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01-11-2007, 08:15 AM #611
Farm murder to be raised in parliament
The murder of a farm manager by a mob of illegal squatters near Melmoth in KwaZulu-Natal, and the role of the department of land affairs in the dispute, is to be raised in Parliament when it reconvenes next month.
Earlier this week, Kenneth Lionel Eva was clubbed to death with knobkerries and sticks following a meeting with the squatters on the farm he manages.
In a statement on Thursday, Democratic Alliance agriculture spokesperson Kraai van Niekerk said Eva's death, which followed a long-standing land dispute on the farm, was "indicative of the failure of the department... to solve land conflicts quickly and effectively".
Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana needed to take more responsibility to ensure her department solved such disputes quickly to avoid bloodshed.
"This incident raises questions about what role the department is taking to ensure that land disputes are properly mediated.
"The provincial land affairs department had been alerted to the fact that Mr Eva had received two death threats in the days prior to his murder, and yet, there was seemingly no attempt by the department to step in and diffuse tensions, or alert the police to
the possibility of violence," he said.
According to reports, Eva was attacked by 250 members of the eSibhonsweni community when he fired a shot into the air during an argument over ownership of the New Venture farm, which he managed.
"They attacked him with knobkerries and sticks... He died on the spot," a police spokesperson said at the time.
Van Niekerk said he would raise the matter in the National Assembly.
"When Parliament reconvenes, I will be asking Minister Xingwana what attempts were made by the KwaZulu-Natal land affairs department to solve this land dispute since it started, what measures, if any, were taken to ensure that tensions did not escalate, and what actions were taken following the report of threats on the life of Mr Eva," he said.
It is understood the New Venture farm is deemed commercial farm land, and a court order has been issued instructing the squatters be removed.
01-11-2007, 02:46 PM #612
Ehrenreich slammed for 'land-grad' statement
Cosatu provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich has come under fire for saying that land in Hout Bay belonging to wealthy whites should be redistributed to poor blacks.
There was no place in the new South Africa for "those greedy wealthy sections of the community" who did not want to share their land and they were welcome to go elsewhere, Ehrenreich said in a statement headlined "Land grab in Hout Bay", after speaking at a rally in Hout Bay on Monday.
Ehrenreich said land had to be shared among all South Africans according to their needs.
'Could not support such inflammatory statements'
He also called for all children in the Western Cape to be enrolled in "fancy" schools while under-resourced township schools were upgraded.
The leader of the Independent Democrats in Cape Town, Simon Grindrod, said his party could not support such inflammatory statements that damaged the process of reconciliation and bred resentment.
"The ID shares the frustrations of those who see the gap between haves and have-nots widening. The government must certainly speed up land redistribution," he said.
DA spokesman Motlatjo Thetjeng said Ehrenreich's statement was "unfortunate". It suggested South Africa should go the same route as Zimbabwe.
Ehrenreich was not available for comment. The ANC could also not be contacted for reaction.
01-12-2007, 04:25 AM #613
01-12-2007, 07:44 AM #614
How and Why the at-risk South African Farmers Will Be Saved An Open Letter to President Bush Jr., Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Thabo Mbeki
Pretoria, South Africa -- Life is a lot like poker. You can't lose what you don't put in the middle. But you know something? You can't win much either. And now I am willing to bet all of my chips on the British Government, the ANC and President George Bush Jr. - who will be arriving soon in Africa on an official visit -- to come through and help the single greatest at risk murder group on earth - the South African farmer.
As a patriotic American I know that that America has the power to do almost anything it wants. This power can be and must be channeled for the greater good immediately in relation to the South African farmer.
While working as a journalist in over 40 nations, including troubled countries like Burma, Nepal and Lebanon, I have never witnessed anything remotely approaching the horror which the South African farmer now faces. Over 1438 out of 40,000 South African farmers have been killed since the ANC took power in 1994. There have been another 8000 attacks recorded as well. During these attacks, almost nothing of value is taken and young children, babies and the elderly are tortured, mutilated and raped before being killed.
