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07-23-2007, 07:31 AM #1121
KZN woman hammered to death
Durban - A 69-year-old woman was found dead in her house on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast after she was apparently bludgeoned to death with a hammer, police said on Monday.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter said friends of Sheila Burgess discovered her naked body when they arrived at her house in the resort town of Hibberdene on Sunday morning.
They had arranged the previous day to pick up Burgess on their way to play bowls.
Police investigating the crime scene found a hammer covered in blood.
Hechter said a case of murder had been opened. She said the motive for the murder could not be confirmed, but police believe that it was robbery.
07-24-2007, 03:54 AM #1122
Two in the dock for BMW boss' murder
Dressed in a gown, murder accused Patrick Sithole shuffled into the Pretoria magistrate's court on crutches.
It was the first time he appeared with co-accused Frans Mthabezitha. Sithole had been in hospital for a gunshot wound to the hip, allegedly suffered during a fatal attack on BMW senior manager Manie Maritz and his teenage daughter on July 15.
Sithole, 35, and Mthabezitha, 25, both Mozambican, lived in a squatter camp in Soshanguve.
They were arrested near the crime scene shortly after Maritz died of a chest wound.
'Even today I am here without shoes'
The case was on Monday postponed to August 6 for instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions and to investigate whether the two were legally in the country.
State prosecutor Lucas Choma said that the State would oppose bail for the pair as there was a strong case against them.
After Sithole's legal rights were explained to him, he opted for legal aid. Mthabezitha, who chose to conduct his own defence, complained that the investigating officer took his shoes and money.
"Even today I am here without shoes," he said. What he did not say was that the shoes were allegedly left behind on the crime scene when a neighbour shot at the criminals, and were evidence in the case.
Magistrate CC Khoza suggested he lay a charge against the police.
But as the accused left the dock, Mthabezitha was not barefoot as he had claimed. He was wearing a pair of relatively new black takkies.
It is alleged that the two accused attacked Maritz and his daughter when they returned home from a wedding.
Neighbours said that the father and his daughter were ambushed when they exited the garage through a door into their backyard.
A neighbour heard Maritz scream, then a shot and saw a robber holding Maritz's daughter by the throat.
Only after the neighbour fired at the suspects did they make a run for freedom. One was hit in the hip and tore his pants on a palisade fence. He dropped a firearm when he fell.
The Flying Squad arrested the suspects near Hans Strijdom Drive.
Mthabezitha and Sithole face charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
07-24-2007, 04:16 AM #1123
'Superman' kom tot vrou se redding
"Superman" was in Bloemfontein.
Hy is 'n 38-jarige valskerm-inspekteur van Kimberley wat 'n vermeende grypdief platgetrek en 'n deeglike afranseling gegee het toe hy 'n vrou met 'n nekstut se handsak wou gryp.
Minute voordat mnr. Jan van Niekerk (38), hoofinspekteur van die Bloemfonteinse Valskermklub, gister by die Hoër Meisieskool Oranje sou valskermspring, het hy 'n grypdief by die Baysvillage-sentrum in Bayswater, Bloemfontein, ingehardloop.
Van Niekerk het waarskynlik haar lewe ook gered. Van Niekerk vertel: "Ek en my vriendin, Tania van Huyssteen, het by 'n restaurant geëet voordat ek valskerm sou spring. Ek het gesien hoe die booswig op 'n vrou met 'n nekstut afpyl. Dié vrou sê sy is minute vroeër uit die hospitaal ontslaan ná 'n nekoperasie.
"Die dief het haar om haar nek gegryp en 'n blink, skerp voorwerp teen haar ribbes gedruk. Hy het haar handsak probeer vat en ek het die mes waarmee ek geëet het, gevat en ingegryp. As ek 'n sekonde langer gewag het, het hy haar handsak gegryp. Hy het gehardloop. Ek het hom gejaag. 'n Motor het voor hom ingedraai en hy moes stop.
"Ek het hom aan sy kraag beetgekry en die naelknipper wat hy by hom gehad het, gevat.
"Ek het vir hom gesê: 'Ek steek hierdie ding in jou hart!' " het Van Niekerk gesê.
Van Huyssteen sê: "Ek kon nie glo hoe dapper Jan (van Niekerk) is nie. Almal het net gekyk en niks gedoen nie. Mense wil nie betrokke raak nie."
Van Niekerk sê die vrou wou hom nog bedank en hy moes 'n verklaring by die polisie aflê, maar soos 'n wafferse Superman moes hy die toneel verlaat om uit die vliegtuig te valskermspring. Dié sprong was deel van die skool se opening van jeugweek, maar Van Niekerk kon op die ou end nie spring nie weens 'n tegniese fout met 'n vliegtuig.
