Reply With QuoteRead that earlier, very sad, glad the woman are okay.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...-dead-20100713Teen sees grandfather shot dead
2010-07-13 09:05
Kimberley - A 16-year-old schoolboy from Kimberley had to watch as robbers shot his grandfather in cold blood over the weekend. He was then forced to open the safe in the same room.
It was the third time in about three years that the boy's family were victims of crime.
Neels Jansen, 61, from Roodia smallholdings outside Vanderbijlpark was shot at about 04:30 on Sunday while he was lying in bed next to his wife Irma. He had undergone an operation on Friday.
Leon Lotz, a farmer from Kimberley and son-in-law of the Jansens, on Monday explained what had happened. His wife Adele, and three children, Armand, 16, Charlize, 13, and Leoné, almost 2, had been visiting the Jansens while he remained on the family farm.
Opened the safe
The robbers broke in and tied up Gavin Coetzee, a jockey who rode racehorses for the Lotzes and who was also staying in the home. They pointed a pistol at Armand and forced him to walk to his grandparents' bedroom, where the safe was.
They shot Jansen in front of Armand, and then forced him to open the safe, said Lotz.
His mother-in-law called him while the incident was happening and screamed: "They have shot dead your father!"
"I can't tell you what went through my mind for the next hour until I heard my family was safe."
The robbers indecently touched the boy's grandmother while she lay asleep. "Fortunately they left the girls alone. Leoné was sleeping in bed with her mother and they didn't see her under the duvet."
He said Coetzee had hidden his cellphone under a pillow. He called Lotz once the robbers had gone. The men had left in Lotz's vehicle, which contained saddles and bridles, amongst other things.
Traumatised
Lotz said Coetzee had calmed the robbers down and had probably prevented them from raping the women.
"If it hadn't been for him, I don't know what would have happened. I also have much praise for the excellent service from the Vanderbijlpark police. It is in contrast with the poor service that I received in Kimberley when robbers burnt down my warehouse about three years ago and stole my revolver."
Lotz said Armand was badly traumatised. He was assaulted by schoolboys a while ago and also experienced the incident on his parents' farm, said Lotz.
Read that earlier, very sad, glad the woman are okay.
Website to monitor farm attacks
2010-07-14 07:46
Johannesburg - The Rustenburg farmer who brought a complaint of genocide to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against ANC Youth League president Julius Malema and 11 others, has set up a website to monitor farm attacks.
He has asked anyone with information about farm attacks to send him the details so he can convey the information to the ICC prosecutor in the matter every week.
"The weekly sending of farm attack statistics to the prosecutor was born as a result of the poor, outdated and totally unreliable statistics in this regard made available by the organs of our current government," his lawyer Fanie van der Walt said on Tuesday.
The website www.stopafrikanergenocide.co.za would also be used to keep people informed about the court case, said Van der Walt.
The unidentified Rustenburg farmer and his family reportedly left South Africa, fearing for their safety, after deciding to lay the charge against Malema.
'Shoot the boer'
He interpreted Malema's singing of the lyrics "shoot the boer", as incitement of ANC Youth League supporters to commit genocide against Afrikaans farmers.
Shortly after being rebuked by the ANC, Malema changed the words to "kiss the boer".
On Tuesday, Van der Walt said the farmer had instructed him to address the prosecutor and assist him in his preliminary investigation.
He said the Rome Statute stipulated that the prosecutor analyse the seriousness of the information received.
This could include seeking additional information "from states, organs of the United Nations, intergovernmental or non-governmental organisations, or other reliable sources that he or she deems appropriate," and receiving written or oral testimony.
At the time the complaint was submitted on June 17, Van der Walt said this would not automatically trigger an investigation.
All the information submitted had to be analysed before it was decided to prosecute. "We believe however that the ICC will decide to formally investigate the complaints because they comply with the very specific and defined jurisdiction and mandate of the [court] as defined by the Rome Statute," he said.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...tacks-20100713
Security guard killed in Meyerton
2010-07-14 18:29
Johannesburg - A 49-year-old security guard was shot dead while responding to an alarm at a farm in Meyerton on Wednesday, police said.
