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07-16-2009, 04:53 AM #4481
Ma moet hier uit, al kos dit leen op verbande
Die dogters van ’n bejaarde vrou wat al weke lank met ’n gebreekte heup in ’n Mpumalanga-staatshospitaal lê en wag vir chirurgie, het ekstra lenings op hul huisverbande uitgeneem om haar daar uit te kry.
Mev. Chrissie Kilian (77) word na verwagting vanoggend in die Kloof- private hospitaal in Pretoria geopereer.
“Sy het voor my oë agteruitgegaan. Een staatsdokter het gesê dit is die beste ding ooit dat ons my ma daar uit kry,” het me. Sarah Koen (57) gister gesê.
Kilian het op 30 Junie geval en is per ambulans na die Bernice Samuel-hospitaal naby Delmas geneem, waar sy steke in haar kop gekry het.
Die volgende dag het x-straalfoto’s glo gewys haar heup is gebreek.
“Op 3 Julie is sy per ambulans na die Witbank-hospitaal geneem, maar die ambulans moes ’n paar uur later met haar omdraai omdat daar nie ’n bed was nie.
“Toe ons weer in Delmas aankom, het my ma gehuil van die pyn. Sy het bedsere gekry en ons het linne van die huis gebring om haar bed oor te trek.
Meer as twee weke ná haar opname het Kilian en haar suster, me. Christa Greeff van Stellenbosch in die Wes-Kaap, ekstra lenings op hul huisverbande uitgeneem om die minstens R120 000 bymekaar te skraap vir ’n operasie in ’n private hospitaal.
“Dit het begin lyk of sy handdoek ingooi en ons sou haar begrawe as dit só sou aangaan. My pa (Frikkie) is boonop 80 en die hele ding het hom so afgetakel,” het Greeff gister gesê.
Intussen wag mev. Lettie Mollentze (65) van Middelburg in Mpumalanga al sedert 25 Mei vir ’n operasie om ’n beenbreuk ná ’n val te herstel.
Volgens haar man, Hennie, is Mollentze eers in die Middelburg-hospitaal opgeneem, waar ortopediese operasies nie gedoen word nie.
Sy is glo telkens per ambulans tussen Middelburg en die Witbank-hospitaal vervoer net om elke keer te hoor daar is nie vir haar ’n bed nie.
Drie weke gelede is sy in die Witbank-hospitaal opgeneem waar sy wag vir chirurgie.
Mollentze sou gister geopereer word, maar toe was haar bloeddruk te hoog.
“Ek dink dit is weens die pyn. Sy sê die verpleegsters gee haar bloeddrukmedisyne eers ná 10:00, waar sy dit gewoonlik vroegoggend neem.”
Volgens mnr. Mollentze “lê sy daar in geweldige pyn en al wat hulle gee, is Panado.”
Mnr. Mpho Gabashane, woordvoerder van Mpumalanga se departement van gesondheid, het by die betrokke hospitale na- vraag gedoen, maar teen druktyd nie kommentaar gelewer nie.
Elmboog gebreek, maar sy help 'want verpleërs is te lui'
“Ons is mense, nie diere nie,” het me. Charlene Fourie (44) van Pretoria aan verpleegsters by die Steve Biko- akademiese hospitaal in Pretoria gesê nadat dié glo op ’n ander pasiënt geskreeu het.
Fourie is ’n verpleegster uit die private sektor wat vir ’n maand in die ortopediese saal van dié hospitaal met ’n gebreekte elmboog opgeneem is.
Fourie het 22 jaar se verpleeg-ervaring en is baie ontsteld oor die manier waarop die verpleegsters die pasiënte behandel het.
Fourie moes uit haar siekbed opstaan om pasiënte in haar saal te versorg omdat die verpleegsters in dié saal volgens Fourie “te lui was om hul werk te doen”.
“Ek was werklik geskok om te sien hoe die verpleegsters optree. Ek kan nie dink dat ek en die verpleegsters van dié hospitaal dieselfde opleiding gekry het nie. Wat hulle gedoen het, gaan teen alles waarvoor verpleegkunde staan,” het Fourie gesê.
