Professor Margaret Slabbert recounts the night of horror when her husband, Gerhard, was shot dead in front of her at their home in Brooklyn, Pretoria. (Theana Calitz, Beeld)
29/11/2007 23:20 - (SA)
Pretoria - A University of Pretoria professor is heartbroken and still fighting back tears after she saw her husband shot in the heart in front of her at their home in Nicolson Street, Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Gerhard Slabbert, 53, a consulting engineer, died shortly afterwards.
A 13-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the same street in an attack by armed men on Saturday night.
Professor Margaret Slabbert, 51, of the university's visual arts department spoke of her sorrow on Thursday as she recounted what had happened at about 22:00 on Wednesday.
The Slabberts had returned after taking their sons's car to him.
Slabbert said: "When we turned into the drive of our panhandle property, a man was climbing over the wall."
"I was driving. My husband got out of the car and asked the man what he wanted.
"When my husband asked him a second time what he was looking for, I saw the man take something out of his pocket. It was a firearm.
"Unfortunately, my husband realised it too late. The moment he saw what was happening, he tried to jump back into the car.
"The guy shot him in the heart," she said.
With her husband on the seat next to her, Slabbert reversed up the driveway and sped to a nearby hospital.
A doctor there told her it was "over".
Slabbert said: "There was no reason for the man to shoot my husband. He could have just run off.
"Gerhard was a wonderful person. Everyone was mad about him.
"All that I know is that my children must get out of here (South Africa) as soon as they can," she said.
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Prof. Margaret Slabbert vertel van haar man, mnr. Gerhard Slabbert, wat reg voor haar by hul huis in Brooklyn, Pretoria, doodgeskiet is. Foto: Theana Calitz
Nov 29 2007 09:15:35:210PM - (SA)
’n Professor van die Universiteit van Pretoria (UP) se man is by hul huis in Nicolsonstraat in Brooklyn, Pretoria, voor haar oë in die hart geskiet.
Mnr. Gerhard Slabbert (53), ’n konsultant-ingenieur, het kort daarna beswyk.
’n 13-jarige meisie is Saterdagaand in dieselfde straat deur gewapende mans in die been geskiet.
Prof. Margaret Slabbert (51), van die UP se visuele kunste-departement, het gistermiddag hard probeer om die trane te keer terwyl sy vertel het van die toneel wat hom eergisteraand omstreeks 22:00 afgespeel het.
Die Slabberts het teruggekom van hul seun af waar hulle sy motor gaan afgee het.
“Toe ons by die oprit van ons pypsteelhuis inry, was ’n man besig om oor die muur te klim,” het prof. Slabbert gesê.
“Ek het bestuur. My man het uit die motor geklim en vir die man gevra wat hy soek. Toe my man hom die tweede keer vra wat hy soek, het ek gesien hoe die man iets uit sy sak haal.
“Dit was ’n vuurwapen.
“Ongelukkig het my man dit te laat besef. Die oomblik toe my man besef het wat gebeur, het hy probeer om terug in die motor te klim.
“Die ou het hom in die hart geskiet,” het sy gesê.
Terwyl mnr. Slabbert op die sitplek langs haar gesit het, het prof. Slabbert agteruit gery en na ’n nabygeleë hospitaal gejaag.
Daar het die dokter vir prof. Slabbert gesê “dis verby”.
“Daar is geen rede hoekom hy my man moes skiet nie,” het Slabbert gesê. “Hy kon net weggehardloop het.
“Gerhard was ’n wonderlike mens. Almal was mal oor hom.
“Al wat ek weet is dat my kinders moet padgee (uit die land) sodra hulle kan,” het sy gesê.
Kapt. Lucas Sithole, polisiewoordvoerder, het dié voorval bevestig. Niks is gesteel nie en niemand is in nog hegtenis geneem nie. ’n Klag van moord word ondersoek.
Behalwe vir sy vrou, laat mnr. Slabbert twee seuns van 20 en 17 jaar oud, en ’n dogter, 21, agter. Die begrafnisreëlings is nog nie gefinaliseer nie.
Volgens Sithole is die 13-jarige meisie Saterdagaand omstreeks 21:00 by haar huis deur twee mans geskiet. “Die mans het weggehardloop toe die meisie begin skree het. Hulle het niks gesteel nie en is nog op vrye voete. ’n Saak van poging tot moord word ondersoek.”
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By Bongi of the Other-Things-Amanzi Blog.
