Thursday, September 9, 2010
Anton Greeff, 50, farm manager, Spitskop, Ermelo, critical after attack by 8-member gang Aug 25 2010: one of 8 attackers killed
Farm managerAnton Greeff, 50, of the farm Spitskop near Ermelo is in critical condition in a Pretoria hospital after he was attacked by an eight-member black gang. The gang first held Mrs Erica Aucamp at gunpoint. A firefight had then broken out between farm owner Hein Aucamp’s son Hardus, his dad and the gang – and this ended in hand-to-hand combat during which the young Aucamp sustained a nasty bite to a shoulder. Aucamp was shot in the arm and shoulder. In the response by the Hendrina farm-watch unit, one of the attackers was shot dead inside the homestead, and two were arrested. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boer-bedenklik-nadat-bende-aanvallers-toeslaan-20100825
Naas Grobler, 56, businessman, shot dead, rural Deneysville security complex
At about 04:00 Naas Grobler, 56, left, went to investigate why his dog was barking so incessantly and was shot dead in cold blood, said his stepson, Mel Shandos, 44, from Kempton Park…
Grobler's wife Rika, 62, grabbed her cellphone and locked herself in the bathroom of their house, named Lekker Lag, ( Happy Laughter ) when she heard the shots.The gunmen calmly stole a cellphone and jewellery from the house after the shooting. The same attackers had apparently broken in and robbed two other houses in the same ‘secure’ Club 40 complex, about 10km from Deneysville and the Vaal Dam just before they shot Mr Grobler.
One of the houses belongs to Grobler's son Louis, 30, who is also a partner in their steel business. His house is three doors down from that of his parents.
"Luckily the other residents and I were not at home when we were robbed," Grobler jnr said on Wednesday. Grobler snr was presumably attacked at the sliding door on the stoep.
"My stepdad was shot in cold blood," said Shandos.Three shots were fired, of which at least one hit Grobler snr. His sons describe him as "a kind man who had no enemies"."When my mom heard the robbers flee, she phoned the security guard at the complex's gate and started screaming," said Shandos. She was treated for shock on Wednesday and was too traumatised to speak to Beeld.
Police officials from Sasolburg and Deneysville, including the K9 unit, trackers and a police helicopter started looking for the gunmen.While the surrounding farms and gravel roads were being searched, Shandos told of how they had all been relaxing together next to the river one day."My step father said we always have a good laugh here, so he decided that should be the name of the house… “Lekker Lag”." report by Sonja van Buul and Johan Brits, Beeld http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-shot-dead-in-Lekker-Lag-home-20100908
Grobler's wife Rika, 62, grabbed her cellphone and locked herself in the bathroom of their house, named Lekker Lag, ( Happy Laughter ) when she heard the shots.The gunmen calmly stole a cellphone and jewellery from the house after the shooting. The same attackers had apparently broken in and robbed two other houses in the same ‘secure’ Club 40 complex, about 10km from Deneysville and the Vaal Dam just before they shot Mr Grobler.
One of the houses belongs to Grobler's son Louis, 30, who is also a partner in their steel business. His house is three doors down from that of his parents.
"Luckily the other residents and I were not at home when we were robbed," Grobler jnr said on Wednesday. Grobler snr was presumably attacked at the sliding door on the stoep.
"My stepdad was shot in cold blood," said Shandos.Three shots were fired, of which at least one hit Grobler snr. His sons describe him as "a kind man who had no enemies"."When my mom heard the robbers flee, she phoned the security guard at the complex's gate and started screaming," said Shandos. She was treated for shock on Wednesday and was too traumatised to speak to Beeld.
