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12-26-2008, 03:46 PM #3521
Man held for toy gun 'robbery'
Johannesburg - A 22-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to rob a Rietfontein cafe with a toy gun, Pretoria police said on Friday.
"He pointed the shop owner with a gun on Thursday night, but he [the owner] suspected it was a toy gun and snatched it from him," said Captain Colette Weilbach.
The man then allegedly produced a knife, but the shop owner overpowered him and called the police.
He was arrested by the Pretoria dog unit and expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Monday to face charges of attempted robbery.
Eienaar gryp mes, trap rower vas
’n Kafee-eienaar van Pretoria het ’n speelgoedrewolwer uit ’n rower se hand gegryp, asook sy mes, en die rower daarna op die grond vasgetrap tot die polisie opgedaag het.
Die rower en sy makker, in hul vroeë twintigs, het kort ná 19:00 op Kersdag die Roasties-kafee in Meyerstraat, Rietfontein, Pretoria, probeer beroof.
Die kafee-eienaar, wat anoniem wil bly, sê hy ken dié twee as gereëlde klante.
“Toe hulle hier aankom, was hulle dronk. Hulle het met ’n speelgoedvuurwapen die winkel binnegestorm,” vertel hy.
Terwyl die een rower koeldrank uit die yskas gegryp en gedrink het, het die ander een die klante uitgejaag.
Die sakeman het dadelik besef dat die “wapen” ’n speelding is, die rower oorrompel en die speelding afgeneem. Dié het egter ’n mes uitgehaal.
Volgens die kafee-eienaar het hy die rower gesoebat om hom nie met die mes te steek nie en gesê dat hy hom enigiets sal gee wat hy soek.
Daarna het hy blitsig die mes uit die rower se hand gegryp en hom op die vloer vasgedruk tot die polisie opgedaag het.
Twee bedelaars en ’n klant het die polisie ontbied. Die polisie het dadelik gekom en die twee aangekeer.
Mnr. Allister Aitken (48), een van dié bedelaars wat naby die kafee slaap, het gesê die kafee-eienaar help hulle gereeld en gee hulle soms los werkies. Daarom het hulle nie geaarsel om hom te help nie.
Volgens kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder, sal die twee mans binnekort in die Pretoriase landdroshof op ’n klag van poging tot gewapende roof verskyn.
12-26-2008, 03:47 PM #3522
Gang blows up ATM in Mpuma
Johannesburg - Five men fled with an undisclosed amount of money after blowing up an ATM and shooting a security guard in Kameelrivier, Mpumalanga police said on Friday.
The gang held up staff at a Caltex petrol station during the early hours of Thursday morning and ordered a security guard to accompany them to the nearby ATM, said Captain Leonard Hlathi.
They blew it up, shot and wounded the security guard and fled the scene in an unidentified car. The guard was taken to a local hospital.
Anyone with information on the gang's whereabouts was asked to call Captain Welcome Gcabashe on 082-319-3481.
Vier skurke blaas OTM in NW-dorp op
Vier misdadigers het Woensdag ’n kitsbank in Mogwase naby Rustenburg in Noordwes opgeblaas.
Kapt. Adéle Myburgh, polisiewoordvoerder, sê dié mense het om omstreeks 01:00 die kitsbank by ’n sentrum langs Cashbuild laat ontplof.
Niemand is tydens die voorval beseer nie en geen verdagtes is nog in hegtenis geneem nie.
Die verdagtes, wat ’n onbekende bedrag geld gesteel het, het in ’n grys voertuig weggery.
12-26-2008, 03:47 PM #3523
Standerton chicken farm robbed
Johannesburg - A chicken farm in Standerton was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash when a safe was blown up with explosives, Mpumalanga police said on Friday.
Superintendent Abie Khoabane said the robbery took place between 03:00 and 04:00 on Thursday.
"No one was injured during the incident. No arrests have been made either, but we are investigating the matter."
12-26-2008, 03:48 PM #3524
Bejaarde sterf weens rower se messteek
’n Bejaarde van Lynnwood Glen in Pretoria het doodgebloei nadat ’n rower hom in die hand gesteek het.
