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Father and son, 30, critical: shot in cold blood, Tortelduif Street, Haakdoornboom smallholdings, NW

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Citizen Policing Forum Haakdoringboom and SAPS Warrant Officer Mathews Nkoadi confirm that a (thus far unidentified) Father and son are in a critical condition at the GaRankuwa hospital after the two men were shot down in cold blood on Monday night by two black male gunmen inside their home at Tortelduif Street, Haakdoornboom Smallholdings: there's no report that anything was 'robbed'. ------------------------------ 9 July 2013 - According to a source from the CPF for the Haakdoornboom area, two gunmen entered the homestead in Tortelduif Street on a smallholding in Haakdoornboom around 19:00 on July 8 2013 a Monday evening. The gunmen first aimed their guns at the father's head: the bullet which was fired travelled through his left ear. The man's 30-year-old son also was shot: he was hit in the chest. Both the victims were taken to the Ga-Rankuwa hospital where they are still in a critical condition. Their names were not released. The attackers fled the scene. (Although it was describes as a 'robbery', no mention was made of what was 'robbed'). SAPS Warrant Officer Mathews Nkoadi on Tuesday afternoon confirmed the incident. "No one have been arrested yet, police are investigating the matter." https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416?fref=ts

#WhiteGenocide SA Chief Justice Mogoeng: Legal experts say his Militant Call to War borders on hatespeech, declares War on White Males

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SA Chief Justice's Militant Call to Arms: 'Declares War Against White SA Males' Legal experts: 'SA chief-justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's militant speech words 'border on hate speech" -- by Philip de Bruin, senior legal editor, Beeld, whote writes: Tuesday, 9 July 2013 - South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng made allegations and charges against members of the Judicial Service Commission which, according to commentators, 'border on hatespeech'. His speech reportedly was peppered with aggressive words such as ''take up arms' and 'declared war' . Mogoeng was addressing the annual meeting of the 'Advocates for Transformation' in Cape Town and called on the 'truly progressive organisations' to take up arms against 'organisations and individuals who want to uphold white-male dominance of the Law Courts with their sustained (verbal) attacks.' "I am here to challenge you (members of the Advocates for Transformation) and other truly progressive organisations to fight back against any attempts to maintain white male dominance in the law courts. He added: "Developments (over the past few months) indicate that War Has been declared against Transformation. They (white males) want a JSC they can dictate to'. He also warned that 'people must expect hot coals to be heaped upon their heads.'... and urged organised legal groups to 'lead the battle for transformation in the judiciary and the Bench. He called on the Black Lawyers Assocation and the National Democratic Lawyers to 'become agents of transformation'. De Bruin's request for comment on the Mogoeng speech from Pretoria legal expert Prof Marinus Wiechers elicited the response that 'Mogoeng's speech borders on hate-speech'. Wiechers: "It appears to be a call to arms, to declare war. Strangely he said nothing about the quality, which is more important than transformation.' Potchefstroom legal expert Prof. Tom Coetzee said he 'almost cannot believe that a Chief Justice can deliver such an extremely militant speech.' The chairman of Advocates for Transformation advocate senior counsel Dumisa Ntsebeza, who also is the official spokesman for the Judicial Service Commission, 'was not available for comment yesterday,' De Bruin wrote. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-07-09-veg-teen-wit-oorheersing 'Our White Compatriots Are Really in the Commanding Heights of the Economy'... Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng In April City Press journalist Charl Du Plessis @CharlduPlessc also quoted Moegeng as making very similar comments at the opening ceremony of the International Commonwealth Law Conference. Du Plessis quoted Moegeng: "Our white compatriots Are Really in the Commanding Heights of The Economy," said SA ChiefJustice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Cape Town opening ceremony of the International Commonwealth Law Conference on April 15 2013. Du Plessis: "Mogoeng also issued a grim warning to the media not to “rubbish” the Judicial Service Commission because that could destroy constitutional democracy." “Red lights begin to flash whenever a concerted effort is being made to project the only true guarantor of constitutional democracy in a bad light, especially when you are recklessly going about that,” said Mogoeng. "The chief justice made these comments during the opening ceremony of the international Commonwealth Law Conference today. "Several South African lawyers told City Press they thought the tone of Mogoeng’s speech was “inappropriate” because the conference was an international event attended by dignitaries, chief justices and prominent lawyers. "Mogoeng told the conference that the surest way to weaken a constitutional democracy was to deligitimise the judicial appointment authority and by extension, its judicial officers. "He said the need for transformation was so obvious that it did “not even require to be defined”. "Mogoeng said there was a need for “regular commentators” in the media to provoke urgent discussions about the redistribution of land and about those who had previously been excluded from the economy. "He said that the consequences of not taking stock of some of the major issues affecting South Africa could mean “we find ourselves in the same situation as some of our neighbouring countries”. "Mogoeng did not mention any country by name, but said these “neighbouring states” had been forced to take “drastic action”. "The chief justice also said the “truth often gets compromised” when “campaigns” for the appointment of preferred judicial candidates take place. "As an example, Mogoeng referred to the discussion document regarding the appointment of white males, which was authored by commissioner Izak Smuts. "The document sparked controversy and led to the resignation of Smuts on Friday. "Mogoeng said weekend media reports incorrectly stated the document had been leaked when it was in fact circulated. 'Why don’t you tell the nation the truth?'Mogoeng was quoted as saying. In February, he defended the JSC when questions were raised about its 'commitment to gender transformation'. “All sectors within SA society must be transformed, including the judiciary,” he said at the time: adding: 'Our economic sector remains lamentably untransformed, the four big media houses cry out for meaningful transformation in terms of ownership, race and gender.” And he warned last year at the retirement function for judge Bernard Ngoepe against 'what resources and forces the rich and powerful can mobilise against you.. what ridicule, recycled criticism and misinformation campaigns the media and others could subject you to”. http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/mogoeng-tread-gingerly-or-hamba-kahle/

Human bones, skull, belt found in yard of Deelkop farm, Brandfort, Free State: may be from Anglo-Boer War era?

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SAPS sergeant Ian Gaobepe confirms find of Human bones, skull in yard of Deelkop Farm, Brandfort, Free State ------------ (archeologists may also be interested: this is located near the Boer concentration camp, the British colonial hospital and an Anglo Boer war battle field from 1902) ---------- SAPS sergeant Ian Gaobepe confirmed to the Daily Sun newspaper that human Bones, skull and a belt were found in a sewer beneath the yard of Deelkop farm just outside Brandfort Free State where Mrs Makamohela Dala, 29 has been living for the past two years. She raised the alarm when human bones were found after a truck ran over a sewer-pipe. She told the Daily Sun of her belief that her 'twin-babies were cursed because of the bones." ------------------------------------- Daily Sun (July 8 2013) - Makamohelo doesn't believe in evil curses. But what she found in the canvas bag in the manhole of a sewer in her yard made her scream with terror . . .She believes she now knows why her twin babies would never stop crying: Makamohelo took the canvas bag out of the manhole. Inside the bag was a belt and human bones! Makamohelo Dala (28) has been living in the yard of the Deelkop farm, outside Brandfort in the Free State, for two years.She couldn't understand why her babies have been behaving strangely for the last nine months."They would scream all day long as if they were in pain," she said. "But when I took them to the clinic they were fine." But only until she came home. "Then the screaming would start again," she said. "If I took them to my mother's house they would also be okay - but at my own house they would start screaming again."On Thursday, a truck delivering feed drove over the manhole cover in front of her house and broke the lid. After the truck had been moved, Makamohelo looked inside the manhole - and made her gruesome discovery. "I wanted to check what was inside there," she told Daily Sun. "When I saw bones and a belt and a jacket I started to scream. The driver and I called the cops." On Friday, the cops investigated and found a human skull. The shocked mother believes these bones could be what caused her twins to have sleepless nights. Cops took the bones for a post mortem. "I don't believe in evil spirits but I was thinking I should talk to sangomas to find out what is going on," she said. "I am very relieved that the mystery of my crying twins has been solved." Police spokesman Sergeant Ian Gaobepe said after the human bones were found on Thursday they investigated the sewer because they expected to find other bones. "We found the skull on Friday. The bones have been sent for post mortem and our investigation will continue," said Gaobepe. ------------ http://dailysun.mobi/news/read/1024/sewer-bones-curse-my-kids/category:2 --------------- http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=389602&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389 ---------------- Archeologist may also take an interest in these bones: this farm and others surrounding Brandfort, Free State where the skull and bones, with a belt, were found, was the site of a British army's concentration camp for Boer Women and Children 1898-1902: It also was near the site of a former British Colonial Military Hospital, where Dutch Boer-War volunteer Cornelis Van Gogh, brother of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, died after he was injured. He fought on the Boer side. His remains were buried in the hospital yard but were never found. (pictures with URL links to historical documents form the Van Gogh family archives are attached) ------ http://decampcourant.arkpark.net/brandfort2.htm)

SAP-ret Colonel Johannes Hermanus 72 survives ten gunshots from armed intruders neighbour's Waterfall home

