Die nuwe Suid-Afrika: March 2009
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Mnr. Chris Nel (57), 'n boer van Noordwes, en sy hond, Boelie, het albei skietwonde deur rowers oorleef. (Foto: Doug Lee)
28/03/2009 21:41 - (SA)
Vier maande nadat rowers mnr. Chris Nel (57), ’n boer van Noordwes, in die kop geskiet het, dank hy die Here dat sy brein nog helder is.
“My gestel, my liggaam, is wel vreeslik moeg,” het Nel die afgelope week uitasem aan Rapport gesê.
Vyf verdagtes is verlede week deur knap speurwerk van private speurders vasgetrek nadat die polisie niks kon uitrig nie.
Hulle het die afgelope week in die hof in Leeudoringstad verskyn.
Nel se geheue oor die gebeure het hy stelselmagtig weer aanmekaar gesit. Hy was op 27 November by die begrafnis van die 12-jarige Willem Steyn, wat in die Ottosdal-omgewing dood is toe hy tussen twee trekkers beland het.
Vriende by die begrafnis het hom vir aandete genooi. Hy het ná tienuur die aand by sy plaas aangekom waar die rowers hom ingewag het. Hulle het toe al ingebreek en vuurwapens en geld gesteel, maar buite vir hom gewag, glo Nel.
“Hulle het my vasgegryp. Ons het begin stoei. Hulle het my met ’n piksteel geslaan totdat ek my bewussyn verloor het en my toe in die kop geskiet.”
Sy hond, Boelie, is ook geskiet. Nel het twee uur later bygekom en dit reggekry om self na die hospitaal in Ottosdal te ry.
Daar het hy steke gekry en hy is saam met die polisie terug plaas toe.
Later die aand is hy egter na die hospitaal in Klerksdorp geneem van waar hy na die Unitas-hospitaal in Pretoria oorgeplaas is.
Die skietwond was ernstiger as wat gedink is en hy was lank in die hoë-sorgeenheid.
Kort ná die aanval het ’n familielid die private speurders Christian Botha en Daryl Els van CBI Investi-gations in Oos-Londen gekontak.
Botha het Els en mnr. Wayne Botha van EWB Investigations gevra om Nel se aanvallers te soek. Die deurbraak het gekom toe ’n man ’n tjek wou wissel wat tydens die rooftog gesteel is. Die bedrag daarop is verander.
Die man het vir Els-hulle gesê ene “James” het hom gevra om die tjek te wissel. Ook sou “James” vir hom gesê het hy het ’n boer doodgeskiet.
“Ons het ‘James’ se selfoonnommer nagespeur en vir hom gesê hy ’n prys gewen en moet na sy naaste MTN-winkel gaan,” sê Els.
By dié winkel in Wolmaransstad het Els-hulle die verdagte ingewag. Vyf mans, insluitend “James”, het voorverlede Donderdag by die winkel opgedaag en hulle is daar vasgetrek.
Hulle verskyn dié week weer in die hof.
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March 26 2009 at 10:16PM
Security guard Aaron Mashishi shot Pretoria dancer Estee van Rensburg in the head last year to prevent her from identifying him, the State contended on Thursday.
The trial continues on Friday. - Sapa
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March 25 2009 at 06:45AM
This article was originally published on page 3 of Pretoria News on March 25, 2009
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Mar 23 2009 08:12:25:570PM - (SA)
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Mar 23 2009 08:40:19:423PM - (SA)
Vyf verdagtes in ’n plaasaanval verlede jaar naby Wolmaransstad in Noordwes waartydens ’n boer en sy hond in die kop geskiet is, is vasgetrek.
Die boer én sy hond het oorleef.
Mnr. Chris Nel (57), ’n boer in die omgewing van Gloudina, is op 27 November geskiet toe hy by die huis aangekom het ná ’n besoek aan vriende.
Nel het gesê die vyf mans het hom met sy eie wapen buite sy huis ingewag. Hulle het vermoedelik reeds by sy huis ingebreek terwyl hy by die vriende gekuier het. “Ek was besig om die kombuisdeur oop te sluit toe hulle my met my eie pistool skiet.”
Die koeël het bo sy linkeroog ingegaan en by sy agterkop uitgekom. “Ek het so twee uur daar gelê en toe my bewussyn herwin. Hulle het ook ’n piksteel op my stukkend geslaan. Ons boere chop teen ’n tempo af.”
