Thursday, July 29, 2010

Previously unreported murder :

Deon Verwey, 49, Afrikaans resident, Jeffreys Bay – stabbed in bed with screwdriver

Afrikaner widower Deon Verwey, 49, a resident of the world-famous surfing town of Jeffreys Bay, died after he was stabbed with a screw-driver while asleep in his bed on June 17 2009, Sunday-morning between 2am and 2.30am . His sister Annetta van der Merwe and SAPS inspector Petra Els both said Verwey was asleep in his bed when someone gained access to his house through a window and stabbed him. http://www.kougaexpress.co.za/index.php/newscat/34-headlines/83-inwoner-wreed-vermoor

Die Burger journalist Mariska Spoormaker reports that Verwey had left a trail of blood as he then struggled from the bedroom to the backdoor where he screamed for help. His feet were tied with some kind of cable, said his sister. However the police 'could not confirm this'. Mrs van der Merwe, who lives next door to her brother, said she and her friend J H Potgieter had heard him screaming for help. They ran to his home and discovered he had been stabbed. They took him to Humansdorp hospital in her car but he was dead on arrival. His daughter Michelle, 23, who also lives in Jeffreys Bay, said her father's death was 'so unnecessary. He was a kind loving person who never hurt anyone,' she said. Ten years earlier on 30 June 1999 Michelle had also lost her mom Laura in another violent tragedy: she was shot dead by a boyfriend. SAPS inspector Marianette Olivier said nobody was arrested for Deon Verwey’s murder. She claimed that 'items were missing from the house but we need to establish exactly what.' Anyone with information may contact the police at insp. Dobela tel 042 200 6600, 042 200 6600, or 083 739 2810, 083 739 2810 . Published in Kouga Express. http://www.kougaexpress.co.za/index.php/newscat/34-headlines/83-inwoner-wreed-vermoor

Margaret Snyman 72; and Griet Swart 86, had their fingers broken by 4 black attackers – but still fought back…

VANDERBIJLPARK. – Two elderly Afrikaner residents of an old-age home, Mrs Margaret Snyman, 72 and her friend Mrs Griet Swart, 86, were attacked outside at 4pm outside their retirement residency complex by four young black men who had amazingly enough, first signed their names in the register of the guard-house of the heavily-protected, gated community of Herfsoord …

When the two Afrikaans women returned from their shopping trip at 4pm at Mrs Swart's cottage, a vehicle stopped behind them, four black men jumped out and tackled the two old women, trying to rip off their jewellery. Mrs Swart, who was driving, wasn't having this and smacked the two black men attacking her with her kierie (walking stick). They then threatened to shoot her butd she shouted at them: “What are you waiting for?” The witnesses who told the local newspaper of the incident said the the old lady continued defending herself so fiercely that one of the other men assaulting her friend in the passenger seat rushed to help the other two deal with Mrs Swart. One of the attackers then broke her finger to rip off her ring, as they also did with her friend. The angry women were taken to the Emfuleni Medi-Clinic for treatment and trauma treatment. Herfsoord chairman Fred van Rensburg also confirmed the attack. He said the four attackers had actually registered in the security gate's identity register telling the guard that they were fetching one of their employees. "This has never happened here before and we have tightened our security measures,' he said. Mrs Snyman also had her handbag stolen about a month earlier - and it is believed that the same crime-gang. The lo9cal police said they are 'investigating'. http://www.vaalweekblad.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3206:-rower-breek-bejaarde-se-finger&catid=1:warm-nuus&Itemid=27

Lizamore newspaper couple – founders of Barberton Times – brutally murdered, Pinetown KZN –

