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02-16-2007, 03:04 AM #761
Vrou verloor rooftog-saak teen Pep
’n Vrou van Polokwane (Pietersburg) wat R860 000 van die Pep-winkelgroep geëis het nadat sy in ’n gewapende rooftog in een van die groep se winkels gewond is, moes gister in die Pretoriase hooggeregshof die aftog blaas.
Me. Petru Wolmarans (47) het meer as sewe jaar gelede tydens ’n rooftog in Pep se winkel in Polokwane ingestap. Sy is met ’n vuurwapen na die stoorkamer begelei en van geld beroof. Sy is vir ’n rukkie alleen gelaat en volgens haar was net 20 cm van die nooduitgang se deur sigbaar, want dit was toegepak. Wolmarans het later getuig sy het eers ná sy beseer is die deur opgemerk.
Sy is saam met die ander werknemers van die winkel in die badkamer gedwing waar sy probeer het om een van die rowers, wat ’n vuurwapen op haar gerig het, te ontwapen. ’n Ander rower het haar toe nege keer met ’n mes in haar nek gesteek.
Wolmarans het aangevoer die winkel het versuim om die nooduitgang toeganklik en opsigtelik te maak en dat die winkelgroep ’n regsplig het om die veiligheid van kliënte te verseker.
Regter Willie van der Merwe het in sy uitspraak gesê die winkel ontken die deur was heeltemal toegepak, en dat die uitgang nie toeganklik of sigbaar was nie. ’n Ander getuie vir Wolmarans het ook gesê die deur was sigbaar en toeganklik.
Van der Merwe sê daar is geen getuienis dat, selfs al het sy die nooduitgang gesien en dit was oop, sy veilig sou kon ontsnap nie. Die breek van die glas en die oopsluit van die deur kon die rowers se aandag trek en dat Wolmarans se eis hier “struikel”.
Hy het die saak in die guns van Pep beslis.
02-16-2007, 03:18 AM #762
VS-boer wéér slagoffer van misdaad
PRETORIA. – “Ek kan nie glo mens se privaatheid kan op so ’n gewelddadige manier geskend word nie. Hulle het gekom om seer te maak.”
Só vertel mnr. Koos Uys, boer van Parys wat agt jaar gelede die slagoffer van ’n plaasaanval was, ná ’n nagmerrie-ondervinding toe boosdoeners hom en vriende op Valentynsaand in Pretoria aangeval het.
Een van die aanvallers het hom met ’n mes in die kop en bors probeer steek. Hy moes steke kry om die sny van sowat 15 cm aan sy kop te heg.
Sy vriend, mnr. Adel Schreider van Silver Lakes in Pretoria, het heelwat slegter daarvan afgekom toe ’n boosdoener hom met ’n mes in die bors gesteek en geskiet het. Die steekwond in Schreider se bors is 2 mm van sy hart se punt af.
Schreider was ná die voorval vier uur in die teater by die Pretoria-Oos-hospitaal sodat dokters kon bepaal hoeveel skade die steekwond en skietwond veroorsaak het.
Sy vrou, Moira, het gister gesê dit is ’n wonderwerk dat haar man nog leef. Hy is in die waakeenheid van die hospitaal.
Schreider het by Uys, sy vrou, Esné, en me. Loraine Wilson gaan kuier toe hulle oorval is. Wilson, wat gister verjaar het, en mev. Uys is susters. Wilson het gesê haar hond, Tammy, het omstreeks 19:00 histeries begin blaf.
“Ek het om die hoek by die voordeur uitgeloer om te kyk wat aangaan. Ek sien toe twee mans aangestap kom. So asof hulle op pad is om tee te kom drink,” het sy gesê.
Die mans het begin hardloop toe hulle agterkom Wilson het hulle gewaar.
Hulle het deur die huis gestorm tot waar die groep vriende agter gesit en kuier het.
Uys vertel hy en Schreider het die twee aanvallers probeer ontwapen.
“Ek het myne min of meer onder beheer gehad toe hoor ek die skoot. Vir ’n sekonde het ek my greep verslap en die man het weggekom,” het Uys gesê.
Schreider is van onder sy linkerarmholte geskiet en die koeël het teen sy regterskouer vasgeslaan. Die skelm het hom daarna met die mes in die bors gesteek.
