege in Bloemfontein, het die treurspel oorleef.
Kol. Hendrik Swart, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisie soek nie na ’n verdagte nie.
“Ons kyk na die beskikbare getuies se verklarings en ander leidrade wat op die toneel gevind is.”
Swart sê Steenkamp, sy vrou en dogter is vermoedelik vroegaand doodgeskiet.
Don het gesê hy was in die skuur, het skote gehoor, die huis ingehardloop en op sy ouers en suster se lyke afgekom. Die kluis was oopgesluit.
“Hy het gesê hy het op pad na die dorp twee vuurwapens, .22-geweer en ’n .357 Magnum-rewolwer in die pad sien lê. Hy het dit aan die polisie oorhandig.”
Swart sê Steenkamp jr. het Saterdag ’n verklaring by die polisiekantoor afgelê en die polisie na die plaas vergesel om uitwysings te doen.
Een van die vrae wat hier gevra word en waaroor bespiegel word, is wie het hulle geskiet en waarom?
Scholtz wou hom nie uitlaat oor bloedspatsels teen die muur by die agterdeur van die kombuis nie.
Daar was ook bloeddruppels op die agterstoep en binne op die kombuisvloer.
Sy hart het gebloei toe hy die lyk van die 14-jarige Marthella opgetel het, het Scholtz gister aangedaan vertel.
Mnr. Andries Steenkamp, wyle mnr. Steenkamp se neef en Don se voog, sê hy is geskok en hartseer oor wat op die internet oor die jong Don gesuggereer word.
“Almal het hul eie teorieë, maar ons kyk wat die polisie-ondersoek oplewer.
“Deon se bejaarde ouers in Kimberley is in stukke. Hul dogters vertroos hulle. Christel se familie sal uit die Oos-Kaap kom.”
Gister in die NG kerk Griekwastad het ds. Piet Otto die kruisiging en opstanding van Christus en die treurspel hier gekombineer in sy Pase-preek.
Die hele Griekwastad is diep hartseer, het hy gesê. Mense was ook opstandig toe hulle destyds Christus se bebloede klere gesien het.
“Nuwe lewe word (egter) op wrakstukke gebou. Ons mag nou treur, maar daar is lewe in Christus.”
Otto het nie sy gebruiklike swart pak gedra nie, maar ’n wit pak om die lewe te simboliseer.
“Dit was nie ’n begrafnisdiens nie, eerder ’n boodskap dat ons voluit moet leef,” het hy gesê.
Die jong Steenkamp is tans by vriende op Petrusburg.
Die plaas waar die drie lede van die Steenkamp-gesin op Goeie Vrydag doodgeskiet is.
Die seun
Bloemfontein. – Hy is ’n baie stil en oulike seun wat op sy plek is, sê mnr. Johan Volsteedt, hoof van Grey-kollege (sekondêr) in Bloemfontein, oor die 15-jarige Don Steenkamp, wie se gesin op hul plaas buite Griekwastad uitgewis is.
Don is ’n gr. 10-leerling aan dié skool en is in die koshuis.
“Hy het baie geskok geklink toe ek Saterdagoggend ná die voorval met hom oor die foon gepraat het,” sê Volsteedt.
Hy het Don weer eergisteraand probeer bel, maar die seun het nie sy selfoon geantwoord nie.
“Ons dink aan hom en sodra die skool Dinsdag begin, sal ons meer weet van die begrafnisreëlings, waarna die skool verdere reëlings sal tref.”
Volsteedt sê net hy mag in sy hoedanigheid as skoolhoof inligting oor Don aan die media verskaf en nie personeel of leerlinge van dié skool nie.
Volsteedt sê hy het eergister ook heelwat SMS’e van ouers en oud-Grey-leerlinge ontvang nadat die nuus van die Steenkamp-moorde per SMS en in sosiale netwerke versprei het.
“(Die voormalige Olimpiese swemmer) Ryk Neethling het ook gebel en gesê as daar iets is waarmee hy kan help, moet ek hom net laat weet.”
Volgens Volsteedt is Don baie lief vir perde en hy neem gereeld aan uithouritte deel.
Don Steenkamp (15) voor die polisiekantoor in Griekwastad by mnr. Ben Heckroodt en sy vrou, Hannelie.
Die dogter
Bloemfontein. – “Sy was ’n geliefde Oranje-ster,” sê mej. Mariehetta Matthee, skoolhoof van die Hoër Meisieskool Oranje in Bloemfontein, oor Marthella Steenkamp (14), wat saam met haar ouers op hul plaas buite Griekwastad doodgeskiet is.
Marthella was ’n gr. 9-leerling aan dié skool en ’n geliefde koshuiskind, wat harte deur haar deelname aan skoolbedrywighede gewen het, sê Matthee.
Sy het in die klas, op die sportveld en as perderuiter uitgeblink.
“Sy was ’n kranige perderuiter en sou dié kwartaal verder aan Suid-Afrikaanse perdry deelgeneem het.”
Matthee sê Marthella het verlede jaar ook die Vrystaat-gimkanaspan gehaal.