Police officials from Sasolburg and Deneysville, including the K9 unit, trackers and a police helicopter started looking for the gunmen.While the surrounding farms and gravel roads were being searched, Shandos told of how they had all been relaxing together next to the river one day."My step father said we always have a good laugh here, so he decided that should be the name of the house… “Lekker Lag”." report by Sonja van Buul and Johan Brits, Beeld http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-shot-dead-in-Lekker-Lag-home-20100908
Monday, September 6, 2010
2010-09-05 Jakobus Wartington murdered, wife Anna cruelly attacked Phillipstown Disselskuil farm
2010-09-06 Jana Engelbrecht, Volksblad – Phillipstown, Kimberley - 78-year-old farmer Jakobus Cornelius Wartington was cruelly murdered and his 72-year-old wife Anna Maria tied up and cruelly assaulted in their homestead at a farm in the Philipstown district over the weekend. Police spokesperson Mashay Gamieldien said Wartington and his wife, were attacked in their house on the farm Disselskuil on Saturday night, between 20:00 and midnight.Apparently Mr Wartington had gone out to check why their electricity had failed. The generator is in a room outside the house. He was then overpowered by the two suspects.They viciously assaulted him and killed him and then attacked and tied up his wife. Gamieldien said the suspects fled in the couple's green Isuzu bakkie with the registration number BZM 421 NC. They also stole a 7.6mm Browning pistol and a .22 Remington rifle. A family member said Mrs Wartington "crawled" to the telephone after the attack to phone her son on a nearby farm."She has had a hip replacement. I don't know how she managed to reach the telephone. It was pitch dark and she was tied up with shoelaces."
According to the family member, Mrs Wartington said the robbers wanted money from her."She didn't have any money. She's an elderly lady, why did they have to beat her like that?" A doctor at the Central Karoo Hospital in De Aar said Mrs Wartington's condition is stable. She sustained a head injury and a fracture to her forearm.The couple have been living on the farm for the past three years. They are South African citizens, but formerly lived in Zimbabwe. After being forced to leave Zimbabwe they returned to South Africa.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Couple-who-fled-Zim-attacked-on-farm-20100906
According to the family member, Mrs Wartington said the robbers wanted money from her."She didn't have any money. She's an elderly lady, why did they have to beat her like that?" A doctor at the Central Karoo Hospital in De Aar said Mrs Wartington's condition is stable. She sustained a head injury and a fracture to her forearm.The couple have been living on the farm for the past three years. They are South African citizens, but formerly lived in Zimbabwe. After being forced to leave Zimbabwe they returned to South Africa.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Couple-who-fled-Zim-attacked-on-farm-20100906
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Kruger, Floris Johannes, 60, smallholder St Albans EC tortured and executed
2010-09-01 Floris Kruger, 60, smallholder executed, tortured, St Albans, East Cape
The murderded pensioner’s daughter writes us: SEPT 3 2010 - “My Father, Floris Kruger, was murdered two days ago on the 1st September 2010 in the St Albans area, Eastern Cape. They stabbed him several times in the chest – torture to get information concerning his bank accounts etc. They tied him by his feet and took him to the bushes using his car (which they stole) -- where they shot him between the eyes and left him there. He was found on the 2nd September 2010. My dad had no money, he had nothing worth stealing in his house, all he had was his children. He was 60 years old. I loved him very much and I miss him. JUSTICE WILL BE DONE.”
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2010/09/03 PORT ELIZABETH. Three black men were arrested for the execution-style murder of Afrikaner smallholder Floris Johannes Kruger, 60, whose body was found dumped in the bushes behind Port Elizabeth’s St Albans Prison on Wednesday afternoon. He was beaten so badly that all his ribs were broken. He was shot with his own 6.35mm pistol.
Severely beaten:
They have identified the victim as Floris Johannes Kruger, 60, a poor pensioner living by himself on a smallholding in Le Marseilles Road, Greenbushes. Kruger’s body was found on the side of the road by workers fixing a farm fence at about 11am. Kruger was severely beaten and shot twice in the head at close range with a cloth over his head. A police officer close to the investigation said the men suspected of being involved with the murder had been arrested in a vehicle while allegedly trying to flee Port Elizabeth late yesterday afternoon.