This is ethnic cleansing and politically motivated assault plain and simple. No mention of the murdered farmers either in NEPAD, the WSSD or the world racism summit. In fact, no mention of them at all except for the "Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!" chants heard from various quarters of the ANC - even at a high-level funeral.
So far the British government has responded by sending Jack Straw to South Africa to hand over 30 million pounds to the ANC, part of which will be use for "land reform" and "justice." (See "Straw tries to woo Africa" by Jaspreet Kindra and Marianne Merten in the May 16 to 22, 2003 Mail & Guardian).
Where is the justice? And is this 30 million pounds really 30 pieces of silver?
01-12-2007, 10:49 AM #615
Kenneth Lionel Eva was thought to have been attacked by 250 members of the eSibhonsweni community when he fired a shot into the air during an argument over ownership of the New Venture farm.
01-12-2007, 03:52 PM #616
Boer lank gemartel, toe vermoor
Roossenekal. – ’n Bejaarde boer is hier glo eers vir ure gemartel en daarna met ’n koeël in die kop doodgeskiet.
Die polisie het gister op die plaas Honingdraai op mnr. Sarel Breedt (76) afgekom waar hy vasgebind op ’n stoel was. Sy kop, met ’n enkele koeëlwond, was agteroor.
Sy vrou, Ina (ook 76), is nie ernstig beseer nie, maar was gister nog só geskok dat sy nie ’n sinvolle verklaring aan die polisie kon gee nie.
Toe die polisie gisteroggend vroeg deur Breedt se kleinseun, mnr. Renier du Preez van Witbank, na die plaasopstal ontbied is, het hulle Breedt se lyk in die badkamer gekry.
“Die hele huis is in chaos en die plek is met bloed besmeer,” het kapt. Manie van Zyl van die eenheid vir ernstige geweldsmisdaad op Middelburg gesê.
’n Rower het blykbaar die vuurwapen teen Breedt se voorkop gedruk en die skoot afgetrek. Hy is vermoedelik voor dít ook met ’n metaalpyp herhaaldelik agter die nek geslaan. Sy hande was met ’n stuk lap agter sy rug vasgebind. Sy voete was ook vas.
Die egpaar is Donderdagmiddag omstreeks 13:00 buite hul huis oorval terwyl hulle onder ’n afdak gesit en middagete eet het.
Twee rowers het toegeslaan en hulle die huis ingesleep. Die aanvallers het glo vuurwapens en geld gesoek.
Hoewel die huis ’n alarmstelsel het, het die paniekknoppie wat mev. Breedt verskeie keer gedruk het, nie gewerk nie. Die battery was vermoedelik pap.
Nadat die rowers Breedt vermoor het, het hulle mev. Breedt se hande en voete met ’n stuk telefoondraad vasgebind en haar in die kombuis gelaat. Die rowers het drie vuurwapens en ’n yskas gesteel en omstreeks 20:00 met Breedt se bakkie gevlug.
Mev. Breedt het daarin geslaag om haar met ’n mes wat op die stoof gelê het, los te sny.
Sy het die res van die nag ’n ent van die huis af weggekruip. Vroegoggend het sy hulp by ’n plaaswerker gaan soek.
Mnr. Nicky Gouws, wat sowat drie kilometer van die Breedt-egpaar af woon, was gister een van die eerste mense op die toneel.
“Ek het tannie Ina naby die stalle gekry. Sy was baie geskok en het ’n kombers om haar gehad,” het Gouws vertel.
“Sy het vir my gesê die rowers het, voordat hulle daar weg is, vir haar gesê hulle het haar man geskiet.”
Hulle is die huis in en het mnr. Breedt se lyk in die badkamer gekry.
“Dit het gelyk asof hy ‘tereggestel’ is,” het Gouws gesê.
Die twee borde halfgeëete kos het gisteroggend steeds op die tafel onder die afdak gestaan.
Du Preez en sy broer het onlangs die plaas by Breedt, wat langer as 35 jaar met beeste geboer het, gekoop.
