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12-08-2009, 02:49 AM #5211
Verkragters, moordenaars verdien regte nie – Bheki
“Moordenaars en verkragters is nie mense nie, maar diere wat nie verdien om menseregte te hê nie.”
So het komm. Bheki Cele, nasionale polisiehoof, misdadigers gister in Johannesburg uitgekryt by die bekendstelling van die polisie se veldtog vir die feestyd.
Hy staan nogtans daarby dat die polisie dodelike mag teen misdaad moet gebruik, hoewel hy nié sê “skiet om te dood” nie.
“Misdadigers is onmenslik en harteloos. So ’n persoon verdien nie om ’n mens genoem te word nie – eerder ’n dier.
“Watter mensereg kan jy hê as jy die lewe uit iemand vat, as jy ’n sesjarige kind verkrag?”
Hy herskryf nie die Grondwet nie, het hy gesê.
Menseregte behoort egter volgens hom uitsluitlik aan mense. “Jy kan daarom nie menseregte vir moordenaars en verkragters bepleit nie.”
Hy het daarop gewys dat minstens 18?000 Suid-Afrikaners verlede jaar aan onnatuurlike oorsake dood is.
Terwyl dié syfer nog so “onaanvaarbaar hoog” is, kan die polisie nie sê hulle het hul werk gedoen nie en moet dit (die syfer) dringend verlaag word.
Hy het daarop gewys dat die taakmag groei. Met 183?000 polisielede tans en 5?000 wat in die polisiekollege opgelei word, sal die totale mag einde vanjaar op 188?000 lede staan.
Altesame 81.000 van hulle sal vir die Wêreldbeker-sokkertoernooi volgende jaar ontplooi word.
Hy was beslis dat die polisiemag se moraal nié laag is nie, maar dat hulle reg staan om misdadigers vas te keer.
“Enigeen wat dink Suid-Afrika is ’n hemel vir boewe, moet eerder tuis bly. Die polisie het toerusting gekry om sy werk te doen.
“Enigeen wat dus ’n boef met ’n vuurwapen sien, moet dodelike mag gebruik. Verstaan my mooi, die seisoen het gedraai. Ons is siek en sat vir misdadigers. Ons het ’n punt bereik waar dit moet eindig.”
Hy het hom ook uitgespreek teen die groot getal polisielede wat deur misdadigers doodgeskiet word.
Altesame 105 polisielede is verlede jaar aan diens dood, en 107 in 2007.
“Diegene wat hulle teen arrestasie verset, sal voortaan nie durf om die polisie te skiet nie.
“Die polisie sal dan niks anders nie as dodelike mag inspan.”
Cele het dit beklemtoon dat die polisie misdaad binne die mag ook sal beveg.
Altesame 1 300 polisielede word tans in die tronk aangehou.
“Ons sal seker maak dat elkeen wat misdaad pleeg, ’n plek in korrektiewe dienste kry,” het hy gesê.
Johannesburg - The police force will make South Africa safe for the 2010 World Cup and beyond, national police commissioner Bheki Cele said on Monday.
Speaking at the launch of the police's festive season campaign, Cele said the police had put several structures in place to meet any possible crime during the World Cup.
"I don't know who married 2010 and crime, but we're going to divorce it," he said.
Cele said he was in Malawi on Sunday to meet the police commissioners of all the southern African countries in anticipation of the event and to try to stop transnational crime before it reaches the country's borders.
"We have also met with the secretary general of Interpol [and] we are working with all police agencies of the participating countries... sharing information," he said.
'Stay at home boetie'
"We are sharing the list of those people that we need to take care of. Anybody who thinks that South Africa would be heaven for that [crime] stay at home boetie (brother)."
Cele said, however, that it was most important the structures put in place stay after 2010.
"South Africans must be safe for 2010 and beyond 2010," he said.
"We are putting a lot of structures and we will keep those structures to make sure we chase these tsotsis."
"We chase them in their houses. We chase them in the hills, in the mountains, in the valleys, in the rivers. And I've been told we'll be chasing them in the churches too," he said.
