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02-07-2008, 08:01 AM #2071
Tourists robbed near PSJ
Eight tourists, two of them from Britain were robbed early Thursday morning at gunpoint at a nature reserve near Port St Johns, police said.
Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said the incident happened at the Mpande Nature Reserve near the scenic town while the tourists were staying overnight for a visit.
A police source however, put the robbery at the Kraal Backpackers south of Port St Johns.
“Four men with guns came and held them up. They took an undisclosed amount of money, cellphones and jewellery before fleeing in the tourists’ Toyota Land Cruiser,” Fatyela said.
Police later found the the 4×4 abandoned near Libode north-east of Mthatha.
Two of the tourists were visiting from the United Kingdom and six others were from South Africa, some living in East London.
The tourists were not injured, Fatyela said.
02-07-2008, 08:06 AM #2072
Jeppestown suspects want new judge
The "Jeppestown massacre" trial was today postponed at the Johannesburg High Court because some of the accused intended applying for the recusal of the judge.
Eleven of the 13 accused indicated that they intended lodging a formal application for the recusal of Judge Ratha Motkgoatleng on the basis of reasonable apprehension of bias.
The case was postponed to February 8.
Thirteen people including a female are implicated in the robbery and the subsequent death of four policemen.
Eight people believed to have been part of the gang died in a shoot-out in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, on June 25, 2006 after the robbery of a supermarket in Honeydew earlier in the day.
The accused have all pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
They face charges of armed robbery, conspiracy to rob the supermarket, murder, attempted murder and possession of illegal firearms and ammunition.
A total of 15 out of the 99 state witnesses have testified in court.
02-07-2008, 08:15 AM #2073
Cops to chat with Razelle's dad
February 07 2008
A Pretoria top matriculant who was shot and injured during a robbery was in a stable condition in hospital on Thursday.
Razelle Botha was under intensive care and more x-rays were planned for Thursday to check the damage in her spine, Ronel Leyds, spokesperson for Pretoria East Hospital said.
Botha and her father Willem were shot and injured by robbers at her Moreleta Park home on Monday.
She had received eight distinctions from Waterkloof High School last year.
A laptop and camera were stolen.
Police spokesperson Captain Collette Weilbach said that no arrests had yet been made but a statement would be taken from Botha's father once he was discharged from hospital later on Thursday.
Police appealed for information on the robbery to be given to Captain Koekemoer on 082-822-8290.
02-08-2008, 04:55 AM #2074
Pa: 'Dit was wraak'
Razelle Botha (18) is geskiet in wat haar pa as ’n “wraakaanval” beskryf.
Botha, ’n top-matriekleerling wat verlede jaar agt onderskeidings ingeryg het, is Maandagaand in haar ouerhuis in Norvalstraat in Moreletapark, Pretoria, met vyf skote in die bors, maag, long, rug en arm geskiet.
Die goeie nuus is sy het gisteraand die eerste keer gevoel in haar linkerbeen begin kry.
Sy word in die Pretoria-Oos-hospitaal behandel.
Haar pa, prof. Willem Botha, wat ten tyde van die voorval saam met haar tuis was, is in die lies geskiet. Hy word in dieselfde hospitaal as Razelle behandel vir sy skietwond en trombose wat nou in sy regterbeen ontwikkel het.
Prof. Botha vermoed die jongste aanval kom nadat hy ’n maand gelede by sy huis op ’n gewapende rower geskiet het.
“Ek het net by die motorhuisdeur ingery en in die huis ingegaan toe ek hoor hoe die deur weer oopgaan.
“Ek het ondersoek gaan instel en my vasgeloop in ’n man wat sy rewolwer in my gesig gedruk het.”
Prof. Botha sê hy het sy pistool, wat hy altyd by hom dra, uitgepluk en op die rower losgebrand. “Ek is seker ek het hom raakgeskiet, maar hy het gevlug.”
Hy het nooit die voorval by die polisie aangemeld nie.
“Maandag toe ek in die kamer deur twee van hulle (rowers) oorval is, het een sy vinger op sy lippe gedruk en gesê ek moet ‘shhh’. Dit het my dadelik aan die vorige aanvaller herinner, want hy het my ook só stilgemaak.”
