Police criminality: "A customer at the African café in the Kempton Park CBD was killed by four black male gunmen who fled in a large black car -- but when witness Shannon went to the police station to report what he had seen, he was pushed aside with the comment that "the police have more important things to do'...
http://kemptonexpress.co.za/50372/customer-killed-during-robbery-police-have-more-important-things-to-do/
Report by journalist Nolwazi Dhlamini
16 October 2014 07:33
Kempton Park news *caxton publication -
" According to a witness who went to report the matter, an officer at Kempton Park Police Station told him he had more important things to do
AN eyewitness to an armed robbery in which an innocent customer was killed, was brushed off by Kempton Park SAPS. According to Shannon, when he went to report the matter at Kempton Park Police Station, a police officer in uniform told him “he had more important things to do”.
The innocent man was shot in the head and killed during the armed robbery on August 27 at African Café on the corner of Casuarina and Maxwell streets in the central business district.
“The officer at the station told me he had to report to his cluster first and only after that he could assist me. He said he had more important matters to deal with, even after I told him there was a shooting and a man had been shot in the head,” Shannon recounted the story.
He continued: “The police only arrived at the scene after I had called ward councillor Jaco Terblanche on his cell.”
According to Kempton Park SAPS spokesman, Capt Jethro Mtshali, it was about 6.10pm when four armed men entered the shop. They demanded money from the shop owner, after which a struggle ensued between them. During the course of the struggle a man, who had just entered the shop, was shot in the head.
Shannon said when he and the shop owner tried calling 10111, they were put through to a person who didn’t know where Kempton Park was. A black police detective van passed by but did not stop. Unfortunately the police could not comment on this as the registration number of the vehicle was unknown.
“I saw a metro police car going past and ran onto the road and managed to stop the officers, who called for an ambulance. Just after that I saw the black vehicle drive past. I tried to stop the guy but he just sped away and didn’t want to stop.”
According to Mtshali, the matter will be internally investigated.
“The complaint of poor service from the witness has been forwarded to the station commander, Brig Johannes Marx, who will conduct an internal investigation into the matter and corrective measures will be taken,” Mtshali said.
A case of murder and business robbery was opened and the investigation is continuing.
http://kemptonexpress.co.za/50372/customer-killed-during-robbery-police-have-more-important-things-to-do/
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Police criminality: Customer killed by 4 black male robbers but "Police have more important things to do,' witness hears
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South African National Defence Force is a cesspit of excessive, secretive military overspending and undiscliplined underpaid soldiers
Warning: The South African National Defence Force is becoming a cesspit of excessive, secretive military spending where top generals loot the budget and the ordinary soldiers remain under-equipped and ill-discliplined. Dr Dale McKinley, researcer, South African Civil Society Information Service: http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2168
" SouthAfrica Military-Arms Cesspit: Most fighters, choppers, training jets, naval vessels mothballed
http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2168
October 16 2014 -- Article by researcher, lecturer Dr Dale McKinley from his article http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2168
"The escalating costs associated with the purchase, use and maintenance of the 1990s arms deal programme has resulted in most of the fighter planes, helicopters, training jets and naval vessels purchased being mothballed. Those that are in use suffer from chronic under-use and a lack of technical/maintenance personnel and trained pilots."
"The SANDF is drowning in a sea of mismanagement, corruption, political manipulation and strategic myopia".
It’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the basics. Section 200(1) of the constitution states that, “the defence force must be structured and managed as a disciplined military force”. If we take the standard dictionary definition of discipline to mean “the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience”, then it is clear that those who are in charge of structuring and managing the SANDF are in serious breach of its core constitutional imperative.
There is a litany of such ‘indiscipline’.
-- Despite a mountain of evidence stemming from the 1990s arms deal detailing gross mismanagement and corruption involving SANDF and Department of Defence (DOD) officials as well as senior politicians, hardly any of those responsible have been held to even the most minimal of disciplinary standards.
The ongoing official investigation into the arms deal – the Seriti Commission – is turning out to be more of a whitewash than a clean-up. As has become the standard practice of SANDF and DOD officials as well as associated politicians, the main agenda of the Seriti Commission appears to be to ensure that the myriad ‘indisciplines’ are shielded from any meaningful democratic scrutiny and action.
When the SANDF deployed over 1,000 soldiers to the DRC in June 2013 the generals and politicians spoke glowingly about the professionalism of South Africa’s defence forces and their contribution to ‘peace-keeping’ in Africa but did not tell us that the soldiers lacked some of the most basic equipment. It was only through an associated court case later that the minister of defence had to admit that “our soldiers do not have tents … [and] … our soldiers have no parachute equipment”.
-- While the rank-and-file soldiers in conflict zones were being treated like second class citizens, SANDF head honcho, Lieutenant-General Solly Shoke spent over R100 000 of state money flying first class to a conference in Malaysia earlier this year.
The DOD has brazenly cast a veil of secrecy over its recent attempts to buy a new luxury VIP jet worth almost R2 billion. When parliamentary questions were asked, Defence Secretary Dr Sam Gulube noted the matter was a “sensitive project” (read: classified) because it had been conveniently shifted to a ‘Strategic Capital Acquisition Master Plan’ project list, no doubt a secret itself. Public knowledge about an SANDF deal for purchasing over 200 armoured infantry vehicles worth close to R15 billion was zilch until the actions of some brave whistleblowers.
These instances are just the tip of the mismanagement-cum-corruption filled iceberg. There are a range of arms acquisition programmes under way or in the pipeline that are all but invisible to Parliament and the citizenry. According to Defence Web, besides the armoured infantry vehicles, the army is pursuing projects to purchase large numbers of armoured personnel carriers and trucks. In parallel, the navy is seeking to acquire new inshore and offshore patrol vessels while the air force is shopping for new maritime patrol aircraft as well as light and heavy air transport.
When opposition parliamentarians recently asked Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for further details of the SANDF acquisition projects she refused, stating that the information does not belong in the public domain. Not to be outdone in the secrecy stakes, Gulube told Parliament’s defence committee that any attempts to enforce greater scrutiny of the arms procurement programmes would be a threat to national security.
All of this has to be set against the backdrop of the 2014 Defence Force Review which has been approved by the cabinet and is making its way through Parliament’s labyrinthine corridors.
