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03-11-2010, 03:25 AM #5781
Gyselaar ‘gedaan’, maar veilig terug op SA bodem
JOHANNESBURG. – Mnr. Nick Greyling, die SuperSport-klankingenieur wat in Nigerië as gyselaar aangehou is, het gisteroggend veilig in Johannesburg aangekom.
“Hy is liggaamlik en emosioneel gedaan,” het mnr. Johann Russouw, sy skoonpa en ’n RSG-omroeper, gesê.
Greyling is verlede Maandag saam met twee Nigeriërs, die kameraman mnr. Alexander Effiong en die kommentator mnr. Bowie Attamah, ontvoer nadat ’n groep gewapende mans die bus waarin hulle saam met 18 kollegas gery het, naby die Owerri-lughawe in die Imo-provinsie voorgekeer het.
Effiong het kort daarna ontsnap. Attamah is Vrydag vrygelaat en Greyling Maandagoggend.
“Dit is ’n onbeskryflike gevoel. Ons voel nederig dankbaar vir die Here wat hom veilig teruggebring het,” het Russouw gesê.
Greyling het gisteroggend aan Russouw vertel hoe hul groep gyselaars die heeltyd moes rondbeweeg.
“Hulle moes deur die bosse loop en daar is mos woude,” het Russouw gesê.
Greyling het vir sy skoonpa gesê hy is nou “klaar gekamp vir die res van sy lewe”.
Sy vrou, Lorna, en tweelingbroer, Johan, het hom op die lughawe verwelkom.
Sy vlug vanuit Lagos het kort voor 06:00 op die O.R.Tambo-lughawe geland.
’n Franse dokter het van Nigerië tot in Suid-Afrika saam met hom gevlieg.
Greyling en sy familie het nie by die lughawe se openbare uitgang by aankomssaal A uitgekom nie, maar ’n ander uitgang gebruik om die media te vermy.
Hulle is ook nie gister terug na hul huis in Melville, Johannesburg, nie.
Russouw het gevra die Greyling-gesin se privaatheid moet gerespekteer word.
Volgens hom het sy skoonseun gister gerus en tyd met sy vrou en drie dogters deurgebring.
Me. Caroline Creasy, woordvoerder van MultiChoice Africa, het gister gesê al die maatskappy se werknemers in Nigerië is veilig.
Volgens haar het die maatskappy nie ’n losprys vir Greyling se vrylating betaal nie.
Greyling sal berading ontvang.
Hy is nie die eerste Suid-Afrikaner wat in Nigerië gyselaar geneem is nie. In 2008 is twee duikers, mnre. Dan Laarman en Robert Berrie, ontvoer. Hulle is tien dae later vrygelaat.
03-11-2010, 03:28 AM #5782
Man oor beweerde passiemoord voor
Die man wat na bewering ’n ander man, vermoedelik uit jaloesie, in sy gewese vrou se meenthuis in Heuwelsig, Bloemfontein, doodgeskiet het, gaan waarskynlik binne twee weke aansoek doen om op borgtog vrygelaat te word.
Die verhoor van mnr. George Coetzer (52) van Bloemspruit is gister in die Bloemfonteinse landdroshof vir ’n formele borgaansoek tot 23 Maart uitgestel.
Hy word daarvan aangekla dat hy mnr. Limpie Vermaak (35) op 20 Februarie vermoor het deur hom in die kop te skiet.
Mnr. Paulo Giorgi, sy regsverteenwoordiger, het gister voor landdros K. Malali gesê hy gaan moontlik aansoek doen dat Coetzer vir sielkundige waarneming gestuur word.
Die staat het reeds vroeër gesê dat ’n aansoek om Coetzer op borgtog vry te laat, teengestaan sal word.
Mej. Mbokazi Mkiva het aangekla.
Na verneem word, het Coetzer die Saterdagaand by sy gewese vrou, van wie hy glo verlede jaar geskei is, se meenthuis opgedaag. Vermaak en sy verloofde en hul dogtertjie was daar. Toe hy inkom, het hy Vermaak glo daar gesien. Die verloofde en die kind was in die badkamer. ’n Skoot is toe geskiet en Vermaak het ’n noodlottige kopwond opgedoen. Coetzer het glo weggery.
