Afrikaner farmer Johan Basie Venter's suspected murderer Mduduzi Nkosi escapes from Middelburg SAPS cells

Afrikaner farmer Johan Venter's suspected murderer escapes from court-cells Middelburg Mpu: and within days attacks two Afrikaner women, mother and daughter Mrs Susan Van den Berg and Ronelle Steyn in their garage at Buller Street, Middelburg: daleen@mobserver.co.za http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=8000808&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&Nkosi-roof-weer ============ http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7984901&sn=Detail&pid=4979898&Mduduzi-ontsnap ============ December 5 2013: Mrs Susan van den Berg, 73, 'trauma-tears running down her cheeks', angrily gesticulates towards the motorbikes in their garage where one of two black male attackers threw her during an armed attack against her and her daughter, Ronelle Steyn. 'It was him, that man on the front page of the Middelburg observer on Tuesday. I saw the mustache and the face very clearly.' Middelburg Observer journalist Daleen Naudé described the armed attack at the home of the two Afrikaner families who live together at Buller Street. "All fingers point to Mduduzi Nkosi, who escaped from the SAPS cells in Middelburg - and is linked to the murder (of farmer Basie Venter) and to an alleged rape." The women were ambushed after they had visited with a friend, Mrs Susan Schoonbee until 21h45 and took her home. Upon their return, the granddaughter Yolandi and her visiting friend Lizanne Wolmarans (both 14) who rode along, went inside and locked the security gate behind them while the women pulled the car into the garage. Mrs Steyn drove the brand-new BMW X5 slowly as it was a large car. "I realized something was wrong when Ronelle grabbed my arm and said 'Ma'. Mrs Van den Berg looked up and saw the man holding a pistol to her daughter's head. And when she tried to jump out from her side another black gunmen stood there, pointing a pistol at her. The women recognized Nkosi, whose picture had just been in the local newspaper. The men shouted 'Money where is the money we want money'. Mrs Steyn replied that they should 'calm down' while she was plucked from the driver's seat, while her mother was roughly pulled from the passenger seat and thrown against the motorbikes in the garage. Her arm turned black and blue where he had gripped her. Mrs van den Berg was terrified that the men would kidnap her and her daughter and told them there was money inside the house. The women were being shoved towards the house while the teen girls inside, wondering why they were so tardy, looked through the locked security gate and saw the armed gunmen. The girls raised the alarm and woke up the youngest son Louis, 14, who broadcast an emergency call over the citizens' radio network. The women outside realized that their lives were hanging on a thread once the girls started screaming inside. The gunmen were retreating away from them, guns still pointing at the women.. and Mrs Steyn took the quick decision to slam the steel door closed between them and the gunmen and sliding the bolt closed. Seconds later they heard the BMM driving down the road. The Middelburg Radiogroup members Willem and Rachiel Kies still tried to chase the gunmen but the BMW outran them. The vehicle was found abandoned about 15km outside Middelburg on the Loskop Dam Road. daleen@mobserver.co.za ============ JOHAN VENTER'S MURDER OM THE FARM KEEROM AND THE ARREST OF NKOSI: --- 28 November 2013 MIDDELBURG. During the four years since their patriarch, farmer Johan Venter's cowardly murder on the farm Keerom, the family was pleased that one of the murder suspects Mduduzi Nkosi was in prison awaiting trial. Mr Venter was shot dead by cowardly gunmen in their bedroom in his Middelburg homestead on 22 Jan 2010 and his wife Rentia was shot in the stomach and wrist by a second attacker who was just. One arrested suspect - (amazingly, still not tried after four years in trial-awaiting custody) -- Mduduzi Nkosi managed to escape Wednesday-early from the SAPS cells in Middelburg Mpumalanga. ------------- Look Local Middelburg journalist Daleen Naudé writes that the widow 's reaction was one of obvious fear and terror: she reportedly said: "We can only ask a Higher Hand to protect us,' after hearing the news. She added that the family had upgraded their security at their home considerably since the murder of their beloved patriarch. The black gunmen had managed to get into their bedroom where Mr Venter fought back to protect his wife. He was still calling for help from their son Jaco when one of the black men shot him execution style in the head. Meanwhile another black man who was still climbing through the burglar-bars of their window, fired shots at Mrs Venter, injuring her in the stomach and a wrist. A farm-commando and SAPS members sought day and night to find the murderers. Initially three suspects were arrested. About two weeks after Mr Venter's funeral Nkosi 'was arrested again' after Nkosi and cellmate Johannes Mthimunye 'escaped' in Dec 2009 from the cells at the municipal court. They were in trial-awaiting custody for robbery and assault at the time. And now Nkosi has escaped once again. Mrs Venter said they had taken every possible safety precaution they could think of after her husband was murdered. Now the family is praying that Nkosi will be captured again. Nkosi and