Despite receiving R42 billion in the 2014/15 budget and untold billions more continuing to be spent on the 1990s arms deal and on other acquisition projects that we know little to nothing about, the review unequivocally acknowledges that the SANDF is in a “critical state of decline”. It lists a host of serious problems and crises:
The escalating costs associated with the purchase, use and maintenance of the 1990s arms deal programme has resulted in most of the fighter planes, helicopters, training jets and naval vessels purchased being mothballed. Those that are in use suffer from chronic under-use and a lack of technical/maintenance personnel and trained pilots.
Spares, general equipment, ammunition stocks and fuel reserves are “generally depleted”. One instructive example of the resultant impact is that South Africa has “little airspace or maritime domain awareness” (read: the SANDF can hardly track who and what is in South African airspace and waters).
Nearly 55 percent of the overall budget is spent on personnel, even though SANDF rank-and-file earn relatively little. There is a massive shortage of competent personnel and those with scarce and professional skills are leaving at “concerning rates”.
Practical training and exercises have been cut to the bone such that the SANDF is unable to “execute [its] widening spectrum of tasks” while medical care is in a generalised state of crisis.
The SANDF suffers from “fragmented management and information systems [that] inhibit integrated and systemic decision making”.
Predictably though, the review’s solution to these systemic crises of decision-making, strategic planning and human and financial management is to throw more money into the SANDF pit for it to carry out its “constitutional requirements”. Those “requirements” are interpreted as revolving largely around a military “strategic posture” defined by the “the role that it wishes to play both regionally and continentally”. In other words not, as the actual constitution states, “to defend and protect the republic, its territorial integrity and its people…” but to satisfy a politically constructed and elite centred ‘need’ to play big brother in Africa.
If the review is approved by Parliament we can expect to see over the next decade a massive increase in unnecessary spending, more avenues opened up for corrupt practices, a concentration of power in the military-intelligence cluster and even less democratic oversight and transparency.
We should all take the words of Andrew Feinstein, that fearless exposer and critic of the South African and global arms trade, to heart. He warns us that this ‘shadow world’ “often makes us poorer, not richer, less not more safe and governed not in our own interests but for the benefit of a small, self-serving elite, seemingly above the law, protected by the secrecy of national security and accountable to no one”.
Before it is too late, South Africans need to not only actively demand accountability for past ‘indisciplines and abuse of public funds and trust, but ensure that our military forces and projects focus on what they are supposed to do – to serve and answer to, the people.
* Dr Dale McKinley is an independent writer, researcher and lecturer as well as political activist.
This article first appeared on the website of the South African Civil Society Information Service, www.sacsis.org.za
http://www.sacsis.org.za/site/article/2168
Cape Times http://www.iol.co.za/news/sandf-is-marching-to-myopia-1.1766207#.VECu4FfKGos
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Survived: Potchefstroom farm-couple Hennie 75 and Rensche Maree 74 beaten and tortured extensively, very little of value 'robbed'
POTCHEFSTROOM - POLICE ONLY LOGGED A 'HOUSE ROBBERY' DOCKET IN THEIR CRIME STATS FOR OCT 12 2014 - Even though the elderly Farm couple Hennie and Rensche Maree were horribly tortured, beaten and kicked during their farm-attack ordeal, and very little of real value was actually 'robbed'. The 'stolen' farm-vehicle was found abandoned near a black township...
REPORT:
Oct 12 2014 5am Potchefstroom farmer Hennie Maree was tied up and dragged on his stomach from the stable to a storage shed during the torture-attack on his father on 12 October at around 05h00. Son Niklaas Maree said his dad was in the stables to milk the cows. The dog walked with him. As he walked into the stable his boerboel barked but it was too late: Maree got smashed into his face with a shotgun. He then was kicked and beaten some more. The farm workers were tied up in the stable shortly before the farmer arrived. The workers were not injured. His son Niklaas said they don't keep much cash in their safe, but he was dragged to a nearby store where they managed to find a little bit of cash. "I suspect that my dad was also struck with a brick. His wounds were very dirty because they dragged him all over the place. Once in the storage shed they tied Maree to a chair and fled using the farm-vehicle. They got cellphones, the tv and some cash. His mom Rensche Maree was meanwhile tortured in her bedroom: beaten in the face, kicked and tortured with a hot iron. The couple are 75 and 74 years old... The injured Mr Maree managed to free himself and rode on his nearest vehicle, a tractor, to Tolmay's store to ask for help and contact his son. "The signal on the farm is weak so I only heard bits of words like "lance and 'pol'. I tried to make sense of it and immediately drove to the shop. I only realized how serious it was when I saw my dad's bloodied face. He helped his dad to his feet and they drove back to the homestead to check on his mom. "I contacted by neighbour enroute home because I didn't know who was waiting for me there. He and his brother arrived - and found the injured Mrs Maree in her bedroom. Mr Maree was admitted to the intensive care unit immediately upon arrival. Mrs Maree was placed in the general treatment ward. The SAPS confirmed that the farmer's 'stolen' vehicle was found abandoned -- as they always are. This time near Khuma township in Stilfontein, said deputy w/o Mpho Manyoba - who also said they are 'only recording charges of 'house robbery'. "It's up to the courts to decide whether they should also be charged with culpible homicide or assault with the intent to commit murder,' she said. Niklaas Maree points out where his father's blood coated the stable-floor where the workers tried to clean it with lye. All the white spots are from the lye where the blood was cleaned.
https://www.facebook.com/boerekrisisaksie/photos/a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416/981209931905552/?type=1
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Survived: Chanté Graham 16, stabbed four times by unknown male while jogging at 4pm, NOTHING ROBBED
16-year-old Chanté Graham stabbed four times by a male while jogging: nothing robbed
EVANDER. Chanté Graham, 16, was jogging in Evander near her home on Thursday 16 October 2014 at 4pm.
A 'middle-aged man' stopped the girl to 'ask directions and to borrow her cellphone to make a call'.
She didn't carry one. "He followed me, grabbed me by the neck, plucked a sharp item from his pocket and stabbed me four times,' she said.
She was taken to Evander Hospital for treatment - where this picture was taken.
The local police have not yet commented about the unmotivated attack.
http://ridgetimes.co.za/22326/16-jarige-aangerand-evander/
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Precious Poppy Tau, ANC-councillor in Middelburg charged with four attempted robbery accounts
By day, Precious Poppy Tau is an ANC councillor in Middelburg Mpumalanga. Now Tau and her husband were arrested: faced with 3 charges of armed robbery and assault.
-- SAPS Captain Khanyisile Zwane, for the Middelburg Police Station, said Tau was accused of robbing several women along the highways last year.
