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12-06-2006, 02:44 AM #491
OOS-KAAP: Weerlose vrou wreed op plaas aangeval
KIRKWOOD. – “Hulle het gedreig om my dood te maak. Ek het hardop begin bid: ‘Here, help my.’ ”
Dít was gister die woorde van mev. Joan Schonken (72) wat Sondagaand wreed hier op haar plaas deur twee mans aangerand is.
’n Steeds getraumatiseerde Schonken het uit haar hospitaalbed in die Sondagsriviervallei-hospitaal haar nagmerrie-ervaring herleef.
Haar oë is toegeslaan, sy het ’n lang sny oor haar voorkop en haar hele lyf is potblou geslaan.
Dié plaasaanval op Schonken, wie se man, Danie, vier maande gelede dood is, het gister skokgolwe deur die gemeenskap gestuur.
Schonken het gesê sy het voor die televisie gesit toe sy skielik iets in die huis hoor val het. Sy wou onmiddellik iemand gaan bel, maar die verdagtes het wild na haar begin slaan voor sy kon opstaan.
“Hulle het my met ’n sambok geslaan terwyl hulle vuurwapens en geld van my geëis het.
“Nadat ek gesê het ek besit nie ’n vuurwapen nie, wou hulle weet waar die kluis en my motorsleutel is.”
Terwyl die booswigte gedreig het om haar dood te maak, het sy vir hulle gesê hulle “is goeie mense”, waarna een haar genadeloos in haar gesig begin skop het.
Schonken het haar bewussyn verloor voor die diewe in haar Toyota Cressida weggejaag het. Sy het tydens die aanval baie bloed verloor.
Toe sy bykom, het sy na die kombuis gestrompel om hulp te ontbied, maar kon nie die telefoon gebruik nie omdat haar hande agter haar rug vasgebind was.
Haar seun, mnr. Danie Schonken jr., het ’n sekerheidsmaatskappy na haar huis gestuur nadat hy haar uit Gauteng gebel het om soos oudergewoonte te gesels en verneem het wat gebeur het.
’n Hartseer Schonken het vertel hoe sy tevergeefs by die verdagtes gepleit het om nie haar oorlede man se ring by haar te neem nie.
“Ek weet nie hoekom hulle so hatig teenoor my was nie, want ek doen niemand leed aan nie.”
Mnr. Flip van Greunen, Schonken se broer, het gesê sy gevoel ná die aanval is “dat ons in ’n wettelose land bly”.
“My suster is hulpeloos en moet met ’n kierie oor die weg kom. Hoekom het hulle nie net gevat wat hulle wou hê nie?”
Insp. Marianette Olivier, polisiewoordvoerder, het bevestig die mans het met ’n televisiestel en ’n CD-speler in Schonken se motor weggejaag. Dié motor is Sondag om 03:30 verlate in KwaNobuhle gevind. Die verdagtes is steeds soek.
12-06-2006, 02:50 AM #492
Kapers skiet vrou op N1; ry met liggaam
Sy vrou se angsvolle gil, kort nadat sy eergister langs ’n besige Pretoria-hoofweg deur kapers oorval is, sal hom altyd bybly.
“Sy het geskree soos ek haar nog nooit hoor skree het nie en feitlik op dieselfde oomblik het ek ’n skoot gehoor,” het mnr. Pieter Müller (43), ’n ingenieur van Ermelo in Mpumalanga, gister vertel nadat sy vrou, Maryna (38), se lyk gister in hul verlate Nissan Prado gevind is.
Die egpaar was amper 20 jaar getroud.
Die Müllers het omstreeks 20:30 langs die N1-hoofweg in Lynnwood, naby waar King’s Highway oor die hoofweg loop, stilgehou sodat mnr. Muller ’n draai kon loop.
“Ons het in Pretoria gaan eet en ’n perfekte aand gehad. Ons was op pad na ’n gastehuis waarna ons vandag (gister) ’n sake-afspraak sou hê,” het hy gesê.