Johannes Mthimunye were scheduled for a three-day trial in January 2014 for a large number of other offences besides the mudder of farmer Venter: including murder, armed robbery, and kidnapping. One of their trials was in process when Nkosi managed to 'escape' again this week, fleeing with two other suspects Simphiwe Ngobeni (33) - on trial for possession of stolen property - and Lucky Thabang Mnisi (21) on charge for theft. The SAPS claimed that the three hardened criminals managed to escape by 'breaking open the door between the waiting room of the cells and cutting through the security wiring'. The police failed to say how the three could have gotten their hands on a sharp object to do this with.daleen@mobserver.co.za http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7984901&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&Mduduzi-ontsnap -------- Just days after Nkosi's mysterious escape from the SAPS cells in Middelburg, Mpumalanga, Nkosi roof weer - Me. Susan Van den Berg op die plek in die motorhuis waar een van die rowers haar in die motorhuis tussen die motorfietse ingeslinger het. Terwyl die traumatrane oor haar wange loop, sê sy driftig: "Dit was hy, dit was die man op Dinsdag se voorblad. Ek het die snor en sy gesig duidelik gesien!" 05 December 2013 Daleen Naude Daar was Woensdagaand 'n roof by die Steyn en Van den Berg-huis in Bullerstraat en alle vingers word gewys na Mduduzi Nkosi, die man wat verlede week uit die Polisieselle op Middelburg ontsnap het en positief verbind word met onder andere moord en verkragting. Me. Susan Van den Berg (73) raak kort-kort emosioneel as sy die gebeure sekond vir sekond herleef. "Terwyl dit gebeur het, het dit gevoel asof ek buite alles staan. Asof dit besig is om met iemand anders te gebeur," sê sy. Die Van den Berg-egpaar, Susan en Bossie, bly by hul kinders, die Steyn-familie in Bullerstraat en daar is Woensdagaand tot ongeveer 21:45 saam met me. Van den Berg se vriendin, Susan Schoonbee, gekuier. Me. Schoonbee se kar is 'n paar maande gelede gesteel en hulle moes haar tuis (ook in Dennesig) gaan aflaai. Me. Van den Berg het saam met haar dogter, Ronelle Steyn, gery. Kleindogter, Yolandi, en haar maatjie, Lizanne Wolmarans (albei 14), het besluit om saam te ry. Met die terugkeerslag het die twee meisiekinders die motorhuis oopgemaak. Hulle het nog teruggespring in die kar toe 'n voertuig verbyry, maar daarna uitgeklim, die veiligheidsdeur oopgesluit en ingegaan. Me. Steyn het stadig in die motorhuis ingery, aansien haar man se nuwe BMW X5 voertuig groot is en sy baie versigtig moes inbeweeg. "Ek het besef daar is fout toe Ronelle my aan die arm vat en net sê: "Ma!" Sy het reageer en vir haar dogter gekyk, waarop sy vasgekyk het in die booswig met die pistool teen haar dogter se kop. Sy wou uitspring aan haar kant om hulp te gaan soek, maar ook sy het in die loop van 'n pistool vasgekyk. Die rower aan me. Steyn se kant het die deur oopgepluk en bo-oor haar geleuen om in die kar rond te krap. "Ek het vol in sy gesig vasgekyk en dadelik die snor gesien. Dit was daardie man!" Hy en sy makker het heeltyd geskreeu: "Money, where is the money, we want money!" Me. Steyn het haar stem rustig probeer hou en het vir hulle gesê: "Calm down", maar sy is gedwing om die kar af te sluit, waarop die deure oopgeruk en die vroue uit die voertuig gepluk is. "Die een aan my kant het my só hard uit die kar gepluk, dat ek oor die motorfietse gesteier het," sê me. Van den Berg ontsteld. Haar arm het potblou geword, waar hy haar beetgehad het. Op hierdie stadium het me. Van den Berg gevrees dat die rowers met hulle gaan wegry en sy het vir hulle gesê dat die geld in die huis is. Hulle het die twee vroue al stampende in die rigting van die huis gedwing. Die dogters in die huis het gewonder waar die twee vroue draai en het deur die veiligheidshek gaan kyk. Yolandi het die twee rowers by hulle gesien, asook die wapen teen haar ouma se kop. Sy het aanmekaar begin skreeu: "Roep vir oupa met sy vuurwapen! Bel vir pappa!" Lizanne het in die gang afgehardloop, waarop Rozanne (me. Steyn se dogter) uit die kamer gekom en hulle haar boetie, Louis (14), wakker gemaak het. Louis het dadelik 'n noodroep oor die radio uitgesaai. Die twee vroue buite het besef hul lewens hang aan 'n draadjie, aangesien die twee rowers baie senuweeagtig was, omdat hulle die dogters se gille gehoor het. Me. Steyn het opgemerk dat die twee rowers ietwat teruggetree het in die motorhuis, alhoewel die wapens steeds op die vroue gerig was. Me. Steyn het blitsig reageer, die staaldeur tussen hulle en die rowers toegeslaan en die skuifslot opgesit. Sekondes later het die gesin gehoor hoe die BMW in die straat afry. •Mnr. en me. Willem en Rachel Kies (lede van die radiogroep) het agter die rowers aangejaag, maar hulle het onder die egpaar uitgejaag. Die voertuig is kort daarna sowat 15km buite Middelburg op die Loskopdampad gevind. •Buiten die blou kolle en erge trauma, het die vroue geen ernstige beserings opgedoen nie. •Die gesin wil graag die Kanonkop/Dennesig/Middedorp radiogroep, asook die polisielede bedank wat binne minute op die toneel was. daleen@mobserver.co.za http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=8000808&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&Nkosi-roof-weer ============ http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=7984901&sn=Detail&pid=4979898&Mduduzi-ontsnap ============