Nel was intussen lank in die Unitas-hospitaal in Centurion.
“Hulle het plate in my kop gesit. Ek is net baie moeg, maar ek en my boelhond loop albei weer op die werf rond.”
’n Familielid van Nel het ’n private speurder aangestel terwyl hy in die hospitaal was. Mnr. Wayne Botha van EWB Investigations sê hy en mnr. Christian Botha van CBI In-vestigations het die saak verlede Maandag begin ondersoek.
Hulle is op die regte spoor gesit deur ’n man wat vroeër ’n tjek van Nel in Ottosdal wou wissel.
Nel sê die aanvallers het dié tjek, wat vir R150 aan Woolworths uitgemaak was, vermoedelik tydens die aanval uit sy huis gesteel en dit verander.
“Hulle het die bedrag van R150 na R6 900 verander. Die bank het my gebel. Ek het vir hulle gesê ek het nie die tjek uitgeskryf nie.”
Die aanvallers het dié tjek vermoedelik aan iemand anders gegee om te gaan wissel, sê Botha. Dié man is in hegtenis geneem toe die tjekbedrog aan die lig gekom het.
Hy het glo gesê die mans wat die tjek aan hom gegee het, het vertel hulle het ’n “wit vark doodgeskiet en sy wapens gesteel”.
Dié man, wat nie met die aanval verbind word nie, het Botha-hulle op die aanvallers se spoor gesit, waarna hulle in hegtenis geneem is.
Supt. Lesego Metsi, polisiewoordvoerder, sê die verdagtes sal na verwagting vandag in die hof in Leeudoringstad verskyn op aanklagte van huisbraak en aanranding.
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Mar 24 2009 09:19:35:483PM - (SA)
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March 23 2009 at 10:21AM
A 68-year-old man was stabbed to death by two men in his home in Redhouse in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape police said on Monday.
Inspector Dumile Gwavu said Pieter William van der Poel's 65-year-old wife was awoken by a noise in their house in Topaz street around 2.45am on Sunday.
She discovered that Van der Poel was struggling with two men in the passage - one of them was struggling with him while the other repeatedly stabbed him.
The woman went to fetch a firearm and returned to find that the two men had fled.
She asked her husband where the two men were and was told that they had jumped out of a first floor window.
The men had used a ladder to reach the window through which they had gained entry.
Van der Poel collapsed and died before paramedics arrived.
He had sustained stab wounds to his chest, back, left arm and right arm and had bled profusely.
A case of house robbery and murder would be investigated, said Gwavu. - Sapa
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March 24 2009 at 10:09AM
The man accused of killing Elize Havenga, who was raped and then strangled with wire near the Bronkhorstspruit farm where she lived with her husband, has told the Pretoria High Court that he did not mean to kill her, but wanted only to keep her busy while he fled.
Mpiya Richard Rammutla, 30, of Bronkhorstspruit, on Monday pleaded guilty to raping and robbing Havenga in February last year, but denied that he murdered her.
On that day, Havenga had an argument with her husband. She stormed out of the house and later asked her brother to come and fetch her.
She asked him to take her back to the farm, but told him to drop her at the road leading to the farm so that she could walk home.
'I went up to her and grabbed her from behind'
She was overpowered by Rammutla, who had said in a statement to police that he was waiting along the road for a taxi.
Rammutla said he was a few metres behind Havenga when he "started to think wrong things".
"I went up to her and grabbed her from behind. My one hand was over her throat and the other on her chest."
He dragged her into nearby bushes. "She told me I could take her ring, but I was not interested."
Rammutla said the woman became weak from his grip around her neck.
'I took it and tied it around her neck and made a knot at the back'
"She was very scared and did not shout. I felt she had no more power. I let her lie down and had sex with her. It was only once."
He said Havenga then told him she was going to have him arrested.
"I saw a wire lying next to her. I took it and tied it around her neck and made a knot at the back. I grabbed her handbag and ran away," he said. Later, Rammutla said, he went to fetch his wife, who was at a church in Marabastad. He sold the camera and cellphone that were in the handbag for R700.
On Monday, his lawyer asked him who was responsible for Havenga's death. Rammutla answered: "I was."
He added that he did not have the intention to kill her, but wanted only to silence her for a while. He said this was because she threatened to have him arrested.
"I thought that after I had left, she would untie the wire. I just wanted the opportunity to leave."