Deputy Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said the fight against crime should be started in Gauteng, and in particular in Johannesburg.
"This is where everything takes shape. This is where criminals become millionaires and become celebrities," he said.
Mbalula said the government was not winning the war against crime, but that it was on track.
He said the fight against crime did not have a single answer, but needed a comprehensive approach, while adding that the fight against crime was a civic duty.
He appealed to the public not to buy stolen goods.
"We need to unite against criminals. We need positive role models in our society and environment," he said.
"We need to embrace the values of hard work."
12-08-2009, 02:51 AM #5212
Plaasmoordenaars 'was professioneel'
Alles dui daarop dat die moordenaars van mnr. Pieter Malan Cillie (51) van Ceres presies geweet het wat hulle doen.
Só het ’n familielid gister aan Die Burger gesê oor Cillie, wat Vrydagnag in sy plaashuis doodgeskiet is.
Dié vrugteboer van die plaas Lorraine, sowat ’n kilometer buite Ceres, is drie keer geskiet toe ’n onbekende aantal mans die kombuisdeur oopgeskop en Cillie in sy huis oorval het.
Hy is noodlottig in die bolyf en buik gewond.
Vyf kinders, van wie twee die slagoffer s’n, was ten tyde van die voorval in die huis. Cillie en sy dogter (14) was besig om godsdiens te hou toe hy ’n geraas in die kombuis gehoor het, het die familielid, wat verkies om anoniem te bly, gesê.
Die skietery het glo voor al vyf kinders – almal tussen 11 en 14 jaar oud – plaasgevind. Hulle is ongedeerd gelaat en ontvang tans berading.
“Hierdie was professionele mense. Alles dui daarop. Ons kan net nie verstaan dat hulle niks gevat het nie. Hulle kon die plek leeg gedra het. Ons kan dit nie glo nie,” het die bedroefde familielid bygevoeg.
Op ’n vraag oor gerugte dat die voorval moontlik ’n huurmoord was omdat Cillie glo ’n verregse groep sou wou ontmasker, het hy geantwoord: “Dit is onsin en net sensasie. Hierdie was ’n plaasmoord.”
Cillie se broer, mnr. Rossouw Cillie, het sy broer gister beskryf as iemand wat vir minderbevoorregte mense gelewe het.
“Hy het geen haat teenoor ander mense gehad nie. Hy was ’n man wat eerder gegee as ontvang het,” het hy gesê.
Die gemeenskap het reeds ’n groot bedrag ingesamel as beloning vir die inhegtenisneming van die verdagtes. Hulle is steeds op vrye voet.
Die begrafnis vind môre om 10:00 uit die NG Moedergemeente in Ceres plaas.
12-08-2009, 03:01 AM #5213
Murder case delay
THE murder case against 18-year-old Brent Cunningham, a matric pupil at Brandwag High School in Uitenhage, has been postponed to February 8 for a state decision on whether he will stand trial in the Port Elizabeth Regional Court or the High Court.
He is accused of murdering Juan Matthews, 19, of Kamma Park, Port Elizabeth, in October this year during an argument. Matthews was stabbed five times near Verdun Road, Kamma Park, while on his way to a shop with two friends to buy wood for a braai.
Cunningham, accompanied by his father and a lawyer, surrendered to police soon afterwards. He was later granted R10000 bail with stringent conditions.
12-08-2009, 03:05 AM #5214
8. DENIAL: The government blames it on crime
12-08-2009, 03:15 AM #5215
The Government is made an inventory of South Africa’s farmers by race to
monitor the patterns of land ownership as it implements land reform, the deeds registration system would be improved to reflect nationality, race and gender of land owners.
12-09-2009, 04:13 AM #5216
Vrou deur 'meneer' verkrag
’n Vrou (41) van ’n kleinhoewe noordoos van Pretoria moes haar verkragter “meneer” noem terwyl hy haar verkrag het.
Vandag, ’n week later, wag sy en haar gesin steeds op die polisie om verklarings af te neem.
