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11-24-2008, 05:33 AM #3321
Sisters raped by robbers in high-security complex
TWO Port Elizabeth sisters in their 20s were raped and robbed in their high- security home early yesterday by two masked knife-wielding assailants who afterwards escaped into the Baakens Valley.
The two women were held at knife-point in their boundary unit of St Augustine townhouse complex in Mangold Park, overlooking the valley.
One of the victims is a 21-year-old student while the other is a 25-year-old who works at Greenacres. To protect their identities, no further details were divulged.
The rapes came on the eve of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign, which begins tomorrow.
In another attack, a 68-year-old Grahamstown woman was raped and beaten in a graveyard by two men on Saturday night after attending a traditional ceremony.
Police spokesman Superintendent Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the Port Elizabeth sisters were asleep in the television room of their home when their assailants gained access at about 1am.
The highly secure complex is surround by a 22-strand electric fence as well as a spiked palisade fence.
“The gate was locked, so the two men gained entrance to the backyard by forcing one of the bottom gate bars open,” said Janse van Rensburg.
The men then squeezed through the gap and gained access to the yard of the unit.
“The women woke up when they saw the two men, who were wearing balaclavas, going through the house.”
Janse van Rensburg said the intruders found them as they were searching through the cupboards and rooms.
“They were then both raped by the men, who afterwards carried on going through the house searching for valuables.”
The two robbers threatened the women with their lives, adding that they would return to the home and that the sisters had better still be there.
“The men then left and, after about 10 minutes, the women then decided to run to the neighbours to call for help.”
Janse van Rensburg said police were not sure how the men had entered the house, as there were no visible signs of forced entry. “We are still investigating this but the women are sure that they had locked everything.
“We are not sure what they took, as both women were taken to the rape crisis centre at Dora Nginza Hospital after the incident,” she said.
“What we do know is that jewellery was taken.
“Their mother does live with them, but she was out of town in Humansdorp for the weekend.”
Atlas Security operational manager Monty Montgomery said his officers were dispatched to the townhouse after the women had alerted their neighbour, who then called the firm.
“We contacted the police and all of us arrived there and searched through the bush, but the two men had already escaped,” he said.
Montgomery added that the townhouse complex was one of the most secure he had seen, with heightened perimeter security features.
“The complex has electric and palisade fencing and a brick wall to the ground, making sure that (intruders) can‘t get under the fence,” he said.
“I suspect the men had gained entrance through the sliding door in the main bedroom.”
A neighbour said he had woken up during the early hours of the morning to “a loud sound”, but after investigation found nothing to be unusual.
“I got up and looked around and saw nothing out of the ordinary,” he said yesterday.
“It was all quiet after I looked around, so I went back to bed.”
11-24-2008, 05:39 AM #3322
Docket found in the street
Pretoria - The docket of a rape case in which the man found guilty of the crime will be sentenced in the Nelspruit High Court on Tuesday, was picked up in a street in the Pretoria city centre on Friday afternoon.
Willem Wessels, 42, his brother, Jackie, 35, and friends had just had coffee at the Wimpy in Vermeulen Street when they saw the docket lying in the street.
When Beeld contacted Advocate André Wilsenach, a public prosecutor, about the docket on Sunday afternoon, he couldn't believe it was one of his.
Wilsenach was on his way to Nelspruit for the sentencing when he heard his docket was at the Wessels brothers' flat in the Pretoria city centre.
He pulled over and checked his bag, only to realise that he was indeed missing a docket.
Aaron Alfred Mnisi, 26, had been found guilty on a charge of rape in the Nelspruit High Court and was due to be sentenced.
On November 4 2006 he had raped a 24-year-old woman in the Nelspruit area.
Willem Wessels said they had originally planned to drive to Nelspruit on Monday morning to hand the docket in at the High Court.
"If a docket is not at court, the case could be thrown out. This cannot happen, because a man like this (the accused) cannot be set free.
