Survive: Farm couple Louis and Eirurika Van der Westhuizen 64, help capture farm-attack gang member

It was reported on April 28 2015 that farm couple Louis and Eiurika Van der Westhuizen fought with a black man who had invaded their farm on Sunday 19 April 2015 on their farm Dedimus near Pietersburg (which the ANC's ethnic-cleansing campaign of Afrikaner history has changed to the name Mokopane). Their traumatised home-worker had warned the couple that a black man was hiding in their cookhouse 50 metres away from their homestead and that he 'was planning something bad' early on Sunday morning The farmer said he contacted the local SAPS 'and then my wife and I went outside to make certain that the suspect didn't escape from the law'. The man attacked him and tried to get the farmer's pistol away from him. "We struggled, he BIT me, and I fired a shot to stop him from attacking us further, and hit him in the shoulder. He fled, he told the local newspaper 'Die Bosveld". The trail-searchers (Spoorsnyers) were called in and the local police officers tracked the suspect about 200m from the homestead - he'd already been captured by local farmers who had rushed to the farm and set up blockades.' The rest of the farm also was searched because we had heard that this man was part of a larger gang which usually attacked homesteads in groups and which had been involved in previous robbery raids and farm attacks,' said one of the Spoorsnyers, named as 'Vossie Vosloo." Louis Van der Westhuizen was treated for the scratch- and bite-wounds he sustained in the struggle with the captured man (usually this also involves having him take antiretroviral medicines to prevent AIDS-infection). Louis said: "The previous day, the police had come to the farm and searched the homes of local workers where they found a large number of stolen items. I suspect that this was one of the reasons why the suspect had been on the farm, to fetch the stolen goods from other raids". The South African police's investigating officer Moshati Sekanka said there had been a breakin the previous Friday on one of the neighbouring farms which gave them leads to the Dedimus farm where they had arrested two suspects and confiscated stolen goods. The police officer believes that the suspect arrested on Sunday after the struggle with the Van der Westhuizen couple was part of this gang and that an indepth investigation was going on concerning these crimes. The suspect's identity is not released for this reason, he said. "The man was arrested and an in-depth investigation is ongoing,' said constable George Ledwaba, spokesman for the 'Mookgophong"police station. The Van der Westhuizen couple expressed ' deeply gratitude' for the help from the police, their quick reaction to their emergency call, and the help from the Spoorsnyers "in particular our thanks to Captain Sekanka and all the farmers for their help and support'. REPORTED: http://reviewonline.co.za/79113/voortvlugtige-word-platgetrek/