Sept 2 2013 case in Stellenbosch magistrate's court: Two Cape-coloured males were arraigned in Stellenbosch, WC magistrate's court for the murder of German-born Jochen Rädel, 59, Aug 18 2013.Being charges with his murder are
Morné Martin 20 and Ashwill Pietersen 27 said the SAPS. Their case was remanded for bail application to 2 September 2013. Both live in Devon Valley.
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The murder is possibly drug-related said local residents: Also see: 'Drug-crazed gangs hold Western Cape communities hostage: pic story attached)
http://www.worcesterstandard.com/77289/news-details/bendes-hou-dorp-gyselaar
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Die Burger Afrikaans daily writes that there had been breakin at the building site a day before the murder: and he was changing the locks of the house and also fetching a BBQ when he was attacked.
Martin and Pietersen were questioned two days later and charged with the murder the following Thursday. Mr Rädel is survived by his wife Christiana, his son Kai and two sisters. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-24-twee-verdagtes-in-rdel-moord-vlugtig-voor
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STELLENBOSCH. – The facial wounds and horrific injuries to his head were so terrible that they 'cannot be described with words,' said a family friend after the murder of investment-advisor Jochen Rädel, 59, bludgeoned at the building site of his new home on the farm Chimanimani in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch on August 18 2013. "I 've never seen anything like it: his face bruised and swollen. I could almost not look at it, said family friend Gerit Schaafsma. The Rädel family were renting a townhouse on the farm Le Verger next to Chmanimani while they were building their new house next door. SAPS capt Frederick van Wyk confirmed that two people were questioned at the site. Rädel was found Sunday afternoon by his sun Kai, 22, an honours-student in logistics at the University of Stellenbosch.
Don Maxwell chairman of the Devon Valley farm association, said 'the people being questioned are serial-criminals who live in the region. "Devon valley has an extremely effective security system,' he reportedly said, expressing shock over the gruesome daytime murder of Mr Rädel. Seymour Pritchard, eienaar of the Clos Malvern vinyard, commented that 'the attackers are occasional tik users (a drug which causes a high level of aggression). There are breakins here but not those kind of attacks. Drugs are a problem in this area and should be addressed, he urged. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-21-sy-wonde-was-te-erg-vir-woorde
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SA investments Jochen Rädel 59, dies after pick-axe attack at a farm in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch where he was inspecting the building-site for his new family-home:
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August 19 2013 By Elbé van Heerden -- STELLENBOSCH - Devon Valley resident Jochen Rädel 59, an engineer who used to work at Siemens Telecommunications, and who had been at the building site of his new family home on a farm adjacent to the Le Verger hotel on a farm in the Devon Valley, Stellenbosch was critically injured at 14h00 when he was attacked by a person with a pick-axe. He was declared dead ('brain-dead') on Monday August 19 2013. His son discovered his badly injured dad when he went to investigate why his father had not returned on Sunday.
The murdered man and his wife Christiane also lost their daughter Stefanie, 18 on 11 May 2007 in a car accident in Johannesburg, reported Eikestad Nuus.
http://www.eikestadnuus.co.za/80656/news-details/brekende-nuus-man-breindood-ná-plaasaanval
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Jochen Rädel testified that his daughter's culpible homicide death in a car crash was 'pure murder'
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October 27 2009 By Nontobeko Mtshali -- "This is not culpable homicide; this is cold-blooded murder." Jochen Radel did not mince his words as he testified during the first day of the inquest into the death of his 18-year-old daughter Stefanie at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday. Stefanie died on May 19, 2007, eight days after a car crash in which her parents, Jochen and Christiane, were injured. Jochen said the car they collided with was travelling too fast. The accident happened at the intersection of Dorset and Chester streets minutes away from the Radels' Parktown North home. "Anyone who drives a car through suburbs at that speed has no conscience," said Jochen, referring to the driver of the other car, Mark Smith. "Besides causing a horrendous accident, he still had the audacity to sue my wife for his car damage, which amounts to R170,000."Smith's legal representative, Aad Den Hartog, said that according to Smith, Christiane did not stop at the stop street as she should have.Despite not remembering what had happened during the accident, Christiane said she always stopped at that intersection.Two independent experts, enlisted by the Radels, estimated that the BMW was doing between 100 and 120km/h in a 60km/h zone.
Mark Lottering, a Joburg metro traffic officer who attended the accident scene, said the BMW came to a standstill 25 metres from the point of impact. The Radels' car was struck from the right-hand side and landed 18.8m from the intersection.Lottering said the Radels' Chevrolet had "collided with a car that had right of way".The Radels' legal representative, Barry Roux, asked Lottering if the BMW had been speeding, as indicated by the cars' sideways movements.Speed was a contributing factor," said Lottering.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/car-smash-was-cold-blooded-murder-1.462786
Owner, Jochen Radel & Associates Jochen Radel & Associates cc
previous Siemens Telecommunications Education Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jochen-raedel/10/466/3b8
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