SA Farm Murders

[Rudolph]

Cop finds murdered friend's body

2011-04-26

Jacques Steenkamp, Beeld


Pretoria – A farmer and businessman was overpowered and shot dead on his smallholding in Meyerton on Sunday night, while another two families in the same area were tied up and robbed.
The body of Johan Strydom, 50, was found at 12:00 by warrant officer Johan Schourie, 39, and his fiancée.

Schourie, who had been friends with Strydom for many years, was to have spent the public holiday with Strydom on the smallholding in Pump Avenue, Boltonwold.

Strydom's wife, Lizelle, 40, and their two sons, Hencoe, 7, and Zander, 6, had been visiting her parents in East London for the Easter Weekend.

"We planned to braai as he would be at home alone. My fiancée saw someone lying next to the car when we stopped," said Schourie.

Schourie immediately jumped over the fence and ran to where his friend's body lay about 50m away.
Strydom had wounds to his arms. He was presumably shot twice.

"One bullet went through Johan's left arm and hit him in the left side of his chest. He was also shot on the top of his head," said Schourie.

Strydom was killed on Sunday, apparently at about 22:00. Many of his neighbours at the time heard shots in the area.

Neighbour Cora Wilkin said she and her husband had heard shots but were too scared to leave the house.

"We hear shots all the time and about people who are murdered and robbed in the area. We are too scared to go out," said Wilkin.

The same evening, between 22:00 and midnight, two families in the area fell victim to house robberies. One of them also happened in Pump Avenue - nine men burst into a house, tied up a family and robbed them

Schourie called Strydom's wife on Monday with the news of her husband's death about 45 minutes after his body was found.

"I cried with her over the phone when I told her the news. She took it very badly but said she was on her way back. Johan was a wonderful friend."

Strydom farmed with sheep on the smallholding and had two transport businesses.

Police spokesperson sergeant Xolile Majolo said only a cellphone and wallet were missing.

"At the moment it doesn't look like anything else was stolen."

Meyerton police were investigating cases of murder and armed robbery. Majola asked that anyone with information call the investigating officer warrant officer Gerhard Cloete on 082 822 7637.

- Beeld

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...-body-20110426

[curious george]

Grobler, Flip and Pop, farmers brutally attacked by three knifemen, Klopperbos farm Hammanskraal
(source: Gerhard Pretorius, Beeld). - Three black men brutalised and badly beat up 72-year-old homesteader Flip Grobler and his wife Pop, 70 on Sunday 17 April, 2011. Mr Grobler had undergone a heart-bypass operation only two weeks earlier and suffered another heart attack.
The knifemen held the couple at knifepoint for an hour at their Klopperbos, Hammaskraal homestead. Mrs Grobler was repeatedly kicked on her body, leg and in the face. The couple were tied up with wire. The knifemen escpaed with money, four firearms, clothes and used their bakkie as a get-away car - which they then crashed against a tree. Mr Grobler had undergone a heart-bypass only weeks before and the ordeal and beating caused him to have another heart-attack.Mrs Grobler said due to his frail condition, she was trying to draw the attackers' attention away from her husband. "I wouldn't have seen my husband alive today. When I came out of the bathroom I found the men dragging my husband around. So I tried to get their attention away from him and they started kicking and beating me. The couple have now moved in with their daughter Ms Mari Taut. Mr Grobler was discharged from hospital three days after the attack, but he's reportedly 'not doing well,' the family said. It is suspected by Marius Mok, deputy-chair of the Praesidium neighbourhood watch, that the same three knifemen also attacked a farm worker on a neighbouring farm a few days later.The worker was admitted to hospital with injuries when he was attacked with a spade. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Egpaar-en-werker-dae-na-mekaar-aangeval-20110425 http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/1194

[Rudolph]

Rest in peace...

[OrangeWolf]

Rudolph any news from your side about a street name change from "Koningin Wilhelminastraat" to "A****aker Ismail" street, commander of the terrorist "Church street bombing"?

[SilentType]

Thank God South Africa got rid of their nuclear weapons. Seriously.

