Three of the large number of black torturers-killers who murdered the Afrikaner farm-couple Marthie 63 and Chris Erasmus 62 on their farm outside Koster, Hartbeesfontein on Dec 2 2010 have been given jail sentence in a trial which for the most barred, the news media was barred access to. In sentences handed down on June 14 2013 in the Mogwase Circuit Court, North West province, Two blacks were sentenced to life in prison, and a third got 18 years for the horrific slaughter of the elderly Afrikaner farm couple Marthie and Chris Erasmus at their Hartbeesfontein farm. It's not known why it took the courts more than three years to get convictions. Most of the trial was held in secret in remote law courts. During the original four accused men's bail applications, all the news media were barred from the Koster magistrate's court, with the magistrate claiming that one of the four accused males was 'still a minor' and refusing to allow the news media inside. At the time outside the court, members of the pro-Afrikaans Action Group protested against the secrecy surrounding this trial and against the ongoing genocide against the Afrikaner people. On Wednesday June 12 2013, justice was partially seen to be done in the Mogwase Circuit Court in the North West province when three men, earlier found guilty for the gruesome torture-attacks against the farm couple, Samson Sihlangu, Tshepang Moumakwa, and Johnny Maema were finally sentenced. Sihlangu and Moumakwa were handed life terms and Maema 18 years imprisonment. (The details from this trial remain scarce.) Chris Erasmus survived the farm attack, but he died a month later.
The news report only appeared in the Afrikaans daily news paper Beeld: which has a 'pay-for' website barring access to outsiders. It's only with the greatest difficulty that we were able to obtain the information contained in the Beeld report about the results of the trial. Beeld quoted the victims' daughter Annelise afterwards as saying: “We will never forget how my parents were tortured, nor that my mother was bludgeoned to death with a sledge-hammer, strangled, and stabbed.”
Reportedly a social worker's submission to the court also "mentioned that Marthie Erasmus had been known for her kindness, and because she fed the poor and transported the elderly to collect their pension money."
(Pay-for article in Beeld:) http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-06-14-lewenslank-n-aanval-op-egpaar
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Most of this trial, including the bail applications for FOUR of the original suspects, had been held in secret and were moved around to various out of the way courtrooms. It's not known why the trial against the fourth unidentified suspect was not continued. Eleven days after the double-murder On Dec 13 2010 outside Koster Magistrate's Court, members of the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group had demonstrated against the secret bail application, and also against the genocidal violence targetting Afrikaners.(picture) The entire bail-hearing was held in secret while Praag members protested in front of large placards outside. It's also not certain whether all the black males who had originally attacked and tortured the couple, have actually all been arrested. It's only known that 'a group of armed black males had attacked the elderly Afrikaans farm couple on the farm Hartbeesfontein, in the Moedwil district of Koster, near Rustenburg North West on December 2, 2010."
Mrs Marthie Erasmus 63, was tied up on her bed and then the black gang bludgeoned this defenceless Afrikaner woman to death with a sledgehammer. Husband Christiaan Stephanus Erasmus 62 was very seriously injured and died within a month of his injuries in hospital.
The local Afrikaans news media described this as an ordinary 'robbery' because an amount of cash was stolen, and the gang had fled in the farmer's 'robbed' bakkie - which was however found overturned and abandoned not long thereafter near Rustenburg. One of the black men who was arrested apparently had just been hired by the farm-couple a week earlier. Mr Erasmus was tied to his chair and brutally beaten about the face and eyes. Since there has not been any access to the trial records, it's also not known if any testimony was provided as to why the gang felt that it needed to use this horrific violence against an unarmed, tied up couple - but after they fled the farmer, despite his horrific head-injuries, managed to free himself. Four black males were arrested in the adjacent township.
As has become increasingly routine in South Africa, the alleged killers were mostly tried in camera with no media nor members of the public allowed in court, purportedly because one of the accused was a ‘minor’. In the past such trials were split: "minors" were tried seperately from adults – but the evidence in such trials describing the cruel murders of Afrikaners are becoming an increasing embarrassment to the ANC-regime. It is seen increasingly that every effort is made to keep the news media away from such trials, using the excuse of 'minors' to hold hearings in camera, or moving trials to remote courtrooms. A Protest meeting against the original secret bail application was held at the time by Dr. Dan Roodt, leader of PRAAG and other members. He was quoted as saying at the time that this secret trial was a travesty of justice ‘ during the protest outside Koster magistrate's court.
" This shocking murder represents the latest in a series of ethnically and racially based executions that are currently taking place in our country. We appeal to the international community and the United Nations to put a stop to the systematic annihilation and expulsion of our nation."
Roodt was also critical of recent remarks made by Mr.Paul van Staden, the grandfather of two-year old farm-girl Willemien Potgieter who has become a symbol of Afrikaner suffering and genocide after the little red-haired girl was killed execution style after her farmer-parents were murdered by a large black male gang. Roodt was quoted as saying: "Mr. Van Staden said he ' does not like Afrikaners to protest and resigns himself to what has happened'. But it is not God's will that our children, mothers and fathers should be exterminated. If Mr. Van Staden believes that, he is guilty of a 5000-year old Egyptian myth entailing divine determinism. The Afrikaner must not resign himself to the execution of our children, nor to what looks increasingly like genocide," Roodt continued.“This appalling act of violence (the triple-execution murder of the Potgieter family), as well as the hammer murder on Mrs. Erasmus, must not go unpunished," Roodt said. Original protest report:
http://www.praag.co.uk/news/southern-africa/583-praag-protest-against-genocide.html
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