“We received information which led us to a road near the Fairview racecourse, where we found three of the five men believed to have been involved with the murder,” the officer said. “We searched them and found various stolen goods linking them to the murder. We are still searching for two other accomplices.” Police suspect the three Xhosa males were trying to flee to their homes in Transkei.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Alwin Labans said detectives suspected Kruger had been the victim of a “botched house robbery: i appears he was attacked by five people inside his house early on Wednesday.” Evidence suggested that the men had beaten and stabbed Kruger nine times in an attempt to get his bank card pin code. Labans said R500 had been withdrawn on Wednesday night from an Absa ATM in Kabega Park.
He said the post-mortem report showed that Kruger had been beaten so badly that all his ribs were broken. “We presume they beat and stabbed him until he gave up his bank details,” he said. “From what we can see, two firearms were also stolen from his house.”
Ballistic tests also showed that Kruger had been shot with his own firearm – a 6.35mm pistol. “Once they had what they wanted, we believe they put a cloth over his face, tied him up and loaded him into his car, a silver VW Polo,” Labans said. “We presume he was still alive as there were no signs that he had been shot in or around the house.” Kruger was a neighbour of Jack Bergman, 86, who was brutally beaten by five robbers inside his home in July 2009 - and died in hospital days later.The three men are due to appear in court on Monday. http://www.theherald.co.za/article.aspx?id=601961
The murderded pensioner’s daughter writes us: SEPT 3 2010 - “My Father, Floris Kruger, was murdered two days ago on the 1st September 2010 in the St Albans area, Eastern Cape. They stabbed him several times in the chest – torture to get information concerning his bank accounts etc. They tied him by his feet and took him to the bushes using his car (which they stole) -- where they shot him between the eyes and left him there. He was found on the 2nd September 2010. My dad had no money, he had nothing worth stealing in his house, all he had was his children. He was 60 years old. I loved him very much and I miss him. JUSTICE WILL BE DONE.”
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2010/09/03 PORT ELIZABETH. Three black men were arrested for the execution-style murder of Afrikaner smallholder Floris Johannes Kruger, 60, whose body was found dumped in the bushes behind Port Elizabeth’s St Albans Prison on Wednesday afternoon. He was beaten so badly that all his ribs were broken. He was shot with his own 6.35mm pistol.
Severely beaten:
They have identified the victim as Floris Johannes Kruger, 60, a poor pensioner living by himself on a smallholding in Le Marseilles Road, Greenbushes. Kruger’s body was found on the side of the road by workers fixing a farm fence at about 11am. Kruger was severely beaten and shot twice in the head at close range with a cloth over his head. A police officer close to the investigation said the men suspected of being involved with the murder had been arrested in a vehicle while allegedly trying to flee Port Elizabeth late yesterday afternoon.
“We received information which led us to a road near the Fairview racecourse, where we found three of the five men believed to have been involved with the murder,” the officer said. “We searched them and found various stolen goods linking them to the murder. We are still searching for two other accomplices.” Police suspect the three Xhosa males were trying to flee to their homes in Transkei.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Alwin Labans said detectives suspected Kruger had been the victim of a “botched house robbery: i appears he was attacked by five people inside his house early on Wednesday.” Evidence suggested that the men had beaten and stabbed Kruger nine times in an attempt to get his bank card pin code. Labans said R500 had been withdrawn on Wednesday night from an Absa ATM in Kabega Park.
He said the post-mortem report showed that Kruger had been beaten so badly that all his ribs were broken. “We presume they beat and stabbed him until he gave up his bank details,” he said. “From what we can see, two firearms were also stolen from his house.”