[Rudolph]

Rudolph any news from your side about a street name change from "Koningin Wilhelminastraat" to "A****aker Ismail" street, commander of the terrorist "Church street bombing"?

No, I'm not aware of that sorry!

[Rudolph]

Thank God South Africa got rid of their nuclear weapons. Seriously.

The USA "persuaded" us to dismantle them just after the Berlin Wall fell...

[BLUE THOR]

I'm drunk, but bloody hell, bail out while you are alive. I know the slog your bank balance so you cant take more tan 20K out of the country, but FFS, having a life without the threat of being brutally murdered and your women being raped and tortured to death has got to be better than having cash.
I know a good dairy farm for sale if any blokes are up for it

[Rudolph]

It's okay, I like living here, just about as much as I like complaining about it...

[BLUE THOR]

feeling for you cobber, I see Afrika as a big cash cow, but not a place to settle down and raise a family.
for the sake of the gods, I wont even let the missus near RSA on a holiday.

[Enosh]

I'm drunk, but bloody hell, bail out while you are alive. I know the slog your bank balance so you cant take more tan 20K out of the country, but FFS, having a life without the threat of being brutally murdered and your women being raped and tortured to death has got to be better than having cash.
I know a good dairy farm for sale if any blokes are up for it

but if you have no money you can only buy an apartment in the ****ty areas of a city which puts you back to square one ^^

well, you could live in the countryside (is that even the right word -.-) but I have no idea how cheap or expensive that is

[BLUE THOR]

like I say, I feel for your situation across the Indian. I didnt like what I saw and heard when I visited in 2009, and I hold the same sentiment now.
Its wrong the way the government treats white people and gives blacks more credit and priviledge than they earn. I am all for equal oppurtunity, but forced "equality" is not the answer - as is the current policy.
I know the "black" population feels under-priviledged, but the coloured Africans are not getting a fair deal out of the ANC's policies either.
I know its tough for the white population as it is for the coloured population. I sincerley think its worth getting out while you are ahead, before the ANC collapses on itself.
Look at case studies across Africa. Nigeria has idsinigrated into a state of kickbacks and corruption, Kenya is disintegrating through its own peoples governance.
Kenya was the best example of a handover from colonial occupation to democratic self rule (10 year transition period) and to its credit it held out longer than any other former colony before succumbing to self interested parties and corruption. I hold no hopes for the RSA.

[SilentType]

Everyone always blames the colonial powers for Africa's current state of chaos, but if the Europeans didn't draw the lines on the map who would have? To break African nations down by strictly tribe would have been to have a ton of nations, the majority of them land locked, and without enough resources to sustain themselves. Tribal mentality mixed with socialist policies are not the best mix for national wealth and prosperity.

[drevil5000]

I'm drunk, but bloody hell, bail out while you are alive. I know the slog your bank balance so you cant take more tan 20K out of the country, but FFS, having a life without the threat of being brutally murdered and your women being raped and tortured to death has got to be better than having cash.
I know a good dairy farm for sale if any blokes are up for it

Articles like these give the impression that there is chaos on the streets, which is not the case. For the most part life here is the same as any other western country. People here are just much much more security conscious, its something you get used to and learn to live with.

At the end of the day South Africa is our home and I would rather take my chances fighting off a criminal than trying to adjust the cultural differences of other countries.

[playtym]

Farmer killed, dragged behind bakkie

Johannesburg - A farmer was murdered and his corpse dragged behind his bakkie outside Ottosdal on Saturday night, North West police said.
"At about 20:00 three suspects entered a 49-year-old farmer's house... They held him at gunpoint while they ransacked the house for money," Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said on Sunday.
"They shot him in the chest, the back, and in the head, then used (the farmer's) bakkie to drag him for about 1.2km before the bakkie rolled."
The farmer's body was still tied to the vehicle when police arrived on the scene.
One of the alleged murderers was arrested at the scene and led police to his two accomplices.
Ngubane said although the brutality of the attack might suggest an "ulterior motive", possibly related to "previous issues with the farmer", he could not confirm whether the suspects were known to the farmer, who lived alone.
"This will all form part of the investigation and it is too early to speculate at the moment."

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Ne...akkie-20110501