Volgens Müller het hy sowat drie meter van die motor gestaan toe sy vrou skreeu.
“Ek het omgeswaai en ’n skoot gehoor. ’n Ander motor wat agter myne gestaan het, se ligte het my half verblind, maar ek kon ’n man sien verbyhardloop,” het Müller gesê.
“Toe het hulle (die aanvallers) wéér geskiet en ek het begin hardloop omdat ek nie geweet het of hulle op my skiet nie.”
Müller het sowat 30 m verder agter ’n boom geskuil.
“Ek het gesien hoe albei karre (die Prado en die aanvallers s’n) baie stadig langs mekaar in my rigting beweeg – asof hulle my soek,” het hy gesê.
“Maar net so skielik soos hulle daar was het hulle, met my vrou steeds in die Prado, weggejaag.”
Müller het vergeefs probeer om ander motoriste te laat stilhou.
Hy kon eers hulp ontbied nadat hy sowat 500 m verder oor ’n wal moes klim en in die middel van ’n ander straat gaan staan het.
’n Man het stilgehou om te help en kon die polisie ontbied.
Die Prado is opgespoor waar dit verlate in Cliffondalestraat in Faerie Glen in die ooste van Pretoria gestaan het.
“Daar was hordes polisiemanne op die toneel en ek het my vrou in die kar gesien. Haar sitplek was afgeslaan en sy het platgelê, maar nie reageer toe ek haar roep nie en ek het besef sy is dood,” het Müller gesê.
Sy is in die maag, bors en been geskiet. Haar lyf was steeds vasgegordel.
“Soos ek haar ken, sou sy met die aanvallers baklei het. Sy was ’n liewe, perfeksionistiese mens en my regterhand,” het Müller hartseer vertel.
“Ek en Maryna het ons onderneming uit niks opgebou en noudat ons dit wou begin geniet, is sy weg.”
Volgens hom is niks uit die motor gesteel nie.
“Ek het vanoggend (gisteroggend) teen 04:00 by die huis gekom en my seun, Pieter jr. (17), wakker gemaak om vir hom te sê sy mamma is dood.”
Insp. Katlego Mogale, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê niemand is nog aangekeer nie.
Die polisie se teenkapingseenheid ondersoek die voorval.
Me. Muller word na verwagting Dinsdag in Ermelo veras.
12-06-2006, 03:37 AM #493
Addo - An elderly couple have had a lucky escape after they were attacked on their farm, Bochkraal.
According to police, Freek du Preez and his wife were attacked while taking an afternoon nap.
His wife woke up at 15:00 when she heard someone in the room. An unknown man tried to attack her with an axe but he missed and she was fortunately only slightly injured.
Her husband woke up and the attacker threw the axe at him, running away. Du Preez suffered light injuries.
A police spokesperson said there had been two attackers, but only one man was in the house. Their shoes and caps were found outside the house.
The couple was taken to hospital.
12-06-2006, 03:42 AM #494
Mom's brush with hunted Houdini
Johannesburg - She remembers thinking "Don't drink my juice, dude. That's my personal property!"
Although she was tied up by one of South Africa's most-dangerous criminals while her two-year-old daughter watched in their garden flat, she's adamant that she is not a victim.
That's the view of Cameron Meiklejohn, the woman who was robbed of her blue Citi Golf by Annanias Mathe in Johannesburg on Monday.
Mathe escaped from C-Max Prison in Pretoria two weeks ago and was recaptured not long after robbing the Meiklejohns.
Meiklejohn, who is an advertising representative for Media24 family magazines, was in her flat with her daughter, Eryn, when Mathe struck about 06:15.
An hour later, he lay flat on his stomach - with two bullet wounds in his leg - after being tracked to Ivory Park, near Tembisa on the East Rand, and shot by a Netstar vehicle-tracking service employee.
'Funny man's in jail'
Meiklejohn, who was trying to get her belongings back from the police on Tuesday, was relaxed as she spoke about the incident.