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Retired SAP colonel Johannes Hermanus 72 -- still fighting crime -- survives ten gunshots, Valley Road, Waterfall, Durban journalist: Stephen Clark The Mercury, (sourced from July 8 2013 - Eblockwatch KwaZuluNatal A retired police colonel had 10 shots fired at him when he challenged thieves who were breaking into his neighbour’s Valley Road home in Waterfall, Durban yesterday. Johannes Hermanus, 72, a former dog handler and head of the police’s emergency 10111 line, was unhurt, but he said afterwards that he had wished he was “a bit thinner”, like his former partner, Vincent Mazibuko, so that he would be a smaller target. Hermanus said he had been chatting to another neighbour, a Mr Khumalo, about the two German Shepherds that were poisoned less than a kilometre a way last week. They had just finished talking when he heard a bang from over the road and went to investigate. A grey Audi was parked outside the house where four men were trying to force open the gate. He asked the men what they were doing but they ignored him. “I went back inside, told my wife Lorna to call the police, and grabbed my gun.” When he went back to investigate, the car had “disappeared” and the gate was open. The car was parked at the bottom of his neighbour’s driveway which was steep. The house alarm went off and he spotted the men breaking open the kitchen door. “They were busy loading computers in the car,” he recalled. He shouted: “Stop! What are you doing?” Hermanus said the gang had panicked when he shouted and one drew a gun and shot at him. “I shot back and dived to the ground for cover,” he said The men jumped back into their car, abandoned some of their loot and drove out with their heads covered. Hermanus fired eight times and he believes he hit one of the robbers who, despite being wounded, escaped with the others. The gunfire lasted for two minutes and at least 10 shots were fired at him. Hermanus, who once led anti-drug operations in Durban, said today’s criminals were brazen and did not hesitate to kill. He retired in 1993 with heart complications. Yesterday, he said, there was no time to be afraid. “I couldn’t let them do as they please. My neighbour needed help. “They did not hesitate to shoot at me. All four of them had guns with bullets.” Fortunately, nobody was home at the time of the robbery. He said memories of a shootout he and Mazibuko had been involved in in the ’90s in uMbumbulu, involving six robbers, came flooding back. “I never thought this would happen to me again after retiring.” His neighbours thanked him but declined to speak to The Mercury. Karen Buxton, the head of Reaction Waterfall Three, a community protection group, hugged Hermanus and praised his bravery. Police spokesman Thulani Zwane said no arrests had been made. He commended Hermanus’s bravery, describing him as a “hero” who was committed to fighting crime even though he was retired. https://www.facebook.com/groups/102575386217/permalink/10151453048816218/

Third young white man murdered in senseless violence: Clyde Burns 27 PE; Willem Vander Westhuizen Potchefstroom; Barend Nel, Sasolburg

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Third young white man murdered street: Clyde Byrns, 27, PE; Willem vander Westhuizen Potchefstroom; Barend Nel, Sasolburg ---------------------- July 8 2013 - Clyde Byrns (26) wat eergisteraand deur 4 BARBARE in Rinkstraat, PE, vermoor is toe hy sy vriendin teen hulle wou beskerm, se Ma, Thereasa van Wyk, se hart is gebreek oor haar seun se sinnelose moord! Hy is in die nek gesteek en het op die sypadjie dood gebloei... ----------------------- ALSO KILLED: Barend Nel of Sasolburg, and Willem van der Westhuizen in Potchefstroom: ------------------------ Hierdie is die 3de jong man wat sy lewe op die manier verloor het in 3 weke... Die ander 2 was Barend Nel wat in Sasolburg vermoor is en Willem van der Westhuizen wat in Potchefstroom vermoor is.. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=542882812437618&set=a.346000638792504.79543.327235257335709&type=1

July 9: SAPS shoots dead hijack-suspect in shoot-out at Boer farm next to Orange Farm; Frik Smit 's body lay in street for five hours Richard's Bay, Koppies disrupted by riots

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July 9: One man shot dead by SAPS on Boer farm near Orange Farm: Frik Smit's body lay in Richard's Bay street for five hours before SAPS arrived and wife was notified... today's incidents targetting whites: Gauteng and East Cape: details: -------------------- 1. #Elarduspark Jul9 21h00 #Hijack victim in car: #ElizmaMeyer: "My father in law hijacked, AmarokGoldWithCanopy Reg BF27MN GP. Tracker says past #Tembisa https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=683096945050187&id=116298045063416 ------------------------- 2. Police criminal activity: #RichardsBay Jul9 21h10 William Pat: 'Frik Smit's body lay in street in front of video shop from 16h00 to 21h00pm when wife was notified that he was dead: 'SAPS just arrived'( after FIVE HOURS) ------------------------ 3. Parys/Fochville/Vereeniging; Raymond Groenewald writes on Boere Krisis Aksie (nearly 60,000 facebook members) -- BKA: Hijacked: White Ford Ranger bakkie BC-44-JV-GP. "DesignWrite' depot on Fochville to Parys Road: Contact Marius 082 8700 155. 4. SAPS shoots dead hijack suspect: on private farm next to Orange Farm Johannesburg South: "4 black males tried to hijack a motorist but failed: Some 30+ Orange Farm residents chased the hijackers and their friends ran onto our farm, threatening to kill a farm worker if he didn't open the gates so that they could hide. The SAPS was alerted to their whereabouts and in the resulting SAPS shootout, one hijack-suspect was shot dead on the farm: they are still looking for the other 3: (Boere Krisis Aksie July 9 2013)https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=683096945050187&id=116298045063416 ) 5. In Koppies in the Free State there were violent riots reported by residents and motorists throughout the day from early in the morning, with rioters blocking roads and invading the central business district. We are awaiting SAPS confirmation.

UK Mail discusses and investigates Genocide Threats Against Whites in South Africa

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The statistics — and the savagery of the killings — appear to support claims by these residents that white people, and farmers in particular, are being targeted by black criminals. Little wonder that what unfolded on the Du Plessis homestead has sent tremors of fear through the three-million-strong white community. Last month alone there were 25 murders of white landowners, and more than 100 attacks, while Afrikaner protest groups claim that more than 4,000 have been killed since Mandela came to power — twice as many as the number of policemen who have died. It is not just the death toll, but the extreme violence that is often brought to bear, that causes the greatest fear in the white community. Documented cases of farm killings make for gruesome reading, with children murdered along with their parents, one family suffocated with plastic bags and countless brutal rapes of elderly women and young children. These horrors have prompted Genocide Watch — a respected American organisation which monitors violence around the world — to claim that the murders of ‘Afrikaner farmers and other whites is organised by racist communists determined to drive whites out of South Africa, nationalise farms and mines, and bring on all the horrors of a communist state’. Indeed, a disturbing number of whites are terrified that Mandela’s passing will lead to an outpouring of violence from black South Africans, no longer contained by the sheer power of the great man’s presence, which endures today even though he stood down as president in 1999. For its part, the ruling ANC party dismisses claims that such murders are part of any sinister agenda, pointing out that South Africans of all colours suffer violent crime, and that wealthy whites are simply more likely to be targeted. Perhaps. But white nerves have not been soothed by the disturbing behaviour of Jacob Zuma, the ANC’s leader and the country’s third black president since Mandela. At a centenary gathering of the African National Congress last year, Zuma was filmed singing a so-called ‘struggle song’ called Kill The Boer (the old name for much of the white Afrikaner population). As fellow senior ANC members clapped along, Zuma sang: ‘We are going to shoot them, they are going to run, Shoot the Boer, shoot them, they are going to run, Shoot the Boer, we are going to hit them, they are going to run, the Cabinet will shoot them, with the machine-gun, the Cabinet will shoot them, with the machine-gun . . .’ Alongside him was a notorious character called Julius ‘Juju’ Malema, a former leader of the ANC youth league, who is now Zuma’s bitter enemy and is reportedly planning to launch a new political party after Mandela’s death. A bogeyman to white South Africans, Malema is popular among young blacks, and has also been an enthusiastic singer of Kill The Boer and another song called Bring Me My Machine-Gun. Polls this week showed a huge surge in support among young black South Africans for his policies, which he says will ignore reconciliation, and fight for social justice in an ‘onslaught against [the] white male monopoly’. With chilling echoes of neighbouring Zimbabwe, where dictator Robert Mugabe launched a murderous campaign to drive white farmers off the land in 2000, Malema wants all white-owned land to be seized without compensation, along with nationalisation of the country’s lucrative mines. Ominously, Malema, 32, who wears a trademark beret and has a fondness for Rolex watches, this month promised his new party will take the land from white people without recompense and give it to blacks. ‘We need the land that was taken from our people, and we are not going to pay for it,’ he said. ‘We need a party that will say those who were victims of apartheid stand to benefit unashamedly, and those who perpetuated apartheid must show remorse and behave in a manner that says they regret their conduct.’ Enthusiastically backed by Winnie Mandela, Nelson’s second wife — who is still hugely popular in South Africa despite her suspected role in several murders — Malema is a charismatic figure who once threw a BBC correspondent out of a press conference for asking about his wealthy lifestyle. His words have done nothing to allay the fears of white communities, some of which have taken extreme measures to protect themselves. This week I visited Kleinfontein in Pretoria, a white-only community of 1,000 men, women and children who live behind high fences, with a gatehouse manned by men in military fatigues, who also carry out regular patrols of the grounds to prevent black intruders entering. Anyone without an appointment with an official resident is refused entry. If they are black, they will not get in at all. Inside, there is a shopping mall, while the town has its own water supply and sewage system. All manual work is carried out by white residents. There is a rugby pitch, opulent homes overlooking miles of open countryside where antelope and zebra roam, and a hospital for the elderly residents. Most crucially of all, in a country with 60 murders a day, there is no armed robbery, murder or rape in Kleinfontein. ‘An old lady can draw money here without any fear,’ says Marisa Haasbroek, a resident, mother of two teenage girls, and my guide for the morning. ‘It’s safe, quiet and peaceful. It’s not racist — it is about protecting our Afrikaner cultural identity.’ http://topconservativenews.com/2013/06/uk-mail-online-talks-about-genocide-threat-against-south-african-whites/

Isabel Hugo 67, Clocolan farm woman, dies July 8 2013 from injuries due to boulder thrown by unknown black male, August 27 2012

