Afrikaner couple Jakkie and Salomi le Roux were beaten up by racist black gunmen in their beds on the Okahandja vegetable-farm they manage: writes Republikein, Dec 31 2013: For vegetable farm-manager Jakkie ke Roux the last day of 2013 became a nightmare.
The Le Roux couple were awakened at 03h00am by armed gunmen and brutally beaten. Their sons Kasllie 16 and Pedro 9 also were assaulted - fortunately little Chris, 4, was asleep. "We were beaten awake, thrown on our stomachs on the floormat, and tied up. We were blinded by their shining flashlights in our eyes and with the blood running into our eyes and could not identify them,' said Salomi at the Mediclinic in Windhoek while they were being X-rayed for their head-injuries. "One attacker spoke Afrikaans to us, but in a foreign language with his mates. The Afrikaans speaker said to us he's from the Kavango, he's not a 'hier-jy' and we will have to address him with 'sir'. The gunmen did not wear masks and if we tried to look at them they kicked our heads down against the mat. Their words were 'shut your mouth or we will kill you.' In Afrikaans: "hou jou bek, of ons maak julle vrek’.”
Jakkie was bashed over the head with a sugar-cane knife (panga) and a tyre-iron. Half of his left ear was sliced off with the panga and his skull was cleaved with a deep cut to the bone. Salomi's forehead was bashed open with an iron bar and she required twelve stitches. Her eyes were beaten black and blue. "The worst part was when they hurt my children,' she said emotionally. They bashed my Kallie with a pipe behind his ear. Pedro was hiding in the kitchen-cupboard but they searched for him and when they found him, he was kicked in his little face and then threatened with a rifle against his head and forced to take the armed gang to the home of the farm-owner.' The owner of Greencrisp Farming, Mr Anton Koekemoer, was on vacation however. The farm is located on the Gross Barmen road some 3km from Oakahandja. The couple were treated for three hours at the mediclinic and Jakkie had to be examined in the operating room to establish whether he got bleeding on the brain. He had to return to place drainage pipes in his head-wound writes the Republikein. "The family are still in terrible shock, but Jakkie still managed to drive his own car to Windhoek. His sister Sonja de Jager rushed from Otavi on Sunday to assist her family members. It is suspected that between four to five attackers may have been involved: three inside the house and two outside. Their loot: two 9mm pistols, about 5000 Namibian dollars, cellphones, jewellery and clothes. The gang had cut the alarm system's wiring before they attacked them. The Le Roux family only moved in on this farm six months earlier - they had lived at Noordoewer for six years. The police coordinator for the ' Otjozondjupa Region', deputy-commander Moses Khairabeb, said no-one was arrested. "The investigation appears to show that the armed men moved on foot from the attacked farm to the tarred road and from there fled with a vehicle. He has asked the community to assist him in finding the men. Telephone: depy/commander Moses Khairabeb at 081 244 5991.
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