Found not guilty of assault: Rietvallei Wine Estates foreman Dozi Treurnicht: magistrate ruled he did not assault worker Flippie Engelbrecht

Farm-foreman Dozi Treurnicht found not guilty of assaulting farm-worker Flippie Engelbrecht in highly-politicised trial, Worcester regional court, Dec 19 2014 http://www.netwerk24.com/nuus/2014-12-20-carina-papenfus-kan-gedagvaar-word ================ "Are the chickens coming home to roost for the Afrikaner-hating "lawyer' Carina Papenfus -- who together with the Freedom Trust (which was founded by the African National Congress party in the West Cape)-- had caused the suicide of farmer Johnny Burger, owner of the internationally acclaimed Rietvallei Wine Estate... The lawyer for acquitted farm-foreman Dozi Treurnicht, Sakkie Krouwkam, said yesterday that 'we will discuss early next year whether we will sue Papenfus." Treurnicht had just been found not guilty of one charge of assault against farm-worker Flippie Engelbrecht, 19, in the Worcester regional court. After his co-accused employer Johnny Burger committed suicide, the charges against Mr Burger were been withdrawn. It was reported in the news media that his farm workers had wept at Johnny Burger's funeral. In the following weeks, farm workers came forward describing Mr Burger's humanitarian approach to his workers - including the fact that he had sent one of his worker's daughter for an education abroad. (also see: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1484 He is still facing assault charges on 28 January 2015 with three other men Jakobus Swart (35), Fanie Beukman (38) and Daniël van der Merwe (40) for seriously assaulting two other farm-workers Willem September (38) and Koos Minnaar (40). Initially the foreign news media had descended on the two cases, which initially were lodged amidst a wave of disinformation from Papenfus and the farm-workers' rights group the Freedom Trust. Papenfus had indicated that Engelbrecht's medical condition - he is an alcoholic epileptic and became blind due to an accident at home -- was directly caused by the alleged assault by Burger and Treurnicht. However, just about every detail which Papenfus had 'leaked' to the news media - which also had printed them without asking any further questions - have turned out to be a lie, meant to demonise the farmer and his foreman before they even had their day in court. ( details: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1484 and http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1541). Krouwkam said after yesterday's acquittal that Papenfus had caused a great deal of damage and grief which can never be repaired. (details: Yet despite the sub-judice rule which bars the news media from identifying suspects before they pleaded to any charges -- Carina Papenfus, the only spokeswoman for the murky Freedom Trust, had already made sure that their names were smeared out all over the news media. The two men were brutally treated outside after their first court appearance by a large, violent mob which jumped on their bakkie and threatened to torch them to death. The SAPS did not intervene and only by managing to drive away did Burger manage to save their lives. Shortly thereafter, the traumatised farmer committed suicide. His workers wept at his funeral and shortly thereafter, the 'charges' against him were dropped and Dozi Engelbrecht's case was moved to the Robertson regional court - but with little chance of success. Ater Burger's suicide the Cape Times published many details from the health-department documents showing Engelbrecht's medical records -- which proved that Carina Papenfus' 'evidence' was badly flawed, and that Flippie Engelbrecht's injuries were not caused as she had claimed. And it was also revealed that there also are three different versions of the dates Flippie had allegedly been 'assaulted' -- from three of his closest relatives. Carina Papenfus was further exposed when the news media published documents showing that she was a disbarred, legally-bankrupt lawyer who mishandled many cases and had even d Somehow, Ms Papenfus this time was 'not available for comment' when Die Burger tried to reach her after Treurnicht's acquittal yesterday, they reported. Various news-articles have appeared since the first publicity-wave around these cases showing a 'souring' of the relationship between Papenfus and the Engelbrecht family. Most of those news-media reports had centered on promises of cash and other rewards which had allegedly been made by Papenfus and also the behaviour of young Engelbrecht while he was staying with Papenfus. The 28 January trial centres on claims by two farm workers that the four accused men had assaulted them on the farm Rietvallei near Robertson, WC on 21 August 2009 including the use of an