The ward councillor for Mhluzi in Middelburg allegedly offered her victims a lift before brandishing a gun and robbing them.
Zwane said: “One of the complainants saw her in Middelburg after the incident and found out she was a councillor. She then immediately went to police. The other woman took her registration number and reported the incident to the police.”
Tau and her husband were arrested two weeks ago and face three charges of assault and armed robbery.
They are due to apply for bail in the Springs Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
The couple is being detained in Springs because there are two other complaints against them there, police said.
In these cases, they are charged with robbing two women on the N12 near Springs in December.
The ANC-named "Steve Tshwete Local Municipality" (Middelburg) spokeswoman Prudence Magutle said they "would wait for the police to finish their investigation and then conduct an internal investigation.
Was she drunk? asks ANC-chief whip Busisiwe Paulina Ndalala...
Busisiwe Paulinah Ndala, the ANC’s chief whip in the municipality, said she was shocked and wondered whether Tau was drunk when the incidents allegedly occurred.
“I know Tau. She wouldn’t do something like that. It’s a conspiracy against her. She must come back and do her work.”
http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/councillor-day-highway-robber-night/
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20 female foreign tourists and tourbus driver kidnapped, robbed by black males in police uniforms on R33 Vaalwater - Ellisras
A group of 20 foreign tourists and their driverwere KIDNAPPED on the R33 between Vaalwater-Ellisras by armed blacks in police uniforms
who held up the 22-seater bus with women-shoppers from Botswana and their male driver on October 12 2014.
They were kidnapped at gunpoint by a group of black males who held guns to their heads and were dressed in South African police uniforms.
They said they were 'arresting' the driver of the bus, one uniformed man got in behind the wheel and some of the others also climbed on board, holding the women and gunpoint while they looted all their belongings,
which included 200,00 Rand in cash - saved so that they could go shopping in Gauteng. The women were driven to a site at the zanddrift dirt road about 15km outside Vaalwater were the 'policemen' fled in the blue-light vehicle they had arrived in with all their loot.
SAPS constable Simon Makhuvele hastened to assure Die Pos readers that 'these were not South African Police Officers, none of our members were involved'-- even though nobody had been captured at that point.
They discovered the distraught group of foreign tourists and their driver at the Zanddrift spot after the Vaalwater police had received a call from a tracking company in Botswana, notifying them of the suspicious fact that their 22-seated rented bus had been parked at the Zanddrift site 'for an unexpectedly long time'.
The 20 stranded women were very distraught and moreover felt very helpless because their cellphones also were stolen and they couldn't call for help.
http://diepos.linmedia.co.za/articles/crime/27429/2014-10-17/buitelandse-toeriste-gekaap
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Survived: elderly Afrikaner Pierre de Kock stabbed in face: coloured suspect Desroy Rapuling 20 in court for bail 23 October 2014
Elderly Afrikaner Pierre de Kock stabbed in Jonkershoek Road home, suspect Desroy Rapuling 20 remanded to 23 October for bail application at Stellenbosch
magistrate's court: IT'S NOT KNOWN whether the police have opened a docket for 'attempted murder' or only for a 'house robbery'. The ANC-regime prefers to keep registered 'murder' and 'attempted murder'stats as low as possible. The SAPS did not carry out the arrest of the suspect: a private security company found the knifeman hiding hiding in bushes across the street from the De Kock home with a TV stolen from his victim's home in his possession.
Publication: Die Burger, Journalist: Raymond Willemse
Saturday 18 October 2014 - Elderly Afrikaner Pierre de Kock was stabbed in his face today by a coloured man named as Desroy Rapuling, 20, during the suspects
first remand appearance at the Stellenbosch Magistrate's court. Stellenbosch Guard Security executive Antoon van Zyl said they were alerted to the De Kock
home on Wednesday at noon Saterday 18 Oktober 2014 ’n Bejaarde man is Woensdag hier in sy huis deur ’n inbreker in die gesig gesteek.
after 'a client contacted us to advice that a man had broken into their home, stole their flatscreen TV and stabbed her husband'.
Rapuling was remanded to 23 October in the same courtroom for a bail application.
SAPS captain Frederick van Wyk said Mr De Kock had gone to investigate a noise in his living room and was confronted by the unknown burglar, during which the
victim was stabbed in the face by an unknown man who then fled. The security officers from the security company captured the suspect with the stolen TV in a
wooded area across from the house. They handed him over to the SAPS. The Die Burger newspaper tried to interview the couple to determine Mr de Kock's
current condition. http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-10-18-bejaarde-beseer-tydens-inbraak-in-eikestad
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Survived: lawyer's wife Elzé de Lange 27, attemped kidnapping, brutal assault by husband's ex-bookkeeper, a white man illegally identified before he could plead in court
Survived: lawyer's wife Elzé de Lange 27 after attempted kidnapping, brutal assault by husband's firm's white ex-bookkeeper
Elzé de Lange 27, while being brutally attacked and threatened with kidnapping, managed to write her name in her own blood so that her husband would know to go and search for her reports Beeld daily.
October 18 2014. Mrs De Lange reportedly was ambushed in the parking garage near her husband's lawfirm Eduard de Lange Lawyers in Menlyn, Pretoria. She works for her husband. The man who is charged with assaulting her is a former employee - whose name was illegally published by Beeld before he has even been charged in a court of law. The man was arrested and is awaiting a bail-application procedure before he is formally charged. The 29-year-old former bookkeeper 'left under a cloud at his former employers', the De Lange couple allege. Mrs De Lange said that all the new job-appointments are approved by her and that 'while (the former bookkeeper's) work was not of good quality he was terribly charmismatic and charming towards everyone. "I did not suspect anything untowards when I examined his CV - but eventually my husband's PA started getting calls from his former employers, looking for him,' she said. After these calls, Kotze offered to resign and left the firm on 28 June.
