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03-09-2010, 03:16 AM #5751
Mthethwa wil moorde op plase nou pak
Mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, minister van polisie, het plaasmoorde gister ten sterkste veroordeel en gesê die polisie sal alles in sy vermoë doen om die moordenaars aan die pen te laat ry.
Moord is moord en dit maak nie saak wat jou velkleur is nie, het hy in Centurion op Agri SA se landelike misdaadkonferensie gesê. “Ons is baie sensitief vir plaasmoorde.”
Daar was volgens hom tussen 1997 en 2007 landwyd altesame 1?248 moorde op plase.
Die meerderheid van dié vermoordes was plaaswerkers of mense wat hulle besoek het en nie boere nie, het Mthethwa gesê.
Die boere en hul werkers is ’n nasionale bate vir die ekonomie en die vooruitgang van die land.
“Daarom onderneem ons om seker te maak julle ontvang die nodige beskerming sodat die land se voedselsekerheid nie bedreig word nie,” het hy gesê.
Die regering is volgens hom tans besig om ’n omvattende veiligheidsplan vir landelike gebiede te finaliseer en hy hoop om voortaan gereeld met die georganiseerde landbou te vergader.
Mnr. André Botha, voorsitter van Agri SA se landelike beveiligingskomitee, het gesê daar is minstens twee plaasaanvalle per dag in Suid-Afrika en twee moorde per week.
Dir. Judy le Roux, voorsitter van die polisie se gesamentlike prioriteitskomitee, het by die konferensie aangekondig ’n nuwe reservistestelsel word op 1 April van stapel gestuur.
Baie boere meld veediefstal deesdae nie eens meer aan nie omdat hulle nie vertroue in die polisie en die regstelsel het nie.
Mnr. Louw Steytler, president van Vrystaat Landbou, het gesê talle boere in die Oos-Vrystaat het weens diefstal ten gronde gegaan omdat “die stem van redelikheid tien jaar lank deur die onvermoë van die staat om op te tree, ondermyn is”.
Don't politicise farm killings, says minister
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday that additional police and efficient tactics would be employed to mitigate farm and rural murders.
Mthethwa said a rural safety plan to be rolled out in the near future was a sign of the government's commitment to curbing the "senseless crimes" and mitigating the economic impact of stock theft.
He said as part of the plan the ministry would be looking at the efficiency of rural police stations and official visibility to improve communication with the farming community.
Mthethwa also suggested that the working conditions of labourers lay at the heart of some farm violence.
He said rural killings should not be politicised and all murders should be treated equally.
The race card should also not be brought into the debate by unions, political parties and other stakeholders to advance their own agendas.
"We do not see it as anything else political or racist, we see it as just crime," said Mthethwa.
"We cannot sit on different sides of the fence and point fingers, we need to recognise that most farmworkers and farmers are valuable assets.
"We are concerned about murders generally. It pains us to see one productive person has been eliminated from the face of the Earth because of senseless murderers."
New plan to halt farm killings
Cape Town - An attempt to cut back the number of farm murders was announced by Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa in Pretoria on Monday.
He told a rural crime conference that his department is currently reviewing its rural safety plan and that the revised plan is nearing completion.
A boost to police reserves in rural areas in planned and aspects of the plan, he said, include beefing up efficiency at rural police stations. But he also warned farmers that they need to improve relations with their own labourers.
"While at times government has no control in terms of working conditions and agreements privately entered into between the farmers and these vulnerable workers, it is an area that farmers themselves need to seriously address," he said.
He went on: "Our investigations have amongst others pointed out to the issue of labour relations having contributed to these killings.
"There had been empirical evidence that some farmers, not the majority though, hire workers from other foreign countries without proper paper documentations."
The minister also appealed to trade union representatives as well as political parties not to politicise these farm killings unnecessarily.
"To us this is crime and therefore needs to be condemned with vigour. We do not see it as a racist onslaught or politically motivated acts, but murder is murder."
He told the meeting that police recognise that rural police stations are often isolated and responsible to police vast areas.
