Gerhard Pretorius
Die polisie het ’n vermeende moordenaar vasgetrek enkele ure nadat ’n 47-jarige man in die noorde van Pretoria doodgesteek is.
Mnr. Gerhard Groenewald, die pa van vier kinders, is Vrydagmiddag by sy huis vermoor.
Sy vriendin, me. Eveleen Wilson, het op sy lyk afgekom.
Hy is verskeie keer in die rug gesteek.
Mnr. Tjaart Botha, ’n inwoner van die Stephanie-kompleks in Stephanstraat, Magalieskruin, het gesê Groenewald was besig om te verhuis.
’n 25-jarige man het hom glo in sy huis oorval en doodgesteek.
Die moordenaar het na bewering met Groenewald se bakkie en ’n TV gevlug.
Konst. Portia Maleka, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê Wilson het op Groenewald se lyk afgekom nadat sy onraad vermoed het.
“Sy (Wilson) het hom (Groenewald) probeer bel, maar hy het nie sy foon geantwoord nie. Sy het hom by sy huis gaan soek en daar aangetref.
“Die polisie het vasgestel dat Groenewald se bakkie weg is.
“Dié voertuig is omstreeks 18:00 in Soshanguve, noordwes van Pretoria, opgemerk.”
Maleka het gesê die man het probeer wegjaag toe die polisie op hom toegeslaan het.
“Hy is uiteindelik aangekeer en gearresteer.”
Die vermeende moordenaar sal vandeesweek in die landdroshof in Pretoria-Noord verskyn.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Man sien moord op ma
Jani Meyer
’n Johannesburgse man het die naweek aanskou hoe kapers sy ma deur haar toe motorruit in die oprit van hul erf doodskiet en toe wegjaag.
Mev. Doris de Jager (50), ’n stenograaf by die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg, was onder meer betrokke by die verhoor van mnr. Glenn Agliotti, wat vrygespreek is weens die moord op die mynmagnaat mnr. Brett Kebble, asook dié van Jackie Selebi, oudpolisiehoof, wat aan korrupsie skuldig bevind is.
Die moordenaars het haar en haar dogter, Margie (21), blykbaar by die huis ingewag nadat hulle Saterdag gaan inkopies doen het.
Margie was besig om die hek toe te maak toe sy twee mans in die erf van hul huis in Ridgeway, in die suide van Johannesburg, sien.
“Een het ’n pistool in die hand gehad. Ek het in die huis gehardloop en na Danie (haar broer) geroep. Ek het ook ADT gebel,” het sy gesê.
Sekondes later het sy twee skote gehoor.
Mnr. Danie de Jager (29) het op die rusbank gelê toe sy suster die huis binnehardloop.
“Ek het ’n gil gehoor en by die deur uitgevlieg.”
Hy het sy ma in sy silwer Corsa-bakkie gesien waar sy van die aanvaller probeer wegskram het.
“Die man het haar deur die toe venster geskiet en toe op my geskiet.”
Mev. De Jager het uit die voertuig gerol en inmekaargesak.
“Ek het mond-tot-mond-asemhaling toegepas, maar daar het goed by haar mond uitgeloop en sy het geel geword,” het haar seun gesê.
Margie het haar broer hoor roep en haar ma op die grond gesien.
“Ek het haar hoor roggel en toe weet ek dit is verby,” het sy gesê.
Intussen het ’n buurman van die De Jagers en dié se vriende die kapers etlike kilometers ver agternagesit, maar dit laat vaar toe hulle agterkom die kapers besef hulle word agtervolg.
Die buurman, wat anoniem wil bly, was in ’n parkie naby die De Jagers se huis.
“Ons het ’n wit Opel Astra met vier mans in gesien. Die voertuig het stilgehou en twee het uitgeklim. Ons het dadelik onraad vermoed,” het die man gesê.
’n Rukkie later het die voertuig teruggekeer en die buurman en sy vriende het na sy huis gegaan.
Op pad het hulle twee geweerskote gehoor.