Looking at a picture of Havenga's body, he agreed with the State that the wire was so tight that it sank into her flesh.
Rammutla was arrested only seven months after the murder.
It later emerged that his DNA matched the swabs taken from Havenga on the scene.
Captain Steven Hermitage testified on Monday that the police had the name of the accused as well as his picture and DNA samples they had collected on the scene, but had no idea where he was staying. One of his detectives was a keen horsewoman and seven months after the crime, she was buying bales of hay in the area, Hermitage said.
Rammutla helped to load the hay, and the detective immediately recognised him from the picture.
Judgment will be delivered today.
This article was originally published on page 5 of Pretoria News on March 24, 2009
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19/03/2009 21:20 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A man and his son were shot and injured by armed robbers at their home in Lichtenburg in the North West on Thursday morning, paramedics said.
Netcare 911 spokesperson Mark Stokoe said it appeared as though four robbers gained entry through an open gate while one waited in a getaway car.
"The man's wife heard dogs barking and when she opened the back door to investigate, the robbers pushed her aside.
"She screamed and her husband and son came running, during which they were both shot in the chest," said Stokoe.
The attackers demanded she open the safe. However, when she told them there was no safe they told her she was lying because they had broken into the house a short while before and knew there was a safe.
Stokoe said the family owned a business which they ran on the premises.
The men got into the walk-in safe and emptied it, taking with them "a combination of rifles", jewellery and an undisclosed amount of cash, he said.
When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found the woman's husband and her son lying in a pool of blood, both in a critical condition.
"Treatment and stabilisation was carried out at the scene of the crime before the patients were taken to a private facility in Klerksdorp," he said.
It turned out there had previously been an attempted robbery at the family's home when about eight used grinding discs had been found on scene, but the robbers had been unable to cut into the safe.
Stokoe said the father, who suffered extensive internal injuries, was out of theatre by late Thursday afternoon.
"The bullet was not removed. It will be removed during a secondary procedure," he said.
The man's son was in a serious but more satisfactory condition.
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Mar 18 2009 08:19:56:847PM - (SA)
Die vermeende moordenaars van ’n bekende bejaarde inwoner van Louis Trichardt is steeds agter tralies.
Die vyf mans het gister vlugtig in die Louis Trichardt-landdroshof verskyn weens die moord in Februarie op mev. Tienie Botha (78), ’n oud-burgemeestersvrou.
Mnre. Thobeli Jili (25) van Alexandra en Immanuel Thabosita (36) van Johannesburg het gister saam met drie mans van die Louis Trichardt-omgewing, mnre. Thomas Ramudzuli (40), Rudzani Mufumadi (29) en David Lehaiwa (30), op aanklagte van moord, roof en huisbraak verskyn.
Botha is vermoedelik vroegoggend in haar huis oorval en glo verwurg. Sy het ook kneusplekke in haar gesig gehad. Die meubels in haar huis was rondgeskuif en dit het gelyk of sy teruggeveg het.
Juwele, vyf vuurwapens en klere is gesteel.
Die verdagtes bly in aanhouding en sal op 5 Mei om borgtog aansoek doen. – Marietie Louw-Carstens
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Mar 16 2009 09:29:49:310PM - (SA)
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"I remember his eyes" Edri Myburgh says it is a miracle that she is alive, after being shot at point-blank range in a botched robbery. Photo: Etienne Creux, Pretoria News
'I remember his eyes. I remember that cold look, the laugh, the grin and then the click of the gun." These were the chilling words of a Pretoria mother of three, Edri Myburgh, who along with her mother-in-law survived being shot in the head at point-blank range during a botched robbery.
The suspects, Helton Matsimela, 27, and Daniel Motshwarateu, 22, a gardener at the Myburgh home, were arrested within hours of the attack. They were caught soon after they smashed the Myburgh family's car as they fled along a deserted farm road outside Bronkhorstspruit where they had allegedly shot the two women.
'I remember being pushed next to the tree and the men walking towards us and shooting'
"I remember being pushed next to the tree and the men walking towards us and shooting. Mom tried to ask them to phone Dad to say goodbye, but they would not let her. They didn't say anything except the one who laughed and grinned at me. Then he just shot. I remember my mom turning her head as the man pushed the gun against her head and shot. That was it.
"I remember the blood. I screamed and begged to live. I remember crying and telling them I have children and then going strangely calm," she said, describing how a surreal deathly quietness descended over her.