"To address these problems we need to not only create more effective and efficient police stations," he said, "but also ensure that the local police work in partnership with both rural communities and other government departments responsible for rural development".
He said that at the end of 2009 the moratorium on the recruitment of reservists was lifted and the department is currently finalising its revised approach to address the use of reservists within the force.
"Our rural safety plan will also find ways of best utilising reservists' capacity in rural areas," he said.
03-09-2010, 03:23 AM #5752
Briewe teen misdaad groei tot byna 107 000
Die vakbond Solidariteit se protesbriewe teen misdaad het in byna ’n maand van 23 000 tot sowat 107.000 gegroei.
Pres. Jacob Zuma sal die briewe vandag omstreeks 12:00 by Tuynhuys in Kaapstad ontvang.
“Hierdie is nie net briewe nie. Dit is ’n noodkreet van Suid-Afrikaners,” het mnr. Dirk Hermann, adjunkhoof van Solidariteit, gister gesê.
“Sowat 107 000 mense het die moeite gedoen om ’n boodskap aan die president te stuur.
“Daar moet nog duisende mense wees wat so voel. Mense is absoluut moeg vir misdaad.”
Die veldtog, wat Solidariteit kort ná die president se staatsrede van stapel gestuur het, het binne twee dae 23 000 briewe opgelewer. Die presidensie het sowat drie weke gelede geweier om die briewe te ontvang.
Nadat Zuma verlede week gesê het hy sal die briewe vandeesweek ontvang, het Solidariteit nog briewe gekry.
Solidariteit sal die 106 966 briewe in 105 sakke in 18 kruiwaens by Zuma aflewer.
“Die veldtog wys dit is die moeite werd om jou stem te laat hoor.
“Ons is in die begin nie gehoor nie, maar ons het met die veldtog aangegaan. Die regering het nie meer ’n keuse gehad as om na ons te luister nie,” het Hermann gesê.
Nadat die briewe aan die president oorhandig is, sal daar ’n geslote vergadering tussen Solidariteit en Zuma wees.
Volgens Hermann sal gemeenskapsveiligheid bespreek word.
03-09-2010, 03:26 AM #5753
3 sterf toe hulle vir Argus oefen
Drie fietsryers wat vir die naweek se Cape Argus Pick n Pay-fietstoer geoefen het, is gister buite Oudtshoorn doodgery toe ’n bakkie hulle reg van voor getref het.
Mnre. Frank Nel (60), Jan Eloff (72) en me. Magda van Lill (50) was omstreeks 06:20 op hul fietse saam met agt ander fietsryers op die R62 in die rigting van Calitzdorp op pad toe die ongeluk gebeur het. Hulle is op slag dood.
Mnr. Walter Langdon (23) het operasies aan die regterhand en aan die regterkant van sy lyf ondergaan om wonde te heg. Volgens die Oudtshoorn-hospitaal is hy in ’n stabiele en bevredigende toestand.
Dr. Johan Lotter, wat ’n kopbesering opgedoen het, is na die George Medi-Clinic oorgeplaas vir ’n breinskandering en waarneming.
Die 62-jarige bestuurder van die bakkie, wat van Ladismith op pad was in die rigting van Oudtshoorn, het ’n vragmotor op ’n reguit pad sowat 9?km buite die dorp verbygesteek, het fietsryers en ’n polisiebeampte op die toneel gesê.
Die bestuurder beweer die son het hom verblind en hy het nie die fietsryers - almal lede van die Oudtshoorn-fietsryklub - gesien nie.
Die agt fietsryers wat grotendeels ongedeerd is, is mnre. George Fourie, Nico Laas, Hein du Plessis, André Venter en Lourens Theron en sy vrou, Mariaan.
“Ons het in ’n enkelry aan die linkerkant van die pad gery,” het Venter gesê. “Die bakkie was skielik voor ons. Ek het uitgeswenk toe ek sien hier kom probleme. Die bakkie het die laaste drie fietsryers getref. Magda was heel agter.”
Volgens Venter is Fourie ongedeerd onder een van die lyke uitgehaal. “Ons het na Magda ook gesoek. Ons het haar lyk tussen die bosse gekry.”
