Pretoria smallholder shot injured by attackers from outside homestead

Pretoria smallholder shot, injured by attackers from outside homestead NAME UNKNOWN FROM SAPS REPORT
Pretoria – October 11 2010 - A 58-year-old unnamed smallholder was shot and wounded during an armed attack, says ER24's Vanessa Jackson."An unknown number of suspects were outside a window, and shot the unarmed man through a window at close range, hitting him in the shoulder. The man then fled deeper into the house where the suspects pursued him."The man explained that as he fled was being pursued, more shots were fired, but he was lucky not to be hit again," said Jackson. The gunmen strolled away several minutes later just as the SAPS arrived. Nothing was robbed. His wife and teenaged-child were traumatised but physically unharmed. The smallholder was taken to a nearby hospital. Of course, the SA police 'could not immediately provide details of the incident." They refer to it as a ‘thwarted robbery’ but nothing was robbed. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-shot-through-window-20101011

Manie van Zyl, 74; daughter Elmarie, 44, attacked, farm Nooitgedacht, Hertzogville – daughter put up spirited defence - neither badly injured

2010-10-10 Pieter Steyn reports in Volksblad: Bloemfontein – 74-year-old Manie van Zyl of the farm Nooitgedacht, 5km from Hertzogville, Free State was attacked by a man with an angle-iron on Friday Oct 9 2010. The old Afrikaner farmer was feeding the chickens. His daughter Elmarie, 44, said “My dad fell and the man stormed into the homestead. My dad followed, shouting warnings at me. The attacker then bashed my dad and he fell across the table. As I rushed into the living room, the attacker grabbed a chair, getting ready to strike my dad with it.’ When the black attacker saw her he threw a glass-cover of a cooking pot at her, which struck the farm-woman underneath one eye and broke her glasses. The man said he was looking for a wallet.’ She said she ‘somehow managed to push the man from the house. He beat me with his fists and threatened to shoot me dead if I did not give him R100. He was rummaging in a pocket apparently getting out a gun,’ she said. Miss Van Zyl managed to shove him out the door and lock it. The attacker ran in the direction of the nearby Malebogo suburb. The local farm-security unit coordinator Hannes de Jager said the farmers in the region were alerted and followed the man’s tracks together with the local police. SAPS spokesman capt Harry Nagel said the 31-year-old suspect was arrested in his township house within hours of the attack. He is held in the Boshoff SAPS station and expected in court on Monday Oct 11 2010. Miss Van Zyl said she and her dad had only lived on the farm for two months and were ‘shocked’but grateful to be alive. Neither was badly injured. http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bejaarde-74-dogter-op-plaas-oorval-20101010

Killer-security guard: "I shot the two bitches... I killed them...'

2010-10-10 "I shot the two bitches. I'm done with them. I killed them." So said a Fidelity Security Group guard to a colleague on Saturday, shortly after he executed two female colleagues with a shotgun at a Transnet depot just outside Krugersdorp. One of the murdered women begged in vain for her life after the first shot was fired. SAPS spokeswoman Odette van Staden said one woman was shot in the face, and the other in the body. The man is expected to appear in court in Krugersdorp Monday.The names of the murdered women were not released. After shooting the women, the killer-guard told his colleague to "phone the police because he wanted to go and buy airtime".All three worked for the Fidelity Security Group. He is stationed at Transnet's Millsite engineering depot, and the two women were security guards at Transnet's locomotive depot next door. The two women had entered the engineering depot premises at about 09:45, a fourth security guard told Beeld on Sunday on condition of anonymity. "I asked if I could help them and what they were looking for. They said ‘it had nothing to do with me and that their superior had sent them’." The witness says his colleague was very aggressive from the start when he saw the two women. According to him, the killer walked to the office in search of the women. However, he soon returned and said they were not there. "He then went to the back to keep looking for them, and it wasn't long before I heard a shot being fired. I grabbed my pistol and ran outside to look. Then I heard a woman scream: 'Don't shoot me, don't kill me, please! Who will take care of my child?' Then another shot went off." The bodies of the two women lay about 100m from each other. According to the witness, the suspected murderer came walking up to him and said: "I shot the two bitches. What are they doing here? What are they doing on my fucking premises? I killed them." "He said I should phone the police," the witness said. "I wet my pants because I thought he was going to shoot me." He called the police after he convinced his colleague to lock away his weapon. Police were at the scene within minutes. While the witness was still talking to the police, the suspected shooter came back and said: "Tell them (the police) I'm back." SAPS spokeswoman Odette van Staden said one woman was shot in the face, and the other in the body. The man is expected to appear in court in Krugersdorp on Monday.The names of the murdered women were not released. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Guard-hunts-down-women-20101010