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Isabel Hugo 67, farm woman in Clocolan, dies July 8 2013 - from injuries sustained from stoning by previously unknown black male on August 27 2012 9 Julie 2013 Clocolan. Mrs Isabel Hugo, 67, an Afrikaner farm woman in this district, who was critically injured when she was besieged by a stone-throwing riot mob, has died of her injuries. The charges of 'attempted murder' which were recently withdrawn against her suspected attacker Thabo Ntororo, 24, now will be resubmitted by the national prosecuting authority as a murder charge. There was no robbery involved: this was a pure hate-crime. ------------------------ Mrs Hugo and her daughter Elsabé 27 were attacked on 27 August on the farm Daisy in the Clocolan district while the two women were driving into town. They were accosted by the black male stone thrower from the side of the road. The stone struck her head when she was driving. Mrs Hugo suffered a long, painful death: after she was discharged from hospital, she also was treated at a Bloemfontein care-unit but then her family took over her care. aas Daisy in die Clocolan-distrik op pad dorp toe toe sy van langs die pad agter die stuur van haar bakkie met ’n klip teen die kop gegooi is. A niece, Lanta Prinsloo, said her aunt's health had deteriorated so badly that she was taken back to the Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein on Monday, where she died that night. Ms Prinsloo said she had apparently died of 'organ failure and pneumonia." Ntlororo - who was not previously known to Mrs Hugo -- had originally been arrested on an attempted murder charge - however this was temporarily withdrawn at the end of January at the Clocolan magistrate's court pending the police investigation. SAPS captain Phume Dhlamini confirmed that they had opened a murder-dossier.' Isabel Hugo 67, farm woman in Clocolan, dies July 10 2013 - from injuries sustained from stoning by previously unknown black male on August 27 2012 9 Julie 2013 Clocolan. Mrs Isabel Hugo, 67, an Afrikaner farm woman in this district, who was critically injured when she was besieged by a stone-throwing riot mob, has died of her injuries. The charges of 'attempted murder' which were recently withdrawn against her suspected attacker Thabo Ntororo, 24, now will be resubmitted by the national prosecuting authority as a murder charge. Mrs Hugo and her daughter Elsabé 27 were attacked on 27 August on the farm Daisy in the Clocolan district while the two women were driving into town. They were accosted by the black male stone thrower from the side of the road. The stone struck her head when she was driving. Mrs Hugo suffered a long, painful death: after she was discharged from hospital, she also was treated at a Bloemfontein care-unit but then her family took over her care. aas Daisy in die Clocolan-distrik op pad dorp toe toe sy van langs die pad agter die stuur van haar bakkie met ’n klip teen die kop gegooi is. A niece, Lanta Prinsloo, said her aunt's health had deteriorated so badly that she was taken back to the Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein on Monday, where she died that night. Ms Prinsloo said she had apparently died of 'organ failure and pneumonia." Ntlororo - who was not previously known to Mrs Hugo -- had originally been arrested on an attempted murder charge - however this was temporarily withdrawn at the end of January at the Clocolan magistrate's court pending the police investigation. SAPS captain Phume Dhlamini confirmed that they had opened a murder-dossier.' https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=683339298359285&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater

Family of well-known restaurateur Michael Zafiris 42 speak of his horrific murder

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Family of well-known restaurateur Michael Zafiris 42 speak of his horrific murder 10 July 2013 -- Michael's recent death sent shockwaves through the community and his sister, Penny Alexandrou (34), told the Herald on Thursday, last week, that the family is heartbroken and devastated. Michaels parents, Nick and Victoria Zafiris, are the well respected owners of the Lake Restaurant, which is situated at the Jan Smuts Dam. Michael became actively involved in their business many years ago and managed to establish a stunning wedding and function venue. Michael was very passionate about the place; he worked hard and it was very important to him to give 100 per cent in everything he attempted, said Penny. The beautiful gardens at the restaurant are all due to him. "He loved gardening, even from a very young age; he was so happy when he could be outside in the garden. The tragic incident took place on the night of June 3, when Michael did not return to his parents' home in Brakpan, where he was living. According to Penny her brother had another business in Springs and some family members went there to look for him. There was no trace of Michael or his car and it was only the next morning, when one of his workers spotted his car about 750m from the business. Michaels body was found a couple of metres from his car. We trust that the police will get to the bottom of this; at this point all we can do is hope that the people involved will be caught," said Penny. Michael grew up in Brakpan and attended Anzac Primary and Brakpan High School. After he matriculated he went to Wits University, where he studied to become a chartered accountant. In the end he was studying part time and recently obtained his degree, said Penny. She added that her brother loved to travel and one of his biggest dreams was to climb Kilimanjaro. Penny and her husband, Johnny, have started assisting at the Lake Restaurant, joining Michael's mother, Victoria, who is still actively involved. Michael had several bookings for the venue and there is no way we are letting anybody down." https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=683369935022888&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater

Garth du Preez, 22, torched by previously unknown black man inside his car: burnt face healing well, he's regained consciousness: dad

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Garth du Preez 22, torched by a black man inside his car: update on recovery: the left-side of burnt face is 'healing well', and his eyelashes are growing back, says dad 9 July 2013 - ------ On June 21, the red-haired Garth du Preez had stopped his car at the intersection of Main Reef and Commando roads -- while metro officers were directing traffic to let a funeral procession pass through.As he was stopped at the intersection, a 29-year-old previously unknown man threw a brick through his window breaking it, then poured petrol over Garth and then torched him. Gareth, Garth's father, says that his son has awakened from sedation. "Bandages from his left hand were removed, and although there is dead skin, it is healing well," says Gareth. He adds that the left side of his face is also healing well and his eyelashes are growing back."There is scarring on the right side of his face, and his chest and right hand will need skin grafting."The accused black male appeared in the regional court on July 8, and was remanded while the case transferred back to the court in Sophiatown.At the time of the incident, the accused was out on bail after smashing another motorist's window. ---------------------- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=683358721690676&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater

Anti-white racist abuse hurled by faeces-throwing accused Andile Lili at magistrate Jannie Kotze

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You f**king white racist': faeces-thrower hurls abuse at Bellville magistrate in court: 10 Jul 2013 - Andile Lili, one of the seven men who were denied bail over the protesting by dumping of human waste at the Cape Town International Airport hurled obscenities at Afrikaner magistrate Jannie Kotze in court on Monday. According to News24com, the men appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court and were denied bail by Magistrate Jannie Kotze on the grounds that they "were likely to commit the same crime again if released. One of the men, Andile Lili, began shouting at the magistrate as the men were led out of the court. According to News24, he shouted: "You white racist, you magistrate, you f**king racist, you don't care... we can't allow our people to live in those conditions." When the suspects returned to the court later to re-schedule the postponement to 5 August, Lili continued his attack on the magistrate. Kotze ignored Lili as he continued his tirade: "He is only lambasting us because we are black. We are ready to spend 30 years in jail. Why must we be treated like pigs? It's enough now." https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=683596635000218&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater

SAPS deaths in cells soar above 900 a YEAR since 1994: at height of apartheid riots 1963 to 1990 a TOTAL 73 people died in cells: 2,5 people a year