Kapt. Chaka Marope van die Parkweg-polisiekantoor sê die Baysvillage-sekuriteitsbeampte het die verdagte na die Bayswater-polisiekantoor gebring, maar hy is later vrygelaat omdat niemand 'n verklaring oor die misdaad afgelê het nie.
07-24-2007, 04:37 AM #1124
Gestremde met verfgeweer geskiet
GEORGE. – Kwajongens het Sondagaand glo hier met ’n verfgeweer losgebars op ’n gestremde man en sy hond wat in ’n opgeboude fiets gery het.
Mnr. Philip Kotzé (49), wat in 1991 breinbeserings opgedoen het nadat hy op Krugersdorp aangerand is, is glo omstreeks 21:00 deur die kwajongens bygekom terwyl hy en sy hond, Magriet, met sy fiets om ’n verkeersirkel naby die polisiestasie gery het.
Kotzé het gister vertel hoe hy besef het daar word op hom geskiet toe hy ’n geluid soos ’n “donderslag” hoor.
“Ek was op pad terug huis toe van ’n restaurant wat my elke aand borg met ’n warm sjokoladedrankie. Toe, meteens, hoor ek ’n donderslag en besef iemand is besig om op my te skiet.
“Ek het twee jong outjies in ’n Golf sien ry. ’n Groot, ronde bal (vermoedelik dié van ’n verfgeweer) het my op my linkerhand getref. Dit het verskriklik gebrand. Kyk, my fiets is agter en langs die kant vol van die verf.
“Gelukkig het Magriet niks oorgekom nie,” het Kotzé verder beduie na sy “nommerplaat”, wat lui “God loves U2”, waarop oranje verfspatsels was.
Ná die onderonsie het hy hom gehaas na die polisiekantoor, wat slegs ’n hanetree van die verkeersirkel geleë is.
Hier het ’n polisieman glo aan Kotzé gesê hulle kan niks doen tensy hy nie inligting oor die registrasienommer van die Golf aan hulle kan verskaf nie.
Dit is nie die eerste keer dat Kotzé onder “grapjasse” deurloop nie.
Verlede jaar het twee mans probeer om sy fiets te steel voor die einste restaurant waar hy elke aand die sjokoladedrankie nuttig.
Sy vorige hond, die labrador Magrietjie, is ook twee jaar gelede met ’n windbuks in die boud geskiet. Die koeël moes deur ’n veearts verwyder word.
Kotzé meen sy regte as gestremde word geskend deur die kwajongens, wat hom as ’n maklike teiken beskou.
“My fiets is goed belig en daar is boonop kennisgewings om aan te dui dat ek gestremd is.
“Mense wat gestremdes te na kom, moet net besef ons het óók regte,” het Kotzé bygevoeg.
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07-24-2007, 08:51 AM #1125
From the Hungarian language news site: http://index.hu/gazdasag/vilag/turdel070724/
“The Tourists are Afraid of South Africa”
The country’s minister of tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk published the results of a recent research: The government and the police are working toward a solution because this is the most dangerous country on the planet. The goal is to solve the problem by the year 2010, the year of the soccer world championship.
I think these government officers are either clinically insane or just a bunch of dreamers.
Last year there were 8.4 million tourist entries into the country and they want to raise this number to 10 million by the year 2010.
They actually should place oversized signs at all entry points into the country: “IF YOU STEP IN GIVE UP ALL YOUR HOPES!!!” and “ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK”.
07-25-2007, 02:06 AM #1126
Gebiedswag fnuik misdaad saam met polisie
Vanderbijlpark. – Almal wat so kla oor die misdaad in Suid-Afrika, kan kers opsteek by die gebiedswag van Rosashof.
Misdaad het in dié hoewegebied by Vanderbijlpark binne 17 maande met meer as 90% afgeneem.
Die gemeenskap het saam met die polisie van die Barrage oorlog verklaar teen misdadigers. En statistieke wys dat dié vennootskap uitstekend werk.
“Mense moet ophou kla oor misdaad en iets vir hul gemeenskappe begin doen.”
Aan die woord is mnr. Herculus (Hekkie) Vermaak, voorsitter van die gebiedswag.
Hy en nog ’n lid van die gebiedswag het juis onlangs in die vroeë oggendure ’n dief op heterdaad betrap terwyl hy en ’n makker twee kwadfietse vasgelê en in die groot pad afgestoot het.
“Ons het die buurt omstreeks 02:00 gepatrolleer en die twee verdagtes gesien.”
Hulle het hul soeklig na die twee mans gedraai. Een is op die plek in hegtenis geneem en die ander “het ongelukkig weggekom”, vertel Vermaak.
Die polisie van die Barrage het die ander verdagte ure later vasgetrek. Die polisie het bevestig dat dié voorval bewys is van die goeie samewerking tussen hulle en die gemeenskap.
Die twee verdagtes het eergister in die hof in die dorp verskyn. Hul aansoek om borgtog is van die hand gewys.
