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01-11-2010, 03:02 AM #5351
01-11-2010, 03:05 AM #5352
Fietsers staan saam ná aanval
Fietsryers in Johannesburg en Pretoria wil ná die soveelste aanval ’n speek in die wiel probeer steek van bendes wat hulle aanrand en fietse kaap.
Veral die Northern Farm-natuurreservaat en omgewing in Johannesburg, en Irene en omgewing in Pretoria, loop deur onder booswigte.
In Januarie verlede jaar is mev. Mathilda Barnard (39) bebloed en bewusteloos in ’n veld in dié omgewing langs haar fiets gekry nadat sy in die nek gesteek is.
Nog minstens drie ryers is in die maand na dié voorval op dieselfde roete langs die N1-hoofweg naby die Bothalaan-afrit aangeval en beroof.
In September is vier bergfietsryers in twee afsonderlike voorvalle voor en tydens ’n wedren in Centurion by Pretoria van hul fietse beroof. Dié wedren is in beboste dele van Irene gehou.
“Dit lyk asof dit dieselfde groep mans is wat vir talle van die aanvalle verantwoordelik is,” het mnr. Albie Heigers, ’n bergfietsryer van Centurion, gister aan Beeld gesê.
Hy sterk steeds aan ná ’n voorval sowat ses weke gelede toe drie mans hom in die Irene-omgewing aangeval en van sy fiets beroof het.
“Hoewel ek baie dankbaar is ek lewe, is dit frustrerend dat so iets 11:00 op ’n Saterdag kon gebeur.”
Volgens hom is dit veral kommerwekkend dat daar blykbaar ’n groot mark vir gesteelde bergfietse is. “Dié fietse is spesiaal hiervoor gebou en nie juis geskik om sommer net op te ry nie.
“Indien ’n mens nie spesiale skoene het vir die pedale nie, kan dit baie ongemaklik wees.
“ ’n Ondersoek na wáárheen hierdie fietse gaan as dit gesteel is, sal reeds baie kan help.”
Volgens mnr. Simon Nash, wat dien op die raad van Northern Farm, is daar ’n probleem met fietsdiefstal en aanvalle.
“Ons het ’n motorwag by die parkeerarea en ook mense wat die plaas patrolleer. Tog raai ons mense, en veral vroue, aan om nie op hul eie te ry nie. Vermy ook liefs die Hills and Dales-pad buite die plaas.”
’n E-pos doen tans onder bergfietsryers die ronde waarin hulle moontlike oplossings vir die probleem bespreek.
Volgens Heigers sluit dit in nouer samewerking met plaaslike polisiekantore, sowel as die moontlike hulp van private speurders. “Ons dink ook daaraan om die fietse, net soos motors, toe te rus met ’n opsporingstelsel. Die skuldiges kan dan vasgetrek word én ons sal kan vasstel waarheen die gesteelde fietse gaan.”
01-11-2010, 03:08 AM #5353
01-11-2010, 03:09 AM #5354
Koeël mis Britse TV-ster net-net in Kaapstad
Londen. – Buitelandse vrese oor misdaad in Suid-Afrika is gister verder aangeblaas toe ’n Britse TV-ster onthul het hoe ’n koeël sentimeters by haar verbygevlieg het terwyl sy in die feestyd in ’n taxi in Strandstraat, Kaapstad, gereis het.
Victoria Smurfit (35), bekend vir haar rol in die BBC-reeks Ballykissangel, het in die Irish Mailon Sunday oor haar gesin se noue ontkoming op Oujaarsdag in die Moederstad geskryf. Die aktrise se elmboog is beseer toe die koeël een van die taxi se vensters versplinter het. Haar ma, Caroline, is gehospitaliseer vir hartprobleme.
Smurfit skryf sy kan steeds nie glo hulle was so na aan die dood nie. Volgens haar het die polisie eenvoudig “Ja, dankie” gesê toe hulle die voorval telefonies probeer aanmeld het. Eers dae later is twee beamptes gestuur om verklarings af te neem.
“Blykbaar was die aanval deel van ’n bende-inisiasie. Dit was Vermoor-’n-Toeris-dag, en ons het in die pad gekom.”
Die voorval kon nie gister deur die Wes-Kaapse polisie bevestig word nie.
Saam met Smurfit en haar ma was haar man, mnr. Doug Baxter, haar broer, Dermot, en sy vrou, Charlie. Die koeël het laasgenoemde rakelings gemis toe dit deur die taxi-venster gevlieg het. Die groep was onderweg na ’n Nuwejaarspartytjie ná ’n ete in ’n restaurant in Constantia.
Volgens Smurfit het dit ’n langdurige uitwerking op haar familie gehad – haar broer is nou “obsessief” om gewelddadige misdaad in Suid-Afrika na te vors, terwyl sy self nog by tye huil by die gedagte oor wat kon gebeur het.
01-11-2010, 03:10 AM #5355
Booswigte slaan weer toe op grensplaas
Net drie maande nadat hul baba te vroeg gebore is weens die spanning ná herhaaldelike strooptogte op hul grensplaas, is daar weer deur booswigte van Lesotho op ’n boere-egpaar by Ficksburg se plaashuis toegeslaan.
Mnr. Hennie Vermooten en sy vrou, Elzanie, was die naweek by haar skoonouers op Heidelberg, Gauteng, toe hul huishulp gister op die plaas Avondson oorval en die huis gestroop is.
Hul baba, Pieter, is op 30 Oktober te vroeg gebore nadat hulle meer as R1,3 miljoen se vee binne twee jaar verloor het ná die moord op Pieter se oupa en naamgenoot op dieselfde plaas.
Die beamptes van Vrystaat-Landbou (VL) se landelike veiligheidsplan op Ficksburg en boere het gister blitsig opgetree en uit die kerkdiens geglip om hulle na die plaas te haas.
Mnr. Vermooten het gesê die elektriese heining om die huis is oopgedwing en hul huishulp, mev. Celina Leeuw, is deur vier jong booswigte van Lesotho oorval en met ’n mes gedreig.
’n Windbuks, selfoon, skootrekenaar en sakke vol klere en speelgoed is gesteel.
“Ek is baie dankbaar vir die boere en mnr. Jordaan Marais, die beampte van Ficksburg se landelike veiligheid. Hulle het dadelik die spore gevolg.
“Daar was tot vyf bakkies by die grens. Van hulle het by my ma, Engeli, se huis gewag. Hulle het blitsvinnig gereageer.”
Leeuw het haar seun, Jacob, gebel, wat by die melkery op die plaas werk. Hy het mnr. Vermooten gebel, wat die landelike veiligheidsplan met ’n nood-SMS geaktiveer het.
Boere het hom dadelik gebel, selfs ’n paar wat in die kerk was.
Hy vermoed die rowers het geld gesoek. Hy los die kluis oop om te wys hy het nie vuurwapens of geld op die plaas nie.
Mev. Ilse Smit, koördineerder van landelike veiligheid op Ficksburg, sê Vermooten het sy selfoon-paniekknoppie om 10:00 geaktiveer.
Die reaksiespan het die spore gevolg en boere het die plaas van die Lesotho-grens af afgesper. Twee tasse met klere en twee messe is gekry.
Leeuw het die een mes uitgeken as ’n wapen waarmee sy aangehou is.
Die reaksiespan moes toekyk hoe die verdagtes oor die grens vlug, want nie een het magtiging gehad om die grens oor te steek nie.
Sy sê danksy die nood-SMS was boere dadelik bewus van wat gebeur het. Die toneel is vinnig bereik en afgesper. Só is verseker dat 90% van die gesteelde goedere teruggevind is.
Smit sê die veiligheidsplan is suksesvol as almal saamwerk. Die landelike veiligheidsplan werk danksy die boere, General Motors Suid-Afrika, wat ’n bakkie vir die veiligheidbeamptes borg, en Excel Ficksburg wat die diesel verskaf.
01-11-2010, 03:12 AM #5356
Armed robbers hit Willows Resort
THREE armed men robbed the Willows Resort in Marine Drive, Port Elizabeth, of an undisclosed amount of money yesterday.
Police spokesman Inspector Precious Timla said a security guard at the gate was confronted by three men armed with 9mm guns at about lunchtime.
“The men pointed firearms at the unarmed security guard demanding the entrance fee money. He was forced to hand over all the cash.”
She said the robbers escaped in an unidentified get-away vehicle hidden close by.
No shots were fired. A case of armed robbery is being investigated.
01-11-2010, 03:23 AM #5357
'Ek sal tsotsi's jou laat vermoor'
“Ek sal die tsotsi’s stuur om jou te kom doodmaak.”
So het ’n veiligheidswag by die Midstream-landgoed in Midrand glo ’n inwoner toegesnou toe dié hom gekonfronteer het oor die wag se “onbehoorlike gedrag” teenoor sy dogter.
Mnr. Fanie Kok het gister gesê hy beskou die woorde van die wag as ’n doodsdreigement en het dit by die Olifantsfontein-polisiekantoor gaan aanmeld.
Die voorval het op 28 Desember plaasgevind nadat Kok se dogter, me. Liza Kok, en ’n vriendin by die landgoed wou uitry om brandstof in die vriendin se motor te gaan gooi.
“Toe hulle by die Old Kent-hek kom, wou Liza (wat toe op die passasiersitplek gesit het) die wag nader wink sodat sy haar vingerafdruk op die masjien kon plaas om die hek oop te maak.
“Die wag het egter geweier om na haar te stap en het gesê sy moet na hom loop.
“Toe sy by die huis kom en my vertel wat gebeur het, het ek na die hek gegaan om die wag oor sy onbehoorlike gedrag te konfronteer. Sover dit my aangaan, moet die wagte by dié landgoed ten alle tye na voertuie loop om inwoners en besoekers te help.
“Ek het dit duidelik so aan die wag gestel en het gesê ek gaan die saak by sy hoofde aanmeld.”
Hy het gesê dit is toe dat die wag hom met die dood gedreig het.
“Ek beskou dié doodsdreigement in ’n baie ernstige lig en het rede om te glo dat hy dit sal uitvoer,” het Kok gesê.
Hy het ’n e-pos aangaande die voorval aan mnr. Suiker Britz, landgoedbestuurder, gestuur.
Britz het gister gesê die aangeleentheid word ondersoek.
Kapt. Lesibane Molokomme, polisiewoordvoerder, het bevestig dat Kok die voorval by die polisie aangemeld het.
01-11-2010, 07:48 AM #5358
Woman killed, house set alight
The murder of an elderly Centurion, Pretoria woman who was tied up, gagged and strangled and left in her burning house has left a community reeling.
The gang who invaded her house fled empty-handed after setting her home alight, in an apparent attempt to conceal the crime or destroy evidence.
Catherina "Kitty" Botha, 83, who lived alone for the past 27 years, was found dead in the passage of her Lyttelton home late on Friday night by police, who had been called to the scene by hysterical neighbours.'No arrests have been made and the motive for the attack is unknown'
Neighbours were alerted to the fire when the windows of Botha's Selborne Avenue home began exploding in the heat of the fire.
Trying desperately to douse the flames with hosepipes, neighbours watched in horror and despair as the flames engulfed a bedroom before spreading rapidly through the roof.
Attempts by several to rescue Botha, who many thought was trapped by the flames, proved fruitless when they were forced back by the heat of the fire.
Botha's body was discovered tied up, her hands bound behind her back, close to her daschund, Moo-Moo, when a Lyttelton policeman, who was on patrol, spotted the fire and ran into the house when he heard that she was still inside the building.
The heat from the flames and smoke, however, forced the officer to retreat. Family and neighbours on Saturday gathered outside the blackened house, which was cordoned off by yellow police crime scene tape.'At this stage no one is sure of what happened or why the woman was killed'
Botha's grandson, Ryan Dekenah, who described his grandmother as an "incredibly" strong woman who loved her community, said the family was devastated.
"We cannot understand it. These guys did not take anything. They left jewellery, money and all her electrical appliances, including the TV and the CD player. It does not make any sense," he said.
Dekenah, whose grandmother helped raise him after his mother died when he was young, said they had received numerous messages of support and condemnation from the community. He described his grandmother as the most interesting person he had ever met.
"Granny Kitty, who was born in Oudtshoorn, gave a lot of love to the people in the community and was always reaching out to help and had her community at heart," he said, adding that his grandmother's close companion, Moo-Moo, was found dead under a couch where he had suffocated.
Police Sergeant Lynnette Erasmus confirmed the murder and said Botha was found tied up, face-down in a passage next to a bedroom where the fire was believed to have been started.
"At this stage no one is sure of what happened or why the woman was killed," she said, adding that initial investigations showed that although the house had been ransacked, nothing had been stolen in the attack.
She said that police forensic investigators, along with members of the fire brigade, would return to the house this week to determine the cause of the fire.
Erasmus said that a case of murder and arson was being investigated. "No arrests have been made and the motive for the attack is unknown," she said.
Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the suspected killers can phone Crime Stop at 086 001 0111.
01-12-2010, 03:50 AM #5359
Pretoria - An elderly woman from Lyttleton, Pretoria, has been overpowered, tied up, strangled and beaten to death in her house, after which the attackers set fire to it - for nothing.
The hands of eighty-three-year-old Kitty Botha - or tannie Kitty as she's known - were tied up, and a rag stuffed in her mouth.
"There were also marks on her face. Her body was found in her house in Selborne Avenue, in the hallway, in front of the room where the fire was started. She was partially burnt."
Tannie Kitty's Dachshund, Moomoo, presumably went to hide behind the couch during the attack on Friday night, where he smothered to death due to the smoke.
"This is the third time that there's been a break-in at my ouma's house, but the first time that she was attacked."
Botha, who'd been visiting his grandmother a few hours before the murder, said the attackers probably struck between 19:00 and 21:30, since she spoke to her daughter, Elna Botha, on the phone just before 19:00.
Tried to get gran's guns
"The content of every drawer and cupboard was thrown out.
"They also tried to open the safe which contained my ouma's firearms, but failed. Then they started the fire in the room next to my ouma's bedroom and fled."
"The neighbours tried to put the fire out with their garden hoses. A policeman who happened to drive by the house tried to go inside to look for my ouma, but the flames and smoke were too overwhelming."
'Nothing but love to give'
"She lived in that house for 55 years. The greatest part of the last 27 years, after the death of my oupa (Johan Botha), she lived alone.
"My ouma was an amazing woman. She was very religious and had nothing but love to give."
Bible verses and messages of love and peace, dotted on the walls throughout the house, testify of tannie Kitty's faith.
"She was a strong person, but didn't stand for any nonsense, and I believe she gave her attackers a stern talking-to. I hope they read the messages on the wall and that it bothers them so they may repent."
Botha says he isn't bitter about what happened. "If I didn't know the Lord, I would have held a grudge."
01-12-2010, 03:52 AM #5360
3 break into top lawyer's home
Johannesburg - Three people were arrested for an attempted house robbery in the plush Linksfield Ridge area on Monday, Johannesburg police said.
Captain Phillip Magaledisa said four men had broken into a top attorney's home when the wife heard a noise and alerted police.
"She locked herself in a room while waiting for police."
Police swooped on the gang a short while later.
Three were arrested and a fourth gunman is being sought.
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