"We were also too scared to take it to the police, because there is so much corruption. You never know, maybe they let the man go and lost the docket."
Wessels said all the complainant's "statements and stuff" were in the docket.
Docket fell out
Wilsenach said he has a "little cart" in which he keeps all his documents and dockets.
On Friday afternoon he crossed the street at the pedestrian crossing in front of the Wimpy to go to his car. That's when the docket must have fallen out.
After his docket had been returned to him, Wilsenach was relieved that he wouldn't arrive at the Nelspruit High Court empty-handed.
"That man (Mnisi) had better get a life sentence for all this trouble," Wilsenach said jokingly.
11-24-2008, 05:44 AM #3323
11-25-2008, 02:11 AM #3324
Wenke help om misdaad vas te vat
’n Reeks suksesvolle arrestasies ná plaasaanvalle in Noordwes is die regstreekse gevolg van inligting en samewerking van die gemeenskappe waarin die misdade gepleeg is.
So het adj.komm. William Mpembe van die polisie in Noordwes gister gesê op ’n mediakonferensie in Potchefstroom waar dié suksesse bekend gemaak is.
Behalwe vir die inhegtenisneming van verdagtes weens die moorde op mnr. Sias Stander (69) van Coligny en mnr. Brink Botha (53) van Mamogaleskraal, is die vermeende moor- denaars van me. J.M. Cilliers en aanvallers van me. J. Vorster, haar vriendin, by Rooikoppies naby Brits ook onlangs vasgetrek.
Cilliers en Vorster is op 31 Julie helder oordag in hul huis oorval en met ’n mes gesteek. Vorster het die verdagte as hul tuinier herken toe sy die trui afgetrek het wat hy oor sy kop getrek het.
Mnr. Erick Ramakula sou gister weer in die plaaslike landdroshof verskyn vir ’n borgtogaansoek. Teen druktyd gister was dit nie seker of hy borgtog gekry het nie, het insp. Wilmarie van der Merwe, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Dir. Patrick Asa-neng, provinsiale hoof van misdaadvoorkoming, het gesê plaasaanvalle is ’n prioriteitsmisdaad in Noordwes. In gebiede waar sektorpolisiëring en plaaswyke doeltreffend werk, het die voorkoms van voorvalle drasties gedaal.
In die meeste gevalle waar verdagtes in hegtenis geneem word, het die polisie inligting van die gemeenskap opgevolg
11-25-2008, 02:13 AM #3325
Sê jou sê oor SA se strafregstelsel
Kaapstad. – Landsburgers kan nou insette lewer in die proses om die land se strafregstelsel te verbeter.
Dit sluit in die polisiemag, die howe en die land se tronke. ’n Reeks openbare vergaderings (twee per provinsie) word beplan waarop mense hul menings kan lug.
Die fokus van die vergaderings sal val op die slagoffermanifes (wat die regte van misdaadslagoffers verduidelik), bepalings oor huishoudelike geweld en beter kommunikasie tussen die gemeenskap en die polisie, asook die inlyf van die Skerpioene by die polisiemag.
Van die vergaderings vind soos volg plaas:
Gauteng: Vereeniging-stadsaal (24 November) en Zithobeni-gemeenskapsaal, Bronkhorstspruit (25 November).
KwaZulu-Natal: Imbizo-saal, Empangeni (26 November) en Ezingolweni- munisipale saal, Izingolweni (27 November).
Mpumalanga: Tonga-Mangweni-stadsaal, Tonga (26 November) en Ermelo-stadsaal (27 November).
Limpopo: El Shaddai-Christensentrum, Nzhelele, Louis Trichardt (1 Desember) en Mahwelereng- Veeldoelige Sentrum, Mokopane (Potgietersrus) (2 Desember).
Noordwes: Phokeng, Rustenburg (3 Desember) en Taung (4 Desember).