Mrs De Lange told Beeld that she didn't see the ex-bookkeeper again until the Friday of the attack. She had parked her car on the shadow side outside the office and was walking through the parking garage to the entrance door. She saw a blue Mazda parked nearby with an opened boot near the door but had also seen it the prevous day and 'thought nothing of it." She was walking past the parked car when 'a man attacked me and pulled a pillow case across my head. I initially thought it was a joke but fought back'. "I kicked, scratched and bit him. He pushed me down on the floor of the garage, hit my head repeatedly against the concrete and beat me all over my body,' she said. "He pushed his fingers into my mouth and in my throat and I bit him hard.' He treated to stab her, shoot her - he later tied her hands with earphone-cables saying he was going to kidnap her because he was looking for money. Just then another care drove into the parking garage just before he could push her into the car-boot. She escaped and ran screaming into the entrance door where security guards captured the former bookkeeper.The SAPS of the Brooklyn police station arrived to take him to the police cells. SAPS captain Colette Weilbach said the man is held at the Brooklyn police station.He appeared in court on remand but was not yet asked to plead to the charges of kidnapping and assault. She said that she now has to take anti-retroviral medication and get hepatatis-B injections because she was scratched. "Assaillants are not tested for diseases, only suspected rapists - and the couple intend to file an urgent interdict in the High Court to have the man tested. Beeld did not mention when the former bookkeeper would be expected in court and asked to plead to the charges - and the publication erroneously published the suspect's name and picture prominently on its front page before he was even asked to plead in any court of law to any charges. Under South African privacy-laws, a suspect may only be publicly named after formal charges were read to him and he had pleaded to these charges.
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-10-16-eks-werker-wag-vrou-in-en-val-aan
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Sought by police: Jurgen VanDeKeere 35, white rape/murder suspect, may have fled SouthAfrica: faces trial for 'Porcelain Doll" rape/murder of Chantelle Barnard 20, on 1 April 2011
MISSING: After 3 years, the South African Police are still searching for the suspected murderer/rapist Jurgen vandeKeere: 35, who may have fled overseas since he failed to appear in the Delmas High Court for his trial on 9 September 2013. He is still facing trial for the apparently 'ritualistic' rape/murder of Chantelle Barnard, 20. The young girl's body was found washed and with makeup applied after her murder. There were reported sightings of the accused rapist/murderer at an airport in Maputo, Mozambique in November 2013.
The girlwas in the middle of moving from their Brentwood Park, Benoni smallholding with her mother to a new home when she went missing while taking the house-key to the caretaker of their former home. She was reported missing. Her mother found her raped, mutilated and completely washed off and with her face made up to look like 'a porcelain doll' in their former home in Brentwood Park, on 1 April 2011. Her mother told the news media at the time that she 'looked like a porcelain doll' when she found her daughter - whose body and hair were still wet: she was bathed after she was murdered.
http://benonicitytimes.co.za/171582/three-years-since-barnard-murder-2/
http://benonicitytimes.co.za/tag/jurgen-vandekeere/
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Survived: Elderly white man 77 and wife 61 beaten up while tied up in tiny town of Windsortown, North Cape
Survived: Elderly white couple survive vicious beatings while being tied up: wife sustains serious brain- and lung-injuries, dog survives poisoning in Windsorton, a town of only 6,250 people of whom only 2.2% are white Afrikaners... The excessive violence and the brutality of the attack against a tied-up, frail, elderly couple has shocked family members.
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19 Oktober 2014 reporter: Nico Strydom published by: MaroelaMedia.co.za online publication of Afriforum civil-rights group
-- Windsorton is a small agricultural town in the dry North Cape region where only 2.2% of its 6,250 people are white Afrikaners.
In the March 2013-April 2014 SA Police crime statistics, Windsorton had 4 murders, 2 attempted murders, 55 combined assaults, and 9 combined robberies. The crime statistics are not drawn up according to racial demographics in South Africa. To have two elderly white Afrikaners criminally assaulted in such a violent manner is an unusual occurrance in Windsorton.
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The couple's dog survived being poisoned. The unnamed, defenceless, elderly white couple, (the 77-year-old man only has one leg) were attacked early Saturday-morning in their beds. The 77-year-old man and his 61 year old wife were attacked in their bedrooms at 03h00 while they were asleep, reportedly by three (previously unknown to them) black males. The thugs got inside by breaking away the burglar-bars. The couple's home was well-secured against armed attackers: inside they had installed five security gates barring access to various rooms which they kept locked at night. The thugs tore off their bedroom window's burglar bars and attacked the couple while they were asleep in their beds. They first pushed a man's tie inside the woman's mouth and tied her mouth closed up tightly with another tie. The couple were then tied up and brutally beaten while they were totally defenceless.
Despite her muzzle, the woman still managed to scream and the men then repeatedly bashed her over the head with a car-jack. After she heard the men say they were looking for something to burn her with in the kitchen, she pretended to be passed out. The 'robbers' were frustrated because they could not reach the kitchen area due to the locked security gates. After the thugs fled with the loot they managed to find, the couple were able to free themselves and called for help.
The woman was admitted to hospital: she has serious head-injuries and one lung was 'badly injured' during the attack, a family member said: who added that 'her tongue was blue and very swollen. Doctors determined that she did not suffer a brain haemorrhage but she will be scanned on Monday to establish whether her brain was swollen from the attack". The couple's dog had been poisoned but survived, said SAPS spokesman Lt Sergio Kock. The victims do not want their names published, fearing reprisals. Windsorton is a small agricultural town in the dry North Cape region with a total population of only 6,250 people (in 2011).
Only 2.2% of this population are white Afrikaans-speakers. However the area is 55% Afrikaans-speaking because of the large Khoi-San 'coloured' population.
55.2% of the population speak Tswana.
http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/bejaarde-egpaar-in-windsorton-aangeval/
-- Racial makeup of Windsorton population of 6,250 people:
• Black African 67.5%
• Coloured 26.4%
• Indian/Asian 0.8%
• White 2.2%
• Other 3.2%
First languages (2011)
• Tswana 55.2%
• Afrikaans 36.5%
• English 1.9%
• S. Ndebele 1.9%
• Other 4.6%
Postal code (street) 8510
History:
The town is located in the 1930's-created Vaalharts Irrigation Scheme on the banks of the Vaal River in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.
It is located 55 km north of Kimberley, 35 km northeast of Barkly West and 40 km south-west of Warrenton. It was founded in 1869 as the mission-station 'Hebron", became a diamond-diggers’ camp and was administered by a village management board after diamonds were discovered.
The town was renamed after P F (Peter Ford) Windsor, the original owner of the land, who was instrumental in its development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsorton
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Survived: Afrikaner mom of 4 children and friend - found unconscious, tied up, bloodied after surviving horrific beating ordeal in Free State
Afrikaner mom of 4 and friend, found tied up, bloodied -- but survived horrific beating-ordeal: ONLY A CELLPHONE WAS 'robbed'... injured couple found in veld after cold night
in 'armed robbery' attack during which only a cellphone was 'robbed'..