“Ek het drie maal per dag opgestaan en die tannies gehelp om hul tee te drink en om hulle te was. Dié verpleegsters sit net die kokende tee voor die oumense neer en loop weg. Dié oumense kan nie eens self regop sit nie,” het Fourie gesê.
Volgens haar het sy verskeie kere by die verpleegsters, asook die hospitaal se bestuur, gekla oor die hantering van pynbeheer in dié saal.
“Die verpleegster wat medikasie uitdeel, kyk nie dat die regte pynmedikasie aan die regte pasiënte gegee word nie, sy deel net Panado’s vir almal uit. Ek moes haar stop en haar daarop wys dat die dokter nie aan my Panado’s voorgeskryf het nie, maar wel skedule-ses-pynmedikasie,” het Fourie gesê.
Fourie is ná vier weke geopereer.
Volgens mnr. Mandla Sidu, woordvoerder van Gauteng se gesondheidsdepartement, moet pasiënte wat in dié hospitaal opgeneem word met respek en waardigheid behandel word. “Indien die pasiënte voel dat hulle nie met die nodige respek behandel word nie, moet hulle dit dadelik onder die aandag van die hospitaalbestuur bring,” het Sidu gesê.
Volgens hom sal die nodige stappe gedoen word as daar duidelike bewyse van nalatigheid is.
07-16-2009, 05:57 AM #4482
Elderly couple beaten in latest small holding attack.
A Spruce Road, Colleen Glen, couple cheated death on Sunday afternoon when 4 knife wielding robbers beat and stabbed them in Port Elizabeth's latest small holding attack.
The gory attack saw both Stephen MacKenzie,73, and his wife Edith,69, hospatilised after being beaten and robbed by the thugs who stormed their home at 3pm. The suspects gained entry by smashing a house window. They then climbed inside the house where they attacked the couple.
Police on the scene said that the men are believed to have been armed with knives and not firearms. They stabbed Stephen 6 times in the head before running off. The men ran off with jewelry and other small items which were recovered by police while they were combing the area for the suspects.
Last month an elderly Theescomb couple were killed when 6 robbers stormed there home and beat them within inches of their life. The 78-year-old man died on the scene and his wife days later in hospital.
Police managed to arrest one suspect shortly after the incident.
Since the event on Sunday, Kabega Park police have arrested two men believed to be involved with the robbery. They are being detained and will be questioned.
Theescombe residents working together to safeguard properties
RESIDENTS in the Theescombe and Colleen Glen areas of Port Elizabeth say they are working together to safeguard their properties and their families after attacks and burglaries in the area.
People who live in the area said they will not allow themselves to be forced to sell their property, but would instead work together and have formed a neighbourhood watch.
There have been many incidents recently, the latest on Sunday when an elderly couple, Steven and Edith Mackenzie, were attacked at their home in Colleen Glen.
George and Jakoba Venter were attacked and killed at their home in Theescombe on May 31, George dying that night and Jakoba days later in hospital.
Five people, between the ages of 20 and 30, were arrested in connection with the attack and robbery.
A young woman was raped at her home in Colleen Glen shortly after moving to Port Elizabeth from Johannesburg in March and another young woman, Robin Eberhardt, was killed at her home in Kragga Kamma in April.
The Theescombe Ratepayers‘ Association has now launched a neighbourhood watch by dividing the entire area up to Colleen Glen into cells, and appointing leaders in charge of each one.
Jackie Heimann was given the task of contacting everyone in her cell to check the interest. She said many people wanted to help out and had even joined the neighbourhood watch.
“We now have volunteers from all the cells, with people who have indicated that they want to assist or serve as members of the watch. This is wonderful, especially because we have a lot of elderly people who live here.”
She said all residents were now required to fill in a “Know Your Neighbour” sheet and share the information with people living nearby.
“It is simply information like cellphone numbers, e-mail addresses, how many people live on your property (including staff), how many cars you own.
“This is so that if a neighbour sees a strange car parked outside or suspicious people entering or leaving your premises, you can be notified immediately.”
Heimann added that some people were probably not keen to share personal information about themselves with their neighbours.