“Ons het rondgery en die Astra opgespoor en agtervolg, maar toe die Astra stadiger begin ry, het ons besef hulle het ons opgemerk en ons het teruggedraai. Ons het toe op Danie, wat langs sy ma gesit het, afgekom,” het hy gesê.
ADT en ’n ambulans het oomblikke later opgedaag.
Mnr. Christian de Jager het gesê hy het vyf minute voor die kaping met sy vrou op haar selfoon gepraat.
“Sy was my alles. Ek weet nie hoe ek sonder haar gaan klaarkom nie. Ons het getrou toe sy 17 was en net klaar met skool ... nou sit ek alleen.”
Margie, wat die laatlammetjie in die gesin is, het gesê sy wens sy was die een wat dood is.
“Sy was meer as my ma, sy was my beste vriendin. Ek was nog nooit weg van haar af nie.”
Ao. Gordon Billings, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisie ondersoek die voorval.
Die ruit van die Corsa-bakkie waardeur mev. Doris de Jager die naweek doodgeskiet is. Foto's: Brendan Croft
Gesinslede van mev. Doris de Jager wat Saterdag in haar oprit doodgeskiet is. Van links is haar jongste dogter, Margie, haar seun, Danie, haar ander dogter Dalene en haar man, mnr. Christian de Jager.
’n Johannesburgse man het die naweek aanskou hoe kapers sy ma deur haar toe motorruit in die oprit van hul erf doodskiet en toe wegjaag.
Mev. Doris de Jager (50), ’n stenograaf by die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg, was onder meer betrokke by die verhoor van mnr. Glenn Agliotti, wat vrygespreek is weens die moord op die mynmagnaat mnr. Brett Kebble, asook dié van Jackie Selebi, oudpolisiehoof, wat aan korrupsie skuldig bevind is.
Die moordenaars het haar en haar dogter, Margie (21), blykbaar by die huis ingewag nadat hulle Saterdag gaan inkopies doen het.
Margie was besig om die hek toe te maak toe sy twee mans in die erf van hul huis in Ridgeway, in die suide van Johannesburg, sien.
“Een het ’n pistool in die hand gehad. Ek het in die huis gehardloop en na Danie (haar broer) geroep. Ek het ook ADT gebel,” het sy gesê.
Sekondes later het sy twee skote gehoor.
Mnr. Danie de Jager (29) het op die rusbank gelê toe sy suster die huis binnehardloop.
“Ek het ’n gil gehoor en by die deur uitgevlieg.”
Hy het sy ma in sy silwer Corsa-bakkie gesien waar sy van die aanvaller probeer wegskram het.
“Die man het haar deur die toe venster geskiet en toe op my geskiet.”
Mev. De Jager het uit die voertuig gerol en inmekaargesak.
“Ek het mond-tot-mond-asemhaling toegepas, maar daar het goed by haar mond uitgeloop en sy het geel geword,” het haar seun gesê.
Margie het haar broer hoor roep en haar ma op die grond gesien.
“Ek het haar hoor roggel en toe weet ek dit is verby,” het sy gesê.
Intussen het ’n buurman van die De Jagers en dié se vriende die kapers etlike kilometers ver agternagesit, maar dit laat vaar toe hulle agterkom die kapers besef hulle word agtervolg.
Die buurman, wat anoniem wil bly, was in ’n parkie naby die De Jagers se huis.
“Ons het ’n wit Opel Astra met vier mans in gesien. Die voertuig het stilgehou en twee het uitgeklim. Ons het dadelik onraad vermoed,” het die man gesê.
’n Rukkie later het die voertuig teruggekeer en die buurman en sy vriende het na sy huis gegaan.
Op pad het hulle twee geweerskote gehoor.
“Ons het rondgery en die Astra opgespoor en agtervolg, maar toe die Astra stadiger begin ry, het ons besef hulle het ons opgemerk en ons het teruggedraai. Ons het toe op Danie, wat langs sy ma gesit het, afgekom,” het hy gesê.
ADT en ’n ambulans het oomblikke later opgedaag.
Mnr. Christian de Jager het gesê hy het vyf minute voor die kaping met sy vrou op haar selfoon gepraat.