She was beaten so hard and repeatedly over the head that her facial skin fell across her face and her skull was cut to the bone:
PELONOMI - Deur André Damons Saterdag 18 Oktober 2014 10:56 vm.
“ Dit is hoe ons haar ken. Sy het baklei vir haar lewe en het regdeur die nag geveg om te leef. ”
- Van Bosch ’n familielid van die vrou
’n Ma van vier kinders is gisteroggend bebloed, vol sand en met ’n gapende wond aan haar kop ná ’n koue nag in ’n veld enkele meters van haar huis in Heidedal, Bloemfontein, gekry.Die 42-jarige vrou en ’n vriend (in sy 20’s) is na bewering die vorige aand deur ’n groep mans aangeval terwyl hulle na ’n nagwaak op pad was.Hulle is na bewering verskeie kere oor die kop geslaan en vir dood agtergelaat.
Slegs ’n selfoon word vermis.Die vrou se susterskind, wat sy grootmaak, het gister omstreeks 06:30 toevallig op hulle afgekom toe sy op pad werk toe was en deur die veld gestap het.Volgens ’n familielid was die vrou se hande en voete met haar skoenveters vasgemaak.
Sy is so hard en herhaaldelik oor die kop geslaan dat haar kopvel oor haar gesig gehang het en haar skedel ontbloot was.
Haar vriend het ook ’n wond aan sy kop en het moontlik bloeding op die brein.
’n Bebloede baksteen is op die toneel gekry, sê die familielid.
“Hulle het heel nag daar in die koue gelê. Toe die mannetjie (haar susterskind) daar kom, het haar vriend net opgestaan en rondgedwaal. Hy was baie deurmekaar.
“Die susterskind het hom na die pad gehelp en terug na sy tannie gehardloop,” vertel die familielid emosioneel.
Die man het paramedici van ER24, wat toevallig verbygery het, gestop en hulle het die twee gehelp en na die Pelonomi-hospitaal gebring.
Die vrou was gistermiddag laat steeds bewusteloos en is weer vir x-straalfoto’s geneem.
Nog ’n familielid van die vrou sê haar hande was vol bloed, wat wys sy het teruggeveg.
“Dit is hoe ons haar ken. Sy het baklei vir haar lewe en het regdeur die nag geveg om te leef.”
Volgens hom moes die vrou se kopwond bedek word vir haar kinders, onderskeidelik 2, 3, 5 en 20 jaar oud.
Sers. Thabo Litabe, polisiewoordvoerder, sê klagte van poging tot moord word ondersoek en niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie.
http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-10-18-ma-van-4-bebloed-n-koue-nag-in-veld-gekry
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Family of murder-victim Mary Lee Mucumbe issues pictures of her killer Percy Quincy Jones Mohammed Khosa, calling for his arrest
Oct 20 2014: Friends, family of murder-victim Mary Lee Mucumbe (Jeppe 20 Oct 2014) issue a call for the arrest of her alleged killer who was identified as Percy Quincy Jones Mohammed Khosa: ('the last person she was seen with') when she was reported missing on October 19 2014. Mr Darishen Naidoo published the murder-suspect's pictures on Twitter and asked people to help catch him.
The murdered woman was reported missing in Jeppe, Johannesburg since Friday October 19 2014 and was found murdered in the trunk of a car the next day. (info: Ayrton: telephone 073 546 9811.)
https://twitter.com/DarishenNaidoo
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Children's human rights to education violated: Limpopo pupils forced from schools to carry heavy boulders and set fire to tyre barricades
Children's human rights to education violated: Again thousands of pupils were forced from schools to 'demonstrate' and do hard, dangerous labour gathering boulders and set fire to tyre barricades in the country's ongoing and inevitably violent 'protests' - this time in Limpopo where people are becoming irate about the lack of clean reticulated municipal water and electricity due to the political crisis in landlocked Lesotho - which has turned off the water-supplies from its highlands. South Africa's deputy president is said to be engaged in 'delicate negotiations' concerning the water-rights issue.
Meanwhile Limpopo provincial towns are struggling to provide clean water to its residents. The electricity-problem has been going on for a long time in South Africa due to the ESKOM state-provider's difficulties due to the ANC-regime's laws prohibiting even the most skilled 'whites' from working in State employment.
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20 October 2014 SAPA reports that the human rights of thousands of pupils were violated and their right to education denied when the children were pulled from Limpopo schools and forced to participate and also perform hard labour collecting heavy boulders in a so-named 'service delivery protest'
Democratic Alliance leader Jacques Smalle said the children were forced from their classrooms in Maphotho, Solomondale, Sebayeng, Baphutheng, Mafololo and Leruleng. "The DA is very concerned that Grade Twelve pupils are unable to write their final-year exams. The children were used to build road-barriers with boulders and burning rubber tyres'. He issued a public call to the ANC-regime's official MEC for education in the province to 'create alternative plans for those matriculants who were unable to write their exams today'.
However the provincial spokesman for education, ANC-member Paena Galane, said it wasn't all that bad: 'private schools are writing final exams today, but state-schools' final exams only start on 28 October 2014...
SAPoliceService spokesman Brig. Hangwani Mulaudzi said on Monday that they have members posted at the violent protests in Solomondale and Lebowakgomo but don't know how many there are on site. Apparently they are protesting against the fact that there has been no clean municipal water nor electricity in the province all month. The Limpopo river has run dry due to the political upheavals in neighbouring Lesotho - which has turned off the water-delivery from the highlands to South Africa. SA's Deputy president has been holding 'delicate negotiations' behind closed doors about the cut-off water supplies with the Lesotho officials however the matter remained 'unresolved' until the political situation in Lesotho can be calmed down.
http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/limpopo-leerlinge-verhoed-om-skool-te-gaan/
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Survived: Prominent Kimberley businessman and family survive attack by 3 black male gunmen
A Kimberley family was held up at gunpoint in their Cassandra home at 4am Friday-morning. Their seven-year-old son also was tied up and threatened at gun-point, as was the patriarch of the family.The wife and two daughters, 12 and 14, were badly traumatised by the attack which occurred after three 'well-dressed, jovial' armed black males tore off the bars from the front gate and climbed through a living room window. Three firearms were stolen from the house as well as 'some very expensive jewellery'...
The owner of the home, a prominent local businessman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that he woke up on Friday morning and found three masked men in his bedroom the barrel of a gun was pointed just inches from his face.