Praying over and over again to survive so that she could watch her children grow up, Myburgh said she felt a "white light" surround her as one of the gunmen pointed a gun at her and shot her in the face.
"When the gun went off I knew in my heart I was not going to die. I knew I was going to be all right. I knew I was going to survive. I knew it was not going to be my last day on Earth. There was a loud bang and then nothing. Everything was quiet."
After regaining consciousness as her attackers fled, Myburgh, saw her mother-in-law's body sprawled in a bloody heap behind a tree, and she began running. "When I woke up and saw her on the ground I thought she was dead. When I heard the gunshot go off and saw her fall I thought she was gone."
Ripping off her T-shirt and pants to stop the bleeding, Myburgh stumbled, crawled and ran nearly 15km through thick bush to a nearby church for help. A farmer driving to Bronkhorstspruit for a doctor's appointment spotted her and took her to the local hospital, where her mother-in-law is being treated.
"If they had the right ammunition in the gun I would be dead. If I had brought my children with me to their granny to go do shopping they would also be dead. If I had not prayed I would be dead.
"The doctors say it is a miracle that we are alive. We were meant to have survived," she said, adding that many people across South Africa were not so lucky.
"I am not angry because I am alive to watch my children grow up and because the criminals have been caught. I have forgiven them because if I do not, then I will never be able to carry on with my life. I have made peace with God about what happened and now they have to do the same," said Myburgh.
"Why must I leave? South Africa is my home and I am proudly South African. I am not afraid to say that and I am not afraid to live here."
Matsimela and Motshwarateu are to appear in the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate's Court on April 2, on charges of armed robbery, attempted murder, theft and possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.
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Kpl. Patrick Mokgolo (28) van die Waterkloof-lugmagbasis verlaat die streekhof in Pretoria-Noord waar hy tereg staan op aanklagte van verkragting, poging tot moord en onsedelike aanranding op 'n blonde korporaal. (Foto: Lisa Hnatowicz)
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13/03/2009 17:30 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A 29-year-old man hired to do renovations at a house in Meyerspark, east of Silverton raped and robbed the wife of his employer on Friday morning, police said.
The Mozambican national, who had been living on the 65-year-old woman's property for the past five months allegedly went into her bedroom, took jewellery, R5 000 cash and two pistols from the safe before raping her, said Inspector Jan Shawane Sepato.
"Once the woman's husband left for work between 07:00 and 08:00, he unlocked one of the doors leading to the couple's bedroom and raped her," he said.
The man is alleged to have then locked the house and gates leading into the property and left with items stolen from the house.
But he was arrested moments later after the woman called members of the neighbourhood watch patrolling the streets.
He is expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's court on Monday on charges of rape and theft.
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Mar 12 2009 08:16:27:260PM - (SA)
Reivilo (Vryburg). – Daar is niks gesteel nie, want daar was niks om te steel nie.
So sê ’n vriend van ’n bejaarde vrou van hier wat wreed in haar beskeie woonplek vermoor is.
“Sy was eensaam en vreeslik arm. Die Here weet, sy het nooit ’n vlieg skade aangedoen nie,” het mnr. Gerhard Smit, ’n vriend van mev. Suzie Viljoen (86) wat verlede week in haar “armlastige huise waar die pleister van die mure dop” vermoedelik verkrag en vermoor is, gister gesê.
Net twee leë woonerwe skei haar huis van die polisiekantoor hier.
Die polisie het vroeër bevestig Ouma Viljoen, soos sy bekend staan, is sowat ’n week gelede vol blou kolle dood in haar sitkamer aangetref.
Die gemeenskap is steeds geruk deur die wrede aanval op hul voorstoep. Almal in die omgewing het geld geskenk om vir haar begrafnis te betaal. “Boonop sorg hierdie gemeenskap vir die familie wat die begrafnis sal bywoon, se etes,’’ het Smit gesê.
“Daar is niks gesteel nie, want daar was niks om te steel nie. Sy het sulke ou, goedkoop soutpotjies versamel en dit was dit. Voordat ek haar dompelpomp, wat gesteel is, vervang het, het sy tot onlangs nog self water in ’n emmer na haar huis aangedra.
“Sy het geweier om ouetehuis toe te gaan en ons het maar vleis en groente gevat en na haar help kyk. Sy het die grootste deel van haar lewe hier gebly.”