“Sy was my alles. Ek weet nie hoe ek sonder haar gaan klaarkom nie. Ons het getrou toe sy 17 was en net klaar met skool ... nou sit ek alleen.”
Margie, wat die laatlammetjie in die gesin is, het gesê sy wens sy was die een wat dood is.
“Sy was meer as my ma, sy was my beste vriendin. Ek was nog nooit weg van haar af nie.”
Ao. Gordon Billings, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisie ondersoek die voorval.
Die ruit van die Corsa-bakkie waardeur mev. Doris de Jager die naweek doodgeskiet is. Foto's: Brendan Croft
Gesinslede van mev. Doris de Jager wat Saterdag in haar oprit doodgeskiet is. Van links is haar jongste dogter, Margie, haar seun, Danie, haar ander dogter Dalene en haar man, mnr. Christian de Jager.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Goosen, Giep, farmer and family, attacked, 5 blacks, Harmonie Mpumalanga
Goosen, Giep, farmer and family held hostage, by 5 blacks, after church Harmonie Jan 30 2011 3 dogs shot dead
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Jaypee Smuts writes from Hazyview: Jan 31 2011 – Farmer Giep Goosen of the Harmonie-block and his wife, their little son and two of his little friends were held hostage upon their return from church on Sunday. Arriving at the farm-gate, the farmer had stopped to open the gate when five armed black men stormed from the woods and climbed into his vehicle. “
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As the crime-fighting website Farmitracker.com shows (two maps below), there has been a very sudden surge in armed attacks, hatespeech and government-originated propaganda against whites ever since half-July 2010. From that time, black workers also started receiving many warnings at taxiranks, enroute between work, at home in the townships and in shops, that they would have to start murdering their white employers – or be murdered themselves. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/06/july-12-all-whites-will-be-killed.html
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Goosen’s 5 attackers knew that the boy was his only son…
Jaypee wrote: “The five men were all armed. They ordered Goosen to drive to the homestead and enroute they asked him specifically ‘where is the money for the pumpkins’. He farms with butternuts and also sells them from his homestead.
However Goosen did not have any cash on him except R50 in his wallet and gave this to them. They just threatened to shot dead ‘his only son’ if he didn’t give them all his money. And then they shot dead all three his dogs right in front of everybody.
They ordered to unlock his safe – there was no money in the safe – they took his firearm, and tried to drive off in Goosen’s vehicle. Then his wife was ordered to start up the vehicle and they chased off with it: it was found abandoned later near Ofcolaco not far away from their farm.
This is the sixth attack on farm-owners in this region within a two-month period, writes Smuts.
Frikkie Scheepers attacked in Dec 2010
“In December 2010 Frikkie Scheepers and his wife were attacked. Thereafter two neighbouring farmers were robbed of their firearms and another neighbouring farmer was fired on when he tried the backdoor to try and find out what was going on.
“Early January an old lady was attacked near Letsitele – she however shot off a finger of one of the attackers and they fled. There also was another attack on two elderly people about which I can obtain no information. And then there was the attack on Sunday on Goosen and his family.
Definitely an inside job:
“Fortunately there was no loss of lives during these attacks. The Goosen attack definitely was an inside job – they knew that the son was the only child; they knew the pumpkin-money was kept at the homestead and they knew about the firearm in the safe...
He concluded: “One cannot believe that there still are people who trust their house-workers and sleep easy at night. I hope this was a wakeup call for him. Next time he might not be so luckly, and not get out of it without a loss of life.”
LINKS:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=184702548227018&id=100000618226363
http://www.facebook.com/jaypee44?sk=wall&v=wall
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Jaypee Smuts writes from Hazyview: Jan 31 2011 – Farmer Giep Goosen of the Harmonie-block and his wife, their little son and two of his little friends were held hostage upon their return from church on Sunday. Arriving at the farm-gate, the farmer had stopped to open the gate when five armed black men stormed from the woods and climbed into his vehicle. “
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As the crime-fighting website Farmitracker.com shows (two maps below), there has been a very sudden surge in armed attacks, hatespeech and government-originated propaganda against whites ever since half-July 2010. From that time, black workers also started receiving many warnings at taxiranks, enroute between work, at home in the townships and in shops, that they would have to start murdering their white employers – or be murdered themselves. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/06/july-12-all-whites-will-be-killed.html
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Goosen’s 5 attackers knew that the boy was his only son…
Jaypee wrote: “The five men were all armed. They ordered Goosen to drive to the homestead and enroute they asked him specifically ‘where is the money for the pumpkins’. He farms with butternuts and also sells them from his homestead.