"I don't even want to think about what could have happened, because then I feel like a victim, and I refuse to be a victim," she said.
Neither Cameron nor Eryn was hurt during the robbery, but her little girl is very aware of what happened.
"The funny man took the television and mommy's car, but now he is in jail," said Eryn.
Meiklejohn, who woke up on Monday morning staring into Mathe's face, feared she was going to be raped.
"I was still in my pyjamas and he ordered me to lie on the bed, but he just tied my hands with my dressing-gown belt," she said.
Meiklejohn attended a course on how to deal with hijackings recently, "and the only thing I remembered was that they told us repeatedly: 'Obey instructions, obey instructions'," she said.
Mathe apparently was very calm during the robbery.
"If I hear now how dangerous he is and what he has already done, it somehow doesn't make sense.
"He had every opportunity to be violent. Can a person switch violence on and off like that?"
After he tied her up, Mathe unplugged Meiklejohn's TV set and took it to the car.
"He casually unpacked everything that was in my boot before putting the TV in. Then he came to see if all was still well in the bedroom, before he drove off."
She first heard who Mathe was, and what he was wanted for, about midday on Monday.
Meiklejohn can't remember how long Mathe was in her flat, but "it was long enough to drink my juice in the fridge".
"I remember thinking: 'Dude, don't drink my juice. That's my personal stuff!' "
Won't be leaving SA
Meiklejohn says this isn't going to change her life.
She wants to make some changes in her security, but isn't planning anything drastic.
"I don' t want to introduce big changes in Eryn's routine because I'm afraid it may worsen the impact," she said.
"I'm South African and I don't see myself living in another country, so I won't be leaving."
12-06-2006, 03:47 AM #495
'Houdini' used jelly in C-Max escape
Johannesburg - Petroleum jelly apparently played a key role in an escape from the country's most secure prison, the Pretoria News reported on Monday.
Its website quoted sources as saying the "Houdini" appeared to have stripped and covered his entire body with petroleum jelly to climb out of a window measuring 20cm x 60cm.
Annanias Mathe, 29, a "dangerous" detainee awaiting trial, escaped from Pretoria's C-Max prison on Saturday night, a first-time feat since the institution was built 36 years ago.
Mathe, a Mozambican national, was rearrested on December 4 last year after escaping from police custody and going on the run for seven months.
He faced 51 charges, including murder, attempted murder, rape, hijacking and armed robbery.
Correctional Services' Bheki Manzini said Mathe was detained at A6 section ... which houses hardened criminals regarded as escape risks.
Escape carried out with military precision
"It is alleged Mathe uncuffed himself, broke through a number of small windows and forced himself out on to the centre's roof -- an escape carried out with military precision."
His escape was noticed by an official who came in for night shift.
Mathe apparently broke two steel bars from his bed which he wedged on either side of the window to help him slide his shoulders through.
He apparently took another steel pipe from his bed and made a hook. He then tied his clothes and bed linen to it and used that to slide out of the cell down the firewall.
Halfway down, Mathe used some of the grime he had collected on his way down the wall to write a note to prison officials saying: "**** you".
Scrawny little guy
This was not his first escape from custody.
Manzini said: "In April 2005 he escaped while in police custody. At the time he was housed next to the staff office to monitor him closely."
It initially took a task team nine months to arrest Mathe.
Captain Arnold Boonsthra, who formed part of this team, described the man as "a scrawny little guy".
"It took my colleague and I; we're both over six feet and weigh more than 140kg; nearly 15 minutes to apprehend and subdue him. He has extensive military training, which we believe enabled him to escape in the manner he did," said Boonsthra.
12-06-2006, 03:59 AM #496
'I'll shoot you where you pray'
Pretoria - Water, a wheelchair, a prayer and a panic button - these might have been what saved an elderly pastor from Haakdoring, north of Pretoria, after an armed robber threatened to shoot him.
"They beat and kicked me black and blue," said pastor Willie Breet, 78, of the Burning Bramble Bush church.