Hy is later die aand opgespoor en in hegtenis geneem.
Sy vuurwapen, waaruit die skoot vermoedelik gevuur is, is later in ’n koivisdam van ’n ander hoewe op Bloemspruit as die een waarop Coetzer ’n kamer gehuur het, deur polisieduikers uitgehaal.
03-11-2010, 03:44 AM #5783
More outrage over ‘sick’ treatment at Livingstone Hospital
A GROUP of distraught Port Elizabeth residents have broken their silence over ill-treatment they say they suffered at the hands of nurses at the city’s Livingstone Hospital.
This comes after The Herald published a report on Monday about pensioner John Cloete who went to visit his ailing wife Susie at the Korsten hospital, only to find her dead and her naked body uncovered on a bed in a general ward.
North End’s Thomas Foulds, 62, a retired fitter and turner, said his sister Petronella Martens, 66, who was admitted to the hospital a few weeks ago, had been in the same ward as Cloete. He said he received “a strange phone call” on Saturday about “a death in the family”.
“When I said I did not know anything about a death, the guy hung up. But he phoned again, saying I should consider phoning Livingstone Hospital,” Foulds recalled.
After phoning the hospital, he learnt that Martens died “at 6.30am” on Saturday.
“I discovered it was a local undertaker that phoned me.
“The nurses told me she had died at 6.30am, but when we went to collect her clothes at the hospital, we learnt she died at 3am on Saturday.
“It is sad I was not told her condition had changed, as I should have been by her side when she died. If my sister’s condition suddenly changed, did nurses not have the common sense to inform me?”
Asked if he had laid a complaint, Foulds said he had not as he did not want to “make a scene”. But he said nurses at the hospital “need to take a course in human relations” and management needed to address issues because “everybody has a right to dignity”.
A Framesby woman, who did not want to be named, said she took her three-year-old daughter to the hospital last Saturday after she had broken an arm. Her daughter was, however, only operated on two days later, on Tuesday morning.
The mother said a doctor X-rayed the arm before recommending they go to Livingstone’s orthopaedic division.
“At the hospital. we had to sit in a queue with people who were stabbed and shot in the head ... It was very traumatising to a three-year-old.”
Saying the hospital was “in a pathetic, filthy state”, she added there was “dry blood” on the walls of the orthopaedic unit – and cockroaches.
She said she was told to bring her daughter on Sunday evening, because there were no doctors to operate on her. “She was not given any painkillers, just a Panado syrup”. And on Sunday night, a doctor who was to operate on her daughter said he was “entitled to make mistakes” as he was an intern.
“Again, my daughter was not operated on. The doctor said I should bring her back on Monday. She was not allowed to eat or drink – and ended up being operated on on Tuesday.”
The mother said the ward where her daughter was admitted was “full of screaming and crying kids” while the nurses enjoyed coffee and “chatted”.
“There was clearly no care for the children”, she said.
She, too, would not lay a complaint, because “I know the hospital will not do anything”.
“In fact, a doctor said to me (that) if I do not like the way they treat patients, I should go to a private hospital. But many people can’t afford that”.
ACVV Khayalethu Youth Centre head Dr Marietjie van der Merwe also expressed anger after one of the centre’s youngsters broke his hand on Saturday. She said staff took him to the hospital “where he was told not to eat or drink”, but he was only tended to on Monday.
PE Hospital Complex spokesman Nosipho Kota said management “still need to go through our filing system and investigate your queries” before responding to questions for chief executive Thulane Madonsela.
03-11-2010, 03:46 AM #5784
Wilde jaagtog buite Bfn in klagstaat teen vier beskryf
’n Wilde jaagtog en oor-en-weer-skietery tussen die insittendes van ’n helikopter en ’n motor met vermeende transitorowers in die Petrusburg- en Bloemfontein-omgewing word beskryf in die klagstaat teen vier vermeende rowers wat ook aangekla word dat hulle ’n bekende boer vermoor het.