However Goosen did not have any cash on him except R50 in his wallet and gave this to them. They just threatened to shot dead ‘his only son’ if he didn’t give them all his money. And then they shot dead all three his dogs right in front of everybody.
They ordered to unlock his safe – there was no money in the safe – they took his firearm, and tried to drive off in Goosen’s vehicle. Then his wife was ordered to start up the vehicle and they chased off with it: it was found abandoned later near Ofcolaco not far away from their farm.
This is the sixth attack on farm-owners in this region within a two-month period, writes Smuts.
Frikkie Scheepers attacked in Dec 2010
“In December 2010 Frikkie Scheepers and his wife were attacked. Thereafter two neighbouring farmers were robbed of their firearms and another neighbouring farmer was fired on when he tried the backdoor to try and find out what was going on.
“Early January an old lady was attacked near Letsitele – she however shot off a finger of one of the attackers and they fled. There also was another attack on two elderly people about which I can obtain no information. And then there was the attack on Sunday on Goosen and his family.
Definitely an inside job:
“Fortunately there was no loss of lives during these attacks. The Goosen attack definitely was an inside job – they knew that the son was the only child; they knew the pumpkin-money was kept at the homestead and they knew about the firearm in the safe...
He concluded: “One cannot believe that there still are people who trust their house-workers and sleep easy at night. I hope this was a wakeup call for him. Next time he might not be so luckly, and not get out of it without a loss of life.”
LINKS:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=184702548227018&id=100000618226363
http://www.facebook.com/jaypee44?sk=wall&v=wall
Erasmus Barend 79 and Annatjie, 82, attacked, stabbed in Phillipstown
Elderly Afrikaans couple attacked and stabbed, Phillipstown farm south of Kimberley. Barend (79) and Annatjie (82) Erasmus were attacked Saturday night Jan 29 2011 in their home. Both were stabbed. They are in hospital. Their condition is not currently known. They are the parents of TV personality Ellen Erasmus. She can be found on Facebook for verification.
Boer victim to gunman: Sir are you going to execute me?
Restaurant owner Wouter Myburgh to the black gunman who’d just shot him in the head: 'Sir....are you going to execute me?'
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Pretoria - Fearing imminent execution, a Pretoria man addressed the robber who had just shot him in the head as “sir” and asked him if he had any children, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday.’Restaurant owner Wouter Myburgh, who survived the headshot during an armed attacky at his home in Amandasig, was testifying in the trial of six black men accused of a series of violent house robberies north of Pretoria in May and June 2008.
Accused are Chicco Masemola, Socket Masemola, Thabo Diale, Lucas Mampane, Amos Matsimela and Aaron Mashiloane - all in their twenties and early thirties – and they pleaded not guilty to charges ranging from robbery with aggravating circumstances to attempted murder, rape and the unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
picture: Photographer Snowy Smith – author of the blog http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com
Myburgh testified: “I was concerned he was going to execute me and addressed him as sir. I asked him twice: 'Sir... Are you going to execute me?', but he told me to shut the f**k up,” he said. Myburgh saw two of the men carrying his plasma television. The attackers also demanded his jewellery. He showed them his watches and told them about an expensive wedding ring he kept in his vehicle.
“They guy next to me said where's my wife and I said I was divorced. I asked him if he had kids, but he said: 'Shhh'. I was getting worried, because at that stage I was lying in a puddle of blood. I decided to try and expedite things and told them about other valuables. This seemed to calm them down and I could feel them tying my hands and feet.