Sy vrou, wat ’n steekwond in die been opgedoen het, is intussen uit die Pretoria-Oos-hospitaal ontslaan.
Die egpaar, van Alcadeweg, het Oukersdag om 17:35 in hul huis ontspan toe ’n man met ’n mes die huis binnegestorm het.
Die rower het hulle beveel om geld aan hom te gee, het kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Toe die paar dit nie dadelik gee nie, het hy die man gesteek en dié het erg gebloei.
Die vrou het toe pepersproei gaan haal om hulle te verdedig. Die rower was vies hieroor en het die vrou in haar been gesteek.
Hy het die huis deurgesoek voordat hy met ’n onbekende bedrag geld, ’n selfoon en juweliersware gevlug het.
Volgens die polisie, wat nie die egpaar se name wil bekend maak nie, het ’n buurman hul hulpkrete gehoor en hom soontoe gehaas.
Met sy aankoms was die bejaardes in ’n plas bloed en die verdagte weg. Al sy pogings om die man te red was vergeefs.
12-26-2008, 03:49 PM #3525
Seun vind vermoordes op Kersdag
Drie familielede is op Oukersaand op die plaas buite Stella in Noordwes waar hulle gewoon het, aangerand en vermoor.
Kapt. Adéle Myburgh, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n aanvaller het ’n 41-jarige man en twee vroue om ongeveer 20:00 met ’n skerp voorwerp in hul huis doodgesteek.
Die verdagte het toe hul lyke in ’n afvoersloot by die varkhokke gegooi.
Myburgh het gesê die man wat vermoor is, se seun het Kersoggend omstreeks 07:30 op sy pa se lyk afgekom en die polisie gekontak.
Geen name kan in dié stadium bekend gemaak word nie.
Die aanvaller is steeds op vrye voet
12-26-2008, 03:51 PM #3526
Bejaarde vrou in Paarl in haar huis vermoor
Paarl. – Die liggaam van ’n 79-jarige vrou is gisteraand in haar huis in Paarl se Hoofstraat gevind.
Volgens kapt. John Waterhouse, Paarlse polisiewoordvoerder, is hulle omstreeks 18:00 uitgeroep na Hoofstraat 100.
Met hul aankoms het hulle die oorledene se seun – wat die polisie ontbied het omdat hy onraad vermoed het – daar ontmoet.
Geen deure of vensters was oop nie en die polisie moes ’n ruit breek om toegang tot die huis te verkry. Die vrou se liggaam is binne die huis gevind.
“Die motief is onbekend,” het Waterhouse gesê.
Hy kon gisteraand nie die vrou se naam bekend maak nie, maar volgens ingeligtes is haar naam Arlene van der Walt.
Verskeie speurders, vingerafdruk-spesialiste en forensiese kundiges was besig om die skakelhuis, onder ’n groot eikeboom, te fynkam.
“De Rust,” lui ’n bordjie langs die huis se hek.
Die vrou se seun was langsaan by haar bure. Omstanders het gesê hy het medikasie vir die skok ontvang. ’n Groepie gemeentelede van die oorledene se kerk het voor die huis gestaan. “Stille nag, heilige nag,” het ander ’n Kerslied saggies begin gesing.
“Ek het nog vanoggend met haar gesels,” het ’n vrou gesê. “Tannie Arlene was so ’n mooi mens.” Een man het saggies met ’n ander man gesels. Die woord “verwurg” is gehoor.
Teen omstreeks 20:20 was die polisie steeds druk besig op die toneel. Die liggaam was nog nie uitgebring nie.
12-26-2008, 05:13 PM #3527
I live in USA. A few years ago I met, at different occasions, two tourists from South Africa, of course whites. Both told me that attacks on farms and other robberies were committed by blacks. The clippings you presented here, at least in English, do not indicate the race. What's going on?
12-27-2008, 10:21 AM #3528
12-27-2008, 10:23 AM #3529
Suburbia set to fight crime
Criminals are going to be given a "run for their money" in the new year with some Durban residents "armed and dangerous" as they get their crime-fighting mechanisms in place.
