Beeld journalist Leanne George reports in story headlined "Man doodgeslaan met graaf' that four Afrikaner males have been murdered in tiny Hartbeespoort by black-male attack gangs since Christmas eve 2014 up to 6 Jan 2015, and that very little of any real value except 2 firearms and some cheap electronics were 'robbed'.
(Hartbeespoort: population 22,374 - racial breakdown: Afrikaans & English whites 60%; Black African 38.2%; Afrikaans coloured 1.1%; Indian/Asian 0.7% in 2011 census)
SUMMARY: Murders of Afrikaner men Hartbeespoort since Christmas eve:
■ Mike O’Reilly (48) shot dead on 24 December 2014 in Elizabeth street, Schoemansville;
■ John Eckhard (70) bashed to death on 31 December 2014 in his Rietfontein smallholding homestead. 2 firearms were robbed from his safe.
■ Leon Snyman (48), shot dead 31 December 2014 next to his wife Elize 50 in his bed at the Rietfontein smallholdings: an unknown thug shot him dead through the window from outside.
His widow was shot and injured in the face. Nothing was 'robbed'. The gunman fled without entering the home.
■ An Afrikaner family who does not want to be named, was attacked 31 December 2014 at the Syferfontein-smallholdings. The family members were greeting their guests who were leaving after a New Year's eve barbeque when three black males
armed with a shotgun and a handgun ran in through their front door but when the alarm was raised, they fled, firing back at the family as they ran. In this incident, everybody remained unscathed, miraculously.
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Reported by Leanne George Beeld.com journalist in Afrikaans story: "Man Met Graaf Doodgeslaan" headline:
(Twitter: https://twitter.com/leannegeorge)
6 January 2015 - reporter: Deur Leanne George
An elderly Afrikaner couple who were about to move moved from their farm in Brits to a home in Sven Street, Ifafi, Hartbeespoort because it would be 'safer,' were brutally attacked
on Sunday-evening 4 January 2015 by a group of black people who broke apart the burglar-bars in the living room and bashed the unarmed André du Preez to death from behind, while he was walking to the kitchen .
Traumatised widow Elsabé said they had already finished supper and she was in bed, watching TV while André was walking to the kitchen for a glass of water.
The next moment she heard a rustling noise and when she looked up, a black male stood next to her bed, holding a spade, ordering her to remain quiet and demanding 'money and jewellery'.
Strangely, as is often done by blacks when attacking white victims, the thug threw a blanket over Mrs du Preez and then bashed her with the spade in her face - knocking her unconscious.
"He may have believed I was dead because when I came to briefly, he was gone. I passed out again and when I woke up I went looking for my husband'.
She called loudly for the neighbours when she found her husband dead.
"The neighbouring woman rushed to my aid and phoned the police. The thugs took away our cellphones and tablet computer so I couldn't phone anyone'.
“Die buurvrou het my te hulp gesnel en het die polisie gebel. Hulle het ons selfone en tablet(rekenaar) gesteel, so ek kon niemand bel nie.”
The murdered man's son Jacques said: "We were all set to move them to a retirement centre this weekend'.
André 's memorial service will be held this Friday - when he would have celebrated his 76th birthday.
SAPS col Sabata Mokgwabone said the thugs took away 2 cellphones, a tv, a tablet computer and a wedding ring and they are investigating murder/robbery, and that the white man had died at the scene.
Harro Rust, the chairman of rural security at the Hartbeespoort Smallholdings Residents' Watch, said that since Christmas eve 2014 there were three other mothers and an attack all against whites in the region.
Schoemansville resident Marietjie Luus also said that the murders and attacks have surged over the past few weeks, and while she has lived there three years she has never been as scared. http://www.network24.com and http://www.beeld.com Afrikaans headline: "Man doodgeslaan met graaf"..
Hartbeespoort, informally also known as "Harties", is a small resort town in the North West Province of South Africa, situated on slopes of the Magaliesberg mountain and the banks of the Hartbeespoort Dam. The name of the town means "gateway of the hartbees" (a species of antelope) in Afrikaans. It was previously known as Schoemansville, named after General Hendrik Schoeman, a Boer General in the Anglo-Boer War, who owned the farm that the Hartbeespoort Dam was built on.[2]
The town consists of holiday homes around the dam as it is popular with visitors from nearby Gauteng Province. It is home to the Om Die Dam (English: Around the dam) ultra marathon of 50 km, which takes place annually in the first half of the year.
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