Ballistic tests also showed that Kruger had been shot with his own firearm – a 6.35mm pistol. “Once they had what they wanted, we believe they put a cloth over his face, tied him up and loaded him into his car, a silver VW Polo,” Labans said. “We presume he was still alive as there were no signs that he had been shot in or around the house.” Kruger was a neighbour of Jack Bergman, 86, who was brutally beaten by five robbers inside his home in July 2009 - and died in hospital days later.The three men are due to appear in court on Monday. http://www.theherald.co.za/article.aspx?id=601961
64 year old woman murdered on farmholding
Nelspruit. – ’n 64-jarige vrou wat geweier het om van haar kleinhoewe naby die stad te trek omdat haar oorlede ouers se as daar gestrooi is, is gisteroggend vermoor in haar bouvallige huis gevind.
Mev. Elizabeth Dorey se hande was agter haar rug vasgebind, ’n stuk lap is in haar mond ingeprop en sy is met ’n elektriese koord gewurg.
Dit was die derde keer in sewe jaar dat Dorey in haar huis op haar Hilltop-kleinhoewe aangeval is.
Die moordenaars het Dorey skynbaar Donderdagaand vroeg in die verwaarloosde huis oorval.
Hulle het ’n ruit by die voorstoep gebreek en toe heeltemal uit die vensterraam gehaal om by die huis in te kom.
’n Werker het omstreeks 07:00 by die huis opgedaag en onraad vermoed toe hy die gebreekte ruit sien.
Hy het hulp by die bure sowat 300 m daarvandaan gaan soek.
Hulle het haar lyk in die huis se gang gekry.
“Sy is ’n fyn geboude en weerlose tannie wat voordat sy vermoor is, skynbaar erg deur haar moordenaars aangerand is,” het kol. Gerrie Agenbag, speurtakbevelvoerder van die polisie in Nelspruit, gesê.
Dorey het verskeie erge slaanmerke aan die lyf en die gesig gehad.
Die vorige aanval op haar was op Kersdag 2007 en Agenbag het destyds ook die saak ondersoek.
- Enigiemand met inligting oor die moord is gevra om Agenbag by 013 759 1108 te bel.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrou-wou-nie-hoewe-los-toe-word-sy-vermoor-20100902
Mev. Elizabeth Dorey se hande was agter haar rug vasgebind, ’n stuk lap is in haar mond ingeprop en sy is met ’n elektriese koord gewurg.
Dit was die derde keer in sewe jaar dat Dorey in haar huis op haar Hilltop-kleinhoewe aangeval is.
Die moordenaars het Dorey skynbaar Donderdagaand vroeg in die verwaarloosde huis oorval.
Hulle het ’n ruit by die voorstoep gebreek en toe heeltemal uit die vensterraam gehaal om by die huis in te kom.
’n Werker het omstreeks 07:00 by die huis opgedaag en onraad vermoed toe hy die gebreekte ruit sien.
Hy het hulp by die bure sowat 300 m daarvandaan gaan soek.
Hulle het haar lyk in die huis se gang gekry.
“Sy is ’n fyn geboude en weerlose tannie wat voordat sy vermoor is, skynbaar erg deur haar moordenaars aangerand is,” het kol. Gerrie Agenbag, speurtakbevelvoerder van die polisie in Nelspruit, gesê.
Dorey het verskeie erge slaanmerke aan die lyf en die gesig gehad.
Die vorige aanval op haar was op Kersdag 2007 en Agenbag het destyds ook die saak ondersoek.
- Enigiemand met inligting oor die moord is gevra om Agenbag by 013 759 1108 te bel.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrou-wou-nie-hoewe-los-toe-word-sy-vermoor-20100902
Verkragte hoor: ‘Jy is ’n rassis!’
Hilda Fourie
’n Verkragtingslagoffer moes van ’n polisiekonstabel hoor sy is ’n rassis omdat sy nie wil hê ’n swart ondersoekbeampte moet aan haar saak werk nie.
Dit is maar een van ’n rits probleme wat die 35-jarige ma van ’n sewejarige seun met die polisie se hantering van haar nagmerrie het.