“Hulle het gekom om seer te maak,” het mnr. Uys gesê.
Hy het ’n handdoek gaan haal om op Schreider se bors te druk om die bloeding te probeer keer.
“Dit het gelyk of ons ’n dier geslag het.
“Dit was letterlik ’n bloedrooi Valentynsdag vir ons,” het mev. Uys gesê. Die skelms het met twee selfone gevlug.
Mev. Schreider het gesê sy het gister baie gebid dat haar man deurgehaal sal word. “Ek moet die mense vergewe wat dié goed gedoen het.
“Ons het ’n huis in Silver Lakes (’n veiligheidsdorp in die ooste van Pretoria) gekoop juis sodat ons veiliger kan wees en dan gebeur sulke goed steeds,” het sy gesê.
02-16-2007, 03:23 AM #763
Boervrou getuig oor nag van hel
UPINGTON. – Nadat hy haar die tweede keer daardie nag verkrag het, het die aanvaller van ’n bejaarde boervrou van Kenhardt haar die soveelste keer gewurg en verskriklik met ’n verestoffersteel begin slaan.
“Ek het net die bloed voel spat,” het die 74-jarige vrou gister in die hooggeregshof hier getuig oor die houe wat mnr. Koos van der Westhuizen (24) haar na bewering op 17 Julie 2005 op haar rug en kop toegedien het.
Van der Westhuizen staan tereg op twee aanklagte van verkragting, een van roof met verswarende omstandighede, asook ’n aanklag van huisbraak met die opset om te steel en diefstal.
“Hy het gesê as ek nie maak soos hy sê nie, gaan hy my doodmaak. Ek het net gebid vir die Here.”
Sy het in ’n stadium vir hom gesê dat sy hom niks gemaak het nie.
“Hy het geantwoord dat ’n familielid van my sy broer doodgery het.”
Sy loop sedert die aanval met ’n kierie en kan nie meer soos voorheen alleen haar twee plase bestuur nie en bly in die tehuis vir bejaardes. Sy moes 12 dae in die hospitaal op Upington deurbring en het onder meer ’n nekwerwel- en skedelfraktuur gehad.
Op foto’s wat net ná die aanval geneem is, was haar gesig ’n toegeswelde pers massa.
Die vrou het vertel sy is die aand na buite weens haar honde se onophoudelike geblaf.
“My oog het ’n manspersoon opgetel. Toe hy by my kom, het hy my kop agteroor gedruk en my met ’n pyp oor die nek geslaan.”
Hy het haar die huis binnegesleep. Hy het chaos in die huis gesaai en verskeie van haar besittings en kos in ’n bruin koffertjie gepak.
In haar slaapkamer het hy haar die eerste keer verkrag.
“Dit was baie seer.”
Van der Westhuizen het toe glo R1 000 van haar geëis.
Sy het geld uit die linnekas vir hom gegee toe hy haar rewolwer gewaar.
“Hy het dit op my bors gerig. Ek het vir hom gesê dit is stukkend, maar hy het my nie geglo nie, en dit afgetrek terwyl hy dit op my gerig het.”
Sy is ook gedwing om ’n kontant-tjek uit te skryf.
Haar trouring is van haar vinger geruk.
Die polisie het van die gesteelde goedere later teruggevind.
Nadat hy haar die tweede keer verkrag het, het hy vir haar gesê “ou vrouens is tog te sleg”.
02-16-2007, 03:27 AM #764
Só ly toerisme onder vlaag van misdaad
IN hierdie kolomme is al byna tot vervelens toe gewaarsku oor die fatale impak wat die misdaadvlaag wat oor die land spoel op toerisme in Suid-Afrika kan hê.
Onmiddellike ingryping deur die regering om die situasie te red is by verskeie geleenthede bepleit.
Al dié pleidooie het klaarblyklik op dowe ore geval. En nou pluk die land se toerismebedryf die wrange vrugte.
Van die wêreld se voorste lande – Amerika, Brittanje, Frankryk, Australië en Kanada – waarsku hul burgers om sekere gebiede in Suid-Afrika te vermy of katvoet te loop as hulle dit wel sou besoek – wêreldbekende en gesogte bakens soos Tafelberg tel onder die gevaarlikste attraksies.