“But if they could see the reasoning behind this, then they would see that it would actually benefit them. Those recent murders sparked everyone up here quite a bit.”
Heimann said the squatter camp nearby was the reason for the increase in break-ins and attacks on residents.
“In one street, six dogs died all in the same month. No one thought it was strange, because back then no one was sharing information. Only when the people started communicating did we find out all six dogs died in the same month.
“That alone is very strange. We will be able to know if something like that happens again.”
Another concerned resident, Lynn Scholtz, said she had spoken to her neighbour, Jakoba Venter, just a few months before she died.
“Kobie told me she had never felt safer in any area as she did right here. That is why she felt they did not need fencing or security gates. They felt safe, but a few months later they were both killed,” Scholtz said.
She and her family were horrified that the elderly couple had been attacked so close to their home, but they had not heard anything.
“We were right here and we did not hear anything. The dogs did not even bark. There was just nothing.”
Scholtz said everyone in the area was happy about the formation of the neighbourhood watch, but it was still important to be vigilant and beef up security.
“We have many big dogs, high fencing and security gates. We are not prepared to be chased away by criminals. We are not going to go anywhere.”
Scholtz said she would not blame the nearby squatter camp residents because those arrested in the Venter case all lived in the Greenbushes area.
“I think poverty has a lot to with what these people are doing. Their children are hungry and they are desperate. But murder is inexcusable.”
Danie Vosloo, who heads one of the Theescombe cells, said the neighbourhood watch was still working on a master plan for patrolling.
07-17-2009, 07:04 AM #4483
07-17-2009, 07:06 AM #4484
Kapers skiet man van Pretoria dood
’n Man van Rietfontein in die Pretoriase Moot is gisteraand dood nadat hy in vermoedelik ’n kapingspoging gewond is.
Kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die man het omstreeks 19:45 in sy blougrys BMW by sy huis in 29ste Laan aangekom.
“Hy het by sy oprit ingery en ’n wit Toyota Corolla het agter hom stilgehou. Drie gewapende mans het uit die motor gespring.”
Die 37-jarige man, wat ’n pistool by hom gehad het, het op die drie begin skiet.
“Daar was ’n oor-en-weer-geskietery,” het Weilbach gesê.
Een van die aanvallers het die man raakgeskiet voordat al drie in die Corolla gevlug het.
“Die gewonde man het by die huis ingegaan om hulp te soek en sy familielede het hom na die Pretoria Moot-hospitaal geneem,” het sy gesê.
Hy het later die aand in die hospitaal gesterf.
Weilbach kon nog nie die slagoffer se identiteit bevestig nie.
“Die verdagtes is nog soek en die Villieria-polisie ondersoek klagte van moord en poging tot motorkaping.”
Man dies after hijacking attempt
Pretoria - A shootout between a Pretoria man and would-be hijackers has ended in his death, police said on Thursday.
Spokesperson Captain Colette Weilbach said three armed men cornered the man in his driveway when he arrived home in 29th Avenue in Rietfontein on Wednesday night.
"Shots were fired between the man and the suspects. In the process the man got shot and the suspects fled. They did not manage to take his vehicle.
The injured man went for help and was taken to the Moot hospital, where he died.
"Villieria police are investigating a charge of murder and hijacking."
07-17-2009, 07:08 AM #4485
Polisie begin vrou se dood as moord bekyk
Die polisie glo nou ook dat mev. Petronella Francom (49), ’n sakevrou van Hazyview, dalk vermoor is en nie in ’n motorongeluk gesterf het nie.
Haar verkoolde lyk is op 22 Mei in die uitgebrande wrak van haar minibus in die Long Tom-pas naby Sabie in Mpumalanga gekry.
Die polisie het aanvanklik net ’n dossier van strafbare manslag aangelê omdat hulle vermoed het dit was ’n ongeluk.
Kapt. Hanyawe Moshwane, speurtakbevelvoerder op Sabie, het nou persoonlik die ondersoek oorgeneem.
Hy het gister bevestig die ondersoek word uitgebrei om die moontlikheid van moord in te sluit.