I walked in. The right side of her face had multiple slashes. The angle of attack was slanted downwards. The side of her face had been sliced off in thin slivers like a piece of roast beef. A piece of the mastoid process had been sliced off. The layers lay loose, attached only at the lower neck. I assume these were the first wounds inflicted. She must have fallen forward then. This I know because the next wound was in the posterior aspect of the upper arm. The triceps was completely transected. The humerus itself had a deep gash in it. I suspect the assailant would have had difficulty removing the panga from the humerus, the wound was so deep. By this stage the woman must have been face down, defeated. The next wound was over the right scapula. The scapula was cut right through. There were two separate pieces with all the muscles transected as well. The force mustered to deliver this blow must have been emense.
About Bongi, the author: "I'm a general surgeon working in the notorious South African province of Mpumalanga."
Source: Other-Things-Amanzi Blog
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Mnr. Eugene Terre'Blanche, oudleier van die AWB, en Steve Hofmeyr groet mekaar in die Skilpadsaal in Pretoria waar 1 500 mense 'n massavolksaamtrek en verootmoedigingsdiens bygewoon het.
Nov 25 2007 10:55:20:383PM - (SA)
Hy het die Trekliedjie gesing, mnr. Eugene Terre’Blanche, oudleier van die AWB, se hand geskud, ’n paar handtekeninge uitgedeel X en hom toe uit die voete gemaak.
Teen gistermiddag laat het die sanger Steve Hofmeyr hom nog nie uitgelaat oor wat hy dink van die massa- volksaamtrek en verootmoedigingsdiens wat eergister in die Skilpadsaal by die Tshwane Event Centre in Pretoria gehou is nie.
Sowat 1 500 mense het die saamtrek bygewoon wat deur die Brandwag van die Christen Boervolk gehou is.
Terre’Blanche, mnre. Elias Olivier, oudambassadeur, Willie Marais, leier van die HNP, dr. Bobby Ellis en verskeie predikante het opgetree.
Olivier het gesê die rede vir die byeenkoms is omdat die Afrikaner diep in die nood is. “Ons is polities ontman. Ons het geen inspraak of gesag meer nie en is op die kantlyn geskuif. Swart ekonomiese bemagtiging, regstellende aksie en grondhervorming dra ook by tot die swak situasie waarin ons ons tans bevind.
“Ons Afrikaner-kultuur en taal word stelselmatig verdruk en ons kinders is uitgelewer aan goddelose uitkomsgerigte onderwys.
“Ook ons kerke staan in ’n gees van transformasie waar godsdiens vervlak het en Sabbatsontheiliging aan die orde van die dag is. En sport het ’n afgod onder die Afrikaners geword.”
Volgens Olivier is die Afrikaner in die moeilikheid omdat hy ver van God is en vergeet het van die beloftes wat hy aan God gemaak het.
Hy het gesê sedert die nuwe regering in 1994 aan bevind gekom het, het 400 000 mense gewelddadig gesterf.
Terre’Blanche het in sy toespraak gesê Afrikaners is nie indringers in Afrika nie.
Hy het gesê aannames dat Afrikaners grond by mense afgevat het, is “ ’n leuen wat dag ná dag in ons kele afgedruk word”.
Volgens hom is die “kaart en transport-aktes van die honderdduisende hektaar grond wat die boere in die land gekoop het, nog te kry en dit is daarmee wat hulle na die hoogste hof in Den Haag en die Verenigde Nasies moet gaan”.
“Ons praat nie oorlog nie, maar ons wil ons deel van die land hê. Dit is tyd dat die Boerevolk se saak oorsee geneem word,” het hy gesê.
Hy het ’n beroep op mense gedoen wat die saamtrek bygewoon het, om betrokke te raak by die SMS-reddingstelsel van die Brandwag om hulself te beveilig en misdaad te bekamp.
“Ons mag nie vermoor word nie. Ons het ’n plig om mekaar op te pas en mekaar lief te hê. Ons sal moet besluit of ons gaan betrokke raak.”
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24/11/2007 17:57 - (SA)
Estelle Ellis en Peet van Aardt
’n Gesin van Gordonsbaai vat die Kaapse stadsraad hof toe nadat twee metropolisielede me. Jacqueline Kotze (34) glo só hardhandig behandel het dat sy haar ongebore baba kwyt is.
Sy was op 29 Desember verlede jaar met haar twee kinders Miecqe (4) en Yelcqe (2) na ’n winkelsentrum in Somerset-Wes onderweg toe metropolisielede hulle afgetrek en Kotze in hegtenis geneem het.
Kotze, ’n kaptein in die polisie, is ure later vrygelaat.
Twee weke later het sy ’n miskraam gehad.