electric prod. Long before the trial Papenfus had also held another dramatic press-conference with the two farm-workers in which the the details of the alleged assault had been described. This was similar to her campaign against Treurnicht and Burger - which became an embarrassment for the ruling ANC-party, which admitted that the entire case was 'political' and that they had hired Papenfus and that they had founded the Freedom Trust in a report by journalists Jeanne van der Merwe and Julian Jansen in the Afrikaans weekly Rapport (October 2013) in the Robertson Regional Court is a Political Case, ANC -activists admit-- Story: 2013-09-21 Jeanne van der Merwe en Julian Jansen - Afrikaans weekly Rapport: -------------------- (Also see: Court Case Only For Whites: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1587) ----------------- ANC-allied land-rights activist Shirley Davids of the Mawabuye farm-workers group told Rapport: "We handed Flippie Engelbrecht's assault case to Carina Papenfus and the Freedom Trust - but she turned it into a political football. We would have handed the case to the Robertson court and let it decide. Now Papenfus is hiding Flippie away from us and we hear nothing from her any more.' This was the allegation levelled by land-rights activist Shirley Davids of the Mawabuye farmworkers-land-rights group. The Engelbrecht case was turned into a very badly handled political tragedy, with the world-famous Rietfontein Estates wine maker Johnny Burger committing suicide after a traumatic appearance at the Ashton court for the case, which dates back to 2008. He and his foreman Dozi Treurnicht were not asked to plead at this first appearance, and faced trial for an alleged assault against farm workers child Flippie Engelbrecht which the two men had said from the start was a 'purely political case'. Yet despite the sub-judice rule which bars the news media from identifying suspects before they pleaded to any charges -- Carina Engelbrecht, the only spokeswoman for the murky Freedom Trust, had already made sure that their names were smeared out all over the news media. The two men were brutally treated outside after their first court appearance by a large, violent mob which jumped on their bakkie and threatened to torch them to death. The SAPS did not intervene and only by managing to drive away did Burger manage to save their lives. Shortly thereafter, the traumatised farmer committed suicide. His workers wept at his funeral and shortly thereafter, the 'charges' against him were dropped and Dozi Engelbrecht's case was moved to the Robertson regional court - but with little chance of success. Ater Burger's suicide the Cape Times published many details from the health-department documents showing Engelbrecht's medical records -- which proved that Carina Papenfus' 'evidence' was badly flawed, and that Flippie Engelbrecht's injuries were not caused as she had claimed. And it was also revealed that there also are three different versions of the dates Flippie had allegedly been 'assaulted' -- from three of his closest relatives. Carina Papenfus was further exposed when the news media published documents showing that she was a disbarred, legally-bankrupt lawyer who mishandled many cases and had even defrauded her own black workers in dishonest land-registration deals. ANC REVEALS THAT IT FOUNDED THE FREEDOM TRUST AND APPOINTED PAPENFUS AS ITS SECRETARY Then a senior Western Cape ANC leader, Marius Fransman, the deputy-minister of international relations, jumped into the fray and publicly defending Papenfus. He revealed that the ANC itself had founded the Freedom Trust, and that it was its mission to fight for the rights of farm-workers; that it was founded six months earlier by Maurencia Gillion, ex-mayor of the Overberg-district municipality and a member of the party's provincial executive council. Two of the Freedom Trust's trustees are ANC-councillors in the Berg River municipality Sanet Smit and Cathy Booysen-Nefdt, who defected from the Democratic Alliance. Papenfus was appointed as the secretary of the Trust and its only public spokesperson. However these direct links with the trust to the ANC were kept secret by Papenfus while she was planting her false evidence against the two men in the news media: the ANC links were not revealed until the first court appearance in Ashton. Meanwhile the Freedom Trust 's ANC-councillor Smit has also spoken up for the first time, claiming that the Engelbrecht case 'was not politicised'. She was quoted as saying that 'this is about an ideology. People have to be helped. And if it means that an organization has to be founded to do so so, well then yes so be it.' She said nothing about the falsification of the Engelbrecht documents -- instead countering with the