Dié besluit is gister ná ’n vergadering tussen private speurders, wat deur me. Francom se dogter gehuur is, en senior offisiere van die polisie se provinsiale kantoor in Mpumalanga geneem.
Me. Nella Coetzer (21) het die private speurders gehuur omdat sy onraad vermoed het toe sy ná haar ma se dood gevra is om sekere dokumente te onderteken.
Mnre. Chris Ehlers en Deon Pieterse, die private speurders, het ’n reeks forensiese ondersoeke gedoen wat glo die moontlikheid dat Francom vermoor is en nie verongeluk het nie, aan die lig gebring het.
Ehlers-hulle glo sy is vermoor voordat haar Volkswagen Caravelle teen die bergpas afgestoot en aan die brand gesteek is.
Mnr. Clint Francom, Francom se man, het gister ook vir die eerste keer oor die voorval gepraat.
“Ek is verpletter oor die ongeluk. En veral die bewerings dat ek by haar dood betrokke was.
“Ons was lief vir mekaar. Ons het alles saam gedoen. Ons was onafskeidbaar,” het hy aan Beeld gesê.
Volgens hom is sommige bewerings in die media, asook ’n radioprogram dat hy kort voor sy vrou se dood ’n R10 miljoen-polis op haar lewe uitgeneem het, onwaar.
“Sy het self sowat twee maande voor haar dood die polis uitgeneem.”
Hy oorweeg regstappe oor dié bewering.
“Ek is ook bitter oor die beweringe wat my stiefdogter (me. Coetzer) maak.”
Coetzer het onder meer in ’n radio-onderhoud gekla oor verdagte omstandighede rondom haar ma se lykskouing en beweerde skielike verassing.
Mnr. Francom vermoed sy vrou het haar bewussyn verloor terwyl sy van Lydenburg af op pad Hazyview toe was.
Hy sê sy het drie dae voor die ongeluk by die huis in die stort geval.
“Die dokter het gesê sy het ’n krakie in haar skedel opgedoen tydens die val. Sy het seer gehad en hy het haar ’n Voltaren-inspuiting gegee.”
07-17-2009, 07:09 AM #4486
07-17-2009, 07:10 AM #4487
Versnel ondersoek na rooftogte op toeriste - premier
Die premier van Gauteng het die polisie gevra om hul ondersoek te bespoedig na rowers wat hulle as polisiebeamptes voordoen en toeriste van die O.R. Tambo-lughawe agtervolg en beroof.
Volgens mnr. Dumisani Zulu, woordvoerder van me. Nomvula Makonyane, premier, beskou hulle die aanvalle op buitelandse besoekers in ’n baie ernstige lig.
“Ons kan nie dié soort aanvalle miskyk nie. Dit het ’n groot impak op die ekonomie en toerisme. Daarom het die premier ’n beroep op die polisie gedoen om hul poging op te skerp en die ondersoeke te versnel.”
Dié beroep volg op nog sulke voorvalle in die laaste vier weke.
’n Groep mense doen hulle glo voor as beamptes van die “toerismepolisie” en trek bussies wat mense van die lughawe na hul bestemmings vervoer af en beroof hulle dan.
Mnr. Barnie van Niekerk, areabestuurder van Megabus se Magic Bus-afdeling, het gesê hulle het drie voorvalle in die laaste vier weke gehad. “Die mense ry tot langs die bussie en wys dan hul polisie-ID-kaart en sê die bestuurder moet aftrek. My bestuurders het streng instruksies om nie stil te hou nie. Hulle moet na die naaste polisiekantoor ry,” het hy gesê.
Die “polisie” ry gewoonlik in ’n wit Mercedes-Benz of bruin-grys BMW.
Van Niekerk het gesê die eerste voorval het net voor verlede maand se Konfederasiebeker-sokkertoernooi plaasgevind.
Mnr. Martin Wiest, uitvoerende hoof van Tourvest, het gesê hulle het in die afgelope twee weke vier voorvalle gehad waarvan twee suksesvol was. “Ná die eerste twee voorvalle het ons ons bestuurders instruksies gegee om nie stil te hou as hulle nie 100% seker is dit is die polisie nie. Dis hoekom die laaste twee pogings misluk het,” het hy gesê.