“My vrou het by ’n verkeerslig gestop en bloot in haar stoel omgedraai om Miecqe se sitplek te laat sak,” vertel ’n hartseer mnr. Pierre Kotze.
Konstt. Timothy Ferus en Mario Batist het agter hulle gery.
Kotze het glo ’n gebaar gemaak om om verskoning te vra omdat sy die verkeer opgehou het en toe aangery.
“Die volgende oomblik sit hulle hul sirene aan en druk haar sommer van die pad af,” sê Kotze.
Hulle wou haar rybewys sien.
“Toe sy haar motor probeer aanskakel om die lugversoring vir haar kinders in die warm motor aan te skakel, het Ferus en Batist haar gegryp, haar arms agter haar rug opgedruk en haar geboei. Hulle het haar toe na hul motor gesleep en haar agterin gegooi.”
“Terwyl hulle met my vrou na die polisiestasie gery het, het een van die polisiebeamptes ’n oproep van ene Karin, glo Ferus se vrou, gekry. Hy sê toe aan sy vrou dat hulle ’n ryk, wit teef met ’n houding gearresteer het.”
Kotze, wat reeds sewentien jaar in die polisiediens is, is toe na die Gordonsbaai-polisiestasie geneem waar sy uiteindelik haar man kon kontak.
Een beampte het agter hulle aangery in haar motor met haar huilende dogter agterin.
Ná vier uur is Kotze eers vrygelaat.
Sy is aangekla van openbare oproerigheid en onbedagsame bestuur.
Kotze het nou ’n siviele geding teen die stadsraad van Kaapstad ingestel.
Die Kotzes se twee kinders moes ook berading kry en volgens Pierre gaan sy vrou nooit weer terug polisie toe nie.
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Mnr. George Kriel (45) en me. Cari-Mari Wilsenach (29) van Capital Park, Pretoria. Foto: Leon Botha
Nov 23 2007 11:22:42:403PM - (SA)
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November 24 2007 at 11:51AM
Beaten and semi-conscious, Martina Stocker lay next to her husband's bloody corpse for more than 30 hours. She and her husband Jürgen fell prey to a gang of robbers at their Bryanston home on Wednesday night, but were only discovered on Friday, after their company raised the alarm.
Jürgen, 66, was shot in the upper body and collapsed in the passage. He was tied up and left in a pool of his own blood.
Martina lay in the same passage from the time of the attack until 9am on Friday, when Inspector Hein van Heerden, from Randburg police station, found her.
"They were not far from each other," a police officer at the scene said.
Detectives said at first they thought Martina was also dead but, after confirming she was alive, called the paramedics.
The 49-year-old woman was rushed to Sunninghill hospital, where she remains under observation. She had been viciously attacked and was dehydrated.
On Friday, children from Bryandale Primary poured out into Stirling Avenue into their parents' cars. Metres from the school gate, detectives waited for a mortuary van to clean up the grizzly murder scene inside house number 23.
It's understood the robbers gained entry into the upmarket house by smashing the glass back door. It appears Jürgen got up to investigate and confronted the intruders.
Police confirmed that two weapons, a handgun and a shotgun, were stolen from the house. It is not known whether the robbers used one of these guns to shoot the owner or if they were armed when they broke in.
At the scene, a team of five forensic pathologists worked to gather evidence. A postmortem is likely to be done on Monday.
The Stockers' Land Rover was parked in the driveway, facing the gate. It's understood the robbers tried to drive it away but were unsuccessful. A set of keys was discovered on the lawn outside the perimeter wall.
The police were led to the house when the couple's work colleagues became worried and called sector manager Van Heerden.
Police spokesperson Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said the house had been ransacked. Aside from the guns, a laptop and some cellphones were missing.
All Dlamini would say about the attack on Martina was that she had been assaulted.
Police have approached the German consulate to assist them in notifying Stocker's son, who lives in Germany.
Sunninghill hospital spokesperson Pip Kruger said family members had given strict instructions to the hospital not to comment on her condition.
Netcare 911's Nick Dollman confirmed that they had treated the patient and transported her to the hospital.
This article was originally published on page 2 of The Star on November 24, 2007
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NELSPRUIT. Nov 22 2007 - Beeld reports: 79-year-old Afrikaner retired farmer Jan Voster of Nelspruit was "chopped to shreds by panga-wielding black attackers on Nov 22 2007.
It took surgeons at Nelspruit's Medi-Clinic three hours to repair his severed arteries after Jan and Hannetjie Voster (75) were attacked inside their Nelspruit farm house. He requires more surgery but now has to strengthen up before surgeons will try to repair the rest of the damage to his shredded body.