Die vrou het dié konstabel, die aanvanklike ondersoekbeampte, Woensdag gebel oor die vordering van die ondersoek.
Sedert sy en haar seuntjie ses weke gelede in hul kamer in The Orchards in die noorde van Pretoria deur ’n man met ’n tuinvurk oorval is, het die polisie haar nog net een keer besoek.
Die aanvaller het hulle aangehou en geld geëis.
Haar seuntjie het gesê hy het R30 in sy beursie.
Die aanvaller het die R30 gevat, die ma verskeie kere met die tuinvurk aangerand, haar verkrag en ontvoer.
Sy het vermoedelik uit die bewegende voertuig gespring.
Sy kan die voorval nie onthou nie, maar is langs die Mabopane-snelweg (R80) buite Pretoria gevind met ’n gebreekte regterarm en -been en ’n gebreekte kakebeen.
Die vrou se probleme met die polisie het begin toe die polisie meer as twee weke ná die voorval en nadat Beeld hul aandag daarop gevestig het, haar verklaring afgeneem het.
Twee weke gelede het haar eksman haar motor in die polisie se skut gekry. Die motor is eers drie dae ná die voorval daar ingeteken en daar is glo meer as 200 km met die motor gery. ’n Week gelede wou die vrou haar besittings kry wat in die motor was.
Dit was by die Akasia-polisiekantoor ingeteken. Verskeie van dié besittings is glo weg.
Toe die vrou die konstabel vra oor die vordering van die saak, het hy erken hy het nog niks gedoen nie.
“Die konstabel het gevra ek moet hom ’n beskrywing van die man gee. Ek kan nie, want ek kan regtig nie onthou nie.
“Toe sê hy hy kan nie help nie,” het die vrou gesê.
“Toe ek vir hom sê hy doen nie sy werk nie, het hy gesê ek is ’n rassis, want ek wil mos nie ’n swart man vir ’n ondersoekbeampte hê nie.
“Dis net dat ek ’n vrou verkies. Ek is doodbang vir mans.
“Ek wil nie eens uitgaan nie, want dit lyk of elke tweede man op straat my wil aanval.
“Dit gaan nie daaroor dat hy swart is nie. Dit gaan daaroor dat hy nie sy werk doen nie.”
Lt.kol. Eugene Opperman, Gautengse polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisiebestuur is bewus van die polisieman se optrede en dit “kry aandag”.
’n Verkragtingslagoffer moes van ’n polisiekonstabel hoor sy is ’n rassis omdat sy nie wil hê ’n swart ondersoekbeampte moet aan haar saak werk nie.
Dit is maar een van ’n rits probleme wat die 35-jarige ma van ’n sewejarige seun met die polisie se hantering van haar nagmerrie het.
Die vrou het dié konstabel, die aanvanklike ondersoekbeampte, Woensdag gebel oor die vordering van die ondersoek.
Sedert sy en haar seuntjie ses weke gelede in hul kamer in The Orchards in die noorde van Pretoria deur ’n man met ’n tuinvurk oorval is, het die polisie haar nog net een keer besoek.
Die aanvaller het hulle aangehou en geld geëis.
Haar seuntjie het gesê hy het R30 in sy beursie.
Die aanvaller het die R30 gevat, die ma verskeie kere met die tuinvurk aangerand, haar verkrag en ontvoer.
Sy het vermoedelik uit die bewegende voertuig gespring.
Sy kan die voorval nie onthou nie, maar is langs die Mabopane-snelweg (R80) buite Pretoria gevind met ’n gebreekte regterarm en -been en ’n gebreekte kakebeen.
Die vrou se probleme met die polisie het begin toe die polisie meer as twee weke ná die voorval en nadat Beeld hul aandag daarop gevestig het, haar verklaring afgeneem het.
Twee weke gelede het haar eksman haar motor in die polisie se skut gekry. Die motor is eers drie dae ná die voorval daar ingeteken en daar is glo meer as 200 km met die motor gery. ’n Week gelede wou die vrou haar besittings kry wat in die motor was.