propaganda slogan that there are 'hundreds of cases where farm workers rights are being abused'. The Freedom Trust demonstrators used the ANC flag at the first court appearance in Ashton - which set off the entire tragic chain of events. Yet despite all this published evidence, all these clearly falsified records, and all these lies being told in public about this case -- the State still persists in persecuting foreman Dozi Treurnicht. He is in the Robertson Regional Court on October 14 2013. http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Flippie-se-saak-is-pure-politiek-se-aktiviste-20130921 Read more at http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1484 ================ previous reports: The State's highly-politicised 'Farm Assault case' against Grabouw wine-farm foreman Wilhem Treurnicht in Worcester court on October 14 2013 was postponed to December 4. The case showing all the signs of unraveling: its main witness and accusor, the disabled (blind, epileptic, handless) farm-worker's son Flippie Engelbrecht, now 19, the parents believbe, was kidnapped by the secretary of their sponsor the freedom trust. The 'assault victim' Flippie Engelbrecht lodged an assault charge dating from five years ago,with the Freedom Trust claiming his present disablement was due to the alleged assault. Die Son newspaper has reported on October 7 2013. He disappeared after he and his parents reportedly drank themselves into a stupor over the weekend at a safe house in Grabouw - which was being paid for by the ANC-funded political organisation, the Freedom Trust which has also helped them launch their case. The parents accused the Freedom Trust's Carina Papenfus of kidnapping Flippie and demand that she brings him back. Papenfus has lodged charges of damage at the Grabour police station against the father of the youth. The Engelbrecht parents were reportedly thrown out by the Freedom Trust after they nearly sat the house on fire in a drunken bout - and in turn the parents now also accuse its secretary Carina Papenfus to dupe them into signing 'divorce papers'. The parents and the other children of the Engelbrecht couple are the main witnesses in the case and they have reportedly now turned enmasse against Carina Papenfus, the controversial disbarred lawyer who is the secretary for the Freedom Trust. --------------- Flippie was apparently taken away by an ambulance for an unknown destination when he suffered an epileptic fit on October 7 2013 after his parents were thrown out of the safe house with the help of the police. ------------ Flippie, now 19, caused international headlines after he launched assault charges - aided by the Freedom Trust -- against the late wine farmer Johnny Burger and his foreman Wilhelm 'Cozi' Treurnicht. ----------------------- The case will be heard again on 14 October 2013. Mr Burger committed suicide after the previous arraignment - when the two men were surrounded by a mob and threatened with 'burning'. They managed to get away just in time. The case against Mr Burger was dropped - but the State insisted on continuing the case against Mr Treurnicht, who has not yet been asked to plead to any charges. This is expected to happen in the Worcester court on 14 October 2013. Meanwhile the entire case is being fought out in the news media, which has published troubling details about the veracity of the 'medical records' submitted by Freedom Trust secretary Carina Papenfus on which the State is basing its case against Treurnicht. An important issue is whether Flippie's condition - blindness, epilepsy - and the fact that he had lost his hands after falling into a fire - had all been caused by an alleged assault carried out against him when he was living on the Burger farm with his parents - or whether Flippie suffered from foetal alcohol syndrome caused by his parents' alcoholism. The latest news reports indicate that a serious rift has developed between the parents and the Freedom Trust. Flippie reportedly has even 'disappeared', it was reported on 2013/10/08 by journalist Maahir Pretorius of Die Son newspaper. The Freedom Trust claims he is in the care of the social welfare department. However Melany Kühn who is the spokeswoman for the Western Cape's minister of social welfare denies this. Journalist Maahir Pretorius also reports that 'his parents don't know where he is because they were thrown out of the safehouse in Grabouw where they had been put up with Flippie by the Trust. They were forced to leave without Flippie after an alleged boozing session by the parents, Flip and Katriena Engelbrecht. They phoned Die Son newspaper journalist on October 7 2013, complaining that the secretary of the Freedom Trust Carina Papenfus had them thrown out. They said 'officials' took Flippie away. The incident