NELSPRUIT - The founders of Barberton Times, Mr Graham Lizamore (62) and Ms Kathleen (Kate) Lizamore (50), were brutally murdered in their home in Pinetown in KwaZulu-Natal last week. The couple had been working in the media industry for many years and got Barberton Times off the ground in 2001. They moved from the Eastern Cape to Durban barely two months ago where Ms Lizamore started working for Independent Newspapers. Their decomposing bodies were discovered on top of a toilet in a bathroom on Friday. Preliminary reports suggest that Mr Lizamore was strangled. A refuse bag was covering Ms Lizamore’s head - indicating that she might have suffocated. The bodies were later moved to the bedroom where they were carefully examined. No signs of forced entry could be found to their home in Moseley Park. A TV and even a handbag remained untouched in the lounge. The couple was last seen by a neighbour in the complex on Wednesday. Phone calls by family members remained unanswered and a sister of Mr Lizamore went to their home on Friday where she made the gruesome discovery at about 14:30. She was severely traumatised and is currently being hospitalised.The houses are situated close to one another and neighbours said that one could easily have heard screams from that distance. Two cases of murder are being investigated. Ms Michélle Sephton, who was part of the Barberton Times team, described Mr Lizamore as a patient, kind person who had so much love to give. "Kate and Graham were an inspiration to many and made Barberton Times rise out of the ashes like a phoenix, despite many Barberton residents saying that it was an impossible task. They were true pioneers in more ways than one."

“Gray complained about money being extorted from the aged. Perhaps this is why they were killed…’

A relative wrote from New Zealand: “Gray and Kate loved people and living. They were Bafana (SA football team) supporters and he worked hard for the good of all races in the Eastern Cape. They were adored by family and friends and South Africa have lost two wonderful people. We are saddened at the dreadful way they died. They definitely did not deserve to die this way. Gray complained that they were extorting money from the aged. Perhaps this why they were killed. We will miss their lovely smiling faces here in New Zealand.
http://www.lowvelder.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1910:newspaper-pioneers-brutally-murdered&catid=34:news&Itemid=98

Burger family, Potchefstroom, attacked at home, July 22 2010.

Four armed black men invaded the home of Mr Botha Burger and his wife Adele at 3am on July 22 2010, dragged their two young sons Christiaan, 12 and Jan-Harm, 10, from their beds, and tied them up with their parents while their home was looted of some electronic bling and jewellery. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/top10.htm#30

The family home was looted and the bling – including a TV set, two cameras, a laptop computer, cellphones and jewellery – was loaded onto the family bakkie and the gang drove off. When things quieted down Jan-Harm screamed for help through the open bathroom window to their housekeeper, who lives on the same erf but had somehow not noticed anything untowards whatsoever. She cut them loose and Mr Burger used the housekeeper’s cellphone to contact their security company. His bakkie was found abandoned alongside the road to Parys. Apparently the gang had gained access to the house by bending the burglar-bars in front of the livingroom windows. Another house-robbery als was reported the same week when a resident discovered that a window had been forced open and his TV set stolen. No-one was arrested in either case. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/top10.htm#30

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Boer tweede keer in huis oorval

Jana van der Merwe



BETHLEHEM.– Hy het in sy eie bloed gelê en voorgegee hy is dood. Nadat sy aanvallers weg is, het hy die 150 m na sy plaaswerkers se wonings gestrompel om hulp te soek.

Só vertel mnr. Gert Lange (67) van die plaas Vaalbank naby Bethlehem wat eergisteraand die tweede keer vanjaar in sy plaashuis aangeval is.

Lange, wat dié huis huur en ook op sy eie plaas by Kransfontein met beeste boer, oorweeg dit nou om als te verkoop en pad te gee.

“Die dokters sê vir my hulle kan nie verstaan dat ek nie geskok is nie. Dié keer was daar niks in die huis om te steel nie. In Januarie het hulle al my gewere en geld gevat. Als wat ek gehad het, is reeds gesteel,” het Lange gister byna emosieloos in die Dihlabeng-hospitaal op Bethlehem gesê.

“Ek het laataand by die verwarmer gesit en televisie kyk toe ek iets in die kamer hoor. Ek hoor nie meer so goed nie. Ek dog dit is die hond.

“Toe ek die deur oopmaak, het drie mans met klapmusse my oorrompel en vasgebind. Hulle wou geld hê,” sê hy.

Lange het gesê al sy geld en gewere is reeds gesteel.