Nothing was robbed by the two armed men who had invaded the homestead belonging to the old Afrikaner couple. It's not known how many attackers were involved. Police are investigating.
Security guards who responded to the panic alarm within minutes said "Mr Voster was chopped so badly that practically nothing on his body was left intact.' His son in law who was there within six minutes from his home in nearby Alkmaar said, "It was a terrible sight".
The extreme ferocity of such attacks targetting Afrikaner farmers has been a feature of the 'farm-attack phenomenon" in SA. More than 2,300 Afrikaner farmers have already been murdered in this "Uhuru" manner since 1991-2.
Nelspruit police inspector Dawie Pretorius is investigating.
By Nolida Stuijt.
Source:Crime Busters of South Africa
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19/11/2007 16:14 - (SA)
Bloemfontein - Four men appeared in the Trompsburg Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with a farm attack, in which a farm worker was killed and the farm's owner wounded.
Inspector Harry Nagel said the case against the four men was postponed to November 22 for further investigation.
"The men will stay in police custody," he said.
The men are Jacob Malakia Tsoaela, 20, and Thabo Izak Senpe, 22, both from Trompsburg - and Richard Tumelo Masilo, 35, and Mofokeng Mokhete, 35, both from Soweto.
Farm worker, Kallie Pieterse, 48, was killed with a piece of iron when five armed men overpowered workers at their homes on the farm Straussfontein near Trompsburg on Saturday morning.
Police said the workers were threatened with firearms, tied up with wire. Their cellphones were stolen too.
Nagel said the men then took a house worker and went to the farmhouse where the farm owner Flip Henning, 64, was shot near his vehicle.
Henning managed to get inside the house and alert his neighbours, who cordoned off the farm.
Nagel said four of the five armed men were arrested by police and the community after the incident.
"One of the men seems to have committed suicide and fell into a nearby river," he said.
Nagel said police divers from Bloemfontein were at the scene to recover the body.
Investigators also found a vehicle that was covered with branches on the farm.
Henning, who was wounded in the stomach, was taken to hospital in Bloemfontein.
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November 18 2007 at 10:24AM
By Helen Bamford and Bronwynne Jooste
Respected University of Cape Town commercial law professor Mike Larkin, 58, who was stabbed to death by two muggers in Rondebosch on Friday, used to walk everywhere because he was partially sighted and unable to drive.
His murder has sparked an outpouring of anger and grief from colleagues and students alike, who have described him as a gentle and caring father figure and an excellent lecturer.
Larkin's attackers, who stabbed him repeatedly when he resisted their attempts to steal his bag in Roslyn Road, are still at large, said police spokesman Elliot Sinyangana.
'He was our favourite and loved by us all'
Law faculty manager Mike Watermeyer, who is blind, said he and Larkin had shared the challenge of dealing with visual impairment in an "unforgiving and dangerous society".
"We could not drive so we walked - everywhere. It is ironic that the very bravado which characterised our banter about having to walk home at night is what exposed Mike to the vicious attack to which he has now succumbed," said Watermeyer.
He said Larkin, who was divorced, was an accomplished academic and a man of immense fairness and moral integrity. "He was also a superb head of department in commercial law; a humble and concerned human being who had time for everyone."
Watermeyer said he had not only lost a colleague, but a good friend and someone from whom he had learned a great deal. "Not least of which was how to deal with the reality of my recently broken family. He gave me the strength to go on through sharing his own experience of that difficult time."
Watermeyer said he was angry and in despair over the murder.
'It's very weird to speak about him in the past tense'
"I weep for my loss. I weep for all of us who share this grief. And I weep for my country."
Final-year law student Lucy Garrod said she and her fellow students had recently finished exams and would soon be graduating. "But it won't be the same now. He was our favourite and loved by us all."
She said the murder had made her think again about the purpose of studying law in a lawless society.
Garrod said a number of her friends had been mugged in recent weeks. "One friend was coming back from the library when four or five guys with knives appeared out of nowhere. They turned her backpack upside down and stole her cellphone and ID."
She said she knew of other female students who had had similar experiences.
Garrod added that students would gather tomorrow to discuss the possibility of taking some kind of action, possibly a peace march in memory of Larkin.
Larkin's cousin, Marion Heap, said everyone loved him. "And he was our beloved," she said.
Professor Martin West, acting vice chancellor of UCT, said they were deeply saddened by Larkin's death and horrified by the manner in which it occurred.