Die Breedts het egter in die plaashuis aangebly.
Breedt se broer, Hendrik (74), en dié se vrou, Lena, wat ook op die plaas bly, is sowat ’n jaar gelede by hul huis aangeval.
01-12-2007, 03:59 PM #617
Ná rooftog sê Gerrie hy is nader aan God
Dit gaan meer as twee koeëls kos om Gerrie Germishuys onder te kry.
Dié oud-Springbokvleuel is gister uit die waakeenheid ontslaan en wil so gou as moontlik uit die Milpark-hospitaal in Johannesburg ontslaan word nadat hy verlede naweek deur rowers wat by sy huis wou inbreek, in die kop en hand geskiet is.
Me. Amelda Swartz, woordvoerder van dié hospitaal, sê as alles goed gaan, sal Germishuys waarskynlik môre ontslaan word.
Ten spyte van ’n koeël wat nog in sy kop vassteek, was hy gistermiddag die ene energie en grappies.
Mense het hom uit al die uithoeke van die wêreld gebel om hom sterkte toe te wens.
“My vrou het skaars nog gespot dat iemand uit elke land van die wêreld, behalwe Rusland, my gebel het. En sowaar, daardie middag het iemand my uit Moskou gebel.”
Hy sê dat die rooftog by sy huis vir hom uiters traumaties was.
“My vrou het vir my gesê sy gaan gou swem. Kort nadat sy buite toe is, het ek ’n gil gehoor en ook buitentoe gestorm. “Dis toe dat ek op ’n man afkom wat ’n wapen op haar gerig het.”
Gerrie sê dit is ’n aaklige gevoel wat hy niemand toewens nie.
“Julle moet hard bid dat julle nooit in só situasie beland nie.”
Hy vertel dat hy op die rower afgestorm het en dis toe dat hy in sy kop en in sy hand geskiet is.
“Ek weet nie of ek die regte ding gedoen het nie. Baie mense sê jy moet stilbly en doen wat die rowers sê. Maar sê nou jy bly stil en die rowers skiet jou in elk geval en verkrag jou vrou?
“Die probleem in Suid-Afrika is dat mense gewoond geraak het aan die misdaad en die geweld. Hoekom moet ons dit aanvaar dat wildvreemde mense in ons huis inloop en ons besittings waarvoor ons hard werk, met geweld van ons afvat?” wou hy met misnoeë weet.
“Dit is nie net gegoede Suid-Afrikaners wat onder dié misdaadvlaag ly nie. Gaan kyk ’n bietjie hoe gaan dit in Soweto. Daardie mense kry eers swaar.”
Germishuys is nie bitter nie. “Ek is baie gelukkig om heel daar uit te kom. Ek het baie nader aan God gekom. Sulke ervarings laat jou besef dat jy jou lewe moet regruk.”
01-13-2007, 06:52 AM #618
Farm murder: squatters wanted to build school
Illegal squatters on a KwaZulu-Natal citrus orchard near Melmoth where a farm manager was bludgeoned to death had applied to the province's traditional affairs department for permission to build a school, it emerged on Saturday.
Spokesman for the KwaZulu-Natal department of local government, housing and traditional affairs Lennox Mabaso said: "Our people told them this is private land therefore you cannot build a school."
He said an official from the department in Ulundi went to the New Venture Farm and showed the squatters where the boundaries between the Ingonyama Trust land and the farm were located on December 11.
Ingonyama Trust land is land that was administered by the Government of KwaZulu-Natal during the apartheid era and transferred to the trust after 1994.
Any permission to build on Trust land requires a Permission To Occupy (PTO).
Mabaso said that PTO was not granted for the school because the disputed land on New Venture Farm was not Ingonyama Trust land. "People were not satisfied," said Mabaso.
He said the department referred the matter to the department of land affairs.
Earlier this week Vela Mngwengwe, the acting chief director for land affairs in KwaZulu-Natal, said: "The land in dispute is in fact commercial land."