“Dit is vandag oom Frank se verjaardag en die familie sou vanaand vir hom ’n verrassingspartytjie gehou het,” het mnr. Morné Nel, kantoorhoof van Beeld se susterkoerant Die Burger in George gesê.
Die oorledene, Nel se oom, was voorheen bevelvoerder van die SA Polisiekollege in Oudtshoorn. Die oorledene se vrou en die huidige bevelvoerder, sr.supt Riana Nel, was gister erg geskok oor Nel se dood.
Mnr. Marius Zaayman van Pam Golding-eiendomsagente, waar Van Lill gewerk het, het gesê Van Lill se ma, wat in Oudtshoorn woon, is baie geskok. Van Lill het drie dogters, waarvan twee in Kaapstad en een in Upington woon.
Niemand is in hegtenis geneem nie, maar ’n strafbare manslag-dossier is geopen.
Bakkie ploughs into cyclists, killing three
THE government is considering a change in traffic legislation and various other measures to bolster cyclist safety on roads after three cyclists died near Oudtshoorn yesterday when a bakkie ploughed into them.
The incident, which happened on the R62 between Oudtshoorn and Calitzdorp at about 6.15am, has sent shock-waves through the community.
It is believed the driver of the bakkie was blinded by the sun as he overtook a truck, causing him to crash into a group of 11 riders training for this weekend’s Argus Cycle Tour in Cape Town.
Jan Eloff, 73, estate agent Magda van Lill, 50, and former Oudtshoorn police college commander Senior Superintendent Frank Nel, who turned 60 yesterday, died at the scene. A fourth cyclist, Walter Langdon, 25, was admitted to Oudtshoorn Hospital with multiple injuries and concussion.
Langdon, who was in a stable condition, underwent surgery to his badly injured elbow.
His brother, Maurice Langdon, said Walter could not recall any details of the accident. “He can only remember he saw the bakkie and then later he woke up at the scene.”
Southern Cape police spokesman Captain Bernadine Steyn said the accident happened when a beige Isuzu bakkie overtook a truck. A case of culpable homicide is being investigated against a 62-year-old man from Ladysmith.
The cyclists were about 9km outside Oudtshoorn when the accident happened.
Lourens Theron, a local chemist and one of the cyclists, said the front group managed to swerve off the road when they saw the bakkie overtaking, but it was too late for the middle group.
Western Cape Transport MEC Robin Carlisle said the tragedy highlighted the importance of creating a safe environment for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists.
“My department has begun looking at measures to bolster cyclist safety. This includes identifying roads with the highest rate of cycling accidents and creating designated temporary cycling lanes on those roads,” he said. In the long term, the aim is dedicated cycling lanes on all identified major roads.
“I have instructed our legal advisers to examine the prospect of changing traffic laws to oblige motorists to keep a distance of 1,5m between themselves and cyclists. This will make it unlawful for motorists to overtake cyclists in the face of oncoming traffic,” he said.
03-09-2010, 03:28 AM #5754
SA kidnap victim released
Johannesburg - The South African who was being held hostage in Nigeria has been released on Monday evening, the department of international relations said.
Nick Greyling, an M-Net SuperSport sound engineer, has been released from his captors, spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota told Sapa.
"The South African government... confirms the release of the South African citizen who was abducted in Nigeria.
"We would like to thank the Nigerian government for its co-operation and we wish the citizen well as he returns home," said Kota.
03-09-2010, 03:31 AM #5755
’n BLOEMFONTEINSE egpaar moes gister ure lank in hul huis sit terwyl twee mans hulle van buite getreiter en die polisie gesloer het om op te daag.
Mnr. André Brown en sy vrou, Corlia, het gistermiddag verskrik in hul huis in Johan Britsstraat, Noordhoek, gesit terwyl twee mans buite hul huis gedreig het om hulle dood te maak en mev. Brown te verkrag.
Hulle het vroeër die mans gehuur om te help by hul onderneming en ’n loondispuut het tot die dreigemente gelei.