Larkin was head of the commercial law department and was also a member of the UCT senate, the body responsible for academic governance, as well as being a member of the university's animal ethics committee.
West said Larkin had come to the UCT law faculty in January last year after a long and distinguished association both as a student and professor with the University of Witwatersrand's law school. "He was one of this country's top company lawyers and renowned for his expertise in the field."
West extended his sympathy to Larkin's family and friends on behalf of the university and legal colleagues. "His passing is a tremendous loss to the university."
Student Ognyan Savov said Larkin always had a kind word for his students. "I would say he was the most friendly lecturer. You could see he was very devoted, he would be here early in the morning and stay late in the evening. It's very weird to speak about him in the past tense," said Savov.
Masters student David Iwe grew close to Larkin when he supervised Iwe's thesis. "He was fatherly and very concerned about his students. When I heard about it, I thought 'This is like killing the pope'."
John Kandara said despite his abilities as a lecturer, Larkin was humble. "The one thing that really struck me was his self-effacing nature. He would take the most complex information and make it very basic for us to understand. He was really a brilliant lecturer."
A note attached to a bunch of flowers outside Larkin's office, placed there yesterday by a student, described him as "patient, gentle, warm, humble and a good teacher".
"You were the kind of man I'd like to be," it read.
The flowers were also starting to pile up at the spot where Larkin was killed. Nina Johnson, who lives in Roslyn Road, said she had spoken to one of Larkin's aunts.
"She was telling me they were planning to have a family gathering tomorrow in Muizenberg, and for this to happen, it's just a tragedy. We know there is a lot of crime in this area, but this is the first time there's been a killing."
This article was originally published on page 1 of Cape Argus on November 18, 2007
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Me. Doné Breedt (19), dogter van die hooflanddros in Krugersdorp en 'n prokureurpa, is helder oordag met 'n mes gesteek tydens 'n kapingspoging. Foto: Bongiwe Gumede
Nov 16 2007 10:17:46:600PM - (SA)
“As ek my hande op dié arrogante barbaar kon lê, sal hy nie by ’n hof uitkom nie! En die beste advokaat sal hom ook nie op borg uitkry nie!”
Só sê ’n prokureurpa en eggenoot van die hooflanddros van Krugersdorp, nadat sy dogter vandeesweek helder oordag tydens ’n mislukte kapingspoging in Noordheuwel met ’n mes in die arm gesteek is.
Me. Doné Breedt (19), dogter van mev. Erina Breedt, hooflanddros en mnr. Deon Breedt, prokureur, se hoofslagaar in haar regterarm is byna morsaf gesny in die aanval. Dít toe sy geweier het om haar motor en selfoon aan ’n rower te gee.
Mnr. Jaco Mulder, VF+-lid in die Gautengse wetgewer en self ’n inwoner van Noordheuwel, sê Doné, wat tans haar eksamen in konferensie- en geleentheidsbestuur aflê, het haar aanvaller dapper teëgesit, toe sy Woensdag by ’n stopteken in Matroosbergstraat stilgehou het.
’n Man wat daar eenkant op die grasperk gesit het, het skielik langs haar oop vensterruit verskyn en gesê sy moet haar motor vir hom gee.
Sy het nee geskree en uit blote verbasing of senuweeagtigheid begin lag. Toe eis die aanvaller haar Nokia 5200-selfoon. Toe sy weer weier, het hy summier ’n knipmes uit sy broeksak geruk en haar regterarm begin steek. Hy kon daarin slaag om dié klein messie diep by haar elmboog in te steek.
“Ek het besef ek lewe en net daar omgedraai huistoe,” sê Doné.
Dié gesin se predikant het ’n “histeriese” Doné na die Bellstraat-hospitaal gehaas. Mev. Breedt was ten tye van die voorval besig met ’n saak en haar man was met ’n voorverhoor-konferensie in die Oos-Rand besig.
Dr. Jaco Jurgens het die snywond met twee steke geheg en haar ’n stewige dosis antibiotika toegedien, want “niemand weet waar daai mes was nie”.
Doné sê die besef dat iets meer ernstig met haar kon gebeur, het nog nie “ingesak nie”, maar dis “sy (haar aanvaller) arrogansie wat my die meeste pla”.
“Elke kind het ’n reg om na die winkel toe te kan stap as sy wil, sonder om aangeval te word, wat nog te sê met ’n motor soontoe te ry,” sê mnr. Breedt.
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November 15 2007 at 08:45AM
Two men seemed unfazed on Wednesday when sentenced in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to two life terms for the murders of Elaine Anderson and Patricia Kippen during botched hijackings.