“The man with the gun told me he had six children. I said: 'Sir, then you must be very blessed'... After that he said he'd decided not to kill me and I must stay quiet for 15 minutes after they'd left,” Myburgh testified.
After freeing himself, Myburgh ran to a neighbour's house for help. His neighbour wrapped towels around his head and took him to hospital.
Myburgh, who showed the court where the bullet had entered and exited the back of his head after apparently being deflected by his skull, said he spent four days in intensive care and battled to turn his head for a long time after the incident.
•Chicco Masemola has denied all knowledge of the four robberies he was charged with. They include that of Myburgh and of a white couple in Orchards, in which the woman was tied up and raped in front of her husband...
•to read the rest of this article, go to ; http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/sir-are-you-going-to-execute-me-1.1020028
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Pretoria - Fearing imminent execution, a Pretoria man addressed the robber who had just shot him in the head as “sir” and asked him if he had any children, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday.’Restaurant owner Wouter Myburgh, who survived the headshot during an armed attacky at his home in Amandasig, was testifying in the trial of six black men accused of a series of violent house robberies north of Pretoria in May and June 2008.
Accused are Chicco Masemola, Socket Masemola, Thabo Diale, Lucas Mampane, Amos Matsimela and Aaron Mashiloane - all in their twenties and early thirties – and they pleaded not guilty to charges ranging from robbery with aggravating circumstances to attempted murder, rape and the unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
picture: Photographer Snowy Smith – author of the blog http://deathofdurban.blogspot.com
Myburgh testified: “I was concerned he was going to execute me and addressed him as sir. I asked him twice: 'Sir... Are you going to execute me?', but he told me to shut the f**k up,” he said. Myburgh saw two of the men carrying his plasma television. The attackers also demanded his jewellery. He showed them his watches and told them about an expensive wedding ring he kept in his vehicle.
“They guy next to me said where's my wife and I said I was divorced. I asked him if he had kids, but he said: 'Shhh'. I was getting worried, because at that stage I was lying in a puddle of blood. I decided to try and expedite things and told them about other valuables. This seemed to calm them down and I could feel them tying my hands and feet.
“The man with the gun told me he had six children. I said: 'Sir, then you must be very blessed'... After that he said he'd decided not to kill me and I must stay quiet for 15 minutes after they'd left,” Myburgh testified.
After freeing himself, Myburgh ran to a neighbour's house for help. His neighbour wrapped towels around his head and took him to hospital.
Myburgh, who showed the court where the bullet had entered and exited the back of his head after apparently being deflected by his skull, said he spent four days in intensive care and battled to turn his head for a long time after the incident.
•Chicco Masemola has denied all knowledge of the four robberies he was charged with. They include that of Myburgh and of a white couple in Orchards, in which the woman was tied up and raped in front of her husband...
•to read the rest of this article, go to ; http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/sir-are-you-going-to-execute-me-1.1020028
Two Afrikaners’ corpses found
The tale of two corpses in two cities: Ettienne Gert Coetzer of Claremont Pretoria; and Marie Goosen of Parys…
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Ettienne Gert Coetzer, 66, corpse of murdered Afrikaner builder, found in Shosanguve Jan 29 2011
2011-02-01 The mutilated corpse of an independent Afrikaner builder, Ettienne Gert Coezter, 66, was found dumped in Soshanguve township three days after he went missing from his home in Claremont, Pretoria.