Die verhoor van mnre. Khethane Nkabinde (46), Papi Makgele (35), Aubrey Dikobe (36) en Orapeleng Mokgoje (32) is gister voor regter C.B. Cillié in die Vrystaatse hooggeregshof tot môre uitgestel.
In die klagstaat en die opsomming van die staat se saak word beweer hulle was deel van die tussen 17 en 20 swaar gewapende transitorowers wat op 8 Augustus 2008 met minstens vyf voertuie ’n geldwa van Fidelity-sekuriteit en ’n bakkie wat dit begelei het, sowat 20 km van Petrusburg op die pad na Bloemfontein van die pad gestamp en van sowat R2,5 miljoen probeer beroof het.
Dit blyk dat hulle dié operasie met militêre presisie beplan en uitgevoer het.
Die probleem het opgeduik toe die veiligheidswagte nie die kluis se sleutel gehad het nie en hulle ’n petrolaangedrewe hoekslyper nie aan die gang kon kry nie.
Hulle het die kluis glo drie keer met plofstof probeer oopskiet. Dit het nie geslaag nie.
Hulle het na bewering die wagte van hul vuurwapens, geld en selfone en ook motoriste wat in die pad opgedam het, aangehou en van geld en selfone beroof.
Mnr. Piet de la Rey (55) en sy seun, Jean (35), bekende boere van Mokopane (Potgietersrus), het op die toneel aangekom.
Toe hy in die rigting van ’n Ford Focus-motor met vier vermeende rowers gery het, het die rowers op hom begin skiet. Hy is in die bors getref en is op die toneel dood.
Die staat sê die beskuldigdes en ander rowers het al skietende van die toneel weggejaag.
’n Spesiale taakmag, wat met opleiding besig was, se hulp is ingeroep en ’n Audi Q7-motor is met ’n helikopter agternagesit. ’n Bakkie wat saam met die Audi was, het hulle ontglip.
Die Audi het op die pad tussen Soutpan en Bloemfontein gery en die insittendes het glo op die helikopter geskiet.
Naby die Soetdoring-reservaat het die Audi stilgehou en twee insittendes het goed uit die motor gegooi. Toe dit weer in die rigting van Soutpan jaag, is oor en weer uit die motor en die helikopter geskiet. Nog goed en vuurwapens is uit die motor gegooi.
Die motor het omgedraai en in die rigting van Bloemfontein gejaag, met die helikopter agterna. By ’n bakkie wat die Audi van die pad gedruk het, is die Audi raakgeskiet en het dit gestop.
Die vier beskuldigdes het glo uitgespring en tussen die nege passasiers van die bakkie inbeweeg. Hulle is toe deur die taakmag aangehou. Mokgoje is in sy boud gewond.
Van Soetdoring tot by en in die Audi is op nege aanvalsgewere, drie pistole, plofstof, ’n groot hoeveelheid ammunisie en ander goed beslag gelê, beweer die staat.
Adv. Danie Pretorius tree vir die staat en adv. Hendrik Potgieter van Pretoria tree vir die vier beskuldigdes op.
03-11-2010, 04:32 AM #5785
Arrested and set free after robbery
NELSPRUIT - A man was apprehended by determined Hi-Tech armed response guards after he allegedly injured and robbed an elderly woman who lives in Steiltes on Friday.
The victim didn’t want to open a police docket out of fear and this meant the suspect was released a few hours later.
According to Mr Vernon Lancaster, manager of Hi-Tech Security Nelspruit, she went to town to do some shopping and upon her return the nasty incident occurred.
"She opened her garage door and when she got out of her car the suspect pushed her and stole her handbag and some groceries," he explains.
Two Hi-Tech guards, Messrs Andries Olivier and Sean Seaborne were patrolling the area and heard someone calling for help. They saw someone running from the scene and followed him, says Lancaster.
"The suspect ran into a veld near the dodecahedron and Seaborne followed him on foot. Olivier stayed in the vehicle and cut the suspect off near El-Madré Butchery."
The suspect apparently claimed that he was innocent and that he was running away because "everyone chases him".