Murderers Sibusiso Duma, 24, a taxi operator and owner, and Simphiwe Khesi, 33, his conductor, said the killings in Woodlands on October 14 were as a result of their wanting a vehicle to go home in.
Both appeared uninterested throughout court proceedings, and when KZN Judge President Vuka Tshabalala delivered sentence they laughed.
"They're dead now. What are they worrying about?" said one of the men to the other.
This affected the emotional family members of both victims even more.
Anderson's daughter, Anthea King, said the death penalty should be brought back. The Anderson and Kippen families said the men told the court they were remorseful, but their conduct did not reflect that.
In their pleas, the men said they were at a tavern drinking. At 7pm, when they decided to go home, they realised that there would be no taxis available, so they had to hijack a vehicle.
At an intersection in Woodlands, they noticed Kippen's car, which was stationary at the stop street. Duma fired a single shot at it.
The car accelerated across the road and crashed into a pillar at a tavern and the patrons rushed to the car so the men could not take it. Instead, they took Kippen's cellphone.
They then came across another car, parked at the side of a road next to a church.
Anderson activated the hazard lights and tried to drive off.
Duma fired two shots at her and the car veered out of control and crashed. When they went to steal it, it was locked and they were distracted by another car.
In sentencing, Tshabalala agreed with senior state advocate Candy Kander's submissions that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating factors.
Kander had said that when violent crimes like that occurred, the functioning of society was affected. She said Kippen was a mother of two.
Anderson was a retired journalist and very involved in church work.
Tshabalala sentenced both men to 15 years for attempting to rob Anderson and sentenced Duma to 15 years for robbing Kippen and Khesi 20 years, in addition to the life sentences.
This article was originally published on page 4 of The Mercury on November 15, 2007
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Bejaarde slaan sy kneukels voos voor hy vermoor word
Nov 14 2007 10:49:37:833PM - (SA)
Mnr. Sonnie Sonnekus (89) se dogter, Mignonette Scherman, het hom elke oggend om 08:00 vanuit Oos-Londen gebel.
Eergisteroggend was dít die laaste bekende stem wat dié oud-offisier by die voormalige Suid-Afrikaanse kriminele buro (SAKB) gehoor het.
Kort ná die oproep is Sonnekus in sy huis in Lyttelton Manor, Centurion, deur ’n onbekende aantal verdagtes oorval.
Dié huis is twee strate vanwaar ’n 83-jarige vrou verlede naweek só erg aangerand is dat sy nie kan praat nie.
Sy is steeds in die waakeenheid van die Unitas-hospitaal in Centurion.
Sonnekus se seun, mnr. Louis Sonnekus, het gesê die verdagtes het sy pa se hande en voete vasgebind en sy neus gebreek.
Sonnekus het versmoor weens bloed wat in sy keel was.
“Ek was Sondagmiddag nog baie kwaad vir my pa, want toe ek hier kom, was alles oop en hy het in die televisiekamer gesit en krieket kyk.
“Ek dink hy het gisteroggend (eergisteroggend) die hek en agterdeur vir Alfie, die worshondjie, oopgemaak en toe die telefoon gaan antwoord.
“Toe hy klaar gepraat het, was die mans moontlik klaar in die huis.”
Volgens Sonnekus bly sy pa die afgelope tien jaar, ná sy ma se dood, alleen in die huis.
Die laaste tyd wou hy glo nie meer die huis, waar hy 50 jaar gewoon het, verlaat nie.
“My pa is ons held,” het mnr. Sonnekus gesê.
“Sy kneukels was stukkend. Op sy ouderdom het hy steeds teen die verdagtes baklei. Hy was só gesond, ons het gewonder waaraan hy sou doodgaan. As hy aan natuurlike oorsake doodgegaan het, sou dit in die haak gewees het,” het hy gesê.
Sonnekus laat sy drie kinders, Mignonette, Louis en Neil, nege kleinkinders en twee agterkleinkinders agter.
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14/11/2007 07:18 - (SA)
Rustenburg - A German man who was stabbed to death at his home at the weekend, had been attacked there by knife-wielding assailants the previous Monday.
Captain Elsabé Augoustides said Helmut Goebels, 58, was found dead with three knife wounds in his chest by his gardener on Sunday.
When Beeld newspaper visited the home on Tuesday, traces of blood on the gate and in his driveway bore mute testimony to the struggle between him and his attackers.
There was a lock on the gate that apparently prevented Goebels from escaping.
Augoustides said Goëbels, who lived alone in his home on the corner of Alamein and Zand streets, had been stabbed in the head with a knife in a similar attack the previous Monday.