Vermaak vertel hy en sy vrou, Rika, het verlede jaar in Februarie besluit om die gebiedswag op die been te bring.
“Ons het van huis tot huis gery en lede gewerf.”
Die gebiedswag het vandag 123 lede wat maandeliks ’n skrale R20 lidmaatskap betaal.
Die lede wat egter snags werk en nie rondtes ry nie, betaal R60.
Met dié geld betaal hulle die voertuie se brandstof, plakkate, nuusbriewe, die druk van ryroosters en radio’s.
Een van die eerste dinge wat die gebiedswag gedoen het, was om borde met straatname wat verwyder is, te vervang.
“Politiek speel geen rol in polisiëring nie. Ons doen dit vir die gemeenskap en sy mense,” sê Vermaak.
En sonder die hulp van die polisie is dit onmoontlik om sukses te bereik.
“Ons weet die polisie kan nie elke oomblik van die dag of nag hier wees nie. Hulle het mos ander werk ook om te doen.
“Hier het lelike dinge gebeur in die verlede, maar gelukkig is dit nou verby.”
Die manne van die gebiedswag het al talle kabel-, motor- en veediewe vasgetrek.
07-25-2007, 02:36 AM #1127
Vroeë borg ná vrou se dood
Die grafiese kunstenaar (35) wat daarvan verdink word dat hy sy vrou met ’n bofbalkolf doodgeslaan het, is gister tydens ’n vervroegde aansoek om borgtog vrygelaat.
Konst. Danie Nortjé, ondersoekbeampte, het gisteraand bevestig dat mnr. Rudi Venter (35) gisteroggend vroeg op borgtog van R15 000 vrygelaat is en “aan streng borgvoorwaardes moet voldoen”.
“Hy is deur die hof versoek om gereeld in kontak met my te bly,” is al wat Nortjé oor die voorwaardes wou sê.
Venter se regspan, onder leiding van mnr. Derick Greyling, het eergister in ’n skielike wending in die saak ’n versoek voor die hof gebring dat Venter vir vroeë borgtog in aanmerking kon kom.
Hy staan tereg op ’n aanklag van moord nadat die lyk van sy vrou, René (33), op 31 Augustus in hul huis in Olivedale, noord van Johannesburg, in ’n kort gangetjie tussen die hoofslaapkamer en badkamer aangetref is.
Venter het beweer dat hy op die bebloede kolf en sy vrou se lyk afgekom het.
Hy het gesê dit het gebeur kort nadat hy hul seuns, Renier en Andrew, by die skool afgelaai het.
Venter se borgtogaansoek, wat verlede week deur landdros Awie du Plooy tot vandag uitgestel is, is toe eergister aangehoor.
Venter moes dié aand in die Johannesburg-gevangenis oornag nadat die uitspraak op sy borgtogaansoek tot gisteroggend vroeg uitgestel is.
Die saak is tot 21 Augustus uitgestel.
07-25-2007, 05:33 AM #1128
Lone cop battles gang outside school
July 25 2007
A hero police officer has taken on an AK-47-wielding gang in a battle waged outside a high school - killing one member and injuring another.
Armed with only his service pistol, West Rand Dog Unit Inspector Okkie Vermeulen battled an eight-member gang that robbed the Standard Bank branch in Florida on Tuesday.
The remaining six gangsters made off with an undisclosed amount of cash - described as "substantial" by West Rand police spokesperson Captain Simphiwe Ndlovu.
Vermeulen heard about the bank robbery on his police radio and tracked the getaway car.
He was then forced to return fire after one of the gangsters, who noticed the police officer following his car, jumped out and started opened fire - just outside the Florida school, where hundreds of pupils were spilling out of the gates after their final lessons.
Fresh from a three-week firearm training course, Vermeulen felled the gunman - a Zimbabwean citizen out on bail for another bank robbery - by shooting him in a leg.
He fatally shot another robber in the head.
Ndlovu said the robber's AK-47 was "fully loaded" when he was shot.
"We can only thank God that he was stopped before many, many people were killed or hurt. It was a miracle."
The car was abandoned by two gangsters, who fled on foot. The others, in two other cars, managed to evade the cops.
Police officers said screaming schoolchildren had pointed them to the scene of the shooting, less than a kilometre away from the scene of the robbery.
"The children were traumatised … they didn't say anything, they just pointed," one officer told The Star.
The surviving robber - recovering in hospital - seemed far less disturbed by Tuesday's events.
Confronted by several members of the police's bank robbery unit, he greeted one of the officers by name and joked that "I haven't seen you for a while … are you well?"
The Star has learnt that the robbery was conducted by a highly professional gang known to the police, and which consists of several foreign nationals.
They are understood to have pulled into the parking lot behind the Standard Bank in Goldman Street, Florida, just before 2pm.