Dit was by die Akasia-polisiekantoor ingeteken. Verskeie van dié besittings is glo weg.
Toe die vrou die konstabel vra oor die vordering van die saak, het hy erken hy het nog niks gedoen nie.
“Die konstabel het gevra ek moet hom ’n beskrywing van die man gee. Ek kan nie, want ek kan regtig nie onthou nie.
“Toe sê hy hy kan nie help nie,” het die vrou gesê.
“Toe ek vir hom sê hy doen nie sy werk nie, het hy gesê ek is ’n rassis, want ek wil mos nie ’n swart man vir ’n ondersoekbeampte hê nie.
“Dis net dat ek ’n vrou verkies. Ek is doodbang vir mans.
“Ek wil nie eens uitgaan nie, want dit lyk of elke tweede man op straat my wil aanval.
“Dit gaan nie daaroor dat hy swart is nie. Dit gaan daaroor dat hy nie sy werk doen nie.”
Lt.kol. Eugene Opperman, Gautengse polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisiebestuur is bewus van die polisieman se optrede en dit “kry aandag”.
Afrikaans actor Hendrik Cronjé kidnapped, dumped in black township
2010-09-04 RAPPORT, PRETORIA. Afrikaner actor Hendrik Cronjé and friend Henrich Schultz were kidnapped at 1am Friday Sept 3 2010 from the Menlyn shopping centre in Pretoria; robbed at gunpoint, ordered into the carboot, kidnapped and driven to Mamelodi township. The young actor said they are lucky to be alive: their ambushers’only dumped them’-- although the two black gunmen had repeatedly threatened to kill the Afrikaners. http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lukas-gekaap-in-veld-gelos-20100904
Cronjé, who acts in the Afrikaans TV-soap "7deLaan', said they were attacked by two black men when they returned to their car after attending the premiere of the Afrikaans movie Bakgat Two. The actor who plays the part of Lukas Mulder in the soapie, said he initially thought the men would 'only rob them' - however instead the two Afrikaner men were ordered to climb into the car-boot, writes Rapport journalist Gavin Prins.
"We are going to kill you now,' their attackers kept on screaming as they drove off with the two Afrikaners. Instead the car stopped in Mamelodi and they were ordered out of the boot."We walked for a few minutes and then knocked at the door of a house to get help,' said Cronjé.
The Brooklyn police took their statements -- and while this was taking place, the report came in that the actor's car was tracked to a site in Mamelodi. Just hours after his nightmare-experience, the young Afrikaner was back on the set of Sewende Laan.
"People must approach their parked cars with caution,' he warned. "The hijackers had hidden away behind an electric signal box to ambush us. "I thank the Lord that we are alive. Things could have been much worse.' http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lukas-gekaap-in-veld-gelos-20100904
Cronjé, who acts in the Afrikaans TV-soap "7deLaan', said they were attacked by two black men when they returned to their car after attending the premiere of the Afrikaans movie Bakgat Two. The actor who plays the part of Lukas Mulder in the soapie, said he initially thought the men would 'only rob them' - however instead the two Afrikaner men were ordered to climb into the car-boot, writes Rapport journalist Gavin Prins.
"We are going to kill you now,' their attackers kept on screaming as they drove off with the two Afrikaners. Instead the car stopped in Mamelodi and they were ordered out of the boot."We walked for a few minutes and then knocked at the door of a house to get help,' said Cronjé.
The Brooklyn police took their statements -- and while this was taking place, the report came in that the actor's car was tracked to a site in Mamelodi. Just hours after his nightmare-experience, the young Afrikaner was back on the set of Sewende Laan.
"People must approach their parked cars with caution,' he warned. "The hijackers had hidden away behind an electric signal box to ambush us. "I thank the Lord that we are alive. Things could have been much worse.' http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lukas-gekaap-in-veld-gelos-20100904
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