Breet, five of his workers and a domestic worker were held up by armed robbers between 10:00 to 12:00 on Tuesday morning. The robbers initially pretended they wanted to buy chickens.
The robbers fled with R22 000, jewellery, several firearms, cellphones and the keys to the pastor's bakkie.
'I prayed for calm'
"I went to pray for a sick person in the morning and then went to buy bricks. When I stopped in front of the church hall at my house, a man approached me and said he wanted to buy chickens."
"I hooted for my workers, but the man said I must stop making such a noise. A second robber approached and said 'I don't feel like your nonsense, we are busy robbing you'".
He took Breet's cellphone from his shirt pocket and ordered him to get out of the bakkie. He was assaulted while he got out.
Breet said a third robber held up the workers in an outside room. They were later brought out and made to stand next to the bakkie.
"I threw the key to the safe under the bakkie, but one of the robbers saw it and grabbed it."
Two men who arrived to deliver the bricks were also robbed and held up.
One of the robbers took Breet to the church hall and said, "I'm going to shoot you here where you pray for people".
"I said he can shoot me, but I'm first going to have a drink of water because I'm thirsty. I walked through the church hall towards the kitchen and the robber followed."
"He saw my wheelchair against the kitchen wall and told me to sit in it so that he could shoot me."
"While he was pulling on his gloves, I quickly pushed the panic button. The next moment everybody ran away."
Breet said he kept praying to the Lord for calm. "It felt as if I was going to have a heart attack."
12-06-2006, 04:14 AM #497
Massacre cop leaves gift of life
Johannesburg - Sergeant Gert Schoeman, who died in the Jeppestown massacre with three other cops, has left an incredible gift - a baby daughter.
His 33-year-old widow, Brenda, fights back tears as she describes baby Tregan, who was born last week.
She said: "She's the last gift that her father left for us."
Tregan's father was one of four policemen who died in a huge shoot-out in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, in June this year.
He and five other police officers were ambushed at a house after following a gang of suspected robbers, after a Sunday-morning robbery at Honeydew's Pick 'n Pay.
Brenda was four months pregnant at the time and she did not know if three-year-old Braedon wanted a brother or sister.
Beeld reported at the time that Braedon tugged at the heartstrings when he hugged and rubbed a guard dog that was part of the guard of honour at his dad's funeral.
'The longing doesn't get less'
His sister was born by Caesarean section on November 27 at Brenthurst Clinic in Johannesburg.
Her name, Tregan, stems from her father's names- Gert (in reverse) and the "an" from Johannes.
Her birth brought back many raw memories.
Brenda said, wiping away her tears at home in Greenhills, Randfontein: "The longing for him doesn't get any less."
"It's worse at the moment, because he helped me so much with Braedon."
Tregan weighed in at 2.88kg at birth.
"She looked just like her brother, but without red hair."
"When she sleeps, she's just like her father. He was also a deep sleeper."
Braedon is wild about his new sister and was chatting away to her even before she was born.
New and fresh start
"He sometimes whispered messages to his sister through my belly button.
"The first thing he did when his sister was brought home was to run past the cradle and shout, 'Where's my sister?' "
When her husband died, Brenda closed her toy-and-children's shop, but she's looking forward to a "new and fresh start".
She is planning a new enterprise in Krugersdorp in the New Year.
12-06-2006, 04:20 AM #498
Calls for Jhb massacre probe
Pretoria - An independent investigation into the Jeppestown-shooting is the only way to restore confidence in the police, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday.
DA spokesperson on safety and security Roy Jankielsohn said the investigation should look at who ordered the police into a situation in which they were "outgunned and outmanned" by armed criminals, and why.
He said the investigation should look at "the failure of police intelligence" to forewarn officers of the danger.
"The task team should be mandated to investigate whether ex-soldiers from other African countries are systematically perpetrating violent crime in South Africa," Jankielsohn said.