was confirmed by Mrs Maurencia Gillian of the Freedom Trust who said that Flippie's parents had been 'drinking' and the father had become 'rowdy'. "The woman they lived with in the safe house phoned the Trust on Saturday. The SAPS were called as was an ambulance 'because the youth, Flippie, suffered an epileptic attack in that time. Gillian said 'circumstances have made it necessary to put Flippie in the care of social-welfare officials.' -Maahir Pretorius Flippie Poepdronk: http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/08/flippie-nou-ewe-skielik-missing/ ROBERTSON. Pure brandy. That 's what a nurse poured down the throat of farmworker's disabled son Flippie Engelbrecht, 18 at the Safe House he was placed by social welfare authorities. – The 18-year-old Engelbrecht is the alleged victim at the centre of a controversial 'assault case' against farm-foreman Dozi Treurnicht -- whose boss, internationally known winemaker Johnny Burger committed suicide after their arraignment in court for the alleged assault in which, the parents claim, Flippie Engelbrecht was made permanently disabled. It has been widely reported that Engelbrecht's ailments leading to his disablement - epilepsy, blindness - were actually caused by a syndrome caused by the alcoholism of the Engelbrecht's parents Journalist Basil Davids writes that This week 16-year-old Susanna Engelbrecht, his sister, accused a nurse of giving her brother 'glasses full of brandy' in het presence. She accused the nurse of telling the sister that 'Flippie Engelbrecht's drinking-orgy must not be told to the woman who lodged the charges against the farmers, Mrs Carina Papenfus of the Freedom Trust. "Otherwise there will be big shit', the sister reportedly told journalist Basil Davids. Susanna said 'the nurse didn't even give the brandy with coke or ice-cubes in it - she just tossed the brandy straight into his throat'. So when their mother Katriena showed up 'Flippie was falling-down drunk'. Susanna said she asked Flippie where he got the booze: 'he just laughed and went to lie down next to his dad.' Then Flippie became rowdy and started breaking the cups. The sixteen-year-old denied that she and her husband also drank that day. "And we are sick and tired of Carina Papenfus.' Her husband, also named Flip, said: "She must leave us alone now, because we think she is now hunting for civilian money. We want this (assault case against Dozi Treurnicht) to end. I am ready to negotiate'. The teenaged-couple also said they would not attend the case in Worcester next week. Article by -Basil Davids - http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/10/nurse-maak-outjie-glo-so-dronk/ -Maahir Pretorius also see: http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/08/flippie-nou-ewe-skielik-missing/ http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/10/skeiery-is-bog/ Also see: Facebook page Support for accused farm foreman Dozi Treurnicht: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151972005369245&set=p.10151972005369245&type=1&theater ------------------ Meanwhile Flippie's mother Katriena has also accused Carina Papenfus, secretary of the Freedom Trust of trying to get them to sign papers to get the victim's parents to divorce. Papenfus is allegedly living in a 'safe house' in Grabouw, reports journalist Maahir Pretorius. 'The Engelbrecht couple said they showed up at Papenfus' safe house on Saturday, who put a stack of documents in front of us and told us to sign them. When we asked what they were, Papenfus said they involved 'permission for the cops to take away Flippie to help him. Katriena said when she examined the documents more closely, she realised these were divorce-papers for her and her husband, also Flip. When the couple refused to sign the documents, Papenfus allegedly 'threw them out.' Papenfus denied the allegation. She also railed against the couple's alcoholic habits, saying that 'the place where they were living nearly burned down because they were so drunk.' The chairman of the Freedom trust, Mrs Maurencia Gillian, asked for comment, claimed that the 'Trust wanted to support the Engelbrecht family from the start of the trial to protect Flippie. "It's heartbreaking to see the parents turning against us like this. We heard last Wednesday that 'some of the farmers offered money to witnesses to not testify at the assault trial against Dozi Treurnicht. "Rumours are also spread that a cash offer was made to Flippie's parents to withdraw the assault charges altogether.' She claimed that the Trust had to call in the police when they saw the Engelbrecht couple hitchhiking on the road to Robertson." However Mrs Katriena Engelbrecht has vehemently denied the 'rumours of bribery: these are utter nonsense,' she told journalist Maahir