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An annual 2,4 people average died in the South African Police cells at the height of the anti-apartheid riots and 'states of emergency from 1963 to 1990 - when the police service was reorganised, the state of emergency lifted and the country entered the 'peaceful transition period' towards ANC hegemony from 1994. (source: page 170, "The Atlas of the Apartheid," by A.J. Christopher, publisher Routledge, 1994). -------------------- ALSO: http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention ---------------------- Under Democratic ANC-rule since 1994 the number of people who died unnatural deaths in South African police cells reached the average of 900 a year by April 3 2013: URL http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Over-900-die-in-police-custody-in-a-year-20130304 ============================== DETAILS, NAMES, DATES, PICTURES, REPORTS OF ABOVE: ============================= More than 900 deaths in SA police cells by 2012 - compare to 1963 - 1990: when there were a total of recorded deaths of 73 -- nearly 2,5 people A YEAR. --------------- Story with pictures of page views of reports on: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2013/07/deaths-in-sap-cells-1963-to-1990.html Deaths in detention 1963 to 1990 - during the 'state of emergency' years at the height of the anti-apartheid rioting. From 1990, the SA government started reorganising the SAP, renamed it the SA Police Service, and maintained statistics differently. http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention Deaths in SAP cells 1963 to 1990; compared to 2013 Did 'thousands of black people' really die in police custody during apartheid? Well no... not even 'hundreds'.... This was the ANC government propaganda ( from http://wwww.Lilliesleaf.co.za.) "During the states of emergency from 1963 which continued intermittently until 1989, anyone could be detained without a hearing by a low-level police official for up to six months. "Thousands of individuals died in custody, frequently after gruesome acts of torture. Those who were tried were sentenced to death, banished, or imprisoned for life." http://www.liliesleaf.co.za/pb_apartheid.php The SAP statistics during the states of emergency from 1963 to 1990 were: 73 people died in SA police custody from 1963 to 1990: (names, details, page view of reports on http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.nl/2013/07/deaths-in-sap-cells-1963-to-1990.html and below) http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention 73 people in a 27-year-period averages out to 2.7 deaths a year. by 2012 under the ANC-regime, 900+ people died in police custody in just ONE YEAR... link The current ANC-regime and its supporters often publish propaganda-claims about 'thousands' of black South Africans having died in SA Police custody during apartheid - and this is now widely believed. However this is not backed up by the statistics from that era: from 1963 to 1990, in a 27-year-period at the height of the anti-apartheid riots, a total of 73 people were recorded as having died in SA police custody. http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention. Critics will argue that the apartheid-statistics were 'not reliable', however even if they were understated by 100%, the apartheid police-cell deaths still pale by comparison to the latest report from the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) which claims that between 720 to 900 people died in SAPoliceService custody in the book year 2011/2 alone. (depending on which source wrote the story). Deaths in SAPS custody were 695 in 2006 and by 2010 they had reached 860 deaths. By 2011, they were well above 900 deaths. Let's repeat that again: more than 900 people died in police-custody in 2011 ALONE. Only the annual Amnesty International summaries have some paragraphs tucked away mentioning this horrific fact. No screaming headlines, no frantic international protest actions. Why did world opinion come to such a screeching halt once the ANC came to power? By April 11 2013, it was reported by the SABC that 'at least' 720 people had died 'due to police conduct' in the 2011/2 book year: but that only 36 people were convicted for those offences. The SABC quoted the Independent Police Investigation Directorate spokesman Moses Dlamini.( The Sunday Times quoted 'at least 900 people') .The IPID also revealed that it had received almost 5,000 complaints against the SAPS during the 2011/12 financial year (which runs from March 2011 to April 2012). The IPID spokesman said "many incidents were not public knowledge, unlike some deaths, which made news such as the incident where taxi-driver Mido Macia died in police cells after being dragged behind a police van - a horrific event which was recorded on bystanders' video-cameras and placed on YouTube. However according to a Sunday Times report on March 4 2013, 'over 900 people died in South African Police Custody. In one year. http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/03/04/over-900-die-in-south-african-police-custody - http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention ----------------------- (pictures of page views of reports on http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention are attached): In 1963, there were two deaths in SA police cells: of Solwandle Ngudie, 41, on September 5 1963, at Kompol, Pretoria (held 17 days) listed death cause: suicide by hanging. Also in September, the death cause for Bellington Mampe, age unknown, and who was held in a police cell in Worcester for 140 days, was not explained. In 1964, there were two deaths: of James Tyita, age unknown, on 24 January and who died in Port Elizabeth allegedly by suicide (hanging); and on Sept 9 1964 Mr Suliman Salogee, 28, died in Johannesburg after he was held 65 days, allegedly by suicide: 'jumped from the seventh floor'. In 1965, there were two deaths in SA police cells, both in the Transkei homeland: and both on September 5, where Ngeni Gaga, 28, and Pongolosha Hoy (age?) died 'of natural causes.' In 1966, three people died, all three of 'suicide': James Hamakwayo on September 19 after 13 days in detention; Hangula Shonyeka on September 19 after 40 days in detention; and Leon Pin on November 11 after one day at Leeukop Prison, Pretoria. In 1967, two people died of unknown causes: Mr Ah Yan, 63, on May 1 after 37 days of detention at the Silverton Police Station, and Mr Alpheus Madiba on September 9, after one day in a further unspecified police cell in Namibia. (South Africa's government was also under control of then-South West Africa at that time under a UN-mandate). In 1968, there were three deaths: but the record-keeping also started becoming particularly poor: it was noted that three people had died of unknown causes at Pretoria Prison: namely Jundea Tubukwa on September 11, one totally unknown person on an unknown date, and on October 3, Mr James Lenkoe died after five days in detention. Their ages also were unknown In 1969, fourteen people died, but details of only 7 are known of: Nicodemus Kgoathe (Feb 4 held: Silverton Police Sta. Died: HF Verwoerd Hospital ); Solomon Modipane (Feb 28 Held: Silverton Police Sta. Died: HF Verwoerd Hospital); James Lenkoe (March 10 held at Pretoria Prison, died in Port Elizabeth police cells); Caleb Mayekiso (June 1 died in Ondangwa , South West Africa police cells ); Michael Shivute (June 17 Pretoria Prison); Jacob Monakgotha (Sept 10 died at Maitland Police Station, Cape Town); and Imam Abdullah Haroon, (Sept 27). Their causes of deaths were not registered. In 1970, there were no deaths recorded in police cells. In 1971, two people died: Mr Mthayeni Cuthsela (held 40 days in Pondoland, died at Transkei Hospital January 21) and Mr Ahmed Timol Ahmed(died October 27 held at John Vorster Square, Johannesburg and died at Transkei Hospital after five days in detention. From 1972 to 1976 there were no deaths recorded in SA police cells. In 1976: a total of 14 deaths were recorded in SA police cells, all of unidentified causes; and amongst them one 16-year-old youth who was held for nine days at Modderbee Prison - and also, one person remained anonymous: and none of the death-causes were listed: They were: Joseph Mdluli, 50, died after less than one day at the Durban Security Headquarters; William Tswane, 25 July, less than one day at Modderbee Prison, East Rand; Mapetla Mohapi, 25, August 5, after 22 days in Kei Road Jail, East London; Luke Mazwembe, 32, less than one day at Coledon Square, Cape Town; Dumisani Mbatha, 16, September 25, after nine days in Modderbee Prison where he died; Jacob Mashabane, 22, died October 5 at the Far East Rand Hospital after he was held at an unknown police cell for four days; on October 5 an unidentified man died at the Johannesburg Fort; on October 9 Edward Mzolo, 40, died at the Johannesburg Fort after 8 days; on November 19, Ernest Mamashila, 35, died after three days in the Carltonville police cells; on November 26, Tbalo Mosala, 60, died after 87 days in a cell at the Johannesburg Fort; on December 11 Wellington Tshazibane, 30, died at Balfour Transvaal after two days; and on December 15, George Botha, 30, died: he was held for five days: first at Butterworth Transkei, then at Johan Vorster Square Johannesburg: he died at the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth: The list does not provide any causes of death. In 1977 there were 13 deaths: all identified -- but none of the death-causes were listed: They were: Lawrence Ndanga, 53, January 8 (unknown place, held 51 days); Dr Nanaotha Ntshuntsha, 43 (January 9, after 26 days at Johannesburg Fort; Elmon Malele, 23, (February 15, after 25 days at John Vorster Square, Pretoria); Matthews Mabelane, February 15, died in Johannesburg; Joyi Tsasifeni, 45, died February 22 at 'a nursing home' after 22 days (?); Samuel Malinga, 35, (February 26, after 106 days at John Vorster Square Police Headquarters cell, Johannesburg; Aaron Khoza, 27, July 7, after ten days at Idutywa police cells, Transkei homeland; Phakamile Mabija, 59, August 1 after 65 days Pietermaritzburg Zululand; Elijah Loza, 26, August 3 after one day in Pietermaritzbrg; Dr Hoosen Haffejee, 62; August 13, after 1 day in Edendale Hospital; Bayepin Mzizi, 31, September 12, after 24 days in Pietermaritzburg; Steve Biko, (31) died September 12 after he was held (and tortured) for 31 days: he was transferred from several police cells, was assaulted enroute and also in the Port Elizabeth cells and died in Pretoria Prison. On 18 August 1977, activist Steve Biko, 31, who was Ghandi-ite i.e.: a supporter of non-violent confrontation - as opposed to the ANC's armed struggle -- was arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 and interrogated by officers of the Port Elizabeth security police including Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt. This interrogation took place in the Police Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Port Elizabeth.The interrogation lasted twenty-two hours and included torture and beatings resulting in a coma.[15] He suffered a major head injury while in police custody at the Walmer Police Station, in a suburb of Port Elizabeth, and was chained to a window grille for a day. On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities.He was nearly dead owing to the previous injuries.[19] He died shortly after arrival at the Pretoria prison, on 12 September. The police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike, but an autopsy revealed multiple bruises and abrasions and that he ultimately succumbed to a brain hemorrhage from the massive injuries to the head,[15] Later post mortems revealed that he had died from a counter-coup injury to the brain.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko In 1978 there was one recorded death in SA Police Custody: Mr Lungile Tabalaza, 19, on 10 July, after less than one day at the Sanlam Building Police cells, Port Elizabeth; in 1979 no deaths were recorded . In 1980 there was one death: Mr Saul Ndzumo, 58, who died on 10 September in the Umtata police cells, Transkei homeland after nine days detention. In 1981, two people died in SA Police detention: Mr Manana Mgqweto, 60, on September 17 in Engcobo, Transkei homeland; and Mr Tshithhwa Muothe, 28, died on November 12 after two days in the police cells of the Venda homeland; In 1982, there were two deaths: Dr Neil Aggett, 28, died on February 5 after 70 days of detention at the John Vorster Square Johannesburg security-police headquarters. And Mr Ernest Dipale, 21, also died there on August 8 after three days of detention. Kenyan-born Dr Neil Aggett 's torture-death was also widely publicised: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Aggett In 1983, there were two deaths: Mr Simon Mndawe, 23, died on March 8 at the Nelspruit prison after 14 days of detention, and Paris Malatji, 23, died on July 5 on the same day he was detained at the Protea Police Station in Soweto. In 1984, three deaths: Mr Samuel Tshikudo, 50, held at Venda for 77 days; Mr Mxolisi Sipele, in June at the Tshizidzini Hospital after 150 days detention; and Mr Ephraim Mthethwa, 22, died on August 25 at the Sulenkama Hospital, Transkei after he was detained for 165 days in the Durban Central Prison. In 1985, (above and below) there were two deaths recorded: Andries Raditsela, 29, on May 6 at Baragwanath Hospital after two days detention; and Balandwa Ndondo, 22, died September 24 at the Cala, Transkei homeland police cells, where he was taken the same day. In 1986, (above and below) there were four deaths: Mr Makompe Kutumela, 25, at the police station of the Lebowa homeland police, where he was arrested the previous day; Mr Peter Nchabaleng, 59, on April 11 at the Uponton police station (1 day); Mr Xoliso Jacobs, 20, October 22 after he was held 129 days at Modderbee Prison; and Simon Mafule, 20, who died in the local hospital after 183 days in Benoni/Boksburg detention. Below: 1987 to 1989 in 1987 (below) three people died in SAP detention: Mr Benedict Mashoke,20, on March 26, after 215 days detention at the Burgersfort Police station; Mr Eric Mntonga, 35, after one day in the Mdantsane cells, Ciskei homeland; and Nobandla Bani, 56, after 333 days of detention in the North End cells, Port Elizabeth. In 1988 (below) two people died: Mr Sithembele Zokwe, 36, after one-day detention, Butterworth, Transkei homeland on January 12; and Mr Alfred Makaleng, 27, held for 804 days at the Nylstroom cells; and who died at Johannesburg Hospital. in 1989 there were no deaths recorded in South African Police detention (below) http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention In 1990, three people died in SA Police detention: (above), namely Mr Clayton Sizwe Sithole, 20, on January 30, after four days in detention at John Vorster Square, Johannesburg police headquarters; Mr Lucas Tlhotlhomisang, 37, on March 26, seven days detained at Klerksdorp police cells; and Mr Donald Madisha, 30, who died on June 1, at Potgietersrus police cells, where he was detained for 130 days. --------------------- From 1990, a reorganisation of the SA took place, entering the 'transition period' to 1994, when the ANC-regime took over hegemony of South Africa. From 1990, the "apartheid-era"- SA Police: ( background on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Police ) was enlarged and reorganized while the country was entering the 'transition period from apartheid to a non-racial society' . The police also were renamed, and are now called the SAPoliceService ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Police_Service ). Because their statistic record-keeping also was reorganised, It can thus be very clearly established that before 1990 - i.e. during the height of the apartheid years - the numbers of people who actually died in police custody were very much lower than the present horrendous death rate in the cells of the current SA Police Service. Every death in any police cell anywhere in the world is always one death too many. With efficient, strictly controlled and supervised policing, such deaths in police custody should not occur at all. ( More relevant statistics to help make comparisons: by 1987 South Africa had 4,8 million whites and 18,2 million blacks. The SA police were undermanned during the sixties and early seventies - when the size of the SA police force declined relative to the population. By 2013, South Africa had a population which was soaring well above 51-million, with at least 8million illegal black-Africans from the rest of the continent, not included in this total by SA Statistics. Police increased from 48,991 members to 93,600 by 1991 and was renamed South African Police Force: By 1981 the police force of roughly 48,991 members represented a ratio of less than 1.5 police per 1,000 people, down from 1.67 per 1,000 people in the 1960s. Alarmed by the increased political violence and crime in the mid-1980s and by the lack of adequate police support, officials then increased the size of the police force to 93,600—a ratio of 2.7 per 1,000 people—by 1991 and the police was renamed to the SAPoliceService. Functions: Before the reorganisation in 1990, the SA police were authorized to act on behalf of other government officials when called upon. For example, in rural areas and small towns, where there may be no public prosecutor available, police personnel could institute criminal proceedings. Some '' small-town' police officers even conducted their own legal post-mortem examinations under the guidance of local doctors. The police could also legally serve as wardens, court clerks, and messengers, as well as immigration, health, and revenue officials. In some circumstances, the police were also authorized to serve as vehicle inspectors, postal agents, and local court personnel. -- By 2013 the number of police officers had increased to 225,000 members. Yet -- amazingly, with apartheid "officially ended" -- the current government obsessively maintains very detailed records of the racial composition of all the country's workers, including its police-force - while not maintaining any racial demographics of their crime-statistics. (The SAPS currently also consist of a large reserve division named the "South African Reserve Police Service" who often work as low-paid part-time patrol officers with local Citizen-Policing-Forums.) The total policing force has about 225,000 members. In 2010 the police were 'remilitarised' after having been reorganized on a civilian basis at the end of apartheid. Some crime-experts believe that this has also been a key cause of an escalation in political repression by the police.[17] Guarding police-rights: Since 1996, three police unions were founded to represent police personnel's rights. These are the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union, which has about 150 000 members; the South African Police Union (SAPU), which has about 35,000 members; and the Public Service Association (PSA), which has about 4,000 members. The ANC-government notes that the commissioned officers in the force in 2011 were 57% black, 28% white, 10% coloured, 5% Indian; 70% male, 30% female. Non-commissioned officers were 78% black, 10% coloured, 10% white, 2% Indian; 78% male, 22% female.[1] In reality many of the 'white' posts remain unfilled, with whites actively discouraged to apply for these jobs or denied advancement in these posts In the bookyear March 2011 to April 2012, a total of 932 people died in police custody in SA: in ONE YEAR: This was reported by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) revealed. KwaZulu-Natal had 268 deaths with Gauteng second at 217 deaths and Eastern Cape had 120, the Dispatch Online reported. Meanwhile, eight police officers, implicated in the death of an East Rand taxi driver, are expected to appear in the Daveyton Magistrate's Court on Monday.The two warrant officers and six constables face a murder charge following the death of Mozambican citizen Mido Macia while in police custody.The officers were video-taped - this was placed on YouTube - tying 27-year-old Macia to the back of a police van and dragging him along a street in Daveyton .Macia, died at the local police station's cells several hours later. His body was found by a police officer on Tuesday night. A post mortem revealed he died of head- and internal injuries.Ipid spokesman Moses Dlamini said police reported that they had earlier found Macia wrongfully parked on a road and ordered him to move. Macia's death caused a public outcry against police brutality.The Dispatch Online reported that the Ipid was also investigating the death of a policeman who died in police custody at the Barkly East police station in January, a day after he was detained for allegedly being drunk. ---------- URL: http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2013/03/04/over-900-die-in-south-african-police-custody ----------- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTchDhCuZM ------------ http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_Police --------------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Police_Service -------------------- http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/list-deaths-detention ----------------- pictures: "After apartheid from 1994: Just a few of the unpunished murders by police officers of detained civilians in cells: (picture attached: James Brown was bludgeoned to death in Kriel SAPS cell where he had been detained ALONE. The horrific death of Alzheimer sufferer James Brown, bludgeoned to death while alone in a police station at Kriel, has never been investigated nor the police officer responsible, arrested or tried: source: Mweb journalist Denise Ryan deniseryan@mweb.co.za ------------------------------- SAPS BRUTALITY NTM SHOP STEWARD MONGEZI NHLAKI IN INTENSIVE CARE DOBSONVILLE http://ewn.co.za/2013/03/17/You-call-yourself-police-NTM ------------------------