Sy het vir die skool netbal gespeel en was ook lid van die tennisligaspan. “Marthella is vanjaar in die skool se o.15A-netbalspan ingesluit.”
Matthee sê Marthella het ook op akademiese gebied gepresteer.
“Sy het verlede jaar akademiese erekleure met nege vakonderskeidings ontvang.” - Christal-Lize Thomas
Mnr. Deon Steenkamp en sy dogter, Marthella.
Griekwastad. – Die polisie het laat blyk hulle het dalk reeds die antwoorde op die vrae wat deur die mense van Griekwastad gevra word ná die gesinstragedie op ’n plaas hier waarin ’n egpaar en hul tienerdogter in ’n koeëlreën dood is.
Een van die eerste mense op dié Noord-Kaapse moordplaas het die toneel wat hom begroet het ook gister beskryf as “geen gewone misdaadtoneel nie”.
“Daar was geen tekens van inbraak nie. Die huis is ook nie omgekeer soos ons al by ander plaasmoorde gesien het nie. Ek wonder baie oor dit wat hom daar afgespeel het,” het mnr. Joey Scholtz, voorsitter van die Griekwastad-Agri-Hay-boerevereniging, gister gesê te midde van wye bespiegeling in dié rustige dorp oor die treurspel.
Mnr. Deon Steenkamp (41), sy vrou, Christelle (40), en hul 14-jarige dogter, Marthella, ’n gr. 9-leerling aan die Hoër Meisieskool Oranje, is in die tragedie doodgeskiet.
Die gesin se 15-jarige seun, Don, ’n gr.10-leerling aan Grey-kollege in Bloemfontein, het die treurspel oorleef.
Kol. Hendrik Swart, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisie soek nie na ’n verdagte nie.
“Ons kyk na die beskikbare getuies se verklarings en ander leidrade wat op die toneel gevind is.”
Swart sê Steenkamp, sy vrou en dogter is vermoedelik vroegaand doodgeskiet.
Don het gesê hy was in die skuur, het skote gehoor, die huis ingehardloop en op sy ouers en suster se lyke afgekom. Die kluis was oopgesluit.
“Hy het gesê hy het op pad na die dorp twee vuurwapens, .22-geweer en ’n .357 Magnum-rewolwer in die pad sien lê. Hy het dit aan die polisie oorhandig.”
Swart sê Steenkamp jr. het Saterdag ’n verklaring by die polisiekantoor afgelê en die polisie na die plaas vergesel om uitwysings te doen.
Een van die vrae wat hier gevra word en waaroor bespiegel word, is wie het hulle geskiet en waarom?
Scholtz wou hom nie uitlaat oor bloedspatsels teen die muur by die agterdeur van die kombuis nie.
Daar was ook bloeddruppels op die agterstoep en binne op die kombuisvloer.
Sy hart het gebloei toe hy die lyk van die 14-jarige Marthella opgetel het, het Scholtz gister aangedaan vertel.
Mnr. Andries Steenkamp, wyle mnr. Steenkamp se neef en Don se voog, sê hy is geskok en hartseer oor wat op die internet oor die jong Don gesuggereer word.
“Almal het hul eie teorieë, maar ons kyk wat die polisie-ondersoek oplewer.
“Deon se bejaarde ouers in Kimberley is in stukke. Hul dogters vertroos hulle. Christel se familie sal uit die Oos-Kaap kom.”
Gister in die NG kerk Griekwastad het ds. Piet Otto die kruisiging en opstanding van Christus en die treurspel hier gekombineer in sy Pase-preek.
Die hele Griekwastad is diep hartseer, het hy gesê. Mense was ook opstandig toe hulle destyds Christus se bebloede klere gesien het.
“Nuwe lewe word (egter) op wrakstukke gebou. Ons mag nou treur, maar daar is lewe in Christus.”
Otto het nie sy gebruiklike swart pak gedra nie, maar ’n wit pak om die lewe te simboliseer.
“Dit was nie ’n begrafnisdiens nie, eerder ’n boodskap dat ons voluit moet leef,” het hy gesê.
Die jong Steenkamp is tans by vriende op Petrusburg.
Die plaas waar die drie lede van die Steenkamp-gesin op Goeie Vrydag doodgeskiet is.
Die seun
Bloemfontein. – Hy is ’n baie stil en oulike seun wat op sy plek is, sê mnr. Johan Volsteedt, hoof van Grey-kollege (sekondêr) in Bloemfontein, oor die 15-jarige Don Steenkamp, wie se gesin op hul plaas buite Griekwastad uitgewis is.
Don is ’n gr. 10-leerling aan dié skool en is in die koshuis.
“Hy het baie geskok geklink toe ek Saterdagoggend ná die voorval met hom oor die foon gepraat het,” sê Volsteedt.
Hy het Don weer eergisteraand probeer bel, maar die seun het nie sy selfoon geantwoord nie.
“Ons dink aan hom en sodra die skool Dinsdag begin, sal ons meer weet van die begrafnisreëlings, waarna die skool verdere reëlings sal tref.”
Volsteedt sê net hy mag in sy hoedanigheid as skoolhoof inligting oor Don aan die media verskaf en nie personeel of leerlinge van dié skool nie.