11-25-2008, 02:14 AM #3326
Man het al klag teen hom oor boer
Mnr. Sias Stander (69), ’n boer van Coligny in Noordwes wat vroeër vandeesmaand vermoor is, sou enkele dae ná sy dood in die hof teen sy moordverdagte getuig.
Mnr. Samuel Mokgatle (26), een van drie verdagtes, was ook ’n verdagte in ’n aanval in Desember verlede jaar op Stander. Hy is toe by ’n stoorkamer oorval.
Mokgatle is op borgtog vrygelaat in die eerste saak, en Stander sou die Maandag ná sy dood in dié saak getuig. Stander het weens ’n skietwond gesterf.
Drie lykskouings is gedoen om die oorsaak van sy dood vas te stel, het dir. Jan Mabula, provinsiale speurhoof, gesê. Dit is nog nie seker wie die doodskoot afgevuur het nie, maar dit was van ’n pistool.
Stander se vrou, Hannatjie (68), het een aanvaller vroeër vandeesmaand met ’n .22-rewolwer doodgeskiet.
Mokgatle en mnre. Sergio Mazibela (27) en Patrick Matheadira Malebo (28) het gister weer in Coligny se landdroshof verskyn weens die moord op Stander en poging tot moord op sy vrou.
11-25-2008, 02:15 AM #3327
‘Aanrand’-dossier weg; lid nie in hof
Die 27-jarige polisieman van Villieria wat Saterdag aangekla is van aanranding nadat hy ’n lid van die publiek glo erg geslaan het, kon nie gister in die Pretoriase landdroshof verskyn nie omdat die dossier nou weg is.
Dít nadat die vermeende slagoffer aangedring het om self die aanklagvorms in te vul toe hy die klag by die Villieria-polisiekantoor gaan indien het.
Volgens insp. Klaas van der Kooi, polisiewoordvoerder, is dit onseker of die klaer ooit die vorms ingegee het.
Die klag spruit uit ’n beweerde voorval Saterdag tussen die aangeklaagde polisieman en mnr. Henk Griesel, ’n lid van die publiek.
“Ons weet nie presies wat tot die voorval gelei het nie, maar die polisieman het Griesel glo van die pad probeer druk en ’n ligte botsing veroorsaak. Daarna het hy Griesel na bewering uit sy motor gepluk en begin aanrand. Griesel het tande verloor en ernstige kopbeserings opgedoen.”
Die polisieman is Saterdag tuis gearresteer en dieselfde dag by die polisiekantoor op borgtog vrygelaat. “Hy is gemaan om oormôre in die Pretoriase landdroshof te verskyn op aanklagte van aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer, asook roekelose en nalatige bestuur.”
11-25-2008, 02:16 AM #3328
Mpembe het gesê die polisie soek nog na ’n voormalige werker van die Bothas, ook ’n verdagte in die saak. Die ander twee verdagtes het gister die eerste keer in die hof verskyn. Die verloop van die hofverskyning was teen druktyd nie bekend nie.
11-25-2008, 02:19 AM #3329
Man in plaashuis oorval en gesteek
George. - Kommer heers oor die eerste inbraak sedert 1999 in Geelhoutboom waartydens ’n man nouliks aan die dood ontkom het toe hy klaarblyklik deur vier jong mans in sy plaashuis oorval is.
Volgens mnr. Willie van der Merwe (42) het hy en sy gesin in Junie vanjaar hierheen verhuis van Kyalami in Gauteng “juis om van misdaad weg te kom”.
Omstreeks 23:00 verlede Donderdag het hy vier jong mans, tussen ongeveer 16 en 20, in sy huis betrap. Dit is nie bekend hoe die mans toegang tot die huis verkry het nie.
Volgens Van der Merwe was hy en sy gesin nog nie eens in die bed nie. Toe die inbrekers hom gewaar, het hulle hom te lyf gegaan, met ’n mes in die skouer gesteek en oor die kop geslaan voor hulle sonder enige buit gevlug het.
