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01-29-2008, 03:22 AM #1981
R7 milj. nadat hy raak gery is
’NJong man van Mooinooi naby Brits wie se “pragtige toekoms” as 18-jarige deur ’n dronk motoris verwoes is toe hy raak gery is terwyl hy duimgegooi het, het gister in die hooggeregshof in Pretoria meer as R7 miljoen van die Padongelukkefonds (POF) gekry.
Mnr. Jaco Viljoen, nou 26, het pas met sy opleiding as ketelmaker begin toe hy in 2000 by die Buccleuch-wisselaar op die Ben Shoeman-hoofweg raakgery is waar hy staan en duimgooi het op pad na Pretoria.
Ná die ongeluk is albei sy bene teenaan die heupe afgesit.
Sy milt is ook verwyder en hy het ernstige beserings aan een van sy arms opgedoen. Hy is sedertdien aan ’n rolstoel gekluister en het “ ’n kluisenaarsbestaan op die plaas naby Mooinooi gevoer omdat niemand hom wou rondry nie”.
Mnr. Riaan van Staden, Viljoen se prokureur, het gister gesê ’n skikking is buite die hof met die POF bereik.
Die skikking is later deur regter Willie Hartzenberg ’n bevel van die hof gemaak.
Ingevolge die skikking moet die POF dadelik R2,705 miljoen aan Viljoen betaal, wat sy mediese uitgawes van R761 000 sedert die voorval insluit.
Daarbenewens moet die POF in die toekoms nog meer as R5 miljoen aan Viljoen betaal, wat voorsiening sal maak vir al sy mediese uitgawes totdat hy sterf, die voorsiening van ’n motor wat spesiaal vir ’n gestremde soos hy ingerig is en die ombouing van die huis waarin hy bly om dit toeganklik en leefbaar vir hom as gestremde te maak.
Die POF-geld sal ook aangewend word om kunsledemate vir Viljoen te laat vervaardig en hy sal daarna intensiewe arbeidsterapie ontvang om hom te leer om met dié ledemate oor die weg te kom.
Van Staden, wat verskeie POF-gedinge hanteer, sê Viljoen se verhaal “is een van die hartseerste verhale wat ek ooit beleef het. Hy was die laaste agt jaar soos ’n kluisenaar in sy huis, omdat hy geen vervoer gehad het nie en nie geld gehad het vir ’n motor wat na sy behoeftes ingerig is nie.”
01-29-2008, 03:30 AM #1982
BMW-hoof: Moordsaak na hoë hof
Die twee mans wat daarvan beskuldig word dat hulle ’n takbestuurder van BMW vermoor het, se saak is na die Pretoriase hooggeregshof oorgeplaas.
Mnre. Patrick Sithole (35) en Frans Mthabesztha (25) het gister vlugtig in die Pretoriase landdroshof verskyn. Hulle word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle mnr. Manie Maritz verlede jaar by sy huis in Constantiapark, in die ooste van Pretoria, doodgeskiet het.
Hulle moet op 29 Februarie in die hooggeregshof verskyn op aanklagte van moord, poging tot moord, roof en die onwettige besit van vuurwapens en ammunisie.
01-29-2008, 03:35 AM #1983
Deen se vrou ‘by breekpunt’
STRAND. – Die vrou van die vermoorde mnr. Preben Povlsen (71) van Denemarke lyk na aan breekpunt.
Mev. Maria Povlsen (30) het gister in die beskuldigdebank van die plaaslike landdroshof aansienlik minder beheersd voorgekom as met haar eerste verskyning. Met trane wat loop het sy op die oog af weggedeins van haar 35-jarige broer, mnr. Francis Kimeze, en agter hul suster me. Stella Ssengendo (39) probeer skuil.
Hulle staan saam tereg weens die moord op mnr. Povlsen.
Dit was mev. Povlsen en Ssengendo se eerste verskyning saam met Kimeze, ’n kunstenaar. Al drie is van Uganda en word in Pollsmoor aangehou.