Volsteedt sê hy het eergister ook heelwat SMS’e van ouers en oud-Grey-leerlinge ontvang nadat die nuus van die Steenkamp-moorde per SMS en in sosiale netwerke versprei het.
“(Die voormalige Olimpiese swemmer) Ryk Neethling het ook gebel en gesê as daar iets is waarmee hy kan help, moet ek hom net laat weet.”
Volgens Volsteedt is Don baie lief vir perde en hy neem gereeld aan uithouritte deel.
Don Steenkamp (15) voor die polisiekantoor in Griekwastad by mnr. Ben Heckroodt en sy vrou, Hannelie.
Die dogter
Bloemfontein. – “Sy was ’n geliefde Oranje-ster,” sê mej. Mariehetta Matthee, skoolhoof van die Hoër Meisieskool Oranje in Bloemfontein, oor Marthella Steenkamp (14), wat saam met haar ouers op hul plaas buite Griekwastad doodgeskiet is.
Marthella was ’n gr. 9-leerling aan dié skool en ’n geliefde koshuiskind, wat harte deur haar deelname aan skoolbedrywighede gewen het, sê Matthee.
Sy het in die klas, op die sportveld en as perderuiter uitgeblink.
“Sy was ’n kranige perderuiter en sou dié kwartaal verder aan Suid-Afrikaanse perdry deelgeneem het.”
Matthee sê Marthella het verlede jaar ook die Vrystaat-gimkanaspan gehaal.
Sy het vir die skool netbal gespeel en was ook lid van die tennisligaspan. “Marthella is vanjaar in die skool se o.15A-netbalspan ingesluit.”
Matthee sê Marthella het ook op akademiese gebied gepresteer.
“Sy het verlede jaar akademiese erekleure met nege vakonderskeidings ontvang.” - Christal-Lize Thomas
Mnr. Deon Steenkamp en sy dogter, Marthella.
Lig is uit Don se oë’
Charné Kemp
Griekwastad. – “Die lig is uit klein Don se oë, hoewel hy kalm voorkom.
“Hy het gehuil toe die polisie verduidelik wat gebeur in ’n lykskouing.”
So sê me. Marianna Smith, tante van Don Steenkamp (15), wie se ouers, mnr. Deon (44) en me. Christel Steenkamp (43), en sy suster, Marthella (14), op Goeie Vrydag in hul plaashuis doodgeskiet is.
Don is die enigste oorlewende van die treurspel.
Hy het volgens die polisie skote gehoor terwyl hy in die pakskuur besig was en het daarna op sy gesinslede se lyke in die TV-kamer afgekom.
Die vermoorde mnr. Steenkamp se twee susters, mee. Marianna Smith van Stellenbosch en Elbeth Vermaak van Pretoria, het die plaas Naauwhoek, waar die tragedie afgespeel het, gister saam met Don en hul bejaarde ouers, mnr. Don (79) en me. Bettie Steenkamp (85), besoek.
Die polisie het gister verklarings van plaaswerkers afgeneem.
Kol. Hendrik Swart, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê hulle het nog nie ’n verdagte geïdentifiseer nie. “Daarom is daar nie ’n grootskaalse soektog nie. Daar word gefokus op forensiese leidrade en die ondervraging van getuies.
“Die lykskouings word Woensdag gehou.”
Steenkamp se susters het gesê die polisie is vaag in hul antwoorde.
“Ons wil ook nie gis nie. Miskien was dit jaloesie, maar ek wil niks meer sê nie. Dit bly ondenkbaar,” het Smith gesê.
“Ek is baie bekommerd oor my ma. Sy het nog glad nie gehuil nie. Dit is asof sy dit nie glo nie. My pa is baie hartseer en emosioneel.
“Deon was vir my ma alles. Hy is gebore toe sy 42 was nadat sy twee miskrame gehad het. Ek en Elbeth was mal oor ons jong boetie. Hy was agt en 11 jaar jonger as ons.
“Deon was ’n vriendelike, standvastige en verstandige mens. My man, Valdon, het ná ons kuier in Desember hier gesê Deon is so wys. En hy kon die beste uit ’n 4x4 kry!
“Christel was vreeslik hardwerkend en deeglik. Sy het haar tuisnywerheid, Scrumptilicious, lank beplan. Die koekieresepte is oor en oor getoets en ’n ordentlike sakeplan opgestel.
“Hulle was fantastiese ouers vir die twee kinders. Christel en Don het dieselfde kossmaak gehad, en het nie erg aan TV kyk gehad nie. Deon en Marthella was weer amper dieselfde mens.”
Die rou- en verassingsdiens word Donderdag 11:00 in die NG kerk Griekwastad gehou.
Griekwastad. – “Die lig is uit klein Don se oë, hoewel hy kalm voorkom.
“Hy het gehuil toe die polisie verduidelik wat gebeur in ’n lykskouing.”
So sê me. Marianna Smith, tante van Don Steenkamp (15), wie se ouers, mnr. Deon (44) en me. Christel Steenkamp (43), en sy suster, Marthella (14), op Goeie Vrydag in hul plaashuis doodgeskiet is.