Kapt. Malcolm Pojie, ’n polisiewoordvoerder in die Suid-Kaap, sê die inbrekers wou glo drank steel.
Van der Merwe het gister gesê sy skouer herstel goed, maar die feit dat die aanvallers gewelddadig geraak het, voorspel niks goeds nie.
Volgens Pojie is die inbraak ’n geïsoleerde geval en nie die tendens in die omgewing nie, maar dit word met erns bejeën. Die verdagtes is nog nie vasgetrek nie.
Pojie meen die goeie werk wat die plaaswag en reserviste die afgelope paar jaar hier verrig het, dra tot die lae misdaadsyfer in die omgewing by.
Mnr. Dudley Windsor, ’n reservis en voorsitter van die plaaswag, het gesê die omgewing word deurlopend gepatrolleer.
In 1998 is Trevor Wittes vasgetrek ná die dood van mev. Ria Heathfield, mnr. Andrew Reid (24), sy pa, mnr. Bobby Reid (57) en mnr. Marchant Gerber (30) op die plaas Boschrug in die Geelhoutboom-gebied. Hulle is eers gemartel en toe vermoor.
Die plaaseienaar, mnr. Tommie Heathfield, ’n buurvrou, mev. Isabel Lamprecht (44), en haar seun, Chrisjan (18), het die aanval oorleef.
11-25-2008, 02:20 AM #3330
Rowers laat Baai steier
Port Elizabeth. - Baaise ondernemings het gister onder ’n vlaag van vier rooftogte – waarin nie minder nie as 24 rowers betrokke was – gesteier.
Die polisie het twee verdagtes aangekeer, een van hulle gewond en in die hospitaal. Die polisie het egter gewaarsku dat roofbendes ál meer gaan toeslaan.
Die hoofposkantoor in Govan Mbekiweg in Sentraal was gister omstreeks 03:00 die eerste teiken.
Dit is nog onbekend waarmee die rowers weggekom het, maar hulle wou glo met alle mag die kluis binnegaan.
Kapt. Sandra Janse van Rensburg, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê drie gewapende mans het die gebou binnegegaan. Die sekerheidswagte is in hul kantoor vasgebind, waarna die rowers die kluis se sleutels geëis het.
“Intussen het die koerantafleweraar daar aangekom, waarna die rowers hom ook vasgebind en na die houerhawe gegaan het.”
Hulle het drie houers oopgebreek en artikels geneem wat in dié stadium nog nie bekend aan die polisie is nie.
Die verdagtes is nog soek. Die Humewood-polisie ondersoek ’n saak van gewapende roof.
Later die oggend, omstreeks 09:30, het twee van nog drie rowers hul rieme styfgeloop nadat hulle sekerheidswagte van ’n transito-maatskappy buite die Pier 14-winkelsentrum in Noordeinde beroof het.
“Die rowers het die wagte oorrompel en met ’n trommel geld en ’n dienspistool gevlug,” het Janse van Rensburg gesê. Toe die spesiale toestel met ink in die trommel ontplof, het hulle dit glo soos ’n warm patat laat val en na Cawoodstraat gevlug. Hulle is glo soos vetgesmeerde blitse verby mnr. Jack van Eyssen (81).
“Ek het groot geskrik en net stilgestaan, want hulle het so vinnig verby my gehardloop. Daarna het hulle die meubelwinkel binnegegaan en talle skote afgevuur.”
Dié skote is glo geskiet toe die rowers die Value-meubelwinkel binnegestorm het, na bewering op soek na ’n agterdeur.
“Toe my werknemer sê daar is nie een nie, het hulle begin skiet,” het die bestuurder van die winkel, wat anoniem wil bly, gesê.
Janse van Rensburg het gesê die Mountweg-polisie het op die toneel aangekom, die winkel binnegegaan en ’n verdagte in die boud geskiet. Hy is in die Livingstone-hospitaal opgeneem, terwyl die ander verdagte by Mountweg-polisie aangehou word.”