Toinette van Heerden, 15, lured from home by 'friend' with fake address, found back covered in bruises by mom Sanel who raised immediate alarm

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In a suspected attempt at kidnapping (and also - a suspected crime which was not reported to the SAPS) -- Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Toinette van Heerden was apparently lured from her Johannesburg home, purportedly by a 'friend named Chanel and the friend's father'-- who gave the mother a fake address where her daughter would be visiting. The mother Sanet Van Heerden reports on July 10 2013 on Boere Krisis Aksie that she found her daughter back very quickly after she had placed an immediate alert - also on her daughter's facebook page. (ATTACHED: PAGEVIEW PICTURE OF INCIDENT FROM FACEBOOK PAGES concerned) --- The mother wrote: "I am not happy her being covered in bruises'. It's not known if an criminal investigation will be lodged. ------- Motives: The family does not appear to be 'wealthy': the mother works in the administration of a panel-beating company, according to her facebook page. KEEP CHILDREN OFF THE SOCIAL MEDIA --- This incident also highlights the need for parents to keep their minor children off their own Facebook pages -- and to not allow their children to have their own facebook pages until they have reached the legal age of consent, including also keeping their children off Twitter and other social media networks to protect them from human predators. ------------------------ On July 10 2012 it was reported on the Boere Aksie Groep by Mrs Sanel van Heerden that after she reported her fifteen-year-old daughter Toinette missing on Sunday, July 7 2013 after her daughter had left the house with a girl named Chanel and the girl's father - and the mother found out that she was given a fake address. Her child was quickly found back when a search was mounted and the mother raised the alarm. The mother writes on Boere Krisis Aksie July 10 2013:"thank you everybody for your assistance i found Toinette, (and am) not happy the way I found her full of bruises, but thank God shes alive and with all your help I would never have found her so thank God for people like you.' https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=683459548347260&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater Mrs Van Heerden's original Missing Person message - which she placed on her daughter's facebook page - read: --------------------------------------------------------------------- " MISSING GIRL: TOINETTE VAN HEERDEN Can everyone please be on the lookout for Toinette van Heerden. A friend that said her name is Chantelle (long wavy brown hair) picked her up with her father (he's bald) on Sunday July 7, 2013, and they also gave a fake address (25 Outspan Rd, South Hills) as her mom was already at the address. Toinette's mother said the last time she spoke to her was Monday 8 July on bbm. Sometime after her mother had contacted her her bbm was deleted and her phone was off. It was the last time she heard from her daughter. We would really appreciate it if everyone can help. -- You can contact her mother Sanel van Heerden on Facebook or on 0729348620 if you have any information and you can also contact me." --- https://www.facebook.com/toinette.vanheerden.37

Piet Retief wildlife farmer Vic Möhle, 72, tied to gate, bludgeoned, shot twice in leg: TAU: since Jan 2013: twenty-nine murders in 104 farm attacks, often excessively cruel:

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Excessive cruelty: Piet Retief wildlife farmer Vic Möhle, 72, tied to gate, suffers concussion from assault, was, shot twice in leg: (also see: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1199) --------- Transvaal Agricultural Union concerns over high number of farm attacks By Alana Janeke. July 9 2013: Since January 2013 twenty-nine murders took place in 104 farm attacks, the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa warned on July 9 2013. The TAU statement noted that 'the previous year that farm attacks exceeded 200 was in 2002: in 2008 there were more than 200 attacks registered, warned deputy chairman Henry Geldenhuys of TAU-SA. -------- (IMPORTANT: PLEASE NOTE that according to the latest analysis of 2011/12 farm attacks by the SA Institute for Race relations, the Transvaal Agricultural Union UNDERCOUNTS farm attacks by an average of 7 to 1. -- The SAIRR readjusted its farm-attack statistics - finding that when compared to the house robbery statistics countrywide, (white) South African farm families are THIRTEEN times more likely to be attacked (in violent house robberies) than the average South African families are suffering). - The SAIRR based their readjusted statistics on farm attacks for 2012 on the assumptions that the number of attacks on farmers and their dependants is 422 out of a 100,000 population, and that the total number of (commercial + mostly white) farmers was 42,000 countrywide. --- The SAIRR compared the farm attacks with the house-robbery statistics in 2012 which stood at 33 per 100,000 population. ---- They concluded: "In this comparison farming families are 13 times more likely to be attacked than other families." (farmers will not be safe until other citizens are safe and vice-versa. This is a point that advocacy groups can use to great effect in their important campaigns to alert policy makers and the international community to the murder of farmers in South Africa." Issued by Frans Cronje, Lucy Holborn, Boitumelo Sethlatswe, South African Institute of Race Relations, October 10 2012 -- See the (upwardly) amended farm attack report by the SA Institute for Race Relations (pages 1 and 2 picture page-views are also attached and their entire report is also reproduced below. The SAIRR concluded at that stage that 'The farmers will not be safe until other citizens are safe and vice-versa. This is a point that advocacy groups can use to great effect in their important campaigns to alert policy makers and the international community to the murder of farmers in South Africa."Issued by Frans Cronje, Lucy Holborn, Boitumelo Sethlatswe, South African Institute of Race Relations, October 10 2012 URL: http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=331661&sn=Detail&pid=71619 --------------------------- Meanwhile on June 10 2013 the Transvaal Agricultural Union 's statement noted that "the most recent attack was on Friday-afternoon July 5 2013, when wildlife farmer Vic Möhle, 72, suffered a cruel assault on his farm Varkpan when he went to inspect the camps. -- 'He was horribly assaulted, shot twice in a leg and found with a heavy concussion, tied to a gate of one his wildlife camps.' His wife raised the alarm when he didn't return from inspecting his wildlife camps that evening and contacted their neighbours - who found him badly injured. Only his cellphone and farm-truck (bakkie) were "stolen" however it was later found abandoned by search parties. This was the third farm-attack in the Piet Retief region alone thus far in 2013, said Geldenhuys."The farming community meanwhile also managed to help police and reservists capture an attacker, 25, on 8 July 2013 in the Piet Plessis region: the suspect made his first appearance in the Vryburg magistrate's court to set a remand date. "The suspect stole firearms and other property from two farms in the region and a bakkie was also stolen,' said Geldenhuys. After the thefts a search was mounted by the community and the 'stolen' bakkie was found abandoned. Search dogs then located the man hiding in the veldt. He was remanded in custody and is excected to appear in Vryburg court within the next two weeks. --------------------------- http://www.tlu.co.za ------------------------------ https://www.facebook.com/groups/boikotnaspers/permalink/631588643520754/ ------------------ SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR RACE-RELATIONS AMENDS ITS FARM ATTACK STATISTICS FOR YEAR 2012: (DETAILS) Report, 10 October 2012: "White farming families 13 times more likely to be attacked": SA Institute for Race Relations SAIRR amends view on farm attacks written by SAIRR researchers Frans Cronje, Lucy Holborn and Boitumelo Sethlatswe -- http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=331661&sn=Detail&pid=71619 ----- According to Institute's calculations farming families may be 13 times more likely to be attacked Research and Policy Brief: Farm attacks in South Africa - a new analysis This Research and Policy Brief paper seeks to determine the extent to which farmers are uniquely vulnerable to armed attack in South Africa. It draws comparisons between the rate of attack on farmers and their families to that of other citizens in South Africa. On 5 October 2012 the South African Institute of Race Relations released a statement on farm attacks in South Africa. The statement was based on farm attack data by the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU). It has since been drawn to our attention by James Myburgh of www.politicsweb.co.za that the TAU data is compromised by a significant undercount of as much as 7:1 in terms of the actual number of farm attacks. Our initial analysis has therefore been revised accordingly. The revised analysis follows below. The table below compares the farm attack rate for farmers and their families to the house robbery rate, aggravated robbery rate, and combined aggravated robbery and murder and attempted murder rates for the broader population. It is based on three assumptions. The first is that there are 47 000 commercial farmers in South Africa. This is based on StatsSA's Census of Commercial Agriculture 2007. The second is that the average household size for farmers is 3. This is the average household size for white South Africans. The third is that, following from James Myburgh's analysis, the Transvaal Agricultural Union undercounts farm attacks by an average of 7 to 1. The fourth is that attacks on smallholdings should be included as attacks on farms. -- (See attached jpg pictures of Tables) -------- 47,000 farmers + 2 dependants each = 141,000 people National population = 50.6 million people Ratio of farm attacks to attacks on general population Rate per 100 000 people Farm attacks vs house robberies 22 33 12.8 to 1 Farm attacks vs aggravated robbery 422 200 2.1 to 1 Farm attacks vs aggravated robbery + murder + attempted murder 422 260 1.6 to 1 ----------- Table 1: Attacks on farmers and their families compared to other citizens (smallholdings included) The table shows that based on those four assumptions the number of attacks on farmers and their dependants is 422/100 000. The number of house robberies in the broader population is 33/100 000. In this comparison farming families are 13 times more likely to be attacked than other families. However, farm attacks also include all forms of robbery and not just house robbery. For that reason the table also compares the farm attack rate to the broader armed robbery rate in the country. Here the farm attack rate, which remains at 422/100 000, must be compared to the national armed robbery rate of 200/100 000. In terms of this comparison farmers and their families are twice as likely to be attacked as other citizens. Farm attacks also involve murder and attempted murder. For this reason the table also compares the farm attack rate to the joint aggravated robbery/murder/attempted murder rate for the broader population. Here the farm attack rate, which remains at 422/100 000, can be compared to the national murder and aggravated robbery rate of 260/100 000. Even on this analysis farmers remain more vulnerable to attack by a ratio of 1.6 to 1. However, the argument can be made that smallholdings are basically large urban plots and not really farms. For that reason we have published the table below which compares farm attacks, excluding attacks on smallholdings, to criminal attacks in the broader population. The other three assumptions made about the data (above) are unchanged. 47,000 farmers + 2 dependants each = 141 000 people National population = 50.6 million people Ratio of farm attacks to attacks on general population Rate per 100 000 people Farm attacks vs house robberies 262 33 ------------- Farm attacks vs aggravated robbery 262 200- 1.3 to 1 Farm attacks vs aggr avated robbery + murder + attempted murder 262 260 1 to 1 ------------------- Table 2: Attacks on farmers and their families compared to other citizens (smallholdings excluded) This table shows that when smallholdings are taken out of the equation the farm attack rate declines to 262/100 000 farmers and their families. Compared to the national house robbery rate of 33/100 000 farmers are on this measure eight times more likely to be attacked than other citizens. However, the table shows that when this new farm attack rate is compared to the broader aggravated robbery rate of 200/100 000 this ratio comes down to 1.3 to 1. Furthermore, when the farm attack rate is compared to the broader aggravated robbery/murder/attempted murder rate of 260/100 000 that ratio reaches a level of parity of 1 to 1. In other words, on this measure farming families are no more likely to be attacked than other citizens. We have also conducted an analysis of the murder of farmers, based on TAU's more complete murder figures. In order to produce a figure for the highest possible murder rate the table below assumes that only the 47 000 farmers, and not their families, are targeted in farm murders. ------------ 47,000 farmers National population = 50.6 million Ratio of farmer murders attacks to murders in the general population Rate per 100 000 people Farm murders vs all murders 68 31 2.2 to 1 -------------- Table 3: The murder of farmers On this measure the table shows that in 2011 some 68/100 000 farmers in the country were murdered. This compares to a national murder rate of 31/100 000. On this analysis farmers are twice as likely to be murdered as ordinary citizens. However, while farmers are particularly likely to be murdered, it is true that family members may also be murdered in attacks. It is for this reason that we have prepared the final table below, which compares the murder rate for farmers and their families to that of other citizens. 47 000 farmers + 2 dependants each = 141 000 National population = 50.6 million Ratio of farmer/family murders to murders in the general population Rate per 100 000 people Farm murders vs all murders 33 31 1.1 to 1 -------------- Table 4: The murder of farmers and their families - excluding 220,000 emerging (black) commercial farmers: This table shows that in 2011 the murder rate for farmers and their families was 33/100 000. ' The murder rate for the broader population was 31/100 000. -On this comparison farmers and their families are not more likely to be murdered than other citizens. However: Keep in mind that our analysis has excluded the 220,000 emerging commercial farmers, some of whom are large producers, who may also be attacked. We have also excluded from this analysis farm managers and extended families that may live on farms and become victims of attack. Our figures therefore suggest worst-case scenarios for farming families. What conclusions can be drawn? The first is that the past week has seen a sharp increase in the quality and level of analysis of farm attacks in South Africa. It has also focused considerable media attention on the problem. Both of these are good things. The second is that it is possible to argue that farmers are uniquely vulnerable to attack contrary to our initial conclusions drawn from the incomplete TAU data. This is especially so where a straight comparison is drawn between the house robbery rate and the farm attack rate. The same is true for the murder rate of farmers (excluding family members). The third is that by changing some assumptions it is possible to reach somewhat different conclusions. For example, it is reasonable to compare farm attacks, which is a term inclusive of robbery and murder, to the broader robbery and murder rates of the society. When this is done farmers remain more at risk, although by a smaller measure. However, it is when the assumptions shift to exclude smallholdings that the picture changes significantly. Then the comparisons suggest that farmers are not uniquely vulnerable to violent attack. However, even this result should not be taken to suggest that farmers are safe. Analysts of our data must consider that South Africa's crime rates are uniquely high. Our murder rate, for example, is 500% higher than that of the United States and 3000% higher than parts of Western Europe such as the United Kingdom and Germany. This brings us to our fourth conclusion -- that all South Africans face an extraordinary criminal onslaught. People who have previously regarded farm attacks as a somewhat distant problem, nothing to do with them, must realise that they arguably live in as much peril as farmers do. It is clear therefore, regardless of how they rank compared to other citizens, that as a best-case scenario, farmers live a perilous existence in a largely lawless society. The fifth conclusion is that, unlike urban middle class residents, farmers do not have the benefit of armed response companies or nearby police stations. Rather they depend on their own defences to secure themselves and their families. In addition, no analysis of the security position of farmers would be complete without noting the role of the State in exacerbating their vulnerability. The closure of the commandos and the Government and the African National Congress's ambivalence at best toward the incitement by some of their own members to kill farmers creates an environment in which South Africa's farmers are likely to be killed. The final conclusion is that there can ultimately be no solution to farm attacks without a broader solution to the general problem of criminal violence in our society. In other words, farmers will not be safe until other citizens are safe and vice-versa. This is a point that advocacy groups can use to great effect in their important campaigns to alert policy makers and the international community to the murder of farmers in South Africa. Issued by Frans Cronje, Lucy Holborn, Boitumelo Sethlatswe, South African Institute of Race Relations, October 10 2012 ============

Mystery death in SAPS custody: Security Company Owner Hannes Potgieter, arrested by Hawks in May, dies July 5 2013