“My family had all gone to bed as usual on Thursday night. My seven-year-old son has the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and then his mother often decides to sleep in his bed while he sleeps with me,” the Cassandra resident told the DFA.
“It was a typical night, but when I woke up at around 4am there were three men in the room and one of them was pointing a gun at me.”
He said the attackers were 'well-dressed and were making jokes. It was clear that they knew exactly what they were doing and they managed to keep us calm and under control the whole time. I was praying that they would not hurt anyone and fortunately they did not do anything to harm us, except to tie us up with our own shoelaces and ransacking the whole house.”
The robbers, who kept on asking for money, managed to escape with several firearms and some very expensive jewellery.
“There is no reason why a businessman should ever need to take cash home, so fortunately there was not a lot of money to steal,” he added.
“They got away with some very expensive items, such as custom-made jewellery and my watches. I can not really put a cash value on what was taken.”
Although family members were not harmed during the robbery, he said that they were still rattled.
“These guys knew exactly what they were doing and what they were looking for. They ransacked our cupboards but did not hurt anybody.
“My wife, son and two daughters (aged 12 and 14) are still shaken and are struggling to come to terms with what had happened.
“I chose to buy a house in Cassandra because it is a quiet and peaceful area. I have always believed that making your house look like a fortress does nothing but draw attention.
“Still, I had a security system in place and electric fences, but even this did not prevent them from entering my home.”
The police on Sunday confirmed that they are investigating a case of armed robbery that took place in Cassandra at 4.10am on Friday morning.
The police said that three unknown men broke into the house while the complainant, his wife, son and two daughters were sleeping.
The attackers pointed firearms at the victims and demanded the keys to the safe. The suspects tied the hands and feet of the complainant, his wife and their seven-year-old son with shoe laces and neck ties. The two girls were asleep in another room during the incident.
The house was ransacked and the suspects fled with three firearms, an undisclosed amount of money, jewellery, two cell phones, Kruger coins, a tablet and a laptop.
“The police have requested anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Detective Warrant Officer Desmond Markgraaf on 082 302 0407, or call 08600 10 111 or SMS 32211. The investigation continues,” police spokesman, Constable Sergio Kock, said.
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Explosion of WW2 bomb in Pretoria: illegal Cameroon migrant blown up trying to dismantle live bomb at Pretoria scrapyard, residents fear for their safety
Explosion of World War Two bomb in South Africa - One illegal migrant male from Cameroon dead, one injured: police is searching for two Cameroon men who had sold 15 military bombs to a local Pretoria West scrapyard: and local residents including the large community from Cameroon living in the area, now fear for their safety:
Witnesses claimed that 'Men from Cameroon" had tried to sell the military items to another scrap yard all week but he rejected them, saying he wanted nothing to do with them. However the 15 bombs were then sold to another scrapyard dealer. An eyewitness, who runs a business a short distance from the scrap yard, says the two black males had been trying to sell the military items over the past week. The South African Police Service has confirmed to the news media that an illegal male migrant from Cameroon has died and another man was injured when they tried to open one of 15 bombs with a hammer and chisel. Pretoria Police are now searching for two other men believed to have sold 15 military explosive devices to a Pretoria West scrap dealer following a deadly blast early on Monday morning. Police bomb-disposal squad experts determined that six of the 15 bombs were still 'live'. Eyewitnesses say they saw two men drop a black bag and then run up the street as soon as they heard an explosion coming from the scrapyard. The bag, which was just a few meters away from the scrapyard, was believed to contain more explosives and the bomb squad has now taken over.
Earlier, worried members of the "Cameroonian migrant community" gathered near the scrapyard, with some imploring the police to enter the scene. They told the police that the deceased man was a Cameroonian national. The police bomb-squad has taken over the area.
An eyewitness, who runs a business a short distance from the scrap yard, says the two men had been trying to sell the military items over the past week.
He says the men also tried to sell the armaments to another scrap dealer on Rebecca Street, but the dealer declined, saying that the items looked suspicious and he wanted nothing to do with them. Police and members of the explosives unit are making sure the area is safe.
Pretoria residents are angry and fearing for their safety. “We were frightened, what about the children in school. If it's nearby what will happen to us?”
The police have searched the area looking for more munitions.
UPDATE:
20 Oktober 2014 Sapa Pretoria-West - The bomb which exploded at a scrapyard was part of an assignment of 15 World War Two bombs - six were still 'live' -- which had been collected and taken to a scrap yard by someone who did not know they were bombs. A man died in the explosion. Picture: Herbert Atkinson
SAPS captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said one man was killed on Monday around 8am and another man was seriously injured when one of the lethal missiles exploded.
It's not known whether the men were workers there and identification remains difficult. They have no idea how the antique explosives ended up at the scrapyard.
The man added the usual ANC-speak 'call to the community to come forward with information'.
In the initial panic after the explosion the streets were barred off around the scrapyard but by early afternoon were reopened. It's impossible to know at this stage
whether the 15 missiles were removed, from the present information available in the media.
Explosion of World War Two bomb in South Africa - One man dead, one injured. 15 missiles were delivered to Rebecca Street Pretoria West scrapyard:
Some of the above information was posted by the Afriforum online publication
http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/suid-afrika/pta-ontploffing-was-wo-ii-bom/
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Survived: Paul Zimmerman survived attack by two black male gunmen due his quick reflexes
Paul Zimmerman, Pinetown businessman, survived armed attack by two black males
Pinetown KZN Vanessa Zimmerman is thankful that her husband, Paul, escaped the armed robbery with his life.
After the shooting Zimmerman described his situation as one of the loneliest experiences of his life.
“I was shouting that I had been shot, I wasn’t bleeding profusely, but there was blood. People stopped and looked but did nothing and kept going. I had to beg a lady that was driving past to
help me,” said Zimmerman.
QUICK reflexes allowed a local man to avoid a shot that could have killed him during an armed robbery in Pinetown last week Friday.
It was 6.15am when Paul Zimmerman, owner of Zimmerman Grinding, arrived at his workplace. He pressed the gate remote for the electronic gate well in advance so that he could drive
straight into the building complex.Due to the heavy rains the day before, a thick layer of mud had covered the railing and the gate could not fully open. “I climbed out of the vehicle, locked
my car and went to scrape the mud away as quickly as I could. Two men, in a matter of second, appeared behind me, and I felt them place something against my neck. “I didn’t realise that it
was a gun and I lashed out and pushed them away. I dislike people in my personal space,” said Zimmerman. The two men, believed to be in their early thirties, shouted that they had a gun
and demanded the keys to Zimmerman’s vehicle.