’n Derde verdagte is nog soek.
Sowat 45 minute later het sewe mans op kontantwagte buite die Trade Value-handelaar in Standfordweg, Korsten, toegeslaan.
’n Geldtrommel met ’n onbekende bedrag geld en ’n vuurwapen is geroof voordat die verdagtes in ’n bakkie, wat Maandag in Mountweg gesteel is, gevlug het.
“Die voertuig is sowat 2 km van die toneel gevind, maar geen verdagtes is in hegtenis geneem nie,” het kapt. Johann Rheeder, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Gistermiddag omstreeks 15:45 is ’n pakkamer in Korstenstraat, Humewood, van goedere ter waarde van sowat R20 000 beroof. “Die eienaar en sy kliënte was op pad na die pakkamer waar 11 rowers, met drie voertuie, hulle glo ingewag het,” het Janse van Rensburg gesê.
Niemand is die voorval beseer nie. Die rowers het weggekom.
Volgens Rheeder het huisrowe en rooftogte by ondernemings is aan die toeneem. “Sake-eienaars moet meer sorg aan die dag lê met die hantering van kontant.”
Day of drama as PE gunmen hit four stores and post office
POLICE had their hands full yesterday in dealing with five armed robberies in Port Elizabeth, including a cash-in- transit heist in which more than R500000 was taken and a robbery at the main Post Office in Govan Mbeki Avenue.
And police predict there is more to come as the Christmas season approaches and have vowed to be on high alert.
In a bungled cash-in-transit robbery in North End, two men were arrested and another escaped after they held two guards at gunpoint in the Pier 14 shopping centre.
The gunmen grabbed a cash box and a firearm from a G4S security guard while he was walking out of a shop.
A policeman on the scene said the guards were leaving a music store on the ground floor when four men, one allegedly armed with what is believed to be a shotgun, hit one guard over the head.
“The guard then had a struggle with the robbers. However, they managed to grab his firearm and the (cash) box before running through the complex to (try and) escape out of the side entrance.
“When they got to the bottom escalator, the box exploded with red ink. They must have got a fright and turned around.
“From what I know, they ran back through the complex towards the Cawood Street side entrance.”
The gang then split up, with police in pursuit.
“Two managed to run away while the other two ran into Value Furnishers in Cawood Street. Police gave chase into the shop, where the two armed men took an employee hostage.”
Police shot the man in the leg as they entered the shop. “The other guy just surrendered. The one security guard‘s firearm was found on the one man.”
In a separate incident, seven men armed with automatic rifles stormed Trade Value in Stanford Road, Korsten.
Police Captain Johann Rheeder said: “They over powered the security guard, took his firearm and then forced him to open the drop safe where they took an undisclosed amount of cash. The men ran out and escaped in a silver bakkie.”
A source on the scene said more than R500000 was stolen.
The bakkie, reported stolen from Greenacres on Sunday, was recovered shortly afterwards.
Rheeder said there was another armed robbery in the KwaDwesi area but no details were available.
“Armed men robbed a business premises but we are still trying to get more details on the incident.”
Superintendent Sandra Janse van Rensburg said another armed hold-up took place at a warehouse in Korsten Street, North End, in the afternoon.
“Eleven men arrived in three cars and tied the owner and his clients up at gunpoint (before taking) about R20000 worth of clothing.”
Early yesterday, staff at the main Post Office building in Govan Mbeki Avenue were held hostage by six armed men who took an undisclosed sum of cash.
The gang tied up the two security guards and took the keys for the safe. They emptied the safe as well as broke open three containers in the building.
Police said they were still investigating how the armed gang gained access to the building.
Flying squad and rapid response team spokesman Captain Rassie Erasmus said his men were on high alert due to this time of year being “well known for armed robberies”.
Janse van Rensburg said police were deploying extra staff in an attempt to curb armed robberies as the festive season nears.
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