Pretorius. http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/10/skeiery-is-bog/ http://dieson.mobi/2013/10/08/flippie-nou-ewe-skielik-missing/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151972005369245&set=p.10151972005369245&type=1&theater ============= Flippie Engelbrecht assault-case against Rietvallei Wine Estates foreman Dozi Treurnicht on October 14 2013 in the Robertson Regional Court is a Political Case, ANC -activists admit-- Story: 2013-09-21 Jeanne van der Merwe en Julian Jansen - Afrikaans weekly Rapport: -------------------- (Also see: Court Case Only For Whites: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1587) ----------------- "We handed Flippie Engelbrecht's assault case to Carina Papenfus and the Freedom Trust - but she turned it into a political football. We would have handed the case to the Robertson court and let it decide. Now Papenfus is hiding Flippie away from us and we hear nothing from her any more.' This was the allegation levelled by land-rights activist Shirley Davids of the Mawabuye farmworkers-land-rights group. The Engelbrecht case was turned into a very badly handled political tragedy, with the world-famous Rietfontein Estates wine maker Johnny Burger committing suicide after a traumatic appearance at the Ashton court for the case, which dates back to 2008. He and his foreman Dozi Treurnicht were not asked to plead at this first appearance, and faced trial for an alleged assault against farm workers child Flippie Engelbrecht which the two men had said from the start was a 'purely political case'. Yet despite the sub-judice rule which bars the news media from identifying suspects before they pleaded to any charges -- Self-claimed attorney Carina Papenfus, the only spokeswoman for the murky Freedom Trust, had already made sure that the farmer and his foreman's names were smeared out all over the news media long before the trial had even started. The pre-publicity caused a wave of violence and outrage in the Worcester community -- and the two men were brutally treated outside after their first court appearance by a large, violent mob which jumped on their bakkie and threatened to torch them to death. The SAPS did not intervene and only by managing to drive away did Burger manage to save their lives. Shortly thereafter, the traumatised farmer committed suicide. His workers wept at his funeral and shortly thereafter, the 'charges' against him were dropped and Dozi Engelbrecht's case was moved to the Robertson regional court - but with little chance of success. Only AFTER Johnny Burger's suicide did the Cape Times publish many details from the health-department documents showing Flippie Engelbrecht's medical records -- which proved that Carina Papenfus' 'evidence' was badly flawed, and that Flippie Engelbrecht's injuries were not caused as she had claimed. And it was also revealed that there also are three different versions of the dates Flippie had allegedly been 'assaulted' -- from three of his closest relatives. Carina Papenfus was further exposed when the news media published documents showing that she was a disbarred, legally-bankrupt lawyer who mishandled many cases and had even defrauded her own black workers in dishonest land-registration deals. ANC REVEALS THAT IT FOUNDED THE FREEDOM TRUST AND APPOINTED PAPENFUS AS ITS SECRETARY Then a senior Western Cape ANC leader, Marius Fransman, the deputy-minister of international relations, jumped into the fray and publicly defending Papenfus. He revealed that the ANC itself had founded the Freedom Trust, and that it was "its mission to fight for the rights of farm-workers". The Freedom Trust had been founded six months earlier by Maurencia Gillion, the ex-mayor of the Overberg-district municipality and a member of the ANC-party's provincial executive council. Two of the Freedom Trust's trustees were ANC-councillors in the Berg River municipality, namely Sanet Smit and Cathy Booysen-Nefdt, who defected from the Democratic Alliance to the ANC. Papenfus was appointed as the secretary of the Trust and its only public spokesperson. DIRECT LINKS BETWEEN ANC WERE KEPT QUIET BY PAPENFUS: However these direct links with the trust to the ANC were kept secret by Papenfus while she was planting her false evidence against the two men in the news media: the ANC links were not revealed until the first court appearance in Ashton. Meanwhile the Freedom Trust 's ANC-councillor Smit has also spoken up for the first time, claiming that the Engelbrecht case 'was not politicised'. She was quoted as saying that 'this is about an ideology. People have to be helped. And if it means that an organization has to be founded to do so so, well then yes so be it.' She said nothing about the falsification of the Engelbrecht documents -- instead