Volgens hom het hulle hom geskiet en al skietende by sy kamer uitgehardloop na Razelle se kamer.
“Ek het gehoor hoe hulle skiet. Hoe Razelle skreeu . . . so verskriklik skreeu. Maar ek het nie gedink hulle skiet haar nie. Hoekom sou hulle?”
Volgens Botha kon hy nie beweeg nie, want sy been was heeltemal lam.
“Ek het myself na haar kamer gesleep. Ek het by haar gaan lê en haar hand vasgehou en Kobie (sy vrou) gebel. My kind het aanhoudend geskreeu ek moet haar help, maar ek kon net haar hand vashou.”
Die rowers het kort daarna gevlug met ’n kamera en skootrekenaar. Prof. Botha sê hy dink die verdagtes is van Mosambiek.
“My boodskap aan die regering is om ons landsgrense beter te bewaak sodat enige een nie net ons land kan binnekom nie.”
Mev. Botha sê die rowers het met ’n leer van aangrensende erwe na hul erf oorgeklim en dit ook gebruik om deur ’n venster by hul huis in te kom.
Kapt. Colette Weilbach, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die ondersoek duur voort.
02-08-2008, 05:02 AM #2075
Verdagte skotvry nadat slagoffers hom vergewe
’n Jong man het gister vry en met “ ’n tweede kans” uit die Pretoriase streekhof gestap nadat sy slagoffers hom vergewe en saam met hom gebid het en die saak teen hom teruggetrek is.
Mnr. James Baloyi (20) is van ’n ernstige rooftog en poging tot moord aangekla nadat hy in Maart verlede jaar twee vroue in ’n huis in Erasmuskloof, in die ooste van Pretoria, aangeval en beroof het.
Hy het mev. Esther Makgoba, die huiswerker, met ’n mes gesteek. Mev. Bertha Pretorius, die huiseienaar se skoonma, is nie beseer nie.
Die polisie het Baloyi minute ná die rooftog in ’n veld agter die huis gearresteer. ’n Polisiehelikopter en ’n menigte polisielede het ná die rooftog na die boosdoeners help soek.
Mnr. Myndert Bloem, die huiseienaar, was by toe Baloyi gearresteer is en het Baloyi toe ’n drukkie gegee en hom in die naam van Jesus vergewe.
Gister het Makgoba én Pretorius in die hof ook gesê dat hulle Baloyi vergewe.
Verskeie belangstellendes het die saak kom bywoon.
“Ek kan eerlik vir die hof sê ek het hom vergewe. Die hof moet vir hom sê wat hy gedoen het, was baie sleg,” het ’n emosionele Makgoba, wat nog nie ten volle van haar beserings herstel het nie, gesê.
“Ek wil vir jou sê ek is nie kwaad nie. Jy moet verander en ’n kind van God wees. Ek het jou lief. Jy het my amper doodgemaak. Ek is jou ouer,” het sy aan Baloyi gesê.
Pretorius het gesê mense moet hande vat en bid oor misdaad. Sy het hom ook ’n paar rand in die hand gestop om hom op sy voete te help.
“Wat hy gedoen het, is verkeerd. In my hart het ek hom vergewe,” het sy getuig.
Bloem het in die hof Baloyi se hande geneem en saam met hom gebid. Hy het ná die verrigtinge gesê Baloyi het sy hart daar vir die Here gegee.
Ook landdros Graham Travers het Baloyi gemaan om die reguit pad te loop.
“Ek hoop nie jy sien dié vergifnis as ’n teken van swakheid nie. Om wraak te soek, is baie moeiliker as om te vergewe,” het hy gesê.
Travers het gesê Baloyi kry ’n tweede kans wat hy nie andersins sou gehad het nie.
“Die manier om nou terug te betaal, is om te luister na wat jou meerdere aan jou gesê het: Draai weg van die verkeerde en doen iets om jou gemeenskap te bou.”
Mnr. George Pieterse, die aanklaer, het die saak teen Baloyi teruggetrek. Hy is ná byna ’n jaar in aanhouding ’n vry man.