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There has been no media outrage over the mystery-death on July 5 2013 of Hartbeespoort security-company owner Hannes Potgieter, arrested in May by the Hawks, and who 'fell ill in the police cells', was rushed to Brits hospital under police-guard, where he died. ----------------------------- (Last year in South Africa, more than 900 people died in SAPS detention. At the height of the anti-apartheid riots from 1963 and 1990, during the states of emergency, a total of 73 people were reported by the SAP as having died in custody in those 27 years. The ANC claims there were 'THOUSANDS'in those years. PAGE VIEWS of the death-lists from 1963 to 1990 - because most people cannot believe those 1963-1990 statistics. The article also contains the links to the ANC-propaganda claim of 'thousands killed in police detention' ... http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2013/07/deaths-in-sap-cells-1963-to-1990.html -------------- Hartbeespoort businessman and resident Hannes Potgieter who was arrested by the HAWKS for the unlawful possession of unlicensed firearms in May, died of a heart attack in Brits on Friday while in police custody. According to police Warrant Officer Mpeile Talane, Potgieter "was admitted to the Brits Hospital after he fell ill in the cell', was taken under police guard to the Brits hospital, where he died. Potgieter, who owned a security company, was arrested by the HAWKS early in May and 21 firearms were seized. He accused the HAWKS of stealing five firearms at the time. (More than 900 people died in SAPS custody in 2012: and the SAPS also have a pattern of arresting Afrikaner business people with legal arms-licenses on trumped up charges: often due to the poor administration at the government's firearms-registration office. Pics attached) --------- “According to an inventory there were 26 firearms. Potgieter claimed not to know where the other firearms were and lodged a complaint with the police accusing the HAWKS of stealing five firearms,” HAWKS spokesperson Col Paul Ramaloke said at the time. An additional charge of perjury was laid against him. The Brits Magistrate’s court denied bail and ordered that the R10 000 bail posted last year for a similar arrest be forfeited.Potgieter was also arrested in January 2012 after the HAWKS searched his house in Rietfontein and seized 20 firearms and 700 rounds of ammunition. Potgieter was in custody in the police cells in Brits where he was awaiting his next court appearance scheduled for 23 July 2013. http://www.kormorant.co.za/2013/07/hartbeespoort-businessman-dies-while-in-police-custody/ http://www.kormorant.co.za/2013/07/hartbeespoort-businessman-dies-while-in-police-custody/

Secrecy around Congo Hemorrhagic Fever patient Charles Marshall: moved from Medicare Hospital Middelburg Pretoria East Hospital

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Secrecy around Congo Haemorrhagic Fever patient Charles Marshall at Pretoria East Hospital. Three other cases of Congo fever have been confirmed in South Africa in 2013 to date, one in the North West Province and two in the Free State Province. All three patients survived. The viral infection has a 30 percent death rate and is highly infectious to nursing staff treating patients, who must always be treated in isolation, and with hospital air-conditioning turned to keep air inside the ward so that there is no danger of it spreading in aerosol bodily-fluids throughout the rest of the hospital. Nursing personnel and ambulance personnel usually are the first to get secondary infections from such primary patients. Mr Marshall was first taken from the ZoekOp farm in Belfast, to the Midmed hospital in Middelburg on Thursday seven days ago -- after he showed symptoms of the fever - which is usually transmitted by a specific type of tick. ---------------------- GREAT SECRECY: 11 July 2013 Daleen Naude of the Observer newspaper in Middelburg reveals that Mr Charles Marshall was taken amidst 'great secrecy' from the Midmed Hospital where he was treated for Congo Fever, to the Pretoria East Hospital on Saturday - The journalist writes that 'reliable sources' said that Mr Marshall was treated at the Midmed Hospital from Thursday. "Initially he was admitted to ward Five of the Midmed Hospital. Shortly thereafter he was admitted to its intensive care unit. Personnel were told that 'initial blood tests showed negative results' for the highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. However, later on other patients were moved from Ward six to other wards after a personnel member on the ward adjacent to Mr Marshall's ward, 'showed symptoms of the disease." The journalist writes that early on Monday morning the Department of Health intervened after test results came back indicating that Mr Marshall did suffer from the disease. His colleagues at the Zoekop Farm were alerted and asked to take blood tests twice a day. It was reliably reported to Ms Naude that ambulance personnel who had taken Mr Marshall from Belfast to Midmed and later transferred him to Pretoria also have their blood tested twice daily.A friend of one of the ambulance personnel was very angry, she said on Facebook: "I am angry with Midmed. You are there to save people's lives and not to endanger them."That also counts for their colleagues in Police, the ambulance services and the fire department. Thanks to your pathetic service three of them are Midmed manager Hennie Viljoen 'didn't want to comment' on Monday."I am busy drawing up a report,' he explained.The personnel continue to worry: "Ward Six has been emptied for the patient's isolation.All the nurses on Ward Five, Six, Intensive Care and Casualty departments were exposed to him - as well as all the patients.' "We know that two nurses also were directly exposed to body-fluids'. ------------ Press statement 8 July : Congo Fever Confirmed in Charles Marshall: (Mrs Marshall had already confirmed that he had Congo Fever on her Facebook page on July 5 2013: "A press release from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed a case of Congo fever in Belfast, Mpumalanga -08 July 2013 Daleen Naude The farmer was treated in isolation in a Middelburg hospital and then transferred to a Pretoria hospital for further care.The diagnosis was confirmed at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in Johannesburg on Friday. "The patient is responding well to treatment."As is routine, close contacts of the patient will be monitored for 14 days. "Casual contact with a patient with Congo fever poses no risk. "No secondary cases have been reported to date. Crimen-Congo haemorrhagic fever or “Congo fever” is well- described in South Africa although it is uncommon, with limited cases confirmed each year, mainly in persons working in the agriculture sector. The virus is transmitted to humans by specific ticks, “Bontpoot ticks”, or through handling of blood of infected animals during slaughtering or similar processes.While livestock are infected through the ticks that feed on them the animals do not suffer any illness and will be immune to subsequent infections. There is no risk to people through handling of meat products or through consuming meat as the virus dies very quickly after the animal has been slaughtered. Three other cases of Congo fever have been confirmed in South Africa in 2013 to date, one in the North West Province and two in the Free State Province. All three patients survived. ------------- http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7600140&sn=Detail&pid=4979897&Congo-fever-confirmed ------------ Translated from Afrikaans article written by Rustenburg journalist Daleen Naude: July 11 2013; "A woman who was sitting next to the ( positively identified ) Congo Fever patient in the emergency ward of the Mediclinic, wrote on the "Taking Hands Facebook page:: "Saw the report on front page about the guy with that ugly fever thing. I sat next to the the guy when he was brought in. It was bad, with blood all over the place. I felt sorry for THEM. "The man sat next to me for a while until they moved him to the bandaging room. I now am sitting here with bad headaches and pain all over my body. What do you think? Could I have been infected. Do you think I should mention this to the doctor". "Several persons commented and she did go to the doctor". http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7610157&sn=Detail&pid=4979897&Vrou-sit-langs-Kongokoors-man https://www.facebook.com/taking.handsmiddelburg July 11 2013: Mr Charles Marshall, Congo Fever patient: in isolation at Pretoria East Hospital: http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7610122&sn=Detail&pid=4979897&Kongokoors--Man-steeds-in-hospitaal =================== Background on Crimean-Congo Fever in South Africa: "Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus was isolated for the first time in South Africa in February 1981, from the blood of a 13-year-old boy who died in Johannesburg after attending a camp in a nature reserve in the western Transvaal. The Virus was isolated from 21/120 pools of questing ticks from the nature reserve, the infected species being Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and H. truncatum. Virus was also isolated from 4/38 pools of partially engorged ticks and other ectoparasites collected off hosts, the infected species being H.m. rufipes, H. truncatum and Rhipicephalus evertsi. Antibodies were found in the sera of 5/74 humans, 8/26 wild vertebrates, 74/270 sheep, and 109/170 cattle from the reserve and surrounding farms. Antibodies were also found in 28/200 hares from various locations in the country. It was concluded that the virus is widely prevalent in South Africa, but the full medical and veterinary significance of its presence has yet to be determined. Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tick-borne viral disease, a zoonosis of domestic animals and wild animals, that may affect humans. The pathogenic virus, especially common in East and West Africa, is a member of the Bunyaviridae family of RNA viruses. Clinical infections are commonly severe in infected humans, with a 30% mortality rate. Outbreaks of illness are usually attributable to handling infected animals or people. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6418019 --------------------- Experimental infection of ostriches with Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus. Swanepoel R, Leman PA, Burt FJ, Jardine J, Verwoerd DJ, Capua I, Brückner GK, Burger WP.-- National Institute for Virology and Department of Virology, University of the Witwatersrand, Sandringham, South Africa. "Following the occurrence of an outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) among workers at an ostrich abattoir in South Africa in 1996, nine susceptible young ostriches were infected subcutaneously with the virus in order to study the nature of the infection which they undergo. The ostriches developed viraemia which was demonstrable on days 1-4 following infection, with a maximum intensity of 4.0 log10 mouse intracerebral LD50/ml being recorded on day 2 in 1 of the birds. Virus was detectable in visceral organs such as spleen, liver and kidney up to day 5 post-inoculation, 1 day after it could no longer be found in blood. No infective virus was detected in samples of muscle, but viral nucleic acid was detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in muscle from a bird sacrificed on day 3 following infection. It was concluded that the occurrence of infection in ostriches at abattoirs could be prevented by keeping the birds free of ticks for 14 days before slaughter. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9825796 Medicare private hospital, Rustenburg, South Africa: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rustenburg-Medicare-Private-Hospital/192677047450482?fref=ts

SA news media violates his human rights by publicly naming firearm shop director Gareth de Nysschen minutes after his arrest