Don is die enigste oorlewende van die treurspel.
Hy het volgens die polisie skote gehoor terwyl hy in die pakskuur besig was en het daarna op sy gesinslede se lyke in die TV-kamer afgekom.
Die vermoorde mnr. Steenkamp se twee susters, mee. Marianna Smith van Stellenbosch en Elbeth Vermaak van Pretoria, het die plaas Naauwhoek, waar die tragedie afgespeel het, gister saam met Don en hul bejaarde ouers, mnr. Don (79) en me. Bettie Steenkamp (85), besoek.
Die polisie het gister verklarings van plaaswerkers afgeneem.
Kol. Hendrik Swart, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê hulle het nog nie ’n verdagte geïdentifiseer nie. “Daarom is daar nie ’n grootskaalse soektog nie. Daar word gefokus op forensiese leidrade en die ondervraging van getuies.
“Die lykskouings word Woensdag gehou.”
Steenkamp se susters het gesê die polisie is vaag in hul antwoorde.
“Ons wil ook nie gis nie. Miskien was dit jaloesie, maar ek wil niks meer sê nie. Dit bly ondenkbaar,” het Smith gesê.
“Ek is baie bekommerd oor my ma. Sy het nog glad nie gehuil nie. Dit is asof sy dit nie glo nie. My pa is baie hartseer en emosioneel.
“Deon was vir my ma alles. Hy is gebore toe sy 42 was nadat sy twee miskrame gehad het. Ek en Elbeth was mal oor ons jong boetie. Hy was agt en 11 jaar jonger as ons.
“Deon was ’n vriendelike, standvastige en verstandige mens. My man, Valdon, het ná ons kuier in Desember hier gesê Deon is so wys. En hy kon die beste uit ’n 4x4 kry!
“Christel was vreeslik hardwerkend en deeglik. Sy het haar tuisnywerheid, Scrumptilicious, lank beplan. Die koekieresepte is oor en oor getoets en ’n ordentlike sakeplan opgestel.
“Hulle was fantastiese ouers vir die twee kinders. Christel en Don het dieselfde kossmaak gehad, en het nie erg aan TV kyk gehad nie. Deon en Marthella was weer amper dieselfde mens.”
Die rou- en verassingsdiens word Donderdag 11:00 in die NG kerk Griekwastad gehou.
Rowers vra water, verwurg vrou (75) in huis
Dries Liebenberg
Durban. – Die bejaarde vrou van ’n bekende inwoner van Margate is in ’n huisrooftog vermoedelik vermoor deur twee wildvreemde mans vir wie sy kort tevore water gegee het om te drink.
Die aanvallers, wat glo met messe gewapen was, het ’n ou kamerjas só styf om me. Ria Coetzee (75) se kop en keel gebind dat haar man, Fanie (76), dit met ’n skêr moes lossny toe hy haar lyk Donderdagaand in die badkamer aangetref het.
Mnr. Coetzee is die bestuurder van die oord Margate Sands. Hy het talle oproepe ter ondersteuning ontvang ná die skokmoord, het hul seun, Pieter, gister gesê.
’n Polisietaakspan het een van die twee verdagtes eergister in die Gcilima-omgewing naby Margate in hegtenis geneem.
“Sy (me. Coetzee) was ’n goeie mens. Die mans wat al 20 jaar in die tuin werk, het smiddae bakke vol kos gekry,” het haar seun gesê.
“Sy was ook veiligheidsbewus, die laaste mens met wie só iets moes gebeur het.”
Volgens die polisie het die twee mans die oggend omstreeks 11:00 by die Coetzees se huis aangeklop en water gevra, het haar seun gesê.
Nadat sy ma die mans gehelp het, het hulle na die voorhekkie gestap, maar op die een of ander manier by die huis ingekom.
Me. Coetzee is in die sitkamer oorrompel. Nadat sy vasgebind is, het die rowers ’n DVD-speler, selfoon, videokamera, wyn en ander drank gebuit.
“Hulle het nie juis iets van waarde geneem nie,” het Coetzee jr. gesê.
Toe sy pa net ná 19:00 by die huis kom, was die huis vol rook omdat die kos wat sy vrou op die stoof gehad het toe sy aangeval is, verbrand het.
Hoewel die polisie vermoed dat me. Coetzee versmoor is, sal die uitslag van die lykskouing glo vandag beskikbaar wees.
Sy word Donderdag 10:00 uit die NG kerk in Margate begrawe.
Durban. – Die bejaarde vrou van ’n bekende inwoner van Margate is in ’n huisrooftog vermoedelik vermoor deur twee wildvreemde mans vir wie sy kort tevore water gegee het om te drink.
Die aanvallers, wat glo met messe gewapen was, het ’n ou kamerjas só styf om me. Ria Coetzee (75) se kop en keel gebind dat haar man, Fanie (76), dit met ’n skêr moes lossny toe hy haar lyk Donderdagaand in die badkamer aangetref het.
Mnr. Coetzee is die bestuurder van die oord Margate Sands. Hy het talle oproepe ter ondersteuning ontvang ná die skokmoord, het hul seun, Pieter, gister gesê.