New Zealand rugby-men John Mitchell and Wayne Taylor attacked by black knifemen, Hyde Park, Johannesburg http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Mitchell-recei

Johannesburg – Oct 9 2010 - New Zealand's former rugby coach John Mitchell, 46, – now head coach at the SA Lions’ provincial side - was stabbed by attackers inside the home he shares with countryman Wayne Taylor in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. Mitchell, who joined Lions in July, was discharged from hospital Sunday morning after being stabbed in the thigh and upper arm, club spokeswoman Krystle Geach said. Two black males broke into the house in the wealthy Hyde Park suburb.The former All Blacks player was taken to hospital in Sandton, where he received stitches to the two wounds, Geach said. Lions president Kevin de Klerk said: "We have rallied around both John and Wayne during this terrible time and have placed them both in new accommodation for the time being while we find them permanent residency." De Klerk added. "The complex they were staying in has a reputation for being very safe, and as a result we never had any doubt that they were out of harm's way." Mitchell received trauma counselling. http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/Mitchell-receives-counselling-20101011

Manie and Linda Warren attacked, Ifafi security complex

On Oct 11 2010, a Monday , Manie and Linda Warren were attacked at 19:30 in an Ifafi security complex and held at gunpoint while their home was looted. Security experts said most of these armed robbery killer-gangs come from the squatter camps Diepsloot and Atteridgeville.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Derde-huisroof-in-n-week-in-dorp-eis-pa-20101008

Dorie Booyens and family attacked in Ifafi

On Oct 9 2010, Friday, Mrs Dorie Booyens and her family were attacked at their smallholding 1km from the Heck house by a group of armed black men who drove into their garage with a white Ford Focus and loaded it with household items, trophies and a coin collection.http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Derde-huisroof-in-n-week-in-dorp-eis-pa-20101008

Heinrich Heck, 43, Crocodile River Mine boilermaker, shot dead, Ifafi, Hartbeespoort

2010-10-08 Alta Snyman reports from Hartbeespoort: A 43-year-old Afrikaner boilermaker from the Crocodile River Mine's Marula shaft, Heinrich Heck, was shot dead in the third 'armed robbery' in the Hartbeespoort rural region this week. Heck died in the ambulance enroute to the Eugène Marais-hospitaal in Pretoria. Police describe it as 'an armed robbery'- however nothing was robbed from the working-class Afrikaans family.
Community crime-forum chairman Romano van der Spuy said Mr Heck, his wife and two children were watching TV in their mine-owned house at around 19:30 in Sven Street, Ifafi when two armed black men walked into their living room. They had cut open the wire-fencing around the garden. One man pushed a handgun to the 14-year-old boy's head. Mrs Heck jumped up, screamed and ran away. Mr Heck threw the glass he was holding at the gunman threatening to shoot his son - and the gunman then shot the father in the chest.
The two black gunmen left without stealing anything or making any demands.Hartbeespoort paramedics tried for 45 minutes to stabilise Mr Heck. Nyce said the mining-family moved into the Ifafa house about two months ago after having lived in nearby Brits for 14 years.
The couple were described as 'quiet, spontaneous, friendly people who enjoyed what they were doing and weren't trouble-makers'.Mrs Heck and the children were reportedly 'very traumatised' and refused to return to the murder-house.SAPS spokesman col Junior Metsi confirmed that 'a case of murder' was investigated. Of course no-one was arrested.http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Derde-huisroof-in-n-week-in-dorp-eis-pa-20101008