Armed with several AK-47 rifles, they stormed through the front entrance, forcing the bank's security guard to tie up his guard dog.
One of the men is understood to have used a hammer to smash the bulletproof glass separating bank tellers from customers to have cash passed through.
Terrified customers were robbed of cellphones and money before the gang left, carrying big bags of cash.
The latest crime statistics show that aggravated robberies - which include bank hits - are on the increase. Last year they jumped from 4,6 percent, from 119 726 to 126 558.
07-25-2007, 06:29 AM #1129
Man se oog beseer deur glas na N1-klipaanval
'n Mens is juis veronderstel om veiliger te voel op 'n tolpad aangesien jy betaal om daar te ry, dan gebeur daar so iets.'
Dit is die woorde van mev. Hester Cooper nadat haar seun Rikus in 'n viertrekvoertuig op die N1-suid met 'n klip gegooi is. Rikus was op pad na Vanderbijlpark vanaf Randburg met 'n maatskappymotor, saam met sy verloofde Gerda en sy twee dogters Angelique (14) en Chenoa (18 maande). Chenoa het op die voorste sitplek op haar ma se skoot gesit. Rikus vertel dat hy die oggend 08:00, sowat 15 km vanaf die Grasmere tolhek, 'n man oor die pad sien loop het en van die linker- na die regterbaan verwissel het om die man te mis, aangesien hy stadig geloop het. Die man het egter skielik omgedraai toe die voertuig naderkom en dit reg van voor af met 'n klip byna die grootte van 'n rugbybal gegooi. Daarna het die man weggehardloop. Die klip het deur die windskerm gebreek, maar nie een van die insittendes getref nie, en is weer agter uit. Rikus het verder gery om hulp te probeer kry. Hy sê dat daar nog 'n paar mans langs die pad gestaan het en hy vermoed dat iets erger kon gebeur indien die klip sou veroorsaak dat hy nie verder kon ry nie. Niemand is erstig beseer nie, maar daar het heelwat glasstukkies in Rikus se oog beland en hy het snye aan sy korneas opgedoen. Die glas is intussen verwyder en sy oë is besig om te herstel. Die saak is wel by die polisie aangemeld, maar mev. Cooper sê dat hulle in die proses is om uit te vind wie in beheer is van die tolpad, aangesien hulle verdere stappe wil doen.
07-25-2007, 07:03 AM #1130
‘Sex blogger’ probed over unsolved murder of friend
The suspected “cyber terrorist” who was arrested at his parents’ Kroonstad home at the weekend was also under scrutiny on Monday in connection with a murder that took place at the town more than 14 years ago.
Kroonstad — “Juan-Duval Lt. Uys”, as he is registered at Home Affairs, was known in Kroonstad at the time as Ludie Uys.
He worked as an administrative clerk at the Correctional Services Department canteen.
He changed his name because he didn’t like his given name “Lodewikus”.
It is not clear what the “Lt.” in his new name refers to.
He had already changed his name to Juan-Duval Uys the first time he laid a charge at a police station in 1994.
Since then, he has laid 20 different charges with the police.
In the past few years he has also used the names Neil Watson, David Baxter, Shaun Thompson and Skye.
Close friend murdered
Uys, Ludie at the time, was a close friend in the late eighties and early nineties of Sergeant Hennie Schmidt, who was brutally murdered in the prisons service kitchen at Kroonstad in 1993.
The two were rumoured to be lovers, but Schmidt was murdered after Uys moved away from Kroonstad.
According to a reliable source, Uys’s fingerprints were taken after his appearance in the Kroonstad Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
They will apparently be compared with a fingerprint in blood found at the murder scene.
Schmidt was stabbed 14 times with a knife and repeatedly struck on the head. His murderer was never found, even though the case was re-opened and investigated several times.
Uys has been staying with his aged parents in Suidrand, Kroonstad for the past few weeks, because they are not well.
The couple moved to Kroonstad after Uys had already resigned from the prisons service and left the town.
He was arrested in Kroonstad on Saturday morning on an outstanding warrant for the theft of R250.
The complaint was filed with the Table Bay harbour police in 2004.
He appeared in court briefly yesterday and will be collected by the investigating officer, to appear in court again there on July 30.
Uys, aka Watson, Thompson and Skye, is apparently the man behind the sex blog in which several prominent South Africans are named as supposed clients of a male prostitute.
He is also allegedly the driving force behind the notorious website crimexposouthafrica.
Complaints have been filed in connection against Neil Watson and Shaun Thompson, but not yet against Juan-Duval Uys. This is why the police records show only two charges against Uys.
He is apparently also the former leader of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance. In this capacity, he claimed that his life was also in danger after nine gay men died in the grisly Sizzler murders in 1993.
It was later learnt that one of the convicted Sizzler murderers, Adam Woest, was his neighbour.
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