’n Polisietaakspan het een van die twee verdagtes eergister in die Gcilima-omgewing naby Margate in hegtenis geneem.
“Sy (me. Coetzee) was ’n goeie mens. Die mans wat al 20 jaar in die tuin werk, het smiddae bakke vol kos gekry,” het haar seun gesê.
“Sy was ook veiligheidsbewus, die laaste mens met wie só iets moes gebeur het.”
Volgens die polisie het die twee mans die oggend omstreeks 11:00 by die Coetzees se huis aangeklop en water gevra, het haar seun gesê.
Nadat sy ma die mans gehelp het, het hulle na die voorhekkie gestap, maar op die een of ander manier by die huis ingekom.
Me. Coetzee is in die sitkamer oorrompel. Nadat sy vasgebind is, het die rowers ’n DVD-speler, selfoon, videokamera, wyn en ander drank gebuit.
“Hulle het nie juis iets van waarde geneem nie,” het Coetzee jr. gesê.
Toe sy pa net ná 19:00 by die huis kom, was die huis vol rook omdat die kos wat sy vrou op die stoof gehad het toe sy aangeval is, verbrand het.
Hoewel die polisie vermoed dat me. Coetzee versmoor is, sal die uitslag van die lykskouing glo vandag beskikbaar wees.
Sy word Donderdag 10:00 uit die NG kerk in Margate begrawe.
Woman killed in farm attack
A 64-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a young boy on Sunday during an attempted robbery at a farm outside George in the Southern Cape, police said.
It is believed the 16-year-old boy gained access to the house at Dagbreek farm through a kitchen window just after 2am, said spokesperson Malcom Pojie.
Charlotte Sroneman, who was at the time asleep next to her husband, had woken up to investigate the noise when she was repeatedly stabbed on the chest allegedly by the young man, said Pojie.
With a gun in hand, her husband went to investigate after hearing the commotion from the dining room, he said.
A fight ensued and he was also stabbed. He, however, managed to fire several shots, wounding the intruder.
"The suspect was shot on the right side of his face and on his shoulder. He tried to flee but he was arrested by police not far from the house," said Pojie.
Charlotte was declared dead at the scene while her husband was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
"The suspect is currently at a provincial hospital under heavy police guard," said Pojie.
It is believed the 16-year-old boy gained access to the house at Dagbreek farm through a kitchen window just after 2am, said spokesperson Malcom Pojie.
Charlotte Sroneman, who was at the time asleep next to her husband, had woken up to investigate the noise when she was repeatedly stabbed on the chest allegedly by the young man, said Pojie.
With a gun in hand, her husband went to investigate after hearing the commotion from the dining room, he said.
A fight ensued and he was also stabbed. He, however, managed to fire several shots, wounding the intruder.
"The suspect was shot on the right side of his face and on his shoulder. He tried to flee but he was arrested by police not far from the house," said Pojie.
Charlotte was declared dead at the scene while her husband was taken to hospital in a serious condition.
"The suspect is currently at a provincial hospital under heavy police guard," said Pojie.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Boer vra water voordat hy sterf
Susan Cilliers
BLOEMHOF. – ’n Boer wat gister op sy plaas hier erg aangerand en beroof is, se boesemvriend het hom vasgehou en vir oulaas water gegee voordat hy gesterf het.
’n Erg getraumatiseerde mnr. Johan Venter het gister vertel hy en die vermoorde mnr. At Van der Merwe (68) was soos broers en dat hulle al van 1994 af saam geboer het. Van der Merwe was enkellopend en het nie kinders gehad nie.
Hy is vermoedelik gister-oggend vroeg in sy plaashuis in die Leeubosch-omgewing in die Bloemhof-distrik oorval. Die rowers het hom aangerand, die huis geplunder en met sy silwer Toyota RAV4 met die registrasienommer FTY 116 NW ge-vlug. Die voertuig was teen druktyd gister nog nie teruggevind nie en die rowers steeds op vrye voet.
Venter het vertel hy het gister oudergewoonte net ná 07:00 na Van der Merwe se plaas gegaan om werkers daarheen te neem. Hy en Van der Merwe was in ’n vennootskap met mielie- en beesboerdery.
“At was nie soos altyd buite toe ek daar aankom nie,” het Venter vertel. “Ek het in die huis ingegaan en hom op die vloer gekry. Sy hande en voete was vasgebind. Sy een oog was toegeswel en sy hele kop was geswel.”
Van der Merwe kon nog met Venter praat. “Hy het vir water gevra. Ek het hom opgetel, sy hande losgemaak en vir hom water gegee. Hy het baie swaar gesluk.” Van der Merwe het aan Venter gesê hy ken nie die rowers nie. Venter het Van der Merwe alleen gelos terwyl hy rondgeloop het na waar hy ’n selfoonsein kon kry om hulp te ontbied. Toe hy weer by Van der Merwe kom, het dié sy bewussyn verloor. Hy was reeds dood toe ambulanspersoneel later opdaag.