Die Kameeldrift-polisiekantoor “weier” glo dit te doen omdat hulle glo “te besig” is.
Die vrou, haar man, hul 15-jarige dogter en negejarige seun skuil in ’n gastehuis omdat hulle te bang is om na hul kleinhoewe terug te keer.
Die vrou het verlede Woensdag net ná 10:00 by haar huis uitgegaan toe ’n man met ’n mes haar oorval en in die huis teruggedwing het. Sy het die man gevra om hulle nie seer te maak nie en gesê hy kan alles vat.
Toe die kinders op hul ma en die vreemdeling afkom, het hulle begin skreeu. Die man het die kinders gedreig.
“Hy het daarop aangedring dat ons hom ‘meneer’ noem en het gedreig om die kinders 50 keer met die mes te steek.”
Hy het hulle deur die huis gevat en aanhoudend vir ’n vuurwapen gevra.
“Ek het probeer verduidelik dat ons nie ’n vuurwapen het nie. Hy het volgehou hy weet ons het ’n vuurwapen.
“Hy het die kinders se hande en voete vasgebind en hulle in die hoofslaapkamer gelos. Toe neem hy my na die strykkamer waar hy die strykyster aangeskakel het en naby my gesig gehou het.
“Hy het gedreig om my te brand as ek nie sê waar ons vuurwapen is nie. Ek het op my knieë gegaan en hom gesmeek en gesê: ‘Asseblief, ons het nie ’n vuurwapen nie.’?”
Hy het die vrou daarna na haar dogter se kamer geneem en gevra wat sy sal doen om haar dogter se lewe te spaar.
“Ek het gesê enigiets. Hy het gesê ek moet lê, ek moenie na hom kyk nie. Hy het gesê as ek raas, sny hy my keel af. Ek het gedoen wat hy gesê het en toe hy klaar is, het hy my beveel om my broek op te trek.
“Ek kon nie, want my hande was vasgebind. Hy het kwaad geword toe hy my broek moes optrek en gesê ek is ’n ‘nuttelose wit vrou’,” het sy snikkend vertel.
Die man wou daarna met haar in haar motor wegry, maar sy het die motorhuisdeur agter hom toegedruk en gesluit. Hy het met drie selfone, ’n skootrekenaar en juwele gevlug.
Die vrou het die noodknoppie gedruk, maar die alarm het nie afgegaan nie.
Sy het met haar kinders in haar motor na die bure gevlug, van waar sy die polisie gebel het.
Haar man, wat nie tuis was nie, het gesê die polisie het binne oomblikke op die oproep gereageer, maar het nie ’n polisievrou gestuur om met sy vrou te praat nie. “Daar was seker 30 polisiemanne in my erf wat buite rondgestaan en grappe gemaak het. My vrou het alleen in die huis gesit.”
Volgens die vrou se man het die polisie nie vingerafdrukke of foto’s van sy kinders en vrou se beserings geneem nie.
“Dit is onaanvaarbaar dat die polisie glad nie na die verdagte soek nie,” het hy gesê.
Rapist demands to be called sir
Pretoria - A woman from a smallholding north-east of Pretoria, was forced to call her rapist "sir" while he was raping her.
On Tuesday, nearly a week later, the 41-year-old woman and her family were still waiting for the police to come and take down their statements.
The Kameeldrift police station is apparently "refusing" to do so, since they're supposedly "too busy".
The woman, her husband, their 15-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son are staying in a guest house because they're too scared to return to the smallholding.
Threatened to stab children
As the woman left her home just after 10:00 on Wednesday last week, a man armed with a knife overpowered her and forced her back into the house. She asked the man not to hurt them, and said he could take everything.
When the children discovered their mother and the stranger, they started to scream. The man threatened the children.
"He insisted that we call him 'sir' and threatened to stab the children 50 times with the knife."
He took them through the house and repeatedly asked for a firearm.
"I tried to explain that we don't have a firearm. He insisted that he knew we had a firearm.