He handed them his house keys and tried to reach the road to put a vehicle in between him and the two criminals. “As my luck would have it there were no cars at that specific time in the
road. The man not holding the gun was the most violent of the two and he kept telling his partner to shoot me,” said Zimmerman.
At the time there were dozens of people walking around the area on their way to work and the man wielding the gun attempted to keep it concealed under his brown jacket. They then
demanded his cellphone, which he gave them, along with his car keys. “I had both of my hands in the air, I was completely vulnerable but the violent one of the two was intent of doing
some damage and grabbed the gun from his partner and aimed it at my chest. I saw what he was doing and knocked the gun downwards,” said Zimmerman. The one shot that was fired
pierced Zimmerman’s shin bone and shattered his tibia. The moment he tried to put any weight onto his leg he collapsed. The two criminals ran towards the parked car but instead of
climbing in and stealing it, or taking the goods inside, they started to argue with each other and then fled the scene. After the shooting Zimmerman described his situation as one of the
loneliest experiences of his life.
“I was shouting that I had been shot, I wasn’t bleeding profusely, but there was blood. People stopped and looked but did nothing and kept going. I had to beg a lady that was driving past to
help me,” said Zimmerman. He was then taken to Crompton Hospital. Since the shooting he has undergone surgery twice and was told he should be fully mobile within the next six months,
after more surgeries and physiotherapy.
http://highwaymail.co.za/174040/local-businessmans-brush-with-death/
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Murder: 2 killers found guilty: Peter Hackland 61 attacked, murdered on his farm by two sadistic black male gunmen eve of his retirement
Sadistic black male killers of Ixopo farmer Peter Hackland found guilty on Oct 21 2014 for his murder on 7 May 2013 - IXOPO KZN: Two black males - Nkosinathi Mngadi 29, and Sifiso Ngubane 24 -- were found guilty of shooting dead white Ixopo farmer Peter Hackland, 61, and guilty of assaulting his daughter Louise Hartwig and pepper-spraying the grandmother. The gunman, Ngubane, had sadistically played Russian Roulette with her and her father, the daughter testified at their trial. Mr Hackland was murdered on the eve of his retirement on 7 May 2013.
-- The murderer Sifiso Ngubane, 24 was armed with a gun and 'played a type of Russian Roulette' with the white farmer, while demanding money: testimony
"Mr Hackland's companion Mrs Margaret Fennel, 70, blocked out of her memory all the details of the fatal attack, she testified:
-- The Witness 8 May 2014 A victim of the attack in which Ixopo farmer Peter Hackland (61) was shot dead on May 7 last year, Margaret Fennell (70), said she has no memory of what happened to her during the incident. Fennell, who was working in an office on Hackland’s citrus and timber farm when the attack happened, said she was having lunch when the attackers struck. “The next memory I have is when I was on my bed at home and friends were swabbing my face to get rid of pepper spray,” she told Acting Judge Thoba PoyoDlwati and an assessor . She said her jaw was extremely sore.
Hackland’s daughter Louise Hartwig, told the court that she and Margaret Fennel, 70, were assaulted by the gunman, Sifiso Ngubane who forced herr into the house. When Mrs Fennell appeared, he got hold of her too and dragged both of them to the pantry where he pushed them to the floor, repeatedly demanding money. According to Hartwig, at one point Fennell had started singing a hymn, causing Ngubane to “hit her really hard”. He then took a pepper spray and sprayed her in her eyes. Hartwig averted her eyes, and was only partially sprayed. He later also sprayed pepper spray into her 84yearold grandmother’s face, she said. Hartwig identified Ngubane and his coaccused, Nkosinathi Mngadi ( 29) as the men who attacked them on the farm that day.
http://www.kwanalu.co.za/default.asp?action=news&Id=1179
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Farmer Peter Hackland, 61 murdered on eve of retirement: - 2013-05-08 Journalist Thamsanqa Magubane writes in The Witness
Pietermaritzburg - Ixopo farmer Peter Hackland was shot dead and his female associate was attacked and wounded in his house in broad daylight on Tuesday.
Peter Hackland, 61, of Cromleigh Farm in Carisbrook, Ixopo, was killed around midday by two unknown men inside the farmhouse.The Witness understands that Hackland had been working outside with his female associate.When they went into the house they found the two men waiting inside.The men produced a firearm and shot him dead.Hackland farmed sugarcane, citrus and timber. He had sold his farm recently and was heading for retirement. He had lived and farmed in the area his whole life.Attempts to obtain comment from the family were unsuccessful.John Foster of the Ixopo Farmers’ Association said they were shocked by the incident.“We understand that it was two (black) people who came in pretending to be looking for work. They then accosted his helper and his daughter, who is in her twenties.
“When Peter came in, a scuffle broke out and two shots were fired. Only one hit him and he was killed.“It does not appear that much had been stolen. The female associate who was there doing some work on the farm was also attacked. We do not know the extent of her injuries,” said Foster.He said “It’s been a long time since something like this has happened, but if one looks at the statistics, it’s quite shocking.”He said there had been no farm attack incidents in the area for 18 months.
Local farmers and the police were in the area on the lookout for the suspected men on Tuesday and a helicopter and a dog unit had been dispatched.Koos Marais of the Kwanalu security desk said farmers should be cautious of strangers pretending to seek employment.“They should report any suspicious people,” he said.“Kwanalu is shocked by the attack. That area has a general crime problem like theft and domestic abuse, but on the farming side it has been relatively quiet. There have not been any incidents of farm attacks for the past 18 months”.“We are very grateful that the police responded very quickly and they even sent helicopters there. We are confident they will bring the perpetrators to book.”The police confirmed that they were investigating a case of murder and house robbery at Cromleigh Farm in Ixopo.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Farmer-shot-dead-on-eve-of-retirement-20130508
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FIRST REPORT:
Hannes Engelbrecht at Boere Krisis Aksie B.K.A. facebook: May 7 2013:"IXOPO: Peter Hackland attacked and murdered on his farm. More information awaited:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416?ref=ts&fref=ts
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Saved from kidnapper: Afrikaner mom Katryn Beukes saved her 6-year-old daughter from male kidnapper with two dogs
Afrikaner mom Katryn Beukes saves her 6-year-old daughter from male kidnapper with two dogs.