While areas like Hillcrest and Waterfall have adopted hi-tech measures, people in Umlazi and Phoenix have chosen the vigilante route where armed groups are walking the streets with stun guns and pepper sprays.
Daniel Padayachee, chairperson of the Montclair anti-crime league, said their patrols and frequent neighbourhood watch meetings would intensify in 2009.
"We have different groups of residents walking the streets and driving around to check for suspicious people.
"The numbers are set to double in the new year. A group of about 53 people is doing this on a daily basis and the patrols sometimes end at about 6am."
In Phoenix a group of 47 residents had formed a neighbourhood watch and would patrol the streets regularly, said Krish Packree.
"We have licensed weapons and there have been incidents where housebreakers or car thieves were caught in the act and we held them until police got here.
"We try our best to remain calm but sometimes tensions run high and people want to vent their frustrations."
Taking a hands-on approach was the Umlazi neighbourhood watch group who were not afraid of confrontation with criminals, said Zweli Ngcobo.
"We have tough guys armed with weapons walking the streets and checking for loiterers. I must admit that when these criminals get violent our guys sometimes use force to apprehend them. Our group consists of about 62 people. We all know that these guys are armed. So when we see them we have to catch them and disarm them."
KwaMashu Community Policing Forum chairman Joseph Dube said their groups walked the streets with batons, knives and other weapons.
"We split up into groups of three or four, and in each team one member must have a firearm. We have had instances where there was confrontation and criminals had to be tied up until police arrived.
"Sometimes people from the community join in and beat these criminals. Our members are armed with stun guns, pepper sprays and ropes that they use to control unruly criminals."
According to SAPS spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge, the police appreciate the support of these neighbourhood watches, but cautioned that they needed to abide by the law.
"Most of these neighbourhood watches are not working alone as they are operating in conjunction with sector policing groups. Our officers and Metro Police officers, come across them and we know they are actively involved in the fight against crime and hope this can continue in 2009.
"But while we appreciate that they are doing their bit to fight crime, we cannot condone the fact that they could be committing crime, like by resorting to vigilantism."
The Community Information Centre (CIC), with headquarters in Hillcrest under its director, Brian Jones, has become a force to be reckoned with, with a total of 5 700 active households and 600 businesses registered throughout Durban.
They also have an interactive website offering vital alerts and information about crime, sophisticated sms crime notification, surveillance cameras at certain sites and cellphone panic buttons.
Among the areas covered by the CIC are Hillcrest, Durban North, Waterfall, Gillitts, New Germany, Crestholme and Forest Hills.
Other areas like Montclair and Westville have neighbourhood watches that are "more practical" but just as effective.
Jones said they had the full support of the police because they have professional people out on the streets and are not taking the law into their own hands.
"We assist with setting up neighbourhood watches in rural and urban communities. Committees are then formed, comprising residents from the area. The CIC team currently fights crime in our region through direct response at crime scenes, reinforcement and facilitation of SAPS and emergency services."
12-27-2008, 10:26 AM #3530
'Prisons do not make society safe from crime'
A growing body of evidence indicates prisons have little value in making society safe from crime; rather, they are punted by politicians and the private sector who benefit from them.
A report published in the Institute for Security Studies' journal SA Crime Quarterly says: "There is little (if any) evidence to support the idea that imprisonment can reduce crime on any significant scale anywhere in the world."
Lukas Muntingh, the report's author, writes that prisons carry symbolism valued by politicians.
They then promote and maintain a prison system that perpetuates "a huge bureaucracy consuming vast quantities of resources, in order to give effect to its coercive power".
Further, contracts to care for and maintain prisoners, as well as to maintain prisons, are highly lucrative for private-sector companies.
"It is far more beneficial to politicians and the private sector to promote imprisonment than to tell the public that prisons have very limited value in so far as making society a safer place," the report says.
While violent crime rates remained "fairly stable" from 2003 to 2008, the number of prison admissions dropped 47 percent, from 178 569 in 2003 to 94 566 at the beginning of 2008.
The report suggests the drop in admissions was in part due to the quality of crime detection, docket preparation and effectiveness of prosecutions.
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