Die mans het hom in sy gesig en bors met ’n mes gesteek.

Hy is ook herhaaldelik in sy ribbes, gesig en teen sy kop geskop.

Die wond in sy bors was gelukkig nie diep genoeg om sy hart te deurdring nie.

“Ek was nie bang of geskok soos die eerste keer nie. Ek het niks meer oor nie.”

Lange het daarna gemaak asof hy dood is.

Die mans het weer verby geloop om te kyk of hy lewe.

“Dit het gelyk asof ’n skaap geslag is. Ek het baie stil gelê,” sê hy.

Die mans het met sy eenton- vragmotor gevlug, maar die voertuig het op pad na Lindley sonder brandstof gaan staan.

Die polisie het gister die voertuig aan hom terugbesorg.

Hy sê een van sy werkers het die polisie gebel, wat baie vinnig gereageer en ’n ambulans ontbied het.

“Ek weet ek was gelukkig. Die tweede aanval was eintlik baie gevaarliker. Hulle wil al die boere doodmaak. Hoe wreder dit is, hoe lekkerder kry hulle. Ek oorweeg dit nou om te trek. Dit raak nou net te rof hier,” sê hy.

Lange oorweeg dit nou om na sy kinders op Upington te trek.

Hy sê hy vermoed die gemeenskap praat onder mekaar dat die boere geld in hul huise het. Hy het voor die vorige aanval beeste vir duisende rande verkoop. Hy glo die inligting lek uit en dan kom die mense vir die geld.

“Mens moenie geld in jou huis hou nie,” sê hy.

Sers. Mmako Mophiring, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, sê die polisie ondersoek die saak. Niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie.


- Volksblad

Slegte nuus vir boere oor misdaad

Die veiligheidskonferensie oor misdaad wat Agri SA vroeër die week aangebied het, dreig nou om te ontaard in ‘n woordetwis tussen dié landbou-unie en regeringsministers oor watter minister daar moes wees en wie toe nie opgedaag het nie.

Dit is egter nie waaroor dit gaan nie. Hierdie twis mag nie die aandag aftrek van misdaad op die platteland wat die boere raak nie.

Die eerste veiligheidsberaad in landbou het reeds onder Nelson Mandela se inisiatief plaasgevind toe hy nog staatshoof was. Dit het gelei tot die aanvaarding van ‘n tienpunt-veiligheidsplan vir landbou in 1998. En dit was min of meer die laaste mate van vordering wat daar was om boere veiliger op hulle plase te hou. Sedertdien het die veiligheidstoestand op plase net vêrder versleg.

Die ANC-minister van polisie, Nathi Mtetwa, het wel die beraad bygewoon. Maar hy het nie gesê wat boere werklik wou hoor nie, en in daardie lig word die opmerking van Agri SA se veiligheidsvoorsitter, naamlik dat Mtetwa se teenwoordigheid toon dat hy ernstig is oor sy portefeulje, as ietwat opportunisties gesien. Uit Mtetwa se stellings het dit duidelik geblyk dat hy die misdaad op boere probeer afspeel en minder ernstig probeer maak as wat dit regtig is.

So het hy byvoorbeeld gesê dat daar tussen 1997 en 2007 ongeveer een duisend drie honderd moorde op plase plaasgevind het, en volgens hom was die meerderheid van hierdie moorde, op plaaswerkers en nie op boere nie. Ons betwyfel hierdie stelling van hom ernstig, in die lig van syfers wat voorheen al deur TLU SA vrygestel is, en hulle syfers word ondersteun deur ‘n databasis van name en adresse van boere wat vermoor is. Mtetwa probeer dus weer ‘n saak uitmaak van die arme plaaswerkers, en dit is, in die lig van regeringsuitsprake van die verlede, nog net verbasend dat hy nie daaraan toegevoeg het dat die boere eintlik hulle werkers vermoor nie, want dit is die soort uitsprake wat keer op keer gehoor word.