Mev. Brown sê hulle het gisteroggend hulp nodig gehad om al die toerusting wat hul spysenieronderneming oor die naweek verhuur het, te gaan oplaai.
Van hul werkers het nie opgedaag nie en hulle het besluit om twee mans wat langs die pad staan en werk soek, te vra om te help.
Hulle het glo ooreengekom om die mans R70 vir die dag se werk te betaal.
Die mans het egter die werk binne minder as ’n anderhalfuur afgehandel en Brown wou hulle glo toe R50 vir die kort tydjie betaal.
Dit het die twee glo woedend gemaak en hulle het toe sommer op R100 aangedring. Mnr. Brown het aangebied dat die mans by een van sy ander ondernemings kan help en dan so die res van die dag se geld verdien, maar hulle het geweier.
Die mans het toe glo voor die Browns se huis ’n lawaai begin opskop. “Hulle het gesê hulle sal vanaand terugkom en ons doodmaak en my verkrag,” sê mev. Brown.
“Ons moes net hier sit. Wat doen jy as jy nie eens meer veilig in jou eie erf voel nie?”
Volgens Brown het hulle omstreeks 11:30 die eerste keer die polisie gebel. Ná verskeie oproepe het niemand gereageer nie en die mans het steeds buite gerumoer.
Brown het self probeer om hulle met ’n sambok te verwilder, maar hulle het bakstene opgetel en gedreig om hom te gooi.
Etlike oproepe later het mnr. Brown uiteindelik met ’n kaptein gepraat wat belowe het om iets aan die saak te doen. Selfs dié belofte het niks beteken nie.
“Ek het hom teruggebel en gesê, ‘Jou dom bliksem! Wil jy eers hê hulle moet ons doodmaak?’” sê Brown.
Eers hierna, omstreeks 14:30, het die polisie opgedaag en die mans in hegtenis geneem.
Kapt. Chaka Marope, polisiewoordvoerder, sê die mans is albei Zimbabwiese burgers. Dit is nie bekend of hulle wettig in die land is nie.
Marope sê hulle sal in die Bloemfonteinse landdroshof verskyn op klagte van intimidasie.
03-09-2010, 03:33 AM #5756
6 in court for hotel murder
Pietermaritzburg - Six men who allegedly shot and killed the owners of the Wartburger Hof hotel in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, appeared in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Monday.
The six are accused of shooting dead Siegfried Schadle, 68, and his wife Ingrid, 65, during a robbery on November 7 2007.
Judge Kate Pillay and his assessors heard the six failed to open the safe and left empty-handed.
Two of the men, former employee at the hotel Muntkayise Ngubane, 35, and Funokwakhe Ncane, 42, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder and attempted robbery.
The State alleges the accused and four other men conspired to rob the hotel and arrived in two vehicles.
They allegedly had a variety of firearms and had reconnoitred the hotel two days previously.
Four of the gang went to the hotel office and tried to open the safe while two others pointed guns at Ingrid, who started screaming. Siegfried rushed from the dining room and grabbed an assailant, who turned and shot him.
Ingrid tried to push the panic button at the counter but was shot in the chest. The couple died on the scene. Hotel chef Max Haller was shot at, but unhurt.
The men abandoned the robbery and fled.
The trial is set down for hearing the rest of this week.
03-10-2010, 03:55 AM #5757
Police move to curb farm murders
ADDITIONAL police and efficient tactics will be employed to mitigate farm and rural murders, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said yesterday.
Mthethwa said a rural safety plan to be rolled out in the near future was a sign of the government’s commitment to curbing the “senseless crimes” and mitigating the economic impact of stock theft.
The race card should also not be brought into the debate by unions, political parties and other stakeholders to advance their own agenda.
“We do not see it as anything political or racist, we see it as just crime.
“We cannot sit on different sides of the fence and point fingers, we need to recognise that most farmworkers and farmers are valuable assets.
“We are concerned about murders generally,” said Mthethwa.
03-10-2010, 03:58 AM #5758
Zuma gets 136 000 crime letters
Cape Town - Well-known Western Cape victims of crime accompanied Solidarity trade union to Parliament on Tuesday to present about 136 000 anti-crime letters to President Jacob Zuma.