Volgens Venter het die rowers ’n gat onder die geëlektrifiseerde heining deurgegrawe. “Hulle het deur ’n venster in die sitkamer die huis binnegekom.”
Brig. Thulane Ngubane, kommunikasiehoof van die polisie in Noordwes, het gesê dis onse-ker of nog items behalwe die RAV4 gesteel is omdat die plaashuis in ’n chaotiese toestand was weens die rowers se plundery.
Die polisie ondersoek klagte van huisroof, moord en diefstal.
Die polisie het ’n beroep gedoen op enigiemand met inligting of indien die RAV4 gewaar word, om 08600-10111 te bel. “Moenie die rowers konfronteer nie, hulle kan gewapen en gevaarlik wees,” het Ngubane gesê.
- Volksblad
BLOEMHOF. – ’n Boer wat gister op sy plaas hier erg aangerand en beroof is, se boesemvriend het hom vasgehou en vir oulaas water gegee voordat hy gesterf het.
’n Erg getraumatiseerde mnr. Johan Venter het gister vertel hy en die vermoorde mnr. At Van der Merwe (68) was soos broers en dat hulle al van 1994 af saam geboer het. Van der Merwe was enkellopend en het nie kinders gehad nie.
Hy is vermoedelik gister-oggend vroeg in sy plaashuis in die Leeubosch-omgewing in die Bloemhof-distrik oorval. Die rowers het hom aangerand, die huis geplunder en met sy silwer Toyota RAV4 met die registrasienommer FTY 116 NW ge-vlug. Die voertuig was teen druktyd gister nog nie teruggevind nie en die rowers steeds op vrye voet.
Venter het vertel hy het gister oudergewoonte net ná 07:00 na Van der Merwe se plaas gegaan om werkers daarheen te neem. Hy en Van der Merwe was in ’n vennootskap met mielie- en beesboerdery.
“At was nie soos altyd buite toe ek daar aankom nie,” het Venter vertel. “Ek het in die huis ingegaan en hom op die vloer gekry. Sy hande en voete was vasgebind. Sy een oog was toegeswel en sy hele kop was geswel.”
Van der Merwe kon nog met Venter praat. “Hy het vir water gevra. Ek het hom opgetel, sy hande losgemaak en vir hom water gegee. Hy het baie swaar gesluk.” Van der Merwe het aan Venter gesê hy ken nie die rowers nie. Venter het Van der Merwe alleen gelos terwyl hy rondgeloop het na waar hy ’n selfoonsein kon kry om hulp te ontbied. Toe hy weer by Van der Merwe kom, het dié sy bewussyn verloor. Hy was reeds dood toe ambulanspersoneel later opdaag.
Volgens Venter het die rowers ’n gat onder die geëlektrifiseerde heining deurgegrawe. “Hulle het deur ’n venster in die sitkamer die huis binnegekom.”
Brig. Thulane Ngubane, kommunikasiehoof van die polisie in Noordwes, het gesê dis onse-ker of nog items behalwe die RAV4 gesteel is omdat die plaashuis in ’n chaotiese toestand was weens die rowers se plundery.
Die polisie ondersoek klagte van huisroof, moord en diefstal.
Die polisie het ’n beroep gedoen op enigiemand met inligting of indien die RAV4 gewaar word, om 08600-10111 te bel. “Moenie die rowers konfronteer nie, hulle kan gewapen en gevaarlik wees,” het Ngubane gesê.
- Volksblad
Apteek se eienaar en sy vrou tuis beroof
Leighton Koopman
KAAPSTAD. – Die eienaar van die apteek M-Kem in Durbanweg, Bellville, is deur twee gemaskerde mans in sy huis beroof.
Die voorval het Maandag omstreeks 23:00 in Fresnaye plaasgevind.
Mnr. Hylton Mallach (72), beter bekend as Mnr.M, en sy vrou, Maureen (70), was reeds in die bed toe die twee rowers onverwags hul slaapkamer binnegekom het.
Volgens Mallach was hulle aan die begin baie aggressief en het hulle die hele tyd geld geëis.
“Dit was ’n geweldige skok vir my en my vrou. Die twee het heeltyd vir geld gevra. Ons het die bietjie wat ons in die huis gehad het aan hulle gegee.”
Die rowers het ook sy vrou se juweliersware, waaraan sy baie sentimentele waarde heg, gebuit.
Die rowers het egter die skootrekenaar en al die ander elektriese toestelle net so gelos, het Mallach gister vertel.
Een rower het in die kamer by Mallach en sy vrou gebly terwyl die ander een die huis deursoek het. “Hulle het die huis heeltemal omgedolwe. Die plek is ’n gemors.
“Die een wat oor ons wag gehou het, het my egter verbaas. My vrou het malva-paaseiers langs die bed gehad. Die rower het die paaseiers geëet en die papier in die drom gegooi.”
In ’n stadium het hy dit oorweeg om die rower te takel, maar omdat hy nie geweet het of sy makker ’n vuurwapen het nie, het hy besluit om eerder kalm te bly.
Die twee was sowat 40 minute in die egpaar se huis en het gedreig om hulle in die badkamer toe te sluit.