In that attack, however, he had managed to call for help and was not seriously injured.
The police had no record of the incident, which may not have been reported.
Lived like a hermit
Police were told of the attack by a security company who responded to Goebels's call at the time.
Goebels contacted the security company again on Saturday, after seeing two suspects on his property.
The suspects had fled by the time the security company got there.
It was not clear when the murder took place after the call-out.
The motive for the murder was also not clear.
Goebels lived like a hermit, with just a few friends in the area. He came to South Africa in the 1950s with his parents, who have both died.
He was apparently had no other family in South Africa.
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Nov 13 2007 09:43:28:557PM - (SA)
Rustenburg. – Die Duitser wat die naweek by sy huis in dié stad met ’n mes doodgesteek is, het verlede Maandag die eerste keer onder mes-aanvallers deurgeloop.
Mnr. Helmut Goëbels (58) se tuinier het hom Sondag dood met drie messteke in die bors in ’n blombedding gekry, het kapt. Elsabé Augoustides, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê. Bloedspatsels op die hek en in die oprit na sy huis het gister getuig van ’n worsteling tussen hom en sy aanvallers. Die hek was met ’n slot gesluit. Dít het Goëbels waarskynlik gekeer om te vlug.
Volgens Augoustides is Goëbels, wat alleen in sy huis op die hoek van Alamein- en Zandstrate gebly het, verlede Maandag in ’n soortgelyke voorval met ’n mes in die kop gesteek. Hy het egter daarin geslaag om hulp te ontbied. Hy was nie ernstig beseer nie.
Daar is geen rekord dat dié voorval by die polisie aangemeld is nie.
Die polisie het die inligting gekry by die veiligheidsmaatskappy wat op die oproep gereageer het.
Goëbels het die maatskappy Saterdagmiddag ook ontbied nadat hy twee verdagtes in sy erf gewaar het. Die verdagtes was egter skoonveld by hul aankoms.
Dit is nie seker wanneer die moord ná dié voorval gepleeg is nie.
Die motief vir die moord is ook nog onbekend. Goëbels het glo soos ’n kluisenaar geleef, met net ’n paar vriende in die omgewing. Hy het in die 1950’s saam met sy ouers na Suid-Afrika gekom. Hulle is intussen oorlede. Hy het glo geen ander familie in die land gehad nie.
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Date Posted: Tuesday 13-Nov-2007
It is always fascinating to watch the drama unfold when Reason and 'Church' clash. This time round James Watson (of DNA/RNA fame) dared to cross the De-Rationalized Zone of scientific inquiry to cast doubt on certain blatantly feel-good assumptions underpinning the lop-sidedness of Western multi-culturalism. His critique basically boiled down to questioning the irrational assumption that all the races have exactly the same skills and abilities (even in the 100-meter sprint), irrespective of the geographical and historical variables that fostered their development.
Given the wide acceptance of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, Watson's critique should actually have been just another standard scientific thesis that could've been proven or disproven by empirical testing. But lo and behold, the 'Church' of our time will not have its 'scientific authority' undermined…even if the evidence is clear for all to see.
After the 'Church' threatened to ostracize him from the fickle PC science community and emotion-addicted Oprahverse (popular culture), Watson immediately recanted – thereby following the time-honoured tradition of chickenhood among top proponents of the natural (hard) sciences. It is really interesting to note that while people like Galileo and Watson chickened out even though they could see the evidence with their own eyes; people (philosophers) like Socrates and Giordano Bruno were willing to sacrifice their very lives solely for the sake of a principle. Socrates took the hemlock voluntarily just to prove that the 'Church' can never have sole dominion over the question 'Why?', and Bruno embraced a fiery end solely for the innate human right to say 'No!' to the 'Church'.
Be that as it may, Watson really should've stuck to his guns because, seen from any reasonable point of view, he didn't do anything untoward. All science starts with problems, as Karl Popper explained. And the problems experienced when trying to integrate black populations into modern societies are clear for all to see. For example, 70% of all black babies in the USA are born out of wedlock and blacks are responsible for 59% of all the crime in the USA despite making out only 12% of the population. Monetary support equaling the Marshall Plan is pumped into America's inner-cities every 4 years just to keep them alive. The abovementioned are hard scientific facts.
These problems pale in comparison however to what is currently happening in South Africa, where one can witness first-hand the tragic collapse of, erstwhile, First World institutions like the criminal justice & health care systems and the infrastructure at the hands of the black government. Following from the above examples, and innumerable others, it is glaringly obvious that the current dogma of the 'Church' – that all the races are absolutely equal in all their abilities – is seriously struggling to find validation when confronted with hard empirical evidence.