Verder het hy gewaarsku teen stellings dat moorde op boere ander motiewe het as misdaad. Verskeie landbou leiers het al die stelling gemaak dat daar ander motiewe agter die moorde op veral boere sit. Hoe verduidelik ‘n mens die feit dat moordenaars wat ure tyd gehad het om te steel wat hulle kon, eenvoudig ure lank in ‘n plaashuis sit en wag dat ‘n boer Sondag van die kerk af terugkom, hom en sy gesin martel tot die dood toe, en dan met feitlik niks van die plaas af vertrek? Dit is nie gewone misdaad nie. Ook hier het TLU SA al by herhaling verklaar dat dit deel is van ‘n etniese volksmoord-proses, en die ANC-regering het nog niks gedoen om daardie stelling as onwaar te bewys nie.

Skaars enkele dae later kom die nasionale polisiekommissaris vorendag met die stelling dat misdaad in Suid-Afrika nie die ergste in die wêreld is nie. Moet ons daaruit aflei dat ons dankbaar moet wees dat daar “net” 52 moorde per dag plaasvind, en nie 55 nie? Moet ons bly wees dat “net” twee duisend boere sedert 1994 vermoor is, en nie 3 000 nie? Moet boere bly wees as “net” die helfte van hulle veekudde gesteel word, en nie driekwart nie?

Die waarde van die landbouveiligheidsberaad lê daarin dat boere weer eens moet besef dat die regering nie ernstig is oor die belang van die boere nie, en die misdaad waaraan boere onderwerp word, word minder gemaak as wat dit regtig is. Ons kan helaas nie aanvaar dat die minister van polisie ernstig is oor sy portefeulje nie, as hy nie sy kommissaris tot orde roep oor sy roekelose stellings nie, en as hy nie eens wil probeer uitvind wat werklik agter plaasaanvalle sit nie.

Na die veiligheidsberaad is boere steeds op hulleself aangewese vir hulle veiligheid. Veral hierdie jaar, kan dit nuttig wees om daardie strukture op te knap, want plattelandse polisiestasies gaan leeggetrek word van mannekrag om die wêreldbeker sokkertoernooi te beveilig, en misdadigers weet dit ook en gaan uitwyk na die platteland. Boere, wees paraat. Die moeilikheid is nie verby nie. Die grootste deel daarvan kom nog!

Bron: Radio Pretoria se nuuskommentaar 10 maart 2010.

Geyer, Ryan, father of two, murdered, Swavelpoort smallholdings

Geyer, Ryan; 35 murdered Swavelpoort smallholdings Boschkop, Pretoria July 26 2010 nothing robbed


2010-07-26 Attackers have shot dead a young Afrikaner father on the Swavelpoort smallholdings on Monday July 26 at point-blank range - and then pushed his wife Bronwyn, 33 into a cupboard with her husband's corpse. Nothing was 'robbed' during the 7pm attack on Monday - but Boschkop police station commander LtCol Gavin The-Kisho describes it as a 'robbery'.

Virginia Keppler, Beeld, quoted LtCol The-Kisho as saying that the 'robbers' gained access to the Afrikaner couple's homestead on the rural smallholding by firing shots through the locks of front door. One attacker had a firearm, the other a steel pipe. Mrs Geyer ran to push the emergency button, chased by the black male with the steel pipe; while the male with the firearm grappled with Mr Geyer and then shot him dead at point-blank range.The attackers then pushed Mr Geyer's body into a cupboard together with his wife's before strolling out again. Nothing at all was robbed. The couple have two small children aged four and two years, Nathan and Morgan.

Mr Geyer's business partner Werner Scholtz wrote on his facebook page: "It is with great heartsore that I write the following. My best friend, my business partner and my 'brother' Ryan Geyer has become another crime statistic in South Africa.Ryan, Soutie, my old mate, I am going to miss you a lot, a lot, I love you. Ryan is survived by his wife Bronwyn and their two children Nathan(4) and Morgan(2) -

sources: Werner Scholtz http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1786185924
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Skurke-druk-vrou-in-kas-by-man-se-lyk-20100726