He made the statement at the same time that Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula met senior police officers to discuss a recent spate of police killings and incidents of violent crime.
Jankielsohn said Nqakula should set up an independent investigation task team consisting of experts from civil society such as the Institute for Security Studies and other such organisations.
The inquiry should also be broadened to include "failures" of the minister and the police commissioner to adequately resource and equip the police.
The shortage of police personnel, the quality their training and the reasons for the conviction rate of about eight percent of reported cases of serious and violent crime should be considered.
"Such an inquiry is the only way that Minister Nqakula can achieve his stated aim of bringing 'a sense of confidence in our people regarding policing in this country'," Jankielsohn said.
12-06-2006, 04:25 AM #499
Tears flow at memorial for slain cops
Johannesburg - Three-year-old Braedon Schoeman played with one of the six police dogs that, with their handlers, formed a guard of honour at a memorial service for his father and three other policemen who died in the Jeppestown siege.
Ushers gave tissues to the hundreds of people gathered at the Little Falls Christian Centre on the West Rand.
The four slain policemen have been named as: Inspectors Frederick "Frikkie" van Heerden, 32, and Nzama Victor Mathye, 49, both of the West Rand dog unit; Sergeant Gert Schoeman, 30, of the West Rand emergency response service; and Constable Peter Francois Seaward, 31, of the Johannesburg dog unit.
Grief was etched on the faces of Nzama Victor Mathye's family - he left his two young children orphaned.
At the door a table bore photographs of the dead policemen with their police caps arranged next to memorial candles.
At the front of the church, the wives of the dead policemen consoled each other with hugs and soft words.
Among those attending the memorial on Thursday were Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo and top detective Piet Byleveld.
Nine people believed to be associated with the robbers were dead after a bloody shootout in a house in Jeppestown, Johannesburg.
The bloody clash erupted when police probing a robbery at the Pick' n Pay in Honeydew on Sunday morning were led to the house where the gang was allegedly to rendezvous - by a person arrested on the scene.
Eleven people have appeared in Roodepoort magistrate's court on initial charges related to the robbery and the deaths.
Constable Peter Francois Seaward, 31 was my nephew, my aunt died 3 month's ago.
12-06-2006, 05:03 AM #500
Graafmoord-saak weer voor hof
Die twee beskuldigdes in die graafmoord-saak, mnr. Marthinus Myburgh (27) en me. Rynette Harmse (42), het Dinsdag weer in die hooggeregshof in die stad verskyn. Die saak is tot 15 Mei uitgestel vir verhoor.
Myburgh sal op 5 Desember weer in die hof verskyn, waartydens hy vir borgtog aansoek sal doen. Die saak teen mej. Marnette Strydom (22), wat aanvanklik saam met haar ma, me. Harmse, in hegtenis geneem is, is in Mei vanjaar teruggetrek, nadat sy besluit het om as staatsgetuie op te tree. Strydom en haar ma is op 3 Desember 2004 in hegtenis geneem, nadat die lyk van mnr. Pieter Willem van Staden (58) in digte bosse by 'Spider Valley'gevind is. Myburgh (27) is op 31 Desember 2004 in hegtenis geneem. Hy het kort daarna ontsnap, maar is weer op 16 Januarie 2005 in hegtenis geneem. Die oorledene se hande was met toue agter sy rug vasgebind, waarna hy wreedaardig met die vuiste toegetakel en geskop is totdat hy bly lê het. Sy aanvallers is daarna vermoedelik met sy motor terug na sy woonstel, waar hulle sy elektriese toebehore gesteel het. Hulle is daarna weer terug na 'spider Valley' waar hulle die oorledene vermoedelik met 'n graaf doodgeslaan het.
Die twee beskuldigdes word van moord, roof, huisbraak, diefstal en gesinsgeweld aangekla. * Van Staden is op 26 November 2004 die laaste keer lewend gesien, toe hy omstreeks 20:00 saam met die beskuldigdes by sy woonstel in Vanderbijlpark gekuier het.