Me. Annelie Barkema van die toerismedienstevereniging (Satsa) het gister gesê van die voorvalle is onder hul aandag gebring. “Ongelukkig ontvang ons nie die inligting van alle voorvalle nie en daarom wil ek mense aanmoedig om enige voorvalle by ons aan te meld.”
Supt. Eugene Opperman, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê dis veral Franse en Engelssprekende toeriste wat geteiken word.
“Sekere ondersoeke duur voort. Daar is al in die verlede persone gearresteer, maar ongelukkig blyk dit asof ander mense nou voortgaan waar die ander se bedrywighede gekortwiek is.”
Hy het gesê daar is geen “toerismepolisie” nie.
Mense kan enige voorvalle by Satsa by 0 0861 874 911 of 086 668 2057 (faks) aanmeld.
07-17-2009, 07:11 AM #4488
Body-part 'salesman' in court
Johannesburg - A 48-year-old man arrested for allegedly selling a woman's body parts to a traditional doctor appeared in the Acornhoek Magistrate's Court on Thursday, Mpumalanga police said.
Philemon Batulekile Baloyi was arrested after a sangoma he allegedly tried to sell a woman's breast and manicured left hand to alerted police on June 20, Captain Leonard Hlathi said in a statement.
Baloyi allegedly told police he got the parts from Ben Mongadi, a funeral parlour worker in Lydenburg.
Mongadi, 35, was arrested and would appear in the Lydenburg Magistrate's Court on July 20.
"Baloyi made claims to the police that he normally sold body parts to five inyangas (traditional healers) around the Acornhoek area."
He faces charges of violating a corpse. He would appear in court again on Friday to apply for bail.
07-17-2009, 07:12 AM #4489
Frail farmer's attack recounted
A frail 79-year-old Cedarville farmer nearly died of cold in July 2007 after being stabbed five times, the Pietermaritzburg High Court has heard.
Pietermaritzburg - A frail 79-year-old Cedarville farmer nearly died of cold in July 2007 after he was stabbed five times, the Pietermaritzburg High Court heard on Thursday.
Judge Anton van Zyl recounted the attack on Tom Southey when jailing Fusi Booi, 19, for an effective 15 years.
Booi, aged 17 at the time of the attack, evaded arrest for two years but pleaded guilty on Thursday.
Other members of his gang - who denied guilt - were earlier jailed for an effective 30 years by the Ramsgate High Court.
They were given 20 years for the aggravated robbery of Southey and 10 years for the unlawful possession of firearms stolen from him.
R60 000 brooch sold for R120
A brooch valued at R60 000, which Southey's wife Winifred inherited from her grandmother, was one of the items stolen.
It was sold for R120 in a pawnshop, prosecutor Donardo MacDonald told the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Van Zyl said aggravating factors were that the gang attacked a frail old man on a farm made vulnerable by its isolation.
They subjected him to severe and gratuitous violence, leaving him alone to almost die of cold.
Struggled towards neighbour's property
A report from Kokstad district surgeon John Biggs, noted: "Injuries consistent with history of being attacked. Severity and nature of injuries consistent with intent of killing the victim in violent and inhumane way of prolonged exposure to elements and slow death by bleeding."
Southey was able to wriggle free after a long struggle and made his way to a neighbour. He was alone at the time.
Kevin Singh, for Booi, said his client was influenced by older members of the gang, had pleaded guilty, showed remorse, and may have the potential for reform.
Southey was initially accosted as he was closing the gate of his farm.
One of the gang grabbed him round the neck, holding a knife at his throat. They drove to his house where he was assaulted and made to open a safe from which they took valuables.
Booi was not charged for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, which his former gang associates were convicted of.
07-20-2009, 05:33 AM #4490
Prokureur se seun 'demonies' vermoor
Polokwane (Pietersburg). – Die seun van ’n bekende prokureur van dié stad is die naweek wreed vermoor toe hy gewurg en herhaaldelik met ’n graaf oor die kop en in die gesig geslaan is.