The grandfather of the murdered baby Jordan, Vernon Norton, the mother of murdered Nadine Jantjies, Francina Jantjies, and Megan Kaimowitz, who also lost a daughter due to crime, helped Solidarity officials push ten wheelbarrows containing the letters to the gates of Parliament outside Tuynhuys, Zuma's office.
They then joined the Solidarity delegation, led by deputy secretary-general Dirk Hermann, for a discussion with Zuma in Tuynhuys on crime in South Africa.
Solidarity recently launched a campaign in which ordinary South Africans were invited to send messages to the president in which they asked for the fight against crime to be the number one priority.
An earlier attempt by the union, on February 16, to hand over about 23 000 letters, failed when presidency officials refused to accept them.
Subsequently, Solidarity continued its campaign, and Zuma then indicated he would personally take delivery of the letters.
Hermann said the public's reaction to the campaign had taken Solidarity totally by surprise.
"We initially aimed for 10 000 messages to the president, but nobody expected it to exceed 100 000."
"This reaction shows how strongly South Africans feel about crime. Crime affects everyone in South Africa," Hermann said.
The public were asked to send letters via a website, and those without internet access could also send SMSes.
Zuma ‘besef polisie kan nie ’n verskil maak’
Kaapstad. – Solidariteit het gister 141 222 protesbriewe teen misdaad aan pres. Jacob Zuma afgelewer, maar dié vakbond se leier weet nie wat die impak daarvan op die land se leiers gaan wees nie.
“Zuma wil ’n verskil maak, uit ons gesprekke met hom is dít duidelik. Maar ek sien ook hy is moedeloos en besef die polisie het nie die vermoë om dit te kan doen nie,” het mnr. Flip Buys, uitvoerende hoof van Solidariteit, gister buite Tuynhuys gesê.
Buys is vergesel van sy adjunk, mnr. Dirk Hermann, en drie misdaadslagoffers: baba Jordan se oupa, mnr. Vernon Norton, die vermoorde Nadine Jantjies se ma, Francina, en me. Megan Kaimovitz, wie se dogter Ashley in 2005 doodgery is.
Zuma het onderneem om Solidariteit se voorstelle oor die bekamping van misdaad te oorweeg en ’n vergadering gaan tussen die vakbond en mnr. Nathi Mthethwa, minister van polisie, en komm. Bheki Cele, nasionale polisiehoof, belê word.
Mnr. Vincent Magwenya, Zuma se woordvoerder, het gesê Zuma is “diep geraak” deur die halfuur lange gesprek met Buys, Hermann en die misdaadslagoffers.
Volgens hom stem Zuma saam dat amper alle Suid-Afrikaners deur misdaad geteister word.
Buys het gesê Solidariteit het aan Zuma onderneem om sy ondersteuners te mobiliseer om aan gemeenskapsveiligheidsprojekte deel te neem.
“Hoewel mense duidelik voel die regering het misdaad nie onder beheer nie, kan ons nie net kla nie.
“Gemeenskappe moet aktief betrokke raak by hul eie beveiliging.
“Ons gaan ’n waghondrol moet speel om te sorg die polisie doen sy werk en self betrokke by die misdaadstryd moet raak.
“Ons moet saam ons vuis teen misdaad bal,” het Buys gesê.
Die briewe is in tien kruiwaens tot voor die hekke van die parlement gestoot en volg op ’n vroeëre poging toe Hermann met 23 000 protesbriewe by Tuynhuys se deure weggewys is.
Sedertdien het die protesveldtog gegroei en het die aantal briewe wat die publiek die afgelope 48 uur aan Zuma gestuur het met tienduisende toegeneem.
Kaimovitz het die gesprek met Zuma as baie positief bestempel.
“Hy het simpatie met ons gehad en dit was duidelik hy is diep bekommerd oor die vlak van misdaad, veral waar skuldiges weens swak polisiewerk loskom. Ek het vertroue in hom,” het sy gesê.
03-10-2010, 04:00 AM #5759
R500 bail for killing cyclists