Toe die rowers hulle uit die voete maak, het Mallach onmiddellik die polisie gebel. “Hulle was binne minute op die toneel.”
Kapt. Frederick van Wyk, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het die voorval bevestig.
“Twee mans het die slagoffers met messe gedreig en R2 000 kontant en juweliersware gevat. Die mans het deur die kombuisdeur toegang tot die huis verkry nadat die huishulp die deur oopgelos het,” het Van Wyk gesê.
Niemand is nog in verband met die voorval in hegtenis geneem nie.
- Die Burger
KAAPSTAD. – Die eienaar van die apteek M-Kem in Durbanweg, Bellville, is deur twee gemaskerde mans in sy huis beroof.
Die voorval het Maandag omstreeks 23:00 in Fresnaye plaasgevind.
Mnr. Hylton Mallach (72), beter bekend as Mnr.M, en sy vrou, Maureen (70), was reeds in die bed toe die twee rowers onverwags hul slaapkamer binnegekom het.
Volgens Mallach was hulle aan die begin baie aggressief en het hulle die hele tyd geld geëis.
“Dit was ’n geweldige skok vir my en my vrou. Die twee het heeltyd vir geld gevra. Ons het die bietjie wat ons in die huis gehad het aan hulle gegee.”
Die rowers het ook sy vrou se juweliersware, waaraan sy baie sentimentele waarde heg, gebuit.
Die rowers het egter die skootrekenaar en al die ander elektriese toestelle net so gelos, het Mallach gister vertel.
Een rower het in die kamer by Mallach en sy vrou gebly terwyl die ander een die huis deursoek het. “Hulle het die huis heeltemal omgedolwe. Die plek is ’n gemors.
“Die een wat oor ons wag gehou het, het my egter verbaas. My vrou het malva-paaseiers langs die bed gehad. Die rower het die paaseiers geëet en die papier in die drom gegooi.”
In ’n stadium het hy dit oorweeg om die rower te takel, maar omdat hy nie geweet het of sy makker ’n vuurwapen het nie, het hy besluit om eerder kalm te bly.
Die twee was sowat 40 minute in die egpaar se huis en het gedreig om hulle in die badkamer toe te sluit.
Toe die rowers hulle uit die voete maak, het Mallach onmiddellik die polisie gebel. “Hulle was binne minute op die toneel.”
Kapt. Frederick van Wyk, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het die voorval bevestig.
“Twee mans het die slagoffers met messe gedreig en R2 000 kontant en juweliersware gevat. Die mans het deur die kombuisdeur toegang tot die huis verkry nadat die huishulp die deur oopgelos het,” het Van Wyk gesê.
Niemand is nog in verband met die voorval in hegtenis geneem nie.
- Die Burger
Monday, April 2, 2012
Greek owner Stelios Loannou's Honeydew grocery store in pre-organised, flash-robbery attack by TEN-member armed gang:
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Greek owner Stelios Loannou's Honeydew grocery store in pre-organised, flash-robbery attack by ten-member armed gang: http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/roodepoort-northside/roodepoort-northside-news-crime?oid=5295133&sn=Detail&pid=4730262&-10-armed-robbers-target-grocery-store-
28 March 2012 | Amoryn Golden - Customers at the Weltevredenpark Spar on Monday morning, 26 March suddenly became the victims of an organised armed robbery.
The Honeydew SAPS, who attended the scene, allegedly found staff members and customers traumatised after they were held at gunpoint.
"On their arrival police were informed that approximately ten suspects forcefully entered the store with firearms, demanding money," communication officer at the Honeydew SAPS Warrant Officer Karen Jacobs reports.
According to Jacobs, the suspects emptied all the tills in the store, and fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of money, cellphones, jewellery and a firearm.
They sped away in a dark blue Volkswagen Polo and a white Camry.
According to the store owner, Stelios Loannou, the suspects spent a mere two minutes and thirty five seconds in the store before police arrived on the scene.
"They arrived very quickly to protect us, and luckily nobody was harmed."
Although business will go on as usual, Loannou assures that staff members will still receive counselling.
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/roodepoort-northside/roodepoort-northside-news-crime?oid=5295133&sn=Detail&pid=4730262&-10-armed-robbers-target-grocery-store-
Greek owner Stelios Loannou's Honeydew grocery store in pre-organised, flash-robbery attack by ten-member armed gang: http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/roodepoort-northside/roodepoort-northside-news-crime?oid=5295133&sn=Detail&pid=4730262&-10-armed-robbers-target-grocery-store-
28 March 2012 | Amoryn Golden - Customers at the Weltevredenpark Spar on Monday morning, 26 March suddenly became the victims of an organised armed robbery.
The Honeydew SAPS, who attended the scene, allegedly found staff members and customers traumatised after they were held at gunpoint.
"On their arrival police were informed that approximately ten suspects forcefully entered the store with firearms, demanding money," communication officer at the Honeydew SAPS Warrant Officer Karen Jacobs reports.
According to Jacobs, the suspects emptied all the tills in the store, and fled the scene with an undisclosed amount of money, cellphones, jewellery and a firearm.