Three of his black colleagues at the construction company in Capital Park were arrested for his murder, confirmed w/o Patrick Zimu. All three male suspects are from Soshanguve. They are scheduled for a remand appearance soon, he said. Mr Coetzer was assaulted, throttled to death and then his body was dumped without any identification in a veld in Soshanguve extention 12. His torched bakkie was found Saturday-morning along the Rosslyn road north of Pretoria. One of the three suspects ‘was like a son to him,’ said the victim’s shocked son Mark, 39. His mother Dawn (63), had last heard from him on Friday-evening when he phoned her. The torched bakkie was discovered at 2am Saturday-morning and later that morning his body was also found. When the murdered man’s colleague then also disappeared without a trace, the SAPS launched a search for him and located him in Soshanguve. After questioning the worker, the other two also were arrested. “The first arrested worker had worked with my father for the past six years and they were very close,’ said Mark. “His arrest has shocked my mother tremendously because he was the very last man we would have suspected of participating in my father’s murder. Mr Coetzer sr. also leaves behind his daughters Tanya Blignaut, Bernedett Hoal and Merina Judd. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-vas-na-man-se-lyk-gekry-is-20110201
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Corpse of Mrs Marie Goosen, 67, of Parys, floated past some hundred horrified Vaal river wedding guests while Annelize and Sheldron Rostron posed for their pictures…
Jan 29 2011 – Saturday. While the newly-weds Annelize and Sheldon Rostron were posing for their wedding pictures next to the Vaal river ‘s Sioleh resort, their 105 horrified wedding-guests watched the corpse of an Afrikaner woman float past behind the couple at around 5pm.
Picture: photographer Mario van de Wall Beeld 082 570 7179
“We were smiling happily for the camera when the flower-girls started screaming and all the guests ran to the river’s edge, pointing and shouting,’ said Annelize in an interview with Beeld newspaper.
An emergency-service member was also seen following the floating dead woman in a canoo. She was identified as 67-year-year old Mrs Marie Goosen of Parys, who, it is being believed, drowned while she was trimming a tree near her riverside home along the river’s edge 16km away from Sioleh.
•Mrs Goosen’s husband Gert had left their home at around 4pm and found her missing two hours later upon his return. Police found scuff-marks on a slippery tree-trunk and her shears nearby. SAPS spokesman Maselela Langa said they were notified by other residents who had also spotted Mrs Goosen’s remains floating downriver from Parys.
Emergency-service personnel and police divers were trying to retrieve her in the rapidly-flowing river, following her trail in a rubber boat and a canoe, reported Beeld journalist Tom de Wet. She was eventually retrieved at around 18:00 some 20km from her home near Vredefort. Her son Johan Claassen (48), a pharmacist in Parys, said his mother had just undergone major surgery to repair damage done to her jaw by a dentist four years earlier due to a broken drill-bit severing nerves and injuring her jaw-bone. “She had just started eating properly for the first time since then, after her recent surgery,’ he said.She is also survived by a daughter Mrs Zita de Lange (40), and four grandchildren, Dean (18), Darren (16), Samantha (15) and Danielle (13).’A cremation-service was scheduled at the Dutch Reformed Church in Parys. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lyk-in-rivier-skok-gaste-20110131
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Ettienne Gert Coetzer, 66, corpse of murdered Afrikaner builder, found in Shosanguve Jan 29 2011
2011-02-01 The mutilated corpse of an independent Afrikaner builder, Ettienne Gert Coezter, 66, was found dumped in Soshanguve township three days after he went missing from his home in Claremont, Pretoria.
Three of his black colleagues at the construction company in Capital Park were arrested for his murder, confirmed w/o Patrick Zimu. All three male suspects are from Soshanguve. They are scheduled for a remand appearance soon, he said. Mr Coetzer was assaulted, throttled to death and then his body was dumped without any identification in a veld in Soshanguve extention 12. His torched bakkie was found Saturday-morning along the Rosslyn road north of Pretoria. One of the three suspects ‘was like a son to him,’ said the victim’s shocked son Mark, 39. His mother Dawn (63), had last heard from him on Friday-evening when he phoned her. The torched bakkie was discovered at 2am Saturday-morning and later that morning his body was also found. When the murdered man’s colleague then also disappeared without a trace, the SAPS launched a search for him and located him in Soshanguve. After questioning the worker, the other two also were arrested. “The first arrested worker had worked with my father for the past six years and they were very close,’ said Mark. “His arrest has shocked my mother tremendously because he was the very last man we would have suspected of participating in my father’s murder. Mr Coetzer sr. also leaves behind his daughters Tanya Blignaut, Bernedett Hoal and Merina Judd. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-vas-na-man-se-lyk-gekry-is-20110201
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Corpse of Mrs Marie Goosen, 67, of Parys, floated past some hundred horrified Vaal river wedding guests while Annelize and Sheldron Rostron posed for their pictures…
Jan 29 2011 – Saturday. While the newly-weds Annelize and Sheldon Rostron were posing for their wedding pictures next to the Vaal river ‘s Sioleh resort, their 105 horrified wedding-guests watched the corpse of an Afrikaner woman float past behind the couple at around 5pm.