Mnr. Rampie Smit, prokureur en sakeman, het eergistermiddag in die stoorkamer van sy Rampie Smit-gebou in Hans van Rensburgstraat in die middestad op sy seun, mnr. Gericke Smit (29), se bebloede lyk afgekom.
Me. Natasha Visser, Smit jr. se suster, het gesê die familie is uiters geskok. “Hulle het hom verwoes,” het sy bygevoeg.
Sy en haar man, Phillip, het eergisteraand deur die nag van hul huis in Uitenhage na Polokwane gery. Phillip Smit het die moord as “demonies” beskryf.
“Die Here het nie mense geskape om so wreed teenoor ander te wees nie. Om iemand oor en oor met ’n graaf oor die kop en in die gesig te slaan . . . is onmenslik.”
Gericke Smit is eergister omstreeks 10:30 na die gebou om werkers te betaal.
Die gesin het bekommerd geraak toe hulle hom nie op sy selfoon in die hande kon kry nie. Sy pa, wat geweet het hy gaan die werkers betaal, het by die gebou na hom gaan soek en op sy lyk afgekom.
Volgens Visser het haar broer nie baie geld by hom gehad nie. “Hy moes enkele werkers betaal. Dit is nie of hy duisende rande by hom gehad het nie.”
Smit jr. se selfoon, ’n onbekende bedrag geld en sy Daewoo-motor is soek ná die moord.
Bouers is besig met bou- en herstelwerk aan die Rampie Smit-gebou en die gebou langsaan. Supt. Moatshe Ngoepe, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê speurders is op die vermeende moordenaars se spoor. Forensiese deskundiges was gister doenig by die gebou.
“Hy was die onskuld vanself. Hy was sagmoedig en het nooit ’n lelike woord vir ’n ander gehad nie,” het Phillip Smit gesê.
Volgens Visser sou haar broer “nie ’n vlieg skade aandoen nie”.
Smit jr. se vriendin, me. Carla Nel, is ook baie geskok. Die paartjie was vyf jaar in ’n verhouding. Hy laat ook sy ma, me. Linda Smit, agter.
Smit jr. se blou Daewoo se registrasienommer is DKY 571 N.
Enigiemand met inligting oor die voorval kan die Polokwane-polisiespeurtak by 082 414 2088 kontak.
Killed man 'wouldn't hurt fly'
Polokwane - The son of a well-known Polokwane lawyer was cruelly murdered at the weekend, when he was strangled and repeatedly hit over the head and in the face with a shovel.
Lawyer and businessman, Rampie Smit, found the blood-stained body of his son, Gericke Smit, 29, on Saturday afternoon in the storage room of his Rampie Smit building in Hans van Rensburg street in the CBD.
Gericke's sister, Natasha Visser, said the family is in utter shock. "They destroyed him," she added.
She and her husband, Phillip, drove through the night on Saturday from Uitenhage to be with the family in Polokwane. Phillip Smit described the murder as "demonic".
"The Lord didn’t create people to be so cruel towards others. To hit someone with a shovel on the head and in the face repeatedly… is inhuman."
Gericke Smit went to the building to pay the workers at about 10:30 on Saturday.
The family became concerned when they couldn't reach him on his cellphone. His father, who knew he had gone to pay the workers, went to the building to look for him, and found his son's body.
According to Visser, her brother didn't have a large amount of money on him. "He only had to pay a few workers. It's not like he had thousands of rands on him."
Gericke's cellphone, an unknown amount of cash and his Daewoo car have been missing since the murder.
Construction workers are doing building and restoration work on the Rampie Smit building, as well as at the neighbouring building.
Police spokesperson, Moatshe Ngoepe, said detectives were close to arresting the suspected murderers. Forensic experts examined the building on Sunday.
"He was innocence personified. He had a gentle nature and never had a harsh word for another person," said Phillip Smit.
According to Visser, her brother "wouldn't harm a fly".
Gericke's girlfriend, Carla Nel, was also extremely shocked. The couple had been in a relationship for five years. Gericke's blue Daewoo's registration number is DKY 571 N.