That there is a problem cannot be doubted anymore; and to burn top scientists like Watson on the pyre of multi-cultural feel-goodness will definitely not solve anything…. and neither will 'mothering' or singing away the problem except, of course, if we can convince Brangelina and Madonna to each adopt 100 million black babies. Bono's U2 White Guilt crooning about 'The Saints that are (not) Coming' will also not provide any lasting solutions because the leaders of many African nations recently willingly restarted the debt cycle by voluntarily signing away their independence to fuel the insatiable appetite of the amoral Chinese… to make a quick buck. Whether a Chinese rock band called 'U3' will one day succeed in selling 'Yellow Guilt' to adults by emotionally blackmailing the democratically elected governments of sovereign nations while making millions of dollars by pandering to the whimsical emotional lives of pubescents, is rather unlikely. But then, stranger things have been spawned in Oprahverse.
Having been blessed with one of the best brains on the planet, Watson should've taken cognizance of the fact that one must be very wily when challenging the 'scientific authority' of the 'Church' so brazenly. His scientific doubt would've been much better served if he had had the extra gray matter to package his critique in such a way that it would've appeared to be indispensable to the 'Church's' fight against the latest 'Universal Evil' namely, Global Warming. Maybe if he had asserted that only intelligent people are able to save the planet from a man-made climate-induced Armageddon within the next 10 years, he would've been able to leave the PC Papal Chambers with only a blush and a slight burning sensation below the waistline. Hell, I think even old Galileo himself would've been able state with more testicular fortitude that our planet was not the centre of the Universe, had he added that the Pope was the centre of all Existence…even before the Big Bang (pun intended)!
But alas, Reason once again had to kneel before the dogma of the do-gooders of our age who still believe that man is a tabula rasa. And one actually cannot blame a run-of-the-mill empiricist like Watson for being completely out of his league in the ballgame of universal ideas and a-historical ideals. What poor old Watson could never even have phantomed in his most positivistic dreams was the fact that his Double Helix discovery was infinitely less complicated than the Double Standard Hypocrisy comprising the lop-sidedness of Western multi-culturalism.
He should've realized by now that, for example, whites and blacks are not even equal in death. When whites kill whites everything is still normal and when blacks kill blacks (e.g. the Rwandan genocide) everything is still acceptable. But once the killing transcends the colour line all reason and fairness flies out the window faster than the white smoke (or Oscar/Nobel Prize) heralding in the reign of the next PC Pope. When blacks kill whites, like the 2000 white farmers brutally tortured and slaughtered since Mandelatopia descended from La La Land, it is deliberately ignored (or spin-doctored away) lest the 'Church's' eternal wisdom appear flawed. It is as if the lives of whites have even less value when they have been killed by blacks. This is in stark contrast to the value that is added to the lives of blacks who have been killed (or threatened) by whites. One only has to compare the Rodney King and the Jena Six beatings to understand how fundamentally different the value attributed to life is between blacks and whites. Thou shalt not kill…except if s/he is white!
Another sterling example of the Double Standard Hypocrisy of Western multi-culturalism is the rationale underpinning Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment. Blacks are as fast as pigs in Palestine to claim preferential treatment for the fact that Westerners initially refused them the keys to Rome (slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, etc) but they conveniently forget that they had no universal a-historical claim to Roman citizenship in the first place. Rome was built on/by the blood and sweat of Westerners while blacks were still doing the Iron Age spear-chucking thing in Darkest Africa. It is therefore completely unfair to demand the juiciest bits of Roman society at the expense of those who had the unique moral rectitude to make you part of something you never even could’ve conceived of in your wildest dreams. It is like demanding a top scholarship at an elite university overseas even though you didn't even have a kindergarten back home.
Be that as it may; there can be no doubt that the whole drama surrounding Watson's naive attempt to challenge the 'Church' of our time stinks to high heaven. And what is even more disconcerting is the fact that the majority of Westerners actually fervently follow this folly. Have we no pride anymore in our achievements as a completely unique civilization? Are we to sacrifice ourselves, our hard-won knowledge and experience, (like Jesus) for the sake of 'Others', who are as directionless as a fart in a hurricane solely because we have willingly forsaken our quest for the Truth…and nothing but the Truth, so help us God? It truly is elementary, my dear Watson.
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Posted By: Albert Brenner
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12/11/2007 08:43 - (SA)
Daleen van Manen, Die Burger
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