Picture: photographer Mario van de Wall Beeld 082 570 7179
“We were smiling happily for the camera when the flower-girls started screaming and all the guests ran to the river’s edge, pointing and shouting,’ said Annelize in an interview with Beeld newspaper.
An emergency-service member was also seen following the floating dead woman in a canoo. She was identified as 67-year-year old Mrs Marie Goosen of Parys, who, it is being believed, drowned while she was trimming a tree near her riverside home along the river’s edge 16km away from Sioleh.
•Mrs Goosen’s husband Gert had left their home at around 4pm and found her missing two hours later upon his return. Police found scuff-marks on a slippery tree-trunk and her shears nearby. SAPS spokesman Maselela Langa said they were notified by other residents who had also spotted Mrs Goosen’s remains floating downriver from Parys.
Emergency-service personnel and police divers were trying to retrieve her in the rapidly-flowing river, following her trail in a rubber boat and a canoe, reported Beeld journalist Tom de Wet. She was eventually retrieved at around 18:00 some 20km from her home near Vredefort. Her son Johan Claassen (48), a pharmacist in Parys, said his mother had just undergone major surgery to repair damage done to her jaw by a dentist four years earlier due to a broken drill-bit severing nerves and injuring her jaw-bone. “She had just started eating properly for the first time since then, after her recent surgery,’ he said.She is also survived by a daughter Mrs Zita de Lange (40), and four grandchildren, Dean (18), Darren (16), Samantha (15) and Danielle (13).’A cremation-service was scheduled at the Dutch Reformed Church in Parys. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lyk-in-rivier-skok-gaste-20110131
SA boer in arres in Zim
Sarel van der Walt
’n Suid-Afrikaanse boer en sy seun word deur die Zimbabwiese polisie aangehou nadat hulle probeer keer het dat plaasbesetters hul plaas oorneem.
Mnr. Janse Grobler (66) en sy seun, Paul (36), van die plaas Geluk in die Nyazura-omgewing naby Mutare in die ooste van die land, is deur die Zimbabwiese polisie in hegtenis geneem nadat hulle waarskuwingskote op ’n groep oproerige plaasbesetters geskiet het, het mev. Antoinette Grobler (60) gistermiddag gesê.
Die plaas is al sedert 1945 in die familie se besit en hulle het al meer as 1 000 ha aan grondhervorming afgestaan.
Mev. Grobler sê haar seun het sedert Vrydag talle dreigoproepe ontvang van ’n man wat beweer hy is ’n politieke kommissaris van Mutare.
Dié het hom gewaarsku sy plaas sou met geweld oorgeneem word.
Sondagoggend het ’n mnr. Colin Mugai, teen wie die Groblers reeds ’n hofbevel gehad het, by die plaas opgedaag en daarop aangedring om met Grobler jr. te praat.
Grobler jr. het geweier.
Eergisteroggend het Mugai weer daarop aangedring om Grobler jr. te sien, wat wéér geweier het.
Die middag het Mugai en ’n groep raserige mense na die plaas teruggekeer en twee hekke oopgebreek.
Grobler jr. en sy pa het waarskuwingskote op hulle geskiet.
“Hulle sou ingekom en ons doodgemaak het as dit nie vir dié waarskuwingskote was nie,” het mev. Grob-ler gesê.
“Ons het van 10:00 af SMS’e en telefoonoproepe na die polisie gemaak, maar hulle het glad nie gereageer nie. Teen 22:00 het die polisie met van die plaasbesetters agter op hul bakkies daar aangekom, die hek oopgebreek en my man en seun saamgeneem polisiekantoor toe.”
Sy het gesê hulle is daar in haglike toestande aangehou en sal vandag in die hof verskyn.