Die Povlsen-egpaar was nege jaar lank getroud en het om die beurt in Farum, Denemarke, en Gordonsbaai gewoon. Hulle het twee jong kinders.
Ssengendo het saam met haar seun in ’n woonstel van die Gordonsbaaise huis tuisgegaan en in ’n plaaslike boekwinkel gewerk.
Povlsen se vrou het hom die aand van 15 Januarie as vermis aangemeld nadat hy glo die vorige oggend weg is om te gaan gholf speel en nie teruggekeer het nie.
Sonder dat daar ’n liggaam was, is Kimeze ’n paar dae later in hegtenis geneem, gevolg deur die inhegtenisneming van sy twee susters in die vroeë oggendure.
Die oorledene se Mazda is dieselfde dag nog in Guguletu gevind en ure later het ’n voetganger op mnr. Povlsen se liggaam buite Bloubergstrand afgekom.
Plaaslike vriende het gister hul kommer oor die toestand van albei susters uitgespreek.
Ssengendo sukkel glo met lae bloeddruk en asma in die tronk en mev. Povlsen se emosionele toestand wek kommer.
Kimeze het gisteroggend eerste die hof binnegekom. Hy is gevolg deur mev. Povlsen, in dieselfde moulose hemp en denimbroek as by haar eerste verskyning, maar meer verkreukeld, en Ssengendo.
01-29-2008, 03:43 AM #1984
Egpaar in huis oorval
KIMBERLEY. – ’n Sakeman hier is die naweek ernstig beseer toe hy verbete teruggeveg het in ’n gewapende rooftog in sy huis in dié stad.
Mnr. Vigant Gordon (45) is in die gestoei onder meer in sy bors geskiet en het ernstige snywonde aan sy arms opgedoen.
Twee vermeende rowers het hom en sy vrou, mev. Alta Gordon, Vrydagaand in hul huis in Hillcrest in dié stad aangeval en van verskeie waardevolle artikels beroof.
Mev. Gordon is nie in die voorval beseer nie. Hulle was alleen by die huis.
Die egpaar het gister vanuit die Kimberley-Medi-Clinic van die angsvolle oomblikke vertel.
“Ons het gesit en krieket kyk. Dit was omstreeks 22:00 en daar was slegs ses boulbeurte van die wedstryd oor,” het mev. Gordon vertel.
Albei het skielik gehoor hoe ’n geweer oorgehaal word en hoe iemand “sjjj” sê. Twee mans het langs die egpaar in die sitkamer gestaan, elkeen met ’n geweer in die hand.
Hulle is toe beveel om plat op die mat te lê met hul gesigte na die grond.
“Die mans het ons uitgevra of ons kuiergaste verwag en of iemand anders in die kamers lê en slaap. Dit was moeilik om hulle te verstaan omdat hulle in gebroke taal gepraat het,” het mev. Gordon gesê.
Een van die rowers het daarna die huis deurgesoek terwyl die ander een by hulle gebly het.
Die rower het teruggekeer en die egpaar se hande met dasse vasgebind.
Dié rower het weer geloop en later teruggekom en gesê mnr. Gordon moet die kluis gaan oopmaak.
“Die kluis werk met ’n kode. Die skurk kon nie daarin slaag om die kluis oop te maak nie en het my hande losgemaak. Ek het die kluis oopgekry.
“Die rower het my geweer gevat en artikels in die kluis in sy sakke geprop. Daarna het hy my geweer op my gerig en my probeer skiet,” het mnr. Gordon gesê. Die skoot het nie afgegaan nie.
Volgens Gordon is dit asof hy besef het hy het ’n tweede kans gekry. Hy het na die een rower se geweer gegryp.
Daar was ’n vreeslike gestoei tussen mnr. Gordon en die rower.
Die rower het telkens geskree “vandag is die dag wat jy doodgaan”.
Mnr. Gordon is in die gestoei in die bors geskiet en het ook snywonde aan sy arms opgedoen.