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SA news media violates his human rights by publicly naming firearm-shop director Gareth de Nysschen just minutes after his arrest by military police at Johannesburg Airport: ------------------------ July 12 2013. Two employees of Dave Sheer Guns were arrested at Johannesburg International Airport on Thursday night as one of them tried to leave the country. Gareth de Nysschen and his friend were arrested by the military police of the South African National Defence Force. The arrests come after The Star revealed this week that the Dave Sheer Guns shop in Johannesburg, is at the centre of a Hawks investigation that involves allegations of bribing police officers to fast-track gun licences, buying stolen military ammunition and creating fraudulent export permits. The two arrests are separate to the Hawks investigation. They follow the arrests of two black soldiers and one civilian after the alleged theft of more than 200,000 rounds of military ammunition last month. Sergeant Peter Motaung, a storeman at 21 Infantry Battalion in Lenasia, and Corporal Diphapa John Motloung, a communications clerk at the same unit, were charged with theft and fraud. Motloung’s son Thabang was charged as an accessory to the theft and conspiracy to commit murder. The alleged stolen ammunition was said to be worth more than R1million. A State witness whose affidavit was read out in court said the ammunition was sold to Dave Sheer Guns. Forensic consultant Paul O’Sullivan said De Nysschen was trying to catch a flight to New York. His colleague heard of the arrest and came to the airport, where he was also apprehended. “It’s appropriate that he not be allowed to leave the country,” said O’Sullivan. “He is a flight risk, and when he was arrested, he was trying to leave the country. “As soon as we knew what his plans were, we alerted the military police and they swung into action. Justice has been served and we await with anticipation more arrests,” O’Sullivan said. De Nysschen, a director at Dave Sheer Guns, was escorted by military police to the holding cells just before 7pm. A worried-looking De Nysschen wheeled his suitcase and disappeared into the airport’s holding cells. He was on his way to New York, from where he planned to travel to Las Vegas. Dave Sheer Guns spokesmen deny any wrongdoing. De Nysschen and his friend were transported in separate police vans to Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, where they were to be held in custody last night. The friend, who did not want to be identified, and two lawyers arrived just after 6pm and enquired from the police about De Nysschen. “Hi, I’m looking for Gareth. I’m told he was arrested here at the airport,” the friend said. A police officer replied: “Yes, he has been arrested, but he has not been brought here yet. He is still with border police.” The friend, who seemed disturbed by what the police had told him, asked: “Do you know why he has been arrested?” The police officer told him he was not sure of the charge.Later, the man was also led into the holding cells, and emerged in handcuffs. De Nysschen’s lawyers spoke to the investigating officer.“We just need details of what the charges are. Is there a chance that we can speak to him? We just want to tell him to calm down, everything will be okay,” said a lawyer. She declined to comment. The SAPS confirmed on Thursday that it was involved in a criminal investigation of the Central Firearms Registry, various police stations and provincial offices, and that it expected arrests. Spokesman Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale declined to mention names. “Nonetheless, we can confirm that there is an ongoing investigation across the entire gun licence issuance value chain and that this investigation is at an advanced stage.” He said the police expected they would be able to give an update on this investigation early next week. Makgale said that over the past year, criminal cases in connection with corruption were instituted against eight employees attached to the firearm, liquor and second-hand goods component of the police at station, provincial and national levels. This unit is responsible for, among other things, the approval and issuing of firearm licences. http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/firearm-shop-director-nabbed-at-airport-before-flight-to-us-1.1545734#.Ud_la6yCCLh

Black panga-mob tortures, hacks to death Afrikaans coloured man Wayne Blaauw in Saldanha: shouting "After Mandela dies we will kill you all' ...

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Black mob hacks to death Afrikaans speaking Coloured ( 'mixed race ') Saldanha man Wayne Blaauw in Middelpos squatter camp - two days earlier another coloured man, Denver Telmarks, 27, also escaped from a large mob of black men with pangas, who shouted: 'After Mandela dies We'll Kill You All'-- Local residents are terrified: they keep their children indoors saying, 'these blacks will not stop until they've killed us all, they have made that clear'. ( pic.twitter.com/vZhcMMyF3h ) -------------- Afrikaans speaking coloured man Wayne Blaauw killed in Saldanha by 60 blacks shouting "We are going to kill you all the day Mandela dies...' "We coloureds are terrified and won't even let our kids play outside. The blacks have made it clear they won't stop until we are all dead...' Saldanha residents Wayne Blaauw, 25-year-old father of two small children, was tortured and hacked to death by a mob of black men in the Middelpos squatter camp. His head was cleaved open, the nose cut off, toes broken by 60 black Africans who shouted: “We are going to kill you the day Mandela die” July 12, 2013 Saldanha, Western Cape, South Africa. An Afrikaans-speaking coloured man, Wayne Blaauw, was gruesomely killed by sixty black-African residents of Middelpos Squatter camp. And other coloured residents are terrified, saying they receive frequent threats that all the coloured people will be killed, with threats such as: “We will kill you all after Mandela dies.” This ominous warning came after 60 black residents of the Middelpos squatter camp killed a young coloured man. Wayne Blaauw’s (25) badly mutilated body was found last Wednesday in the shantytown. His body was covered in bruises, his head was cleaved open, his nose was cut off, and his toes were broken. According to Wayne’s mother, Charlotte Blaauw (52), saw her son last Tuesday when he said he was going somewhere quickly. Overcome by grief she said: “We first heard Saturday a body was found in the shantytown and once in the morgue on Monday I got the shock of my life. "Wayne was a lovely boy. Now his two young children were without a father. ” Wayne’s father, Sakkie Bester, 48, said his beloved son was tortured. “There was no place on his body that was not bruised. Wayne’s head was cut open from ear to ear with a machete, and his head was hit with a hammer. “We could not even open his coffin during his funeral, because blood was still flowing out of his one eye and his nose had to be glueed onto his face” The family says they have not heard from the police, but Captain. FC van Wyk, spokesman says all the necessary evidence is at the police forensic laboratory. “We do not elaborate on what type of evidence we have at this this stage as it may hinder our investigation,” said Van Wyk. But a family member said: “We are left with the clothes he was wearing and the cops have not even sent it away for forensic analysis.” Another coloured man, Denver Telmarks (27) narrowly escaped a few days after the gruesome killing from a mob. According Telmarks he was on the road to the shantytown to fix a refrigerator when about 20 people with machetes and pipes started charging at him. Telmarks said: “They were shouting that they will kill us all the day Mandela dies. I ran away like never before in my life. ” Another resident said the torture of Blaauw will lead to much worse things. “We colured people are terrified and would not even let our children play outside. “The blacks have made it clear that they will not stop until we’re all dead,” said the resident concerned. Translated - Original story in Afrikaans newspaper Die Son SALDANHA . – “Ons gaan julle almal vermoor die dag as Madiba sterf.” Dié onheilspellende waarskuwing is gerig toe sowat 60 swart inwoners van die Middelpos-plakkerskamp ’n jong bruin man doodgeslaan het. Wayne Blaauw (25) se erg verminkte lyk is laas Woensdag in dié plakkerskamp gekry. Sy kop was oopgekloof, sy neus was afgekap en sy tone was gebreek. Volgens Wayne se ma, Charlotte Blaauw (52), het sy haar seun laas Dinsdag gesien toe hy gesê het hy gaan gou iewers heen. Sy het hartseer vertel: “Ons het eers Saterdag gehoor ’n lyk is in die plakkerskamp gekry en Maandag in die morgue het ek die skok van my lewe gekry. Wayne was ’n lieflike seun. Nou moet sy twee jong kinders sonder ’n pa grootword.” Wayne se pa, Sakkie Bester (48), het gesê sy klong is doodgemartel. “Daar was g’n plek op sy lyf wat nié gekneus was nie. Wayne se kop is van sy oor tot die ander oor met ’n panga oopgekloof en sy kop is met ’n hamer ingeslaan. “Ons kon nie eens sy kis tydens sy begrafnis oopmaak nie, want die bloed het uit sy een oog gestroom en sy neus moes vasgeplak word.” Die gesin sê hulle het nog niks van die polisie gehoor nie, maar kapt. FC van Wyk, segsman, sê alle noodsaaklike evidence is by die cops se forensiese laboratorium. “Ons wil nie in dié stadium uitwei oor watter tipe bewysstukke dit is nie omdat dit ons ondersoek kan belemmer,” aldus Van Wyk. Maar ’n familielid sê: “Ons sit nog met die klere wat hy aangehad het en die cops het dít nog nie vir forensiese ont­leding weggestuur nie.” Denver Telmarks (27) het enkele dae ná die gru-moord self net-net van die mob ontsnap. Volgens Telmarks was hy op pad na die plakkerskamp om ’n yskas te gaan regmaak toe sowat 20 mense met pangas en pype op hom afstorm. Telmarks het gesê: “Hulle het geskree dat hulle ons almal gaan vrek maak die dag as Madiba sterf. Ek het weggehardloop soos nog nooit in my lewe nie.” ’n Ander inwoner het gesê die martelmoord op Blaauw gaan tot baie erger dinge lei. “Ons bruines is verskriklik bang en wil nie eens ons kinders buite laat speel nie. “Die swartes het dit duidelik gemaak dat hulle nie gaan ophou voordat ons almal dood is nie,” het die inwoner bekommerd vertel. -Eldridge Jason http://dieson.mobi/2013/07/11/na-madiba-volg-dalk-slagting/

Jannie Lombard's wife escaped from 2 black male attackers in veld near Ventersdorp who tried to strangle her

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Jannie Lombard's wife attacked in veld near Ventersdorp by two blacks who tried to strangle her. She managed to defend herself and fled. ------------------- VENTERSDORP - My vrou is gisteraand aangeval deur 2 mans, sy was in die veld by haar perde toe sy die 2 mans gewaar, hulle was reeds baie naby aan haar, sy het met hulle gepraat en gevra of sy hulle dalk kan help, 1 het haar gewurg, sy was met tye uit, sy kon daarin slaag om haarself te verdedig, en het weg gekom. Ons wil net dankie se aan VENTERSDORP SAPD, OKKIE, BEA, TANNIE MARTIE EN ENGIN vir julle hulp en bystand, dankie ook aan ons HEMELSE VADER dat U haar beskerm en bewaar het. Baie dankie Jannie Lombard. source; https://www.facebook.com/jannie.lombard.96?hc_location=stream

Port Elizabeth man Ricardo Nelson, 36, survives being shot by two black male gunmen in 'Bizarre shooting" - no attempt to rob

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11 July 2013 -- Described by the police as a 'bizarre and baffling' shooting, 36-year-old Ricardo Nelson was shot in the upper body after two gunmen opened fire on his car while he was driving to work in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Nelson and his three passengers were a few metres from the gate of CRH Africa Automotive, where they all work, when the shooting started. Police spokeswoman Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg described the shooting as "bizarre and baffling": adding: "We have no clue as to what the motive could possibly have been." Witnesses said two gunmen ran into the road and shot at the vehicle six times."The gunmen did not attempt to rob or hijack them," Janse van Rensburg said.Within seconds of the shooting, the men fled on foot into nearby bushes. The three passengers escaped unharmed and no arrests have been made. – Gareth Wilson http://www.peherald.com/news/article/16880
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