“Die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade (in Harare) is baie traag om te help,” het sy gesê.
Van die oudstryders wat in die omgewing boer, is die Groblers glo baie goedgesind, maar bang vir die plaasbesetters.
“Die plaasbesetters vertel oral dat hulle die res van die wit boere van hul plase gaan afgooi omdat die Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) dit gewaag het om hom tot die hof te wend om die plaasbesettings te keer,” het mev. Grobler gesê.
Sy gaan tuis by mnr. Dolf du Toit en sy vrou, Alida, wat verlede jaar in dieselfde distrik ook van hul plaas probeer verdryf is.
Mnr. Willie Spies, regsverteenwoordiger van AfriForum wat Suid-Afrikaanse boere in Zimbabwe verteenwoordig, het gesê AfriForum sal sy veldtog verskerp om die Suid-Afrikaanse regering te dwing om op te tree om sy burgers te beskerm.
Prof. Mlungisi Makalima, Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur in Harare, het nie op boodskappe gereageer nie.
’n Suid-Afrikaanse boer en sy seun word deur die Zimbabwiese polisie aangehou nadat hulle probeer keer het dat plaasbesetters hul plaas oorneem.
Mnr. Janse Grobler (66) en sy seun, Paul (36), van die plaas Geluk in die Nyazura-omgewing naby Mutare in die ooste van die land, is deur die Zimbabwiese polisie in hegtenis geneem nadat hulle waarskuwingskote op ’n groep oproerige plaasbesetters geskiet het, het mev. Antoinette Grobler (60) gistermiddag gesê.
Die plaas is al sedert 1945 in die familie se besit en hulle het al meer as 1 000 ha aan grondhervorming afgestaan.
Mev. Grobler sê haar seun het sedert Vrydag talle dreigoproepe ontvang van ’n man wat beweer hy is ’n politieke kommissaris van Mutare.
Dié het hom gewaarsku sy plaas sou met geweld oorgeneem word.
Sondagoggend het ’n mnr. Colin Mugai, teen wie die Groblers reeds ’n hofbevel gehad het, by die plaas opgedaag en daarop aangedring om met Grobler jr. te praat.
Grobler jr. het geweier.
Eergisteroggend het Mugai weer daarop aangedring om Grobler jr. te sien, wat wéér geweier het.
Die middag het Mugai en ’n groep raserige mense na die plaas teruggekeer en twee hekke oopgebreek.
Grobler jr. en sy pa het waarskuwingskote op hulle geskiet.
“Hulle sou ingekom en ons doodgemaak het as dit nie vir dié waarskuwingskote was nie,” het mev. Grob-ler gesê.
“Ons het van 10:00 af SMS’e en telefoonoproepe na die polisie gemaak, maar hulle het glad nie gereageer nie. Teen 22:00 het die polisie met van die plaasbesetters agter op hul bakkies daar aangekom, die hek oopgebreek en my man en seun saamgeneem polisiekantoor toe.”
Sy het gesê hulle is daar in haglike toestande aangehou en sal vandag in die hof verskyn.
“Die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade (in Harare) is baie traag om te help,” het sy gesê.
Van die oudstryders wat in die omgewing boer, is die Groblers glo baie goedgesind, maar bang vir die plaasbesetters.
“Die plaasbesetters vertel oral dat hulle die res van die wit boere van hul plase gaan afgooi omdat die Commercial Farmers’ Union (CFU) dit gewaag het om hom tot die hof te wend om die plaasbesettings te keer,” het mev. Grobler gesê.
Sy gaan tuis by mnr. Dolf du Toit en sy vrou, Alida, wat verlede jaar in dieselfde distrik ook van hul plaas probeer verdryf is.
Mnr. Willie Spies, regsverteenwoordiger van AfriForum wat Suid-Afrikaanse boere in Zimbabwe verteenwoordig, het gesê AfriForum sal sy veldtog verskerp om die Suid-Afrikaanse regering te dwing om op te tree om sy burgers te beskerm.
Prof. Mlungisi Makalima, Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur in Harare, het nie op boodskappe gereageer nie.
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