Lancaster once again reminded homeowners to always be on the lookout for suspicious characters hanging around their property, "criminals especially target older people, so they must be extra vigilant."
03-12-2010, 06:04 AM #5786
Anika, who returned to her father's Theresa Park home in October after living with her mother in the Eastern Cape, was off school with an earache when she was killed.
"Sy het gesé totsiens pa, ek is lief vir jou. (She said goodbye dad, I love you). That is the last thing my baby said to me," he said.
According to police, Anika's killers had raped and assaulted her and stabbed her repeatedly in the throat and hacked off her lower arms. The killers took her arms.
Both her phone and computer are being examined by specialist police officers to see if they hold clues to the identities of her killers.
"I can't go into Anika's room, because police are still busy with their investigations.
"They are looking for fingerprints and clues to catch those who did this."
"She was loved by so many people and had lots of friends.
"Which of her friends would kill her? Why would they kill her when they loved her and she loved them?" he asked.
"I just don't know. I don't understand it. Why would somebody want to do this to my baby?
"Why would they want to kill her? Why would they hurt her like that?" asked her father.
Messages from friends posted on Anika's Facebook profile bore testimony to their love for her.
"Hi Goggo. We are going to miss you," wrote Yvette Basson.
Ronaldo Swart, expressing his anger wrote: "You did not deserve it. I hope the... pays," while Monique Cronje wrote in her post: "I miss you and wish it could have been different."
"For this to now happen is terrible. It's a tragedy," he said.
Police spokesperson Constable William Mahlaole confirmed Smit's lower arms had been hacked off and that they were missing.
"We believe the girl, who was found half naked in her bedroom, was also raped," he said, adding that the murder weapon had not been found.
Mahlaole said the motive for the murder was unknown and that nothing was missing from the house, which was found unlocked.
He said no arrests had been made and appealed to anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the killers to contact the police.
Anyone with information on the murder can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
03-12-2010, 06:09 AM #5787
Complaints aplenty after Malema sings ‘kill the boer’
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is facing a barrage of complaints over his latest racial outburst, after he led students in singing “Kill the boer”.
Deputy Agriculture Minister Pieter Mulder, leader of the Freedom Front Plus, yesterday laid a criminal charge against Malema at the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria.
“In terms of this section, no one may advocate hate which is based on the grounds of race, ethnicity, gender or religion and which incites action to cause harm to others.
“The FF Plus is convinced that Malema, with this action, advocated and incited hatred which could cause harm to citizens and makes himself guilty of the advocating of hate speech. The FF Plus demands that the SAPS investigates the case and take action,” Mulder said.
He said Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa had last week promised farmers the police would try to reduce farm murders.
“Malema’s use of the hate speech slogan creates the opposite atmosphere,” Mulder said.
According to The Sowetan, Malema led students at the University of Johannesburg in a song with the words: “Shoot the boere, they are rapists”.
He told students former president Nelson Mandela had convinced blacks to forgive, but they should never forget what was done to them.
AfriForum Youth chairman Ernst Roets said the organisation would submit a complaint to the Equality Court in Johannesburg.
Roets said it was not the first time Malema had sung the song reminiscent of the late Peter Mokaba, the ANCYL leader known for chanting the slogan, “Kill the boer, kill the farmer”.
Malema sang it at his birthday celebrations in Polokwane last week. Roets pointed out that six farmers had been murdered in Limpopo in the past month.
“Julius Malema has become the biggest embarrassment of not only the youth, but also of the country. There is no way in which you can dismiss the song as something that simply has to be viewed in a political context and that has no real consequences,” he said.
The Afrikaner Bond lodged a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
“It is clear that neither the ANCYL or the ANC have the political will or power to rein in Malema and his daily tirades against everything we hold dear in South Africa,” it said. In the complaint, Afrikaner Bond chief secretary Jan Bosman said there were about 750 to 850 attacks on farms each year. Last year alone 120 people were murdered on farms.
Christian Democratic Alliance acting chairman Theunis Botha said Malema’s comments could not be ignored and dismissed as a joke.