“Ek is dankbaar vir hulle vergifnis en belowe as ek hier uitloop, sal ek op die reguit pad bly en verantwoordelik wees,” het hy gesê.
Albei vroue het hom in die hof omhels.
Konst. Os Redelinghuys, wat Baloyi destyds gearresteer het, het gesê hy is teleurgesteld met die uitslag.
“Almal kla hoe swak die polisie is, maar as die polisie hul werk doen, wil die publiek nie saamwerk nie,” het hy gesê.
Hy sal terug kom om te moor!!!!!!
02-08-2008, 05:09 AM #2076
‘Onttrek jou,’ sê 11 in Jeppestown-verhoor aan regter
Elf van die 13 beskuldigdes in die Jeppestown-verhoor het gister in die Johannesburgse hooggeregshof aansoek gedoen dat die regter hom aan die saak onttrek.
Hulle voer aan hulle het ’n redelike vrees dat hy nie onpartydig is nie. Dít nadat die langverwagte verhoor verlede Woensdag begin en etlike getuies al voor die hof getuig het.
Adv. Robin Ford, regsverteenwoordiger vir twee van die beskuldigdes, het kort ná 10:00 gisteroggend aan regter Ratha Mokgoatlheng gevra of die hof 45 minute kan verdaag sodat die tien regsverteenwoordigers onder mekaar kan besluit of hulle wil voortgaan met ’n moontlike aansoek om sy onttrekking.
By hul terugkeer het dié span regsverteenwoordigers elk op hul beurt gesê 11 van die beskuldigdes wil aansoek doen dat die regter hom onttrek.
Dieselfde rede is telkens aangevoer: Vrees dat Mokgoatlheng moontlik partydig kan wees.
Net me. Mary Maleke en mnr. Senzo Mweli, wat teregstaan op een aanklag van roof met verswarende omstandighede en twee klagte van poging tot moord, het gevra dat so ’n aansoek nié voor die hof gebring word nie.
Maleke en Mweli word slegs verbind met die rooftog by die Honeydew-Pick-’n-Pay – nie met die gebeure by die huis in Morduantstraat, Jeppestown, nie.
Omdat die regsverteenwoordigers die instruksies vir die aansoek eers gisteroggend ontvang het, is die hof tot vandag verdaag sodat die regsverteenwoordigers genoeg tyd kan hê om hul aansoeke saam te stel.
Adv. Joanie Spies, aanklaer, het daarna toegegee dat ’n aansoek van dié aard ernstig is.
“Hulle sou dit nie bring as hulle dit nie eers sorgvuldig deurdink het nie. Dit is dus net billik om hulle die nodige tyd te gee om die aansoeke saam te stel,” het sy aan Mokgoatlheng gesê. Hy het vervolgens opdrag gegee dat die verdediging se onderskeie aansoeke almal teen 10:00 vanoggend by Spies moet wees, sodat sy teen 13:00 haar antwoord daarop aan hom kan verskaf.
Ford het aan Beeld gesê die beskuldigdes se vrese oor moontlike partydigheid “broei al sedert die begin van die verhoor”, maar dat dit eers gisteroggend ’n kritieke punt bereik het.
Die hofverrigtinge sal na verwagting vandag 14:00 hervat.
02-08-2008, 05:29 AM #2077
Tourists robbed at resort
Johannesburg - Two British tourists, one Namibian and five South Africans were robbed at a holiday resort in Port St Johns on Thursday, Eastern Cape police said.
Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said the eight holiday makers were confronted by four armed men at the Mpande Holiday Resort.
"The robbers took jewellery, money and cellphones and then fled in the owner's Land Cruiser."
"One man was arrested after police received information from residents of Nyandi," he said.
No one was harmed and the Land Cruiser was recovered.
The man was expected to appear in the Port St Johns Magistrate's Court soon, police said.
Police were investigating cases of armed robbery and possession of a stolen vehicle.
More arrests were expected soon, Fatyela said.
"The holiday makers have all left the resort and the British tourists drove to Port Elizabeth." he said.
02-08-2008, 05:52 AM #2078
'If you brought him to me, I would stab him'
February 08 2008
Her hair was matted with blood. She was wet, she bled from a dozen fresh wounds and was huddled in a thorn bush, naked from the waist down. She was terrified beyond words. She wanted to believe it wasn't happening to her.