Die rowers het daarna op die vlug geslaan. Dit is nie bekend of een van die aanvallers beseer is nie.
Mnr. Gordon is in die Kimberley-Medi-Clinic opgeneem en is gister van die intensiewesorgeenheid na die ortopedie-saal oorgeplaas.
Mev. Denise Coetzee, woordvoerder van die hospitaal, het gesê Gordon word vir ’n skietwond en meswond is sy bors en ernstige snywonde aan sy arms behandel.
Die egpaar het ’n beroep op inwoners gedoen om hulle te help om hul waardevolle artikels terug te kry.
“Ons bied ’n beloning aan vir enig-iemand wat kan help.”
Mnr. Gordon het gesê van die artikels wat gesteel is, is ’n diamantring, ’n Michelle Herbelin-horlosie, ’n armbandjie met ’n naam binne en ’n Nokia-selfoon.
Kapt. Tshepo Mofokeng, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die verdagtes is tussen 25 en 35. Enigiemand met inligting kan insp. Johan Roos by 082-466-4512 bel.
01-29-2008, 04:17 AM #1985
Kleuterhoof-moord: 5 vas
Vier mans en 'n vrou is in hegtenis geneem in verband met die moord op 'n 55-jarige kleuterskoolhoof van Waterkloofrif in Pretoria.
Mev. Rinda Abraham is Saterdagnag met 'n enkele skoot doodgeskiet nadat gewapende rowers haar en haar gesin tuis oorval het.
Die rowers het met net 'n selfoon gevlug.
'n Polisiewoordvoerder sê die verdagtes is in Daveyton en Tembisa aan die Oos-Rand vasgetrek.
Twee van die mans is Mosambiekers.
Beslag is gelê op twee vuurwapens en ammunisie.
01-29-2008, 04:20 AM #1986
'Please leave my dad's things'
Pretoria - A live-in domestic worker, who was locked into a cupboard by a robber, heard how he also forced her employer's five-year-old daughter into a cupboard.
She was able to free the frightened child only half an hour later. There were marks on her throat and her chest was stained by blood.
This was how Lifina Mweli, who is still employed by a family in Senderwood, testified in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday about the day in September last year when she and the girl were overpowered by a robber.
David Matladi, 36, from Primrose, appeared in court on charges of attempted murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, and the illegal possession of a firearm.
Mweli testified in detail how Matladi arrived at her employer's house on March 22, pretending he had to do tiling in the bathroom.
Shortly after Mweli, accompanied by the child, took him to the bathroom in the main bedroom, he turned around and ordered them to lie down on the floor.
He tied Mweli's hands and strangled her from behind when she tried to free herself.
"I was unable to breathe or scream,"she said and then testified how she could feel the muzzle of a gun in her neck.
After he gagged her with a shirt from the laundry basket, he took a safe from her employer's wardrobe and put it inside a bag.
The child, who sat crying on her parents' bed, begged them to "please leave my dad's things".
"Where are you taking my dad's things?" she pleaded.
Minutes later Mweli was forced into the cupboard and locked up.
From the darkness of the cupboard she heard how the next cupboard's door was opened and how the child was ordered to get in, she testified.
Eventually it became quiet and Mweli managed to open the cupboard door to free the girl.
"There were clear marks on her neck. The dress she was wearing had bloodstains all over it. When I asked her what they had done to her, she answered: "He strangled me". The case continues on Tuesday.
01-29-2008, 04:27 AM #1987
Mom's fake-licence horror
A young mother was locked up overnight in a filthy, blood-spattered police cell after she was accused of being in possession of a false driving licence.
Vivienne Midlane, who vigorously denies the allegation of fraud, has described her experience as a nightmare.
Even though her lawyer tried to have her released on bail, police allegedly refused to charge her until the next morning.
Her children - aged 10, eight and two - were distressed because they had to spend the night without their mother.
'It was very traumatic and scary'
They had been left in the care of a domestic worker while Midlane's husband David spent the day desperately trying to get her out of jail.