Meanwhile, the Communication Workers Union also criticised Malema yesterday, but about comments he made against Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Malema apparently said Vavi had his eye on a top ANC job, but that he did not “understand the ANC very well” and how its structures worked.
The ANC said yesterday it had not yet decided whether it would talk to Malema about his comments.
03-12-2010, 06:12 AM #5788
Roadblock nets fleeing suspects
FOUR Port Elizabeth men were arrested at a roadblock shortly after they allegedly carried out an armed robbery in Port Alfred yesterday.
The men, all in their 20s, robbed a 31-year-old woman as well as a shop before driving away in the direction of Port Elizabeth.
Police spokesman Captain Mali Govender said the gang had followed the woman from Absa bank after she withdrew a large sum of cash.
“Two males got out the vehicle and walked across the road towards the store as (the woman) walked from the local Absa bank towards the same store,” she said.
“As the woman entered and greeted the owner, two suspects walked in.
“The men then drew firearms and demanded cash from the owner and patron.”
The robbers then left the shop, turned a corner and got into a waiting silver-grey Volkswagen Polo in which two other men were waiting.
However, a witness gave details to the police and local reinforcements, including traffic officers and security companies, assisted in the search for the men. Roadblocks were set up at Kenton-on-Sea, Alexandria and Kinkelbos.
Police seized live ammunition, a gun and the stolen cash in the vehicle.
The men will appear in court on Monday.
03-12-2010, 06:26 AM #5789
03-12-2010, 06:30 AM #5790
Taliban-skote eis SA beveiliger
’n Suid-Afrikaanse veiligheidsoperateur en sy Afgaanse kollega is onder die jongste slagoffers van die toenemende Taliban-gedrewe geweld in die suidooste van Afganistan.
Mnr. Aubrey Acker (38) van Hartbeespoort is gisteroggend doodgeskiet toe ’n voertuig met drie Taliban-militante op hom en sy span wagte losgebrand het.
’n Ingeligte het aan Beeld vertel Acker en sy span het werknemers van ’n Indiese padwerkmaatskappy wat ’n nuwe teerpad in die suidooste bou juis teen Taliban-aanvalle beskerm toe die voorval plaasgevind het.
Hulle was op die pad tussen die dorpies Garez en Khost toe ’n Toyota-voertuig met drie aanvallers by hulle verbygejaag en voor hulle tot stilstand gekom het.
Die aanvallers het met AK?47’s op hulle geskiet. Acker en ’n Afgaanse kollega het in die aanval gesterf terwyl nog ’n Afgaan en ’n Indiese kollega gewond is.
Acker se vrou, Marietjie, is kort ná die voorval oor haar man se dood ingelig. Hy het haar op sy Facebook-profiel as “My heelal” beskryf.
Acker het vroeër ook in Bagdad, Irak, gewerk en is ’n oudleerling van die Hillview High School in Pretoria.
Die veiligheidspanne vergesel ingenieurs en ander werknemers van die boumaatskappy gewoonlik wanneer hulle van een plek na ’n ander gaan.
Die nuwe pad wat gebou word, sal die ooste van die land met die hoofstad, Kaboel, verbind.
Dit word juis gebou om beter padverbinding en vooruitgang in die land teweeg te bring, maar die Taliban staan dit teen omdat die beweging teen dié vooruitgang gekant is, het Beeld se bron gesê.
Acker het vir ’n veiligheidsmaatskappy gewerk wat deur die Indiese boumaatskappy vir beveiliging aangestel is.
Die aanval was een van verskeie deur die Taliban waarin daar die afgelope twee dae etlike mense dood is.
Volgens die PakTribune het ’n selfmoordbom-aanvaller eergister die dood van vyf Afgaanse soldate veroorsaak toe hy met ’n voertuig vol plofstof by ’n Afgaanse militêre basis ingery het.
Dié aanval het in die Paktika-provinsie, ook in die suidooste, gebeur.
’n Plofstoflading in die pad in die suidelike gebied van Marjah het eergister ook drie burgerlikes gedood, terwyl twee kinders gister in ’n soortgelyke ontploffing in die noorde gesterf het.