"The unknown man led her daughter down the road'- When Katryn Beukes saw her six-year-old daughter being led down the road by an unknown man, her blood ran cold - Story in ReviewOnLine journalist Riana Joubert |
21 October 2014 Pietersburg - When Katryn Beukes saw her six-year-old daughter being led down the road by an unknown man, her blood ran cold.
Katryn Beukes said she took her daughter to play at a park in Devenish Street on Sunday where she had a lot of fun playing with the other children there.
“I took a walk around the park, but could still see the children. My eye also caught a man in the park with two small dogs. He was talking to the children and they played with the animals. It did not seem strange at first and I did not pay him any attention,” she said. She said she finished her walk and realised, when she returned to the children, that her daughter was not with them. “I called out her name and was shocked when she answered from outside the park. She held the hand of the man with the two dogs and he was leading her down the street.” Beukes said she immediately called her daughter back and the man just kept on walking away. Her daughter told her that the man wanted to show her some of the dogs’ toys. He apparently said he did not live very far from the park and they would be back before her mother even knew she was gone. Beukes said the incident had been reported to the Pieterburg police station and they had told her they would investigate. However the spokesman there, warrant officer Lesiba Ramoshaba said he "was not aware of the case, but would make enquiries."
He blamed the mother: "Parents should know where their children were at all times."
He gave advice to parents if their children go missing:
• Have identity photos taken of your children every six months and have them fingerprinted.
• Keep your children’s medical and dental records up to date.
• Parents should make sure that online safety comes first. The internet is a good tool, but it is also a place for predators to stalk children. Be aware of your children’s internet activities and chat room “friends,” and remind them never to give out personal information.
• Set boundaries about the places your children go. Supervise them in places like malls, movie theatres, parks and public bathrooms.
• Never leave children alone in a car or stroller, even for a minute.
Beukes said she was grateful that her daughter was safe and she hoped her experience would serve to warn other parents to be on the lookout at all times.
“If I had not been there, my child may have left with the man and never come back,” she concluded.
http://reviewonline.co.za/46283/mom-saves-girl-6-from-kidnapper/
There have also been numerous reports of black males harassing white moms in public, demanding that they sell their babies to them. Report elsewhere on this archive. page grabs attached
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Survive kidnapping: Two toddlers were saved from three black male gunmen who stole parents' car: community captures them
Kemptonpark: THREE armed hijackers sped off with two toddlers still in the car in an early morning hijacking in Birchleigh North on Thursday.
Oct 20 2014 - Three black gunmen sped off in a car they hijacked with two children still inside.
Waiting for the police to arrive, community members chased after the men and assaulted one of them.
Two men were eventually arrested after the hijackers had abandoned the car at Esselen Park with the children inside.
The three men hijacked the Strydom Street resident at about 7.30am as they were leaving their home.
According to an eyewitness, the man tried to fight the men off, one of whom was armed, but he was hit on the head with a gun.
One of the men then drove off with the two toddlers, a boy and a girl. The exact time the police was called is unknown and it is believed a community member alerted them, but by the time they received the call, the community had already chased down one of the suspects.
“He was caught on Pongolarivier Drive by the community and beaten up,” Capt Lesibana Molokomme, Norkem Park SAPS spokesman, said.
“Police then went to look for the other suspect, who was found on the run in Birchleigh North ext 3.”
In the meanwhile, the suspect who had escaped with the stolen vehicle was spotted by a sector vehicle in Esselen Park. Having already received information that a hijacking had taken place and a blue Honda vehicle was stolen, police turned back to follow the car.
“The suspect probably realised he had been spotted and chose to abandon the car, with the children inside and the car keys still in the ignition, and fled on foot. Police are still searching for him.”
The victim was taken to hospital as he suffered an injury to the head. Luckily, the children, three and four years old, were unharmed.
A hijacking case had been opened and investigations will determine if the gun used was licensed or not. A black City Golf was also found abandoned in a veld in Esselen Park.
The suspects told police it belonged to them. Police will investigate if the vehicle could be linked to other hijackings.
If anyone has information on the whereabouts of the third suspect, call Norkem Park Police Station on 011-391-1814.
Kempton Park news caxton newspaper.
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UK ex-mercenary Paul Reaper Carr faces culpible homicide charge: critically-injured biker killed pedestrian Mrs Mapule Sereto 23
SouthAfrica UK mercenary soldier, biker Paul Reaper Carr investigated for culpible homicide after running down Mrs Mapule Sereto, 23.
Middelburg, Mpumalanga, October 23 2014 Middelburg Observer report:
" Mapule Sereto 23 died in a pedestrian accident last Saturday when the 23-year-old woman, who is the sole wageearner for her family, and her boyfriend Samson Kgwedi 27, were hit by a motorbike ridden by Paul 'Reaper' Carr,( a UK citizen who worked as a contractor in in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to his own facebook page). The newspaper writes that "Mr Carr made rude comments to a journalist at the Oktoberfest less than an hour before the accident occurred Saturday. This is vehemently denied by his friends who were with him at the time'. Police confirmed that a case of culpible homicide is being investigated against Mr. Carr, who reportedly is in a serious condition at the hospital. The deadly accident occurred in SADC Street on Saturday afternoon. She was declared dead on the scene after paramedics tried to resuscitate her. The driver of the motorbike, Paul “Reaper” Carr, was taken to hospital with fractures and a head injury. His passenger, whose name is not known, sustained a knee fracture but did not receive medical assistance. The man, together with another biker, were rushed from the scene after bystanders became aggressive. Her boyfriend Kgwedi was taken to hospital with a serious leg injury. Mapule was the sole breadwinner of her family of four. She lived with her mother Tebogo, brother Thaba (16) and sister Kgomotso (12). On Saturday the local community plans a large funeral during which Mapule’s body will be brought to the accident scene before going to the Tokologo Cemetery.
• Police confirmed that a case of culpable homicide is being investigated.
• It is being claimed that Mr Carr"made rude comments to a journalist at the Oktoberfest less than an hour before the accident occurred Saturday. This is vehemently denied by his friends who were with him at the time.
A crowd which formed became so angry after the biker ran over and killed Mapule Serero that the unconscious Paul Reaper Carr and his injured passenger had to be rushed from the hospital scene. Just an hour earlier Carr reportedly had made a 'rude comment' to a local journalist at an October Fest event, but this was denied by his friends -- Allegedly racial incident described by Middelburg Observer ]journalist - http://mobserver.co.za/20190/culpable-homicide-investigated/
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