"The kids were traumatised," the mother said.
"I got a call from my son's headmaster on Friday after I was released, asking what was going on because the child was distressed, telling them his mom was in jail."
And, bitterly for Midlane, she saw in her 30th birthday behind bars.
She said her troubles began last week when she went to apply for a duplicate driving licence.
'I don't know how this is going to end'
"I got my licence last February at the Langlaagte testing station. I went through a driving instructor, who gave me eight lessons.
"He helped me book the test because I couldn't get an appointment myself, and he took me for the test.
"It was during the time that eNaTIS was not up and running properly.
"I went through all the procedures, took my test and passed it, and was issued with a licence.
"I thought everything was in order until I lost the licence in December.
"My baby had got hold of my purse and scattered all its contents throughout the house. We searched high and low but could not find the licence."
When she went to apply for a duplicate, Midlane was surprised there was no record on the system of her having a driving licence.
"They told me that my name was not on the computer - only my learner's was there.
"It said I was licensed to drive but did not have the details and number of my licence.
"Officials said I should not worry, as this happened often."
Then Midlane remembered she had an expired temporary licence in her bag. She handed it to the official, thinking it could help them trace the original.
"Next thing, I was told it was a fake and I was escorted into a back office, and the police were called in to arrest me," she said.
This was the start of an ordeal which would last 24 hours.
Midlane was taken to Florida police station at 2.30pm and treated "very badly".
The police refused to charge her, and she was detained in the cells for hours without food or water.
"The cells were filthy. There was stale food all over. There was blood on the walls. There were two polystyrene cups covered with blood, so I could not get water to drink."
Her lawyer arrived. He too was unable to get her charged so that she could apply for bail.
The mother spent the night sitting in a corner of the cell because the thin mattresses were so dirty.
Her lawyer managed to get a blanket, some juice and some grapes to her - but only with difficulty.
The next morning, two female officers interrogated her, saying they had proof that she had bought her licence.
"It was very traumatic and scary," said Midlane. "I did everything by the book.
"It was later found that the serial number of my temporary licence belonged to a batch that was sent to Bhisho (in the Eastern Cape).
"No one seems to have answers and it is going to be up to me to prove that I did not buy it. I don't know how I am going to do that. I don't have receipts because I had to hand them over when the bookings were made."
Midlane now has to appear in court on February 28 to face fraud charges.
"It's going to cost a fortune in lawyers' fees and stress. I am scared. I have done nothing wrong.
"If I had a fake licence, I would hardly have handed it over. I don't know how this is going to end."
Midlane plans to take legal action against the testing centre and police because she was arrested and held without being charged.
Wayne Minnaar, spokesperson for the Joburg metro police, said several things could have gone wrong that would need to be investigated. It was possible that the driving instructor had committed the fraud, or a cashier or the woman herself, he said.
01-29-2008, 04:34 AM #1988
'Monster' is finally sentenced
The killer of a city nurse was on Monday sentenced in the Pretoria High Court to an effective 20 years' imprisonment, while his accomplice received an effective sentence of six years. The trial has taken three years to reach its conclusion.
Willie Strauss looked grave as Judge Joshua Dolamo sentenced him for the murder of Laetitia Brown, a nurse at the Pretoria Academic hospital, and the attempted murder of her friend Deon Engelbrecht. Engelbrecht suffered severe brain damage after he was hit on the head with a large stick and cannot recall anything of the incident.
Johan Johnston, who was convicted of robbery with aggravating circumstances, burst into tears when he heard he had to go to jail.
The court earlier heard that he had disposed of Brown's car following the attack. Her body was left in a dark spot on a Kameeldrift plot after Strauss smashed her skull in.
'How can it help us? Our daughter is still dead'
While she lay dying, they took her car. Engelbrecht was also left for dead, but the unconscious man was found the next day by a passer-by.
Brown was murdered in March 2003 after she gave a lift to Engelbrecht, Strauss, Johnston and some other friends following a night out at Jacqueline's nightclub.