They sped away in a dark blue Volkswagen Polo and a white Camry.
According to the store owner, Stelios Loannou, the suspects spent a mere two minutes and thirty five seconds in the store before police arrived on the scene.
"They arrived very quickly to protect us, and luckily nobody was harmed."
Although business will go on as usual, Loannou assures that staff members will still receive counselling.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Ruth Jerrard, her niece and 1yr old child attacked by knifeman at Zoo Lake near Parktown
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ZOO LAKE: March 30 2012 - BKA reports: Mrs Ruth Jerrard and her niece along with her one-year-old child took a leisurely stroll to Zoo Lake after having lunch in Parktown nearby. While feeding the ducks they were approached by a black male suspect who snatched Jerrard’s handbag.In the struggle the baby's pram was knocked over with the child strapped inside. "He fell face first and as I went to help him the man ran off. That was when my niece said she had been stabbed. Neither of us had seen a knife."
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416
ZOO LAKE: March 30 2012 - BKA reports: Mrs Ruth Jerrard and her niece along with her one-year-old child took a leisurely stroll to Zoo Lake after having lunch in Parktown nearby. While feeding the ducks they were approached by a black male suspect who snatched Jerrard’s handbag.In the struggle the baby's pram was knocked over with the child strapped inside. "He fell face first and as I went to help him the man ran off. That was when my niece said she had been stabbed. Neither of us had seen a knife."
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416
Mrs Winnie Barnard, 75, tortured, repeatedly stabbed, survives attack by black knifeman
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Elderly Afrikaner woman, Winnie Barnard, 75, brutally, repeatedly stabbed with knife, tortured, Dan Pienaar Bloemfontein
2012-03-30 André Damons Seventy-four-year-old old-age pensioner Mrs Winnie Barnard suffered a horrendous attack by a black man who walked into her kitchen, stabbed her first with one knife until the blade broke off, then a vegetable knife, stabbing her repeatedly. He reportedly verbally abused her loudly, threatened to rape and kill her, and tortured her. The old lady was home alone at 13h30 on March 29 2012 when she was attacked from behind, hit over the head - and her ordeal started. Her right eye socket has cracked and she suffered seven stab-wounds with two different knives to her body. The attack was described by her son as 'excessively violent and totally unnecessary. " Mediclinic spokeswoman Mrs Amanda Appelgryn said Mrs Barnard now has been stabilised and recovering.Mrs Barnard was first hit from behind. After she was stabbed and kicked, she was TIED UP by her hands and feet and the man then dragged her that way all around inside her house. Hr son Dr Barnard said the man opened the safe after torturing her for the code, and found some money in it - but no weapons. He also looked for her bankcard and tortured her to get the PIN code. He repeatedly verbally abused her, threatened to rape her, and to kill her." She thought at once stage he was going to her into the pool to drown her. He dragged her to a backroom, pulled a plastic bag over her head and locked her up instead.' The man fled with a mere 80-Euros (R1000) and a computer. He used her VolvoS40 to flee with. Usually in such attacks the cars are merely found abandoned: often crashed and or torched. Dr Barnard said the torture-attack was shocking and unnecessary, excessive violence. A domestic worker raised the alarm when she saw the black man flee from the house. SAPS sergeant Thabo Litabe said the man has not been arrested.
http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bejaarde-wreed-aangerand-20120329
Elderly Afrikaner woman, Winnie Barnard, 75, brutally, repeatedly stabbed with knife, tortured, Dan Pienaar Bloemfontein
2012-03-30 André Damons Seventy-four-year-old old-age pensioner Mrs Winnie Barnard suffered a horrendous attack by a black man who walked into her kitchen, stabbed her first with one knife until the blade broke off, then a vegetable knife, stabbing her repeatedly. He reportedly verbally abused her loudly, threatened to rape and kill her, and tortured her. The old lady was home alone at 13h30 on March 29 2012 when she was attacked from behind, hit over the head - and her ordeal started. Her right eye socket has cracked and she suffered seven stab-wounds with two different knives to her body. The attack was described by her son as 'excessively violent and totally unnecessary. " Mediclinic spokeswoman Mrs Amanda Appelgryn said Mrs Barnard now has been stabilised and recovering.Mrs Barnard was first hit from behind. After she was stabbed and kicked, she was TIED UP by her hands and feet and the man then dragged her that way all around inside her house. Hr son Dr Barnard said the man opened the safe after torturing her for the code, and found some money in it - but no weapons. He also looked for her bankcard and tortured her to get the PIN code. He repeatedly verbally abused her, threatened to rape her, and to kill her." She thought at once stage he was going to her into the pool to drown her. He dragged her to a backroom, pulled a plastic bag over her head and locked her up instead.' The man fled with a mere 80-Euros (R1000) and a computer. He used her VolvoS40 to flee with. Usually in such attacks the cars are merely found abandoned: often crashed and or torched. Dr Barnard said the torture-attack was shocking and unnecessary, excessive violence. A domestic worker raised the alarm when she saw the black man flee from the house. SAPS sergeant Thabo Litabe said the man has not been arrested.
http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bejaarde-wreed-aangerand-20120329