But it was real, and it happened a week ago. She had survived a brutal attack and attempted rape near the top gates of Kirstenbosch gardens while she was jogging on the mountain. She spent the next five days in hospital. "I've been attacked. I'm not good"
On Thursday, after returning to her family home in the southern suburbs, she spoke publicly about her ordeal in an effort to warn other women to be vigilant and to not run alone.
Her assailant was still out there, and she was sure he would try to attack again.
Still in pain, this brave survivor a mother of two young children sat on a soft couch in her home yearning for a life far from this city, somewhere where she and her family would feel safe.
"I feel a bit better today," she began.
Her arm was in a sling, supporting her fractured shoulder blade. She had three broken ribs, triple-layered stitches deep into her head, massive swelling and bruising, and a blood clot the size of a golf ball behind her left eye, causing her to see double.
'If you brought him to me now, I would stab him'
She cannot chew because of the blood in her middle ear. But her throat was no longer as swollen as it had been, after all the strangling.
She is thankful to be a survivor. "He didn't rape me, thank God."
Lean and fit, she is a keen runner. After a successful Comrades marathon last year, a top finish in the recent Red Hill marathon, she was in training for the Two Oceans marathon.
Setting off last Friday, she had hoped to "get some distance" and run around 18km. She was dressed in good running shoes, running shorts and a vest, and wore a Garmin GPS running watch.
About 800m from the gardens' top gate, she saw a man approaching along the path, well-dressed in beige chinos and a neat brown T-shirt. She described him as black, about 30, and friendly. She greeted him.
"But he had seen me coming. As I ran past, he grabbed my arm, swung me around and started punching me in the chest again, and again, and again.
"I was screaming blue murder. He grabbed my throat and tried to strangle me. "He took out a knife and showed it to me: 'You see this knife, I'm going to stick it into you ….
"Then he grabbed a rock and began hitting my head.
"I'm quite strong, but I was putty in his hands. He was completely calm he knew who was going to win this battle.
"He squeezed my throat, and I felt myself losing consciousness. I had tears in my eyes. I was about to die, and hadn't seen my children since finishing a PTA meeting the night before.
"I kept thinking: 'I've got to do something to stop him from killing me.' I screamed at him: 'I've got a baby in my tummy!'
"I thought it might stop him from killing me. But he didn't respond." "Then I lost consciousness."
When she woke she is not sure how many minutes had passed she was lying on the ground. A twisted black rubbish bag had been tied over her eyes. Her hands were bound behind her back.
"Then he said: 'Someone's coming!' and he yanked me by my legs down an embankment and into the thick bushes.
"I lost consciousness again." again, for who knows how long.
"When I woke he was pulling my pants off. He's a sicko he'd just beaten me to a pulp, and now he said: 'You've got a beautiful body!'
"He spoke in clear, perfect English," she remembered.
"I lost consciousness again.
"I woke. I was lying on my stomach. My head was incredibly sore, my face was pressed down in the dirt.
"I think he attempted to penetrate me. But there was no pressure. He said: 'Wait here, I'm going to my bag to get some Vaseline. He went off."
"I managed to wriggle my hands free. I stood up, but I was dizzy with the pain. I stumbled, then fell to the left."
She scrambled down a precipitously steep bank, down to a stream, splashed through it and collapsed behind a massive log.
"I could not take one more step. I lost consciousness again."
She awoke, barely 10m from where she had been attacked, but was hidden from the man if he was still there.
"I wondered: 'Did I dream this?' But I realised it was real.
"I counted out 10 minutes. I listened, and could not hear him. I heard cars, and realised I must be near Rhodes Drive. I had to make a go for it."
She stood shakily … and ran.
"A group of workers saw me, semi-naked, bleeding, trying to pull my vest down to cover myself.
"They were horrified. One ran to support me. All they wanted to do was protect me." They called her husband.
"I've been attacked. I'm not good" was all she told him.
He was at her side within minutes.
"I couldn't see, my head was three times its size. I thought I was going to die," she said.