Suid-Afrika se toerismebedryf kan net nie tot volle wasdom kom nie. In die vorige politieke bestel het buitelanders weggebly oor die land se politieke bestel en nou is misdaad die sondaar.
Die huidige regering steun sterk op toerisme om hom te help om voorheen benadeelde gemeenskappe te bemagtig. Hy verwys gereeld na dié bedryf as Suid-Afrika se “nuwe goud”.
Daarom is dit onverskoonbaar dat hy misdaad so lank toegelaat het om ’n stok in die toerisme-wiel te wees – in die mate dat oorsese regerings hul burgers nou waarsku om die land te vermy. Die lande ter sprake is van Suid-Afrika se grootste toeristebronne.
’n Positiewe groei in toerisme in die aanloop tot 2010 gaan ook verseker dat die belangrike Wêreldbeker-sokkertoernooi wat in dié jaar aangebied word, ’n sukses is.
Daar bly dus net een ding oor vir die land om te doen: Spring dadelik aan die werk om misdaad in elke sfeer van die samelewing en by elke toeristebaken uit te roei.
Dit help nie meer dat almal bloot hul kommer oor die impak van misdaad op toerisme by ’n parlementsopening of ’n toerisme-indaba uitspreek nie.
Die erns waarmee Suid-Afrika die probleem benader en die resultate wat hy met sy pogings behaal, moet buitelanders so inspireer dat hulle die land met vrymoedigheid sal besoek.
02-16-2007, 03:36 AM #765
Upington - After he had raped her a second time, the attacker of an elderly farmer's wife from Kenhardt strangled her once again and started beating her with the handle of a feather duster.
"I felt the blood spatter," the 74-year-old woman told the high court on Thursday, while describing the beating she received on July 17 2005.
Her alleged attacker, Koos van der Westhuizen, 24, faces two charges of rape, one of robbery with extenuating circumstances, as well as a charge of burglary with the intent to steal and theft.
"He said he would kill me if I didn't do as he told me. I just prayed to the Lord," she said.
The woman told the court that she went to investigate why her dogs were barking incessantly on the night of the attack.
"I noticed a man. When he reached me, he bent my head backwards and hit me on the throat with a pipe."
The man then dragged her into the house. He rummaged through the house and packed several of her possessions and food into a brown suitcase.
Rape 'hurt a lot'
He then raped her in her bedroom the first time. "It hurt a lot," she testified.
Van der Westhuizen then allegedly demanded R1 000 from her. While she was getting the money from her linen cupboard, he noticed her revolver.
"He pointed it at my chest. I told him it was broken, but he didn't believe me and pulled the trigger while pointing it at me."
She was forced to write out a cash cheque. The attacker also ripped her wedding ring from her finger.
The police later retrieved some of the stolen goods.
At one stage she told him that she had done him no harm. "He said a family member of mine had run over and killed his brother."
After he had raped her the second time, he told her: "Old women are no good."
After the attack, she spent 12 days in an Upington hospital, recovering from fractures to her skull and neck vertebrae.
Photographs taken shortly after the attack indicated that her face was a swollen, purple mass.
She has been walking with a stick since the attack and is unable to manage her two farms alone any more. She is living in a home for the elderly.
02-16-2007, 03:42 AM #766
KZN teen killers convicted
Pietermaritzburg - Two Mooi River teenagers, aged 15 and 17, were convicted for the murder of Treverton College founding staff member Rita Burdett, the Witness reported.
They had pleaded guilty before the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
The mother of the younger boy, who was present in court, had worked as a domestic for Burdett, 86.
Details of the murder, on Sunday, were read out in their pleas.
After arriving at Burdett's house on the school grounds with the intention to kill her and steal her car, they found her sitting down to a meal.
The older teen stripped a cover off a cushion and placed it over Burdett's head and face.
One of them ripped the cord off an electrical lamp and strangled her with it before wrapping her in a duvet. They then placed her in the boot of the car.
"When we covered her she was still alive," they said in their plea.
They said they had put her in the boot because they did not know what to do with her.
Police approached them while they were on their way to Underberg in the stolen car and later found Burdett's body in the boot.
Because of their age, the case was adjourned for a pre-sentencing report.