The court heard how Strauss and Engelbrecht arranged to have a "coke party" along the way.
Brown dropped off the others and she was on her way to drop off Johnston and Strauss when they stopped at a remote spot in Kameeldrift.
Brown apparently told the men she was anxious to get home as she was on duty early the next morning.
Strauss and Engelbrecht, however, became embroiled in an argument about who was going to supply the cocaine.
Johnston testified that Strauss, who was already under the influence of drugs and alcohol, became a "monster". He said Strauss attacked Engelbrecht with a stick.
Brown, who saw what was happening, jumped on Strauss' back and tried to get him off Engelbrecht. She was also brutally attacked.
Strauss and Johnston then left in Brown's car, which they tried to sell.
When they could not, Strauss told Johnston to dispose of the vehicle.
Counsel for both accused fought a fierce battle for nearly a year following their convictions, to keep them out of jail.
It was argued on behalf of Strauss - a self-confessed drug addict at the time - that he had taken such copious amounts of drugs on the night of the murder that he could not be held accountable for what he had done.
Johnston, the court was told, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after he witnessed what Strauss had done.
But the judge found that both men were to be held accountable for their actions and that they deserved a jail sentence.
He, however, did find mitigating factors warranting a lesser sentence than what the State called for.
The court granted Johnston leave to appeal against his conviction, after his counsel said a verdict of car theft would have been more appropriate. His bail was increased to R10 000. Leave to appeal on behalf of Strauss was refused.
Emotions ran high outside court as Brown's family confronted Engelbrecht. The family said they wanted answers from him and questioned why he never told them all that had happened that night.
Brown's mother, Ina, said she blamed Engelbrecht for what had happened to her daughter.
She said if he had not insisted on a drug party, none of this would have happened.
Ina and her husband George Brown said the fact that Strauss and Johnston were now facing lengthy terms in jail did little to help them heal.
"How can it help us? Our daughter is still dead," Ina said.
Engelbrecht refused to speak to the media.
01-29-2008, 06:49 AM #1989
March against bail for suspect
THE Camdeboo Council of Churches and community members will march to the Graaff-Reinet magistrate‘s court today to hand over a petition to prevent a rape and murder suspect being released on bail.
The march was prompted by the rape and murder of police academy instructor Superintendent Erica Heunis last Tuesday.
Heunis was attacked shortly after taking a group of Grahamstown recruits for an early-morning run on a mountain path.
Camdeboo Council of Churches representative Rev Moses Madlwabinga said the community and members of the police academy would gather at the Umasizakhe Community Hall at 9am today and march to the magistrate‘s court.
Police spokesman Charlotte Marais said the suspect, Jeffrey Lottering, 26, had appeared in the magistrate‘s court yesterday, charged with rape, murder and robbery.
He was not released on bail.
01-29-2008, 08:22 AM #1990
Attorney quits murder case
Durban - The case against a 21-year old accused of murdering an award-winning French chef had to be remanded in the Ramsgate Magistrate's Court on Tuesday after the attorney withdrew from the case.
Police spokesperson Zandra Hechter said the attorney who was representing 21-year-old Thulekha Qunu withdrew from the case and the court ordered that another attorney be appointed.
The case has been remanded to February 14 for a bail hearing. It was not immediately known why the attorney withdrew from the case.
Qunu is alleged to have murdered 69-year-old restaurateur Yvonne Cosson earlier this month after he was dismissed by her over a dispute about wages.
At a previous appearance on January 24, Qunu's attorney failed to arrive for court proceedings.
Qunu was arrested in Umtata on January 9.
Cosson's partially burnt body was found lying next to a wall of her house, covered with plastic bags and soil.
Cosson, who emigrated from the Normandy area of France more than 20 years ago, owned and operated the restaurant La Petite Normandie.
The restaurant was regularly nominated as one of the top eating establishments in KwaZulu-Natal and in 2005 her restaurant won the Eat Out Johnnie Walker Top Country Kitchens award.
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