Police have been deployed to keep guard on the New Venture Farm in the Nkwaleni area between Melmoth and Eshowe where Kenneth Lionel Eva was bludgeoned to death with knobkerries on Tuesday. Eva had attended a meeting on the land when the attack took place.
On Saturday, police Captain Vusi Mbatha that said "additional" officers had been deployed. "We cannot say how long they will be deployed. We are monitoring the situation."
Meanwhile, the KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu) has urged the government to speed up the resolution of land issues.
In a statement released on Friday, the Kwanalu said: "It seems to us that this incident, in its brutality, has taken place in the context of heightened rhetoric relating to the land reform issue and further illustrates the need for an expeditious conclusion to the processing or all outstanding Restitution and Tenancy related claims."
"A call is therefore issued for the reform of the agricultural sector to be a consequence of intense and well meaning dialogue between all players without frustrations flowing over into incitements to harmful and criminal actions."
Staff at New Venture farm, which primarily produces grape fruit for export, hailed Eva as "a good man" who solved their problems while squatters described him as a "racist".
Jabu Mtshali, 36, the head of security at the farm who discovered Eva's battered body, said: "He was a good guy on my side.
"He was not a guy to say I'm a big boss and not listen to your plans. He was only here a few months. My heart is very sore because we lost a good guy."
John Kunene, 43, who work's in the orchard's pack house said: "He was the same like a priest. You could go to him with a problem. I hope our next manager will be like him."
However, headman for the people occupying the disputed land, Mhlangabezeni Zulu, said Eva was a racist. "Maybe now the government will solve the problem because a white man has died. When black people are abused nobody speaks about it, but when a white person is killed it becomes a big story and it is reported on," he said.
He accused the farm owner, Mark Chennells of firing local people and "hiring foreigners".
Eva's brother-in-law, Wilfred Cameron-Dow, said the family had "very little to say".
He said: "He (Eva) was never an agressive person. He was a person of dialogue. Apart from that the family has very little to say. The family will await the outcome of the investigation."
01-13-2007, 11:35 AM #619
Cops on farm after brutal killing
Durban - Police have been deployed to keep guard on a Northern KwaZulu-Natal citrus farm near Melmoth where a farm manager was killed by an angry mob in an apparent land dispute.
Police spokesperson captain Vusi Mbatha said on Saturday "additional" officers had been deployed at New Venture Farm where Kenneth Lionel Eva was earlier this week bludgeoned to death with knobkerries.
"We cannot say how long they will be deployed. We are monitoring the situation."
Eva had attended a meeting on the land at New Venture Farm in the Nkwaleni area between Melmoth and Eshowe when the attack took place.
Meanwhile the KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu) urged the government to speed up the resolution of land issues.
In a statement released on Friday, the Kwanalu said: "It seems to us that this incident, in its brutality, has taken place in the context of heightened rhetoric relating to the land reform issue and further illustrates the need for an expeditious conclusion to the processing of all outstanding Restitution and Tenancy related claims."
Jabu Mtshali, 36, the head of security at the farm who discovered Eva's battered body, said: "He was a good guy on my side."
"He was not a guy to say I'm a big boss and not listen to your plans. He was only here a few months. My heart is very sore because we lost a good guy," Mtshali said.
However, headman for the people occupying the disputed land, Mhlangabezeni Zulu, said Eva was a racist.
"Maybe now the government will solve the problem because a white man has died. When black people are abused nobody speaks about it, but when a white person is killed it becomes a big story and it is reported on," he said.
01-13-2007, 12:17 PM #620
Nog ’n plaasaanval gefnuik; vrou sou gemartel word
Hy sê hy wil die polisie bedank vir die goeie samewerking die afgelope drie jaar met onder meer die voorkoming van plaasaanvalle.
So die Polisie doen ook darem goeie werk al pas dit net sekeres... en dit nogal vir die afgelope 3 Jaar !!!!
Baie dankie vir hierdie berig, ek dag altyd volgens die negatiewe berigte wat uitgekrap word dat die Polisie nie meer bestaan nie !!!!