Constable Tikoana Sonopo said the guard was found with two bullet wounds in his forehead.
The guard went to the farm to investigate after an alarm went off at the farm house at 11.30.
He was found behind the farm house, with his hands tied behind his back and his gun missing.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...erton-20100714
Rest in peace...
KZN farm attackers took nothing
2010-07-22 07:24
Bongani Hans, The Witness
Pietermaritzburg - Three people were brutally murdered and left in pools of blood in what is believed to have been a well-planned attack on a farm in Mooi River in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Wednesday night.
The attackers murdered a 58-year-old farmer’s wife and a 65-year-old worker, stabbing them and slitting their throats. A third victim, a 34-year-old domestic worker, was shot several times in her employers’ kitchen.
The horrific attack happened at Sherwood Farm on the Corrington road outside Mooi River town at about 20:00.
It seems that the attackers started by distracting the farm owner.
Fire
Police spokesperson Colonel Jay Naicker said they set a grass fire on the farm and waited for the farmer to leave the house to put out the blaze.
“The farmer went to put out the fire while his wife went to collect an employee to help. On their way to the fire, they [the wife and the labourer] were confronted by two men,” said Naicker.
The motive for the attack remains sketchy. Naicker said the attackers did not take anything from the farm.
“After the attack the men just ran away on foot,” he said.
He said police officers, with the police dog unit, were still searching for the attackers late on Wednesday night.
A paramedic with the Mooi River-based Nsele Emergency Service, Fritz Erasmus, said the wife’s body was found in a garage, the labourer’s body was outside the kitchen door while the domestic worker’s body was in the kitchen.
“There is plenty of blood at the scene and everybody is distraught,” said Erasmus.
A police officer, who arrived at the farm about an hour after the attack, described the scene as “nothing nice to look at”.
“I’m seeing very traumatised family members and friends. It is a very sad scene,” he said.
Netcare911 spokesperson Jeffrey Wicks said the three victims died before the paramedics arrived at the scene.
Farmers tried to barricade roads
A farmer who declined to be named said a group of local farmers tried to barricade about 15 roads with the aim of catching the suspects. He said about 100 people went to the scene.
“It is a brutal murder. That is what happened here.
“We came out in numbers to barricade the network of roads, including district and dirt roads,” said the farmer.
The KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu) expressed shock at the attack. Its security desk manager, Koos Marais, said he believes the attackers had gone to the farm to rob it, but were distracted.
He said that since the beginning of the year there have been 18 farm attacks and three murders, excluding last night’s incident.
He added that the farmer whose wife was killed is a respected member of the union.
“Kwanalu calls on the government to take drastic action to halt the senseless killings of our nation’s food producers. Kwanalu wishes to express its condolences to the family [of the farmer’s wife] and families of the staff,” Marais said.
- The Witness
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...thing-20100722
RIP.......
The silence of the international media to this issue continues to be deafening, TIA
Alfa
Pensioner survives farm attack
2010-08-01 14:37
Port Elizabeth - An elderly man was assaulted on his smallholding in St Albans, Port Elizabeth police said on Sunday.
Four men attacked Jack Bergman, 86, in his bed after climbing into his house through a window in the early hours of Saturday, spokesperson Captain Sandra van Rensburg said.
A security company found the pensioner, who lived alone, after the house alarm went off.
"The victim had several face injuries and stab wounds to the chest and on the arrival of the security company he was semi-conscious".
He was taken to Livingstone hospital.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information about the attackers could contact the Kabega Park police station on 041-397-6848.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...ttack-20100801
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...llets-20100803Farmer dies in hail of bullets
Polokwane - A cattle farmer was gunned down in a hail of bullets on Tuesday morning outside Lephalale.
Ronel Otto, provincial police spokesperson, said Daffue's attackers opened fire on him when he crossed a low-water bridge over the Mogol River.
It is a single lane where only one vehicle at a time can pass.
“It looks like he was ambushed at the bridge,” said Otto.