countering with the propaganda slogan that there are 'hundreds of cases where farm workers rights are being abused'. The Freedom Trust demonstrators used the ANC flag at the first court appearance in Ashton - which set off the entire tragic chain of events. Yet despite all this published evidence, all these clearly falsified records, and all these lies being told in public about this case -- the State still persists in persecuting foreman Dozi Treurnicht. He is in the Robertson Regional Court on October 14 2013. http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Flippie-se-saak-is-pure-politiek-se-aktiviste-20130921 ===================================== Hounded to his death: ‘racist winemaker’ Johanny Burger gave money to Coloured girl to study in USA -- (also see Carina Papenfus, Freedom Trust) ============== PRAAG - September 7, 2013 Johnny Burger with his fellow accused Wilhelm Treurnicht in the Ashton Magistrate's Court. Photo: Cape Times. ================== Johnny Burger (standing, right) with his fellow accused Wilhelm Treurnicht in the Ashton Magistrate’s Court. Photo: Cape Times. As more facts surface regarding the owner of Rietvallei wine farm, Mr. Johnny Burger, who had been driven to suicide by anti-racists and the media, the so-called perpetrator is starting to look more and more like a victim. In a glowing letter published in the Boland Gazette, a local newspaper in the Cape, a young Coloured woman recounts how the winemaker donated money to further her studies in America. At the time her father was a worker on the farm who was treated with warmth and fairness by the same man accused by Rapport of “beating a young Coloured boy into epilepsy”. We reproduce the letter here:The ‘Oom Johnny’ that I knew… ---------------- by Meriza Lakey : "The first time I met Johnny Burger, or Oom Johnny, as I called him, I was an embarrassed teenage girl. My father, who passed away four years ago, was a builder and worked for Oom Johnny for close to a decade. After matric, I was determined to travel overseas and made the necessary arrangements to go to America. These plans were a little bit ambitious for a coloured, Afrikaans girl from a small wine community within the Western Cape. One Friday afternoon, my father told me to hop into his old, rickety bakkie and we drove off to Rietvallei to see Johnny Burger.At the farm, my father introduced me to Oom Johnny and I remember meeting the tallest man I had ever seen in my life. My father was a pretty tall man himself, but Oom Johnny towered over him like a city skyscraper. My father explained to him that this was the daughter who was leaving for New York soon and if he, Oom Johnny, didn’t have a few extra ‘dollars’ to give to me.As a teenager, this completely caught me off-guard and I thought I could’ve just died. I remember poking my father in the hip and smiling shyly, as to say that we don’t need any ‘hold-outs’. I was a proud teenage girl embarrassed at everything that my father did or say. Oom Johnny just smiled, walked over to his cabinet and drew 200 American dollars out of his drawer. I was shocked at how easily he gave the money, almost like an investment, in me. My father loved him, that’s why he worked for him for over a decade. He always came home with some story of what “Johnny Burger said” or what “Johnny Burger did”. I smile now at how Oom Johnny was never known as just “Johnny”, his name was always followed by his surname and it’s like I can see my father saying it right now. Oom Johnny was also the first to offer advice when we found out about my father’s cancer. I remember visiting Rietvallei again after I came back from America. Oom Johnny spoke to me in English and I replied in my ‘newly-acquired’ American accent, much to his and my father’s amusement. I remember him looking at me and I remember seeing the same look in his eyes, as I saw in my own father’s eyes; that of a proud father. I can only tell you of the Johnny Burger I knew. I wanted to write this tribute to Oom Johnny, as my father would have wanted me to do. I can speak only of what I know and what he did for me and my family. And if that is testament to the kind of man he was, then to me, that was a great man. - Meriza Lakey (daughter of Tommy Lakey) - See more at: http://praag.org/?p=10102#sthash.9KXpH1Le.dpuf ---------- Were assault charges against (now dead) Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and farm manager Treurnicht based on "inaccurate court information by complainant's sponsor, the Freedom Trust - 's advisor Carina Papenfus? - ------------------------- Update from 'Die Burger" Afrikaans daily Sept 7 20 13: "Farmworkers weep at funeral service of martyred Ashton farmer Johnny Burger http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZE6P0gQv4fk - http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-09-07-plaaswerkers-huil-by-diens-vir-burger ---------------------- "Cape Times: "New twist in Flippie saga" -- Cape Town - Sept 6 2013 -- Documents in the possession of the Cape Times raise questions about the sequence of events that left 18-year-old Flippie Engelbrecht blind, and his subsequent injuries after an alleged assault by a farmer and farm manager. Carina Papenfus, the secretary of The Freedom Trust, a farmworkers’ rights NGO, has been advising the family and filed a complaint with the Sea Point police on Engelbrecht’s behalf earlier this year. - Papenfus has said Engelbrecht was assaulted on Friday, January 25, 2008.On the Sunday, she said, he was “in and out of consciousness” and was taken to a doctor in Robertson on Monday, January 28, and, later that day, in an ambulance to Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, for “emergency surgery” that left him blind. Engelbrecht, who was born on December 28, 1994, according to records, was 13 at the time.Papenfus has also said Engelbrecht fell into a fire, leaving him with severe burns, in September 2009. Subsequently his hands were amputated. Robertson wine farmer Johnny Burger and his manager, Wilhelm Treurnicht, appeared in the Ashton Magistrate’s Court last week, and the case was postponed to September 13. On Tuesday morning, Burger, who owned the Rietvallei farm on which the assault allegedly took place, was found dead at home. (A pending inquest will decide whether he took his own life.) DOCUMENTS SHOW DIFFERENT DATES: Documents in the possession of the Cape Times indicate that Engelbrecht was taken to a doctor on August 15, 2009, complaining of “swelling on the side of his face”. This was 19 months after the alleged assault. Another report, compiled from Worcester Hospital medical records, states that he was referred from Robertson to Worcester Hospital on August 19, 2009 “for possible brain abscess”. He was seen and then sent to Tygerberg Hospital the next day for a brain scan. In October 2009, he was evaluated by the Pioneer School for the Visually Impaired in Worcester with a view to placing him in the school. Records from the Pioneer School say that: “According to the parents he became blind in a strange way, after a boil on his cheek, and was taken to a local doctor. “Swelling occurred and his condition worsened, whereafter he was taken to Worcester Hospital. “According to the mother he was there for about six weeks, and on release he was blind.” A Worcester Hospital report also states that Engelbrecht was referred from Robertson on August 19 last year with burns. Engelbrecht was treated for burns and 10 days later had to have his hands amputated in Worcester. After this he was referred to Tygerberg for more treatment. An occupational therapy report from Tygerberg Hospital from September last year confirms that Engelbrecht had suffered burns on August 19. This was almost three years after the date given by Papenfus." jan.cronje@inl.co.za Cape Times http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/questions-surround-flippie-s-assault-1.1574301 -------------------------------- also: http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2013/09/06/flippies-spokesperson-accused-of-lying-to-bolster-case-against-rietvalleis-johnny-burger/ ------------------- PREVIOUS: Farmer found dead, possibly suicide, after Ashton court mob-attack, threats to burn accused Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and farm manager Wilhelm Treurnicht poor SAPS protection ------------- The Afrikaans media reports on 4 September 2013 that accused farmer Johnny Burger has been found dead with a gunshot to his head. Despite the fact that a forensic examination and an inquest court still have to decide how Mr Burger came to his death, the Beeld newspaper has already decided for them: announcing "Farmer in Court Case Takes His Own Life'. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-04-boer-in-hofsaak-neem-sy-eie-lewe --------------- If he did take his own life -- which in the face of the many death-threats against him, should be very thoroughly investigated -- he was clearly hounded to death: He and his farm-manager Wilhelm Treurnicht were attacked by a mob outside the Ashton court at their recent court appearance, where they had appeared on remand BUT HAD NOT YET BEEN ASKED TO PLEAD TO ANY CHARGES. The political group which lodged the law suit against them, had organised a large rentamob. The same group also arranged to have their names published before they had even been asked to plead to any charges. ---------------- Mob attacks, threatens to burn Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger, manager Wilhelm Treurnicht in Ashton Court SAPS fires stun-grenade to chase off