’n Ander inwoner wat gevra het om nie genoem te word nie het ’n R5 000-beloning aangebied vir enige inligting wat tot die skuldiges se suksesvolle vervolging sal lei.
Enigiemand met inligting kan dit SMS na 079 076 1717.
Niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie. Viljoen word vandag begrawe. – Nicolize van der Walt
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Mar 13 2009 09:00:52:170PM - (SA)
’n Rower wat ’n jong man koelbloedig doodgeskiet het nadat hy eers sy beursie gesteel het, is vir effektief 30 jaar tronk toe gestuur.
Moses Mkhawane (26) van Soshanguve, noordwes van Pretoria, en sy makker, Nicholas Ngwenya (21), het mnr. Daniël Muller se beursie op 26 Augustus 2006 van sy tafel in ’n Pretoriase restaurant af gesteel.
Muller het hulle agternagesit. Mkhawane het hom in die rug geskiet waar hy onder ’n vragmotor in Zambesirylaan geskuil het.
Die mans het ook mnr. Victor Mulder, eienaar van die restaurant, van sy selfoon en R200 beroof toe hy en mnr. Alfred Chauke, die restaurant se veiligheidswag, hulle tot by ’n motorhawe gevolg en oor Muller se beursie gekonfronteer het.
’n Skoot is in Chauke se rigting geskiet.
Landdros Pieter Nel het Mkhawane tot 47 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis waarvan hy effektief 30 jaar moet uitdien.
Ngwenya is vir 11 jaar en ses maande tronk toe gestuur.
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Mar 13 2009 08:25:40:237PM - (SA)
‘Help my, Here!” het mev. Louise Buitendag (43) oor en oor hardop gesê nadat rowers haar tydens ’n mislukte motorkaping in Pretoria in die gesig geskiet het.
Dié ma van vier was omstreeks 22:00 eergister op pad huis toe van ’n werkvergadering toe sy by ’n rooi verkeerslig op die hoek van Tom Jenkinsrylaan en Soutpansbergweg in Rietondale stilgehou het.
“Ek het ’n harde plofgeluid van die motorruit (af) gehoor. Eers het ek gedink dis dalk ’n spark plug (vonkprop waarmee grypdiewe gewoonlik motorruite breek) wat iemand teen my motorruit gekap het, maar toe sien ek ’n man reg langs my by die deur staan,” het Buitendag gister in haar bed tuis gesê.
Sy het gesê alles het in ’n breukdeel van ’n sekonde gebeur. Sy het deur die gebreekte motorruit in die loop van die man se vuurwapen vasgekyk.
“Al wat ek daarna kan onthou, is die vonk wat sy vuurwapen gemaak het toe nog ’n skoot afgevuur is,” het Buitendag met trane in haar oë vertel.
Sy het platgeval sonder om te besef dat sy raak geskiet is. Haar aanvaller het nie een keer met haar gepraat of beduie dat hy die motor wil hê nie.
“Hy hy het net geskiet. Ek het net besef ek moet nou iets doen om te keer dat hy in die motor inklim,” het sy gesê.
Sy het die petrolpedaal platgetrap, haar ligte geflikker en toeter geblaas om ’n aankomende voertuig se aandag te trek.
“Ek kon sien dié mense verstaan nie wat aangaan nie en het toe so vinnig moontlik . . . die binneliggie aangesit sodat hulle my bebloede gesig kon sien.”
Dié voertuig het toe stilgehou om te help en die insittendes het die nooddienste en polisie ontbied.
Sy is per ambulans na die Steve Biko-hospitaal geneem waar ’n dokter gesê het dis ’n wonderwerk is dat sy nog leef nadat die koeël haar op so ’n kort afstand getref het. Dit is by haar bolip in en het agter aan die binnekant van haar wang vasgeslaan sonder dat enige tand of kakebeen gebreek is. “Die dokters wil eers kyk of die risiko nie te groot is om die koeël uit te haal nie. Vir my voel dit asof al my tande aan dié kant getrek is,” het sy gesê.
Volgens sers. Lynette Erasmus, polisiewoordvoerder, is ’n verdagte aangekeer in die buitetoilet van ’n huis in die omgewing waar hy weggekruip het. Hy het aan die polisie gesê nog twee mans was saam met hom, maar hulle het weggehardloop.
“ ’n Saak van poging tot moord en poging tot ’n motorkaping word ondersoek,” het Erasmus gesê.