Pensioner survives farm attack
2010-08-01 14:37
"Port Elizabeth - An elderly man was assaulted on his smallholding in St Albans, Port Elizabeth police said on Sunday.
Four men attacked Jack Bergman, 86, in his bed after climbing into his house through a window in the early hours of Saturday, spokesperson Captain Sandra van Rensburg said.
A security company found the pensioner, who lived alone, after the house alarm went off.
"The victim had several face injuries and stab wounds to the chest and on the arrival of the security company he was semi-conscious".
He was taken to Livingstone hospital.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information about the attackers could contact the Kabega Park police station on 041-397-6848."
- SAPA
Rudolph,
This gent has passed away due to his injuries.Kabega Park,PE SAPS has arrested someone today.(Algoa FM radio news)
Man killed on smallholding
2010-08-11 12:58
Johannesburg - A 46-year-old man died after five men gained access to his smallholding outside Tzaneen and assaulted him, Limpopo police said on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Ronel Otto said five unidentified men wearing balaclavas waited for the man at his gate on Tuesday evening and then assaulted him with pangas and iron rods.
The man died on the scene.
A domestic worker on the property was assaulted when she came to investigate.
She was dragged into the house where two of the men raped her.
The men took cellphones and household appliances, including a television and DVD player. They may have also taken two guns from the safe.
Police were looking for the men and no arrests had been made.
A post-mortem was being done to determine how the man died.
- SAPA
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...lding-20100811
Jack Russells protect battered owner
2010-08-10 22:50
Marietie Louw-Carstens, Beeld
Pretoria – Three Jack Russell dogs belonging to Chrissie Harmzen, 70, climbed on top of her and guarded her after she was so severely assaulted on a farm outside Burgersfort in Limpopo on Friday morning that she died later that day of her injuries.
Johan Harmzen, 72, told in a heartbroken voice on Tuesday how the dogs wouldn’t let anyone near his injured wife.
“They were very attached to her.”
The couple has five Jack Russells.
Harmzen was attacked and assaulted at about 11:00, barely five steps from the back door of the house she and her husband rent on the farm, Dresden.
They have been living on the farm for the past ten years.
“She was beaten so hard that her lungs burst,” said her husband. She was also repeatedly beaten in the face and hit over the head with an unknown object.
Harmzen died of her injuries in the Midmed hospital in Middelburg, Mpumalanga.
The couple had been married for 50 years and three months.
“We were a part of each other,” said Harmzen.
Only Harmzen’s cellphone, the back door keys and the security company’s panic button were stolen. Nothing was taken from the house.
“It wasn’t a robbery or theft. It was just plain murder. It was a sadist who came here to murder,” Harmzen said.
Tried to describe attackers
During the attack Mrs Harmzen was able to press the security company’s panic button she always carried with her.
The company called her husband immediately.
“I phoned her once or twice on her cellphone, but the call was rejected each time. I knew she would never do that.”
The security company went to the farm and Harmzen raced home from his work, about 20 minutes away.
“When I arrived I saw her lying there (…) and the dogs were sitting on her.”
He says his wife tried to describe the attacker(s) before she was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
“She spoke a little, but her eyes kept rolling back in her head.”
A neighbour of the Harmzens was attacked on the same farm, where there are a few houses, at the end of last year.
Hendrik Pitzer, a neighbour, said there have been plenty of cases of theft on the farm.
“It’s terrible that she was attacked in the garden in broad daylight,” said Pitzer.
Ronél Otto, police spokesperson in Limpopo, said no suspects have been arrested yet.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...owner-20100810
^^Makes me sick...
Oh wtf.
Loyal dogs though, thanks dudes. You tried
As a form of protest against an unjust system it sort of makes sense - but yeah, there were probably better targets.Originally Posted by IconOfEvi
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...lking-20100817Johannesburg – “I’m going to shoot you,” 77-year-old Louise Jacobs warned her attacker. When he swung his firearm toward her, she didn’t hesitate and let her shotgun do the talking.
The shot, which wounded one attacker and made the rest run away brought an attack, which according to Jacobs’ husband, Peet, 81, started on the Friday already, to a stop.