rentamob threatening to 'burn' Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and manager Wilhelm Treurnicht - the two only made their first remand-appearance and were not asked to plead to any charges - yet they have already been demonised in the SA news media: August 29 2013 Cape Town According to the Argus newspaper, the SAPS used a stun grenade to disperse very violent protesters outside the Ashton Magistrate’s Court, where the Afrikaner farmer Johnny Burger and his manager Wilhelm Treurnicht appeared on charges of assault on Wednesday. They have not yet been asked to plead to the state's charge that the two had allegedly beaten farm worker Flip Engelbrecht and his son Flippie five years ago. Yet they have already been demonised and found guilty by the news media. http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus -------------- (related news: Proof that ANC is behind WC 'farm protests' - http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/we-have-proof-anc-behind-cape-protests-1.1569430 - http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus) ------------ Police were trying to form 'a protective ring' around Johnny Burger, owner of Rietvallei Wine Estate, and farm manager Wilhelm (Dozi) Treurnicht as they made their way to their bakkie after their brief court appearance on Wednesday. It was a remand appearance, they were not asked to plead to any charges, yet they have already been publicly identified and demonised. Once the two men were inside the vehicle, the 'protective ring' clearly didn't work: as the crowd surrounded them, jumped on to the back of the vehicle, hit the windows and bonnet, and threw stones, shouting 'Burn Them'. The state alleges that Flippie, now 20, was left epileptic and blind by the attack. This is the medical evidence which the State will have to prove. Flippie later fell into a fire during a seizure and lost both his hands. Last week he was fitted with a pair of prosthetic hands. -- It is the State’s case that in 2008 Burger and Treurnicht had beaten Engelbrecht, who worked on the farm, and Flippie, then 15. The evidence has not yet been led. The men appeared for their first court-appearance. On Wednesday, the small court building, which has only one courtroom, was filled with tension and anger as the community waited for the two men to appear. By 9am, more than 100 people described as 'farmworkers and community members' by the Argus had gathered outside the court to support the Engelbrecht family. Burger and Treurnicht arrived after 11am, and it was reported that they were late because one had not been feeling well. This prompted fury from the gallery. Shouts of “why are you so special? Who do you think you are?” were yelled as they entered the courtroom. “You say that you not feeling well. How you think this child feels and all the other children you assault?” shouted Carina de Viliers Papenfus, a disbarred lawyer who is the secretary of the Freedom Trust. After a brief appearance, magistrate Francois van Deventer transferred the case to the Ashton Regional Court, postponing the matter to September 13. As the two left the dock, a community member yelled: “Druk hom vas (get him)!” There was a rush for the door, and police formed a protective ring around the duo as the crowd suddenly surrounded them. The men reached their bakkie safely, but then people climbed on to the back and rocked it from side to side, while others hit the windows and bonnet. “Brand hom (burn him)!” was shouted numerous times. As the vehicle moved slowly away, stones were thrown. Police used a stun grenade to disperse the crowd. Solomzi Ntlalombi, one of the protesters, said that, although "he did not know Flippie he was there to support him.An injury to one is an injury to all. I don’t even know him, but support him because of the pain he had to go through.” Nosey Pieterse, the marxist, very militant general secretary of the Building and Allied Workers Union of SA, said Flippie’s case was not unique.“It’s a daily matter of farmworkers being violated. There are many such cases where some have even died, but the farmer is never charged. We are busy reviving those cases too,” Pieterse said. Later the victim - Flippie -- said that he was feeling heartsore. “The farmer didn’t feel well, but how did I feel after he assaulted me? Blood was running out of my ears and nose. I’m hurting. I can’t do anything for my parents.” ----------------- http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/mob-turns-on-flippie-assault-accused-1.1569773#.Uh8Gyn-NB1o ----------------- Karina Papenfus moet so trots op haarself wees vandag: 'n ordentlike boer, Johnny Burger, is doodgetreiter: http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-04-boer-in-hofsaak-neem-sy-eie-lewe ---------------------