02-16-2007, 03:46 AM #767
Robber uses 'poison syringe'
Nelspruit - A businessman was jabbed with a syringe that may have contained a poison intended for his dog when he disturbed a suspected robber at his house.
Francois Odendaal, 31, was rushed to Nelspruit Medi-Clinic, where blood tests are being done.
"It's bloody sore!" Odendaal told Beeld on Thursday from his bed in the intensive-care unit.
Odendaal, of Valencia Street in West Acres, Nelspruit, suspects that he was injected in the wrist with poison intended to keep his dogs quiet.
His whole body is in pain, his arm is swollen and he has sporadic cramps in his limbs from uncontrollable muscle spasms.
Odendaal was jabbed twice in his left arm at 01:00 on Thursday morning when he walked smack-bang into the suspected robber.
"The dog was restless the whole night, and I went to investigate.
Smelt ammonia in the air
"When I opened the front gate, I saw, out of the corner of my eye, someone storming at me, with his arm raised."
He felt a burning pain in his arm and thought he had been stabbed with a knife.
"There was a heavy smell like ammonia in the air. Then I saw the two pricks on my arm near the wrist."
He used the cord from his pants as a tourniquet. His wife, Gerda, hit the panic button and security guards arrived quickly.
While he was rushed off to hospital, a search was launched for the suspect.
Two suspicious-looking men were encountered a few hundred metres further down the street.
When the security guards followed the men, shots were fired at the guards. The suspects escaped.
02-16-2007, 03:56 AM #768
Third Rattray suspect arrested
KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested a third person for the murder of historian David Rattray.
The man was arrested on Thursday night, said Senior Superintendent Phindile Radebe.
On 5 February, Fethe Nkwanyana (23) was sentenced to 25 years in jail by Judge Jan Hugo in the Pietermaritzburg High Court after pleading guilty to the crime.
Hugo found circumstances which enabled him to impose a lesser sentence than the prescribed life in jail for murder, but nevertheless ordered that Nkwanyana serve 18 years before being considered for parole.
A second man, Simphiwe Ndlovu (25), appeared in the Dundee Magistrate's Court on 9 February when the case was postponed until 20 February for a bail application.
02-16-2007, 04:07 AM #769
'I'm alive because of my hard head'
Good deeds and a hard head is what Larry Shulman believes saved his life when he was shot at point-blank range by an armed robber last week.
Shulman, 63, owner of the former John Jacks general dealerships, was shot in the head last Friday when he was overpowered by two thugs who had broken into his Herbert Baker Street home during the early hours of the morning.
The men had broken into his home through a kitchen window after cutting a hole in his garden fence.
Shulman was asleep and was woken by the alarm.
While investigating he was overpowered by one of the two men he hit with his walking stick when he found them in his lounge.
The second shot him in the head as he lay on the ground. The bullet lodged in his skull millimetres from his brain.
Speaking from his home on Wednesday, Shulman said doctors at Little Company of Mary Hospital had told him that he was one of the luckiest men they had ever met.
"I was told that a couple more millimetres and I would have been history," he said while showing where doctors had put a metal plate into his head to secure the skull.
He said he was discharged from the hospital on Monday after being operated on Friday.
"I have been up and around and am continuing with my life. I am not going to let this get me down," he said, adding that he considered himself lucky and was far better off than a lot of other crime victims.
Shulman believes that being charitable and having an exceptionally hard head is what saved his life.
"I always believe that if you do good deeds then good things will happen to you. I guess this proves my belief," said Shulman who is one of Pretoria's top blood donors.
On Friday he is due to have the stitches removed from the bullet wound and a cut on his head where he was hit by one of the thugs, who fled with nothing. He said that he had received well wishes from all over the world.
"I have been contacted by old school and work friends and family living in Canada, the US, Britain and Australia and have been inundated with good wishes from people I don't even know living here in South Africa.
"It is really great to know that there are so many people who care not only about me but also about the crime situation in this country.
"The only thing now is to ask exactly what the government is planning on doing to stop this scourge. The crime problem simply cannot be allowed to continue.
"I really wish that the government could help us," he said.
Pretoria police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko said that no arrests had been made.
He said investigators were waiting for the results of the ballistics tests and fingerprints.
"A case of attempted murder is being investigated," he said.
02-16-2007, 04:12 AM #770