“Ons is baie bly die Here het haar gespaar; ons het haar nog nodig,” het Buitendag se naasoudste seun, Karl (20), gesê.
“Ek sal steeds my gewone pad ry, want dit sal vir my eerder die plek wees waar die Here my gered het. Ek beskou myself ook nie as ’n slagoffer nie, maar as ’n oorwinnaar,” het Buitendag gesê.
Haar man, Riaan, het gesê dit was vir hulle ’n groot skok. “Dit is hoog tyd dat daar iets aan die kapings . . . gedoen word.”
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"Hy was soos 'n kind in ons huis" 'n Pretoriase man konfronteer die Mosambieker wat al maande by hom en sy vrou inwoon en wat gisteroggend na bewering sy vrou verkrag het. Foto: Herman Verwey
Mar 13 2009 08:25:41:750PM - (SA)
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March 13 2009 at 09:49AM
A Durban man was shot when he attempted to help his neighbour during an armed robbery in Durban's Umbilo area, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday.
Inspector Michael Read said 30-year-old Shaun Coetzee was rushed to hospital after being shot in the chest.
On Thursday night, his neighbour - 72-year-old Martha Smalburger - was confronted by three men inside her home.
One had a firearm.
Smalburger's domestic worker managed to run next door and inform Coetzee.
Coetzee ran over to the house and was shot at as soon as he entered.
The suspects immediately fled the scene, taking nothing with them.
Smalburger had apparently opened the security gate to let her dogs out when the gang entered.
Read said the case was being investigated. - Sapa
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10/03/2009 18:07 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A gardener who raped his 72-year-old employer should be jailed for life, state counsel Adele Janse van Vuuren said in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday.
The accused, Lucky Khumalo, 31, of Glencoe, pleaded guilty to raping his slightly-built victim, throwing her to the floor, throttling her and inflicting other injuries when she resisted.
He attacked her last month after she had paid him.
"After he was paid he did not go home but surprised his victim in her home."
The 72-year-old who lived alone and had employed Khumalo for eight years, needed medical attention after the attack.
Janse van Vuuren said the woman had trusted him.
She said that the factors advanced by his counsel Ishy Khan as mitigation; that he had worked since he was eight-years-old, passed matric, supported his mother, had no previous convictions and pleaded guilty, did not amount to substantial and compelling circumstances that allowed the court to pass a sentence other than the prescribed life.
Judge Fikile Mokgohloa will pass sentence on March 17.
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Mar 10 2009 09:28:31:410PM - (SA)
Die vermeende moordenaar van ’n vakansieganger wat in 2007 in Marlothpark naby Komatipoort doodgeskiet is, het gister uit die hof op dié dorp ontsnap.
Die verdagte, mnr. Shadrack Ndzunkula (18), is in Augustus verlede jaar tydens ’n klopjag op ’n kampong naby Marlothpark vasgetrek. In dieselfde voorval is sy makker, ’n 12-jarige seun, doodgeskiet.
Hulle het ’n AK47-aanvalsgeweer by hulle gehad.
Die twee word onder meer van die moord op mnr. Fanie Keyser (47) van Pretoria verdink. Keyser is op 29 Desember 2007 by sy vakansiehuis doodgeskiet.
Ndzunkula, wat as die leier van die roofbende beskou is, is ná sy inhegtenisname ook positief met verskeie ander gewapende rooftogte, asook ’n reeks inbrake in Komatipoort, verbind.
Die nuus oor Ndzunkula, ’n Mosambieker, se ontsnapping het gister soos ’n veldbrand onder inwoners versprei.
Mnr. Jannie de Bruin, voorsitter van die gemeenskapspolisiëringsforum (GPF) in Marlothpark, het gister woedend gereageer toe hy by Beeld daarvan hoor.
“Die dorp is weens sy ligging en die digte bosse ’n sagte teiken vir rowers. Die bendes ken die gebied soos die palm van hul hand.”
Hy het gesê dit is ernstige laksheid van die polisie om ’n gevaarlike verdagte uit hul toesig te laat ontvlug. “Die rowers is ongenaakbaar en vreesloos. Hulle gáán binnekort weer hier toeslaan,” het De Bruin gewaarsku.
Hy het ook ’n klag oor die polisie se rol in die ontsnapping by die polisie se provinsiale kantoor ingedien. Die polisie in Komatipoort het die ontsnapping bevestig, maar wou nie sê hoe dit gebeur het nie.
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