Her injuries aside, she felt sick on Thursday - the result of cautionary anti-retrovirals and treatment for possible sexually transmitted diseases.
"I have nightmares. I've woken up spitting grass, my face down in the dirt again."
All he stole was her watch.
Of running again, and the mountain, she said: "I knew there were dangers, but I used to love running by myself. It was my church.
"I always thought I couldn't get closer to God than on the mountain.
"It was my haven, a time for reflecting, a release from the world. It was my spiritual time alone."
She cannot contain a longing for revenge: "If you brought him to me now, I would stab him, so many times, till he pleaded.
"But I'd carry on … I just want him to hurt."
Two hikers in the Kalk Bay area of the Table Mountain National Park were robbed of R10 and a wrist watch by three knife-wielding men on Wednesday about 8.30am, West Cape News reports.
02-08-2008, 06:13 AM #2079
Students attacked by armed gang of six at Cape Recife
TWO Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University zoology students endured a harrowing ordeal when they were attacked by a gang of six men while doing research at Cape Recife yesterday.
Marie Botha, 22, and Adrian Evans, 28, were out on the rocks when they were cornered by the gang, who threatened their lives and took away personal items.
The robbers, five of them armed with knives and one with a bottle-neck, seemed to be Nigerian because of their accents, the students told the police.
The attack happened at 8.30am. “The thugs took cable ties they found in a box and tied up the students with them. They also demanded their bank cards and secret numbers and threatened to return if they gave the wrong pin numbers,” said police spokesman Inspector Hazel Mqala.
They covered Evans and Botha with branches before speeding off in university vehicles which were later found abandoned near the main road.
Mqala said Evans had managed to free himself and helped Botha. Both had injuries.
When the police arrived they contacted the bank to block the cards, but it was too late because money had already been withdrawn from both accounts.
Apparently the thieves also went to Woolworths and tried to buy clothes worth R2000, but were unsuccessful because they could not produce ID documents.
Immediately after the attack, an e-mail was circulated at the university informing staff and students about the incident.
Zoology head Professor Tris Wooldridge said: “Adrian eventually managed to free himself and chewed through Marie‘s cable tie. They ran incredibly far through the bushes until they reached the water treatment works, where they were able to summon help. They were both traumatised, scratched and bruised.”
The gang stopped at University Motors and were caught on CCTV.
Wooldridge said: “Until suitable security arrangements are made, the Cape Recife area will be out of bounds to staff and students.”
Two weeks ago it was published that Settlers Park and Cape Recife in particular were identified as hotspots of criminal activity by the police and municipality in recent weeks.
This came after Port Elizabeth environmentalist Dr Paul Martin and a group of eight UK tourists were attacked while walking at Cape Recife last month. Other similar incidents were also reported.
02-08-2008, 06:17 AM #2080
‘Shop owner killed with own gun‘
CHARLO shop owner Ignatius Vermaak was shot and killed with his own firearm, state advocate Jason Thyssse told the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday.
Andile Gumede, 27, Thozamile Lungu, 31, and Simphiwe Joja, 24, of Motherwell, are appearing on charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
During his closing argument Thysse told the court Vermark was shot by Joja.
Thysse said the evidence showed that at least two shots had been fired from Vermaak‘s gun, which was the only revolver there on that day.
The State alleges that Gumede fired shots from a 9mm firearm, which was the other weapon used.
Joja admitted to having handled Vermaak‘s gun. A .38 special lead bullet was recovered from Vermaak‘s body.
Thysse said one of the State witnesses had testified that Vermaak had stored his gun under the counter in the shop and that he had later seen the holster, but the gun was missing.
He asked Judge Irma Schoeman to find that the men had acted with a common purpose and to convict them accordingly.
Gumede‘s legal representative, advocate John Kayser, said his client could not be positively identified from the video footage shown as evidence.
He said that at best one could say it was someone who looked like his client whose version was that he had been assaulted by the police to wear the jacket in the video footage.
“The crime received a fair amount of publicity. The police would have received pressure to bring the perpetrators to book. They could have taken shortcuts,” said Kayser.
Lungu‘s legal representative, advocate Richard Kele, said there was no direct evidence that linked his client to the crime.
Judgment will be delivered on April 21.
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