“On Saturday morning I realised things had been stolen from my bakkie and that our one dog was sick. We gave him some milk and he was better after a while, but I knew something was going on,” Mr Jacobs said on Tuesday on their farm, about 12km outside Heidelberg on the Vereeniging road.
On Monday morning he went to the Heidelberg police station to report Friday night’s theft, when his wife phoned him and said she had just been attacked on the farm and shot one of the attackers.
“One of the policemen just said: ‘Go, I’ll organise everything.’
When I got to the farm, they were waiting for me. The police were here, members of the community policing forum and neighbours, the helicopter was in the air and they even had the dogs out here. The police really deserve congratulations for their level of service and how quickly they responded,” said Mr Jacobs.
According to Mrs Jacobs, one of their workers first said she suspected there were strangers behind the house.
“I told her to jump over the electric fence and run, and I went to the bedroom to fetch the shotgun.
“The next moment I heard them breaking open the security gate at the front door with a pick axe. Then one of them broke the window next to the front door with a firearm and climbed in.
“He was still busy pointing the gun around when I shot – from here, from the security gate at the bedrooms. You can look straight at the front door from here.
“He shouted to the others to run and they left in a hurry. Then I phoned my husband,” she says.
“A little voice in the back of my head told me to ‘load the shotgun with buckshot’ the previous night,” said Mr Jacobs.
According to Thivhulawi Tshilate, police spokesperson at Heidelberg, a 33-year-old Zimbabwean suspect was apprehended in the area.
He wasn’t the wounded man.
The Toyota Venture in which the five other suspects fled was later found deserted in Rondebult at Dawn Park, Boksburg.
The police also found a trail of blood near the vehicle.
Farmers in bakkies fight back
2010-08-26 10:08
Buks Viljoen, Beeld
Mbombela - A farm attacker jumped onto the boot of the moving getaway car, but then 25-year-old Hardus Aucamp also jumped on.
Like a scene from an action movie, they struggled for about 400 metres on a farm road while both clung to the car. At the main road between Ermelo and Hendrina, both fell off.
Aucamp even broke off the car's number plate.
"I knew it would at least give us a clue for finding the vehicle."
The attacker disappeared into the night. By this time one of his accomplices was already lying dead in the Aucamps' house. Shortly thereafter, another two suspects were caught after about 60 bakkies full of farmers reacted to a mayday call.
Farm attack
On Wednesday night Anton Greeff, 50, manager of the farm Spitskop, was still in a critical condition in the Netcare-Milpark hospital in Johannesburg after the attackers wounded him in the stomach on Tuesday night.
Hein Aucamp, 57, owner of the farm, was wounded in the left hand and upper arm and had emergency surgery in the Life-Midmed hospital in Middelburg on Wednesday.
The attack happened at about 19:00 on the farm, where the Aucamps also run a holiday resort.
"When I went into the office, I walked into a group of robbers with firearms. Two of them held up my mother, Erika, 54, with firearms. I fell to my knees and begged them not to shoot us," said Aucamp jnr.
A robber hit him in the face with a pistol.
"I pretended to be unconscious and secretly contacted my dad, who was visiting Anton Greef nearby, with my cellphone."
Shots fired
Aucamp snr and Greeff came storming into the office. A fist fight followed and shots were fired.
The robbers fired several shots before fleeing. One remained lying on the floor and later died.
Four robbers jumped into a waiting car and sped off. It was then that the fifth robber jumped on the back of the car, with Aucamp jnr hot on his heels.
Dries van Rensburg, security chair for TAU SA's eastern district, was on the farm shortly after the attack.
"We immediately sent a mayday to the farmers for help. Within a short amount of time, about 60 bakkies full of farmers had arrived."
Just outside Hendrina, two men aged 29 and 34 respectively were arrested in the blood-smeared car.
The two suspects will appear in court in Ermelo on Thursday, said police spokesperson Carla Prinsloo.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...-back-20100825
I wanna read more stories like these, 60 bakkies full of farmers, that's a small army right there. Good job!
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