"He tied up the children's hands and feet and left them in the master bedroom. Then he took me to the laundry room where he switched on the iron and held it close to my face.
"He threatened to burn me if I didn't tell him were our firearm is. I dropped to my knees, begging him, and said: 'Please, we don't have a firearm'."
He then took the woman to her daughter's room and asked what she would do to save her daughter's life.
"I said I'd do anything. He said I must lie down and not look at him. He said if I make a noise he would slit my throat. I did what he said, and when he was finished, he ordered me to pull up my pants.
"I couldn't, because my hands were tied. He became angry when he had to pull up my pants and called me a 'useless white woman'," she said, sobbing.
The man then wanted to leave with her in her car, but she closed the garage door and locked it behind him. He fled with three cellphones, a laptop and jewellery.
She pressed a panic button but the alarm did not trigger.
She and her children got into the car and fled to the neighbours, from where she phoned the police.
Her husband, who wasn't at home, said the police responded to the call within minutes, but didn't send a police woman to speak to his wife.
"There were about 30 policemen standing around in my yard, making jokes. My wife was sitting alone inside."
According to the woman's husband, the police didn't take any fingerprints, nor did they take photos of his children's or wife's wounds.
"It's unacceptable that the police aren't even looking for the suspect," he said.
12-09-2009, 04:15 AM #5217
Skote op SA gesant: Wat haar lewe red
Die motor met sy regterhandstuur wat ’n Suid-Afrikaanse diplomaat die naweek bestuur het toe Kongolese soldate op haar geskiet het, het waarskynlik haar lewe gered.
Die duidelik gemerkte diplomatieke voertuig wat in Suid-Afrika vervaardig is, is aan die linkerkant met koeëls gepeper.
Die meeste voertuie in die Demokratiese Republiek van die Kongo (DRK) het ’n linkerhandstuur. Dit is nie bekend of die soldate pertinent vir die linkerkant gemik het omdat hulle gemeen het die bestuurder sit gewoonlik dáár nie.
Me. Maryse Ash, politieke sekretaris by die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Kinshasa, het Vrydag omstreeks 02:00 in ’n koeëlreën beland toe sy volgens die DRK-regering ’n padversperring verontagsaam het.
Sy sterk tans in Die Wilgers-hospitaal in Pretoria aan, waar sy moontlik plastiese chirurgie aan haar gesig sal moet ondergaan.
Na verneem word, is haar gesig erg gesny nadat die soldate die windskerm van haar motor aan flarde geskiet het.
Sy het glo aangehou ry toe hulle op haar losgebrand het, maar kon later weens haar beserings nie verder nie. Glasstukke van haar stukkende voertuig het minstens 50?m buite die padversperring gelê wat moontlik daarop dui dat sy nié in ’n beperkte gebied inbeweeg het toe die soldate begin skiet het nie.
Die DRK-regering het vroeër gesê sy het ondanks die soldate se handtekens versuim om by die padversperring wat naby die woning van pres. Joseph Kabila is, te stop. Die Gomba-woongebied waar die voorval gebeur het, het verskeie sodanige informele versperrings wat deur soldate beman word.
Beeld het verneem dat die soldate glo smoordronk en luidrugtig was. Ash het hulle deels dáároor probeer vermy.
Die meeste buitelandse diplomate in Kinshasa woon in Gomba. Hulle word gewoonlik by die versperrings voorgekeer waar hulle hul identifikasiekaarte moet toon voordat hulle in die gebied toegelaat word.
Die DRK-regering het gesê die voorval word ondersoek.
Dié beweer sy het in ’n gebied inbeweeg wat heeltemal verbode was vir verkeer.
12-09-2009, 04:16 AM #5218
Berugte Mathe moet 54 jaar sit
Annanias Mathe, een van Suid-Afrika se mees gevreesde misdadigers, is gister in die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg tot altesame 464 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis, waarvan hy 54 jaar effektief sal uitdien.
Regter Geraldine Borchers het gesê Mathe (33) is “aggressief, antisosiaal, gevaarlik en moet ’n lang tyd in die tronk gehou word.”
Sy het gelas hy mag nie vir parool in aanmerking kom voor oor 43 jaar, wanneer hy 76 jaar oud sal wees nie. “Ek twyfel of hy ooit sal rehabiliteer.”
’n Geboeide Mathe het geglimlag terwyl gewapende polisiemanne hom ná sy vonnisoplegging na die selle gelei het.
Dié berugte Mosambieker het op altesame 71 klagte tereggestaan, waaronder verskeie van verkragting, poging tot moord, roof en diefstal.
Borchers het gelas dat die vonnisse samelopend uitgedien word, behalwe drie klagte van verkragting waarop Mathe elk tot 18 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis is, omdat dit “sinloos is om iemand honderde jare tronk toe te stuur”.
Mathe het sy rooftogte volgens Borchers “skrikwekkend intelligent” beplan.
Tydens van dié rooftogte, wat hy verkies het om uit te voer terwyl sy slagoffers tuis was, het hy hulle geskiet of verkrag.
Hy het ook van sy slagoffers se huisdiere vergiftig. Borchers het gesê dít was wreed en dat selfs mans teen die trane geveg het terwyl hulle oor die verlies van hul diere getuig het. “Van sy slagoffers sukkel steeds om emosioneel te oorleef en party het uit hul huise of selfs landuit getrek.”
Vroeër is getuig Mathe het as 11-jarige weggeloop omdat hy hom nie aan sy ma en onderwysers se dissipline wou onderwerp nie. Daarna het hy ’n kindersoldaat in die Mosambiekse oorlog geword.
Borchers het Mathe se bewerings dat hy in Rusland opleiding gekry, ’n helikopter-vlieënier is en só goed met landmyn-opruiming is dat die Verenigde Nasies hom daarvoor in diens geneem het, as “romantiese fiksie” beskryf. Sy het gesê sy “bekwaamhede” strook nie met sy bewering dat hy hom tot misdaad moes wend omdat hy nie werk kon kry nie.
Mathe se bewering dat hy weet hoe om te skiet om mense buite aksie te stel, maar nie te dood nie, het Borchers nie beïndruk nie.
“Dis blote geluk dat hulle ondanks borskaswonde oorleef het.”
Na aanleiding van sy ontsnapping in 2006 uit die C-Max-gevangenis in Pretoria het sy na sy Houdini-agtige ontsnapvermoëns verwys en hom daarvoor tot agt jaar tronkstraf gevonnis.
Mathe smiles after sentencing
Johannesburg - Notorious escapee Ananias Mathe is a hardened criminal with little chance of being rehabilitated, Judge Geraldine Borchers said on Tuesday as she sentenced him to an effective 54 years in jail.
Handing down the sentence in the South Gauteng High Court, Borchers described Mathe as a very dangerous criminal who terrorised his victims and their dogs during his house robbery spree.
She said she doubted Mathe had a chance of being rehabilitated.
He would be considered for parole only after serving 43 years of his sentence, by which time he would be 76-years-old.
He was convicted and sentenced for a total of 64 charges.
No life sentences
Borchers said although Mathe was convicted of many very serious offences, none of them attracted a life sentence, and she had imposed an appropriate sentence for each conviction.
The sentences added together would result in more than 100 years in jail, however some of the sentences would run concurrently.
Borchers said no human being would live long enough to serve such a long term.
"Such long sentences also make a mockery of the parole system. They may also be conducive to bad behaviour in prison."
Mathe was sentenced to 18 years for each of the six counts of rape and house robbery with an intent to rape. He received another 15 years for a seventh count of rape.
He was given 15 years for each of the six counts of housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery with aggravated circumstances.
The Mozambican was also sentenced to 15 years for each of his four convictions of attempted murder.
He received 12 years for each housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery and for each housebreaking with intent to rape and attempted rape.
He was also convicted for theft, robbery, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, malicious damage to property, attempted rape, possession of implements for car breaking and housebreaking, housebreaking with intent to steal and theft, escaping from lawful custody and attempted escape from lawful custody.
Poisoned victims' dogs
Borchers said Mathe showed no remorse for what he had done as he pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him except the two escape charges.
She said Mathe's crimes were carefully prepared as, carrying a torch and firearm, he had surprised most of his victims in their bedrooms after having poisoned their dogs. He would then rob and rape most of his victims.
"The pets he terrorised were loved, they were not just guards. As it was seen during the trial, owners of the poisoned pets cried when they testified."
Borchers lashed out at Mathe for not using a condom when he raped his victims, saying he put them at risk of unwanted pregnancies, contracting sexually transmitted infections or being infected with HIV.
Thumbs-up after sentencing
She said some of his victims were not able to go on living in their houses, some were still going for trauma counselling which did not necessarily work and others had left the country and were now living abroad.
Dressed in a white long-sleeved shirt, grey pants and brown shoes, Mathe was all smiles after the sentence was handed down. Asked how he felt, he gave a thumbs-up.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said the sentences imposed were appropriate because of the humiliating manner in which Mathe had been terrorising society.
"He was a menace to society, it's befitting for him to be sentenced to jail for a long time."
12-09-2009, 04:17 AM #5219
Mathe's life of violent crime
On August 19, 1999 a slightly built Mozambican broke into the home of Diane and Alwyn Hirsch, making off with their music system and car.
So began the criminal activities of Ananias Mathe that would span seven years and three provinces.
Yesterday, his crime spree came to end when he was sentenced to an effective 54 years in prison.
Mathe was recently convicted on 64 criminal counts including multiple rapes, housebreaking, robbery with aggravating circumstances, attempted rape, escaping from custody, and other related violent crimes.
He also killed 13 dogs with poison before entering the homes of his victims with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other.
He would shine the torch in the faces of his victims before raping them, and disappear with their jewellery and cash.
Between 1999 and towards the end of 2002, Mathe specialised in breaking into people's homes and violently removing their belongings from them.
None of his victims were raped during this period, but this did not last long.
On December 2, 2002 he broke into the house of Tracy Jacobson-Goldblatt. She was in her bedroom with her son when Mathe walked in, switched the lights on and shone a torch at her.
The woman testified: "I was told to keep quiet. I was also told that I was going to be raped."
Mathe started to undo his zip, and she charged at him as he was about to drop his pants.
"We became involved in a fight. I kicked him several times. I think I kicked him in his hand, which had a gun. A gunshot went off and he then pulled me to the passage."
Despite being wounded, Jacobson-Goldblatt continued to fight Mathe until she managed to close the security gate and the door behind her.
By then Mathe had already pumped three bullets into her upper body.
She was shot in the left breast and in an arm, while a third bullet, which penetrated her right lung, remains lodged near her spinal cord to this day.
While the woman managed to fight off Mathe, seven other women were not so fortunate.
On June 2003, he committed his first rape, on a 19-year-old Northcliff woman.
Mathe was arrested 10 days later in Alberton, where he was found in possession of sausages laced with an insecticide known as Aldicarb, or Two Step.
Ekurhuleni metro police handed him over to the police.
It is still not clear how he was released.
Mathe continued his crime spree in 2004, sexually violating his victims and robbing them, until April 24, 2004, when he was arrested in Pretoria while in possession of housebreaking equipment.
Mathe appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court and was granted bail of R500. He paid the bail but evaded trial. The police had yet to put all the incidents together.
After his release he returned to Parktown, where he attacked several residents.
One of them was Charles Pringle and his wife Julia. He shot at Pringle despite his pleading with him to take everything he wanted from his house.
From Parktown he went to Parkhurst, where he raped several women, including a 28-year-old with a master's degree from Wits University.
Months later, on December 8, Mathe raped a 21-year-old ballet dancer in her Parkhurst cottage.
Eight days later, he attacked another woman in a similar fashion in Pretoria.
Police investigating the rape of the ballet dancer arrested Mathe in Kensington on January 31, 2005 while he was sleeping with a woman in his hideout.
Police had received a tip-off that he was returning from Mozambique when they pounced on him.
He was kept at the Johannesburg Central police station high-risk security facility.
He escaped three months later, on April 2, 2005. When he pleaded guilty to this offence, Mathe said the "guards were singing Happy Birthday to one of their colleagues" while he made his getaway.
After his escape, Mathe continued his crime wave in other provinces, and occasionally returned to Pretoria and Parktown to rape and rob.
He was arrested in November 2005 after being linked to the rape of his last victim in Germiston.
He had forced the boyfriend to watch while he raped the woman.
Mathe was kept at C-Max. On April 30, 2006 he tried to escape, but was unsuccessful. In November he did break out - by breaking the bars of his cell and then using cloth and hooks to get over the high wall of the prison.
Mathe's crime spree ended on December 4, 2006 when he was traced driving a stolen car which had a tracker. He had just robbed his last victim, Cameron Jeanne Meiklejohn, in her home in Craighall Park, Joburg.
Mathe will now be held in prison until he turns 87 - if he doesn't escape.
12-09-2009, 04:18 AM #5220
30 jaar tronk toe weens graafmoord
’n Germistonse man is gister vir 30 jaar tronk toe gestuur weens die graafmoord op ’n man van Vereeniging.
Marthinus Jacobus Myburgh (30) is in 2004 in hegtenis geneem ná die dood op mnr. Pieter Willem van Staden (58).
Van Staden is in ’n oop stuk veld, ook bekend as Spider Valley, langs Mario Milani-rylaan in Vereeniging aangerand en aan ’n boom vasgebind.
Van Staden se motor en elektriese ware is kort daarna by sy woonstel gesteel en by Nigeriërs vir dwelms verruil.
Myburgh, na bewering saam met Van Staden se voormalige vriendin, mev. Reinette Louise Harmse (53) van Meyerton, is later terug na Spider Valley waar Van Staden met ’n graaf doodgeslaan is.
Myburgh het vroeër vanjaar skuld beken op aanklagte van moord, huisbraak, roof en ontsnapping.
Harmse het ook skuldig gepleit, maar haar pleit voor vonnisoplegging na onskuldig verander.
Sy sal van 23 Maart opnuut in die rondgaande hof in Vereeniging verhoor word en Myburgh sal dan glo vir die staat teen haar getuig.
Myburgh en Harmse het mekaar oor en weer van die moord beskuldig, maar regter George Maluleke het bevind hulle het ’n gemeenskaplike doel gehad.
Hy het Myburgh gister in die hooggeregshof in Johannesburg tot tronkstraf van effektief 30 jaar gevonnis.
“Dit was ’n wrede en brutale moord,” het Maluleke gesê.
Hy het Myburgh tot 30 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis weens die moord, 10 jaar weens huisbraak met die opset om te steel en diefstal en 15 jaar weens roof met verswarende omstandighede van ’n motorvoertuig.
Hy is tot ’n verdere drie jaar gevonnis omdat hy uit wettige aanhouding ontsnap het.
“Van die vonnisse sal samelopend uitgedien word en vyf jaar daarvan is opgeskort met die voorwaarde dat Myburgh vir vyf jaar nie weer skuldig bevind word aan moord, roof of huisbraak nie.
“Hy sal 30 jaar tronkstraf uitdien,” het adv. Corné Pruis, vir die staat, gister aan Beeld gesê.
“Dis ’n baie regverdige vonnis nadat al die versagtende, verswarende, wesenlike en dwingende omstandighede deur die hof in ag geneem is.”
Van Staden se seun, mnr. Jan Willem van Staden van Pretoria, het gesê die familie is verbaas oor die strawwe vonnis.
“Ons is oorstelp van vreugde oor Myburgh se vonnis en bly oor die goeie uitkoms ná vyf jaar.”
Volgens Van Staden sien sy familie uit na Harmse se verhoor.
“Myburgh se vonnis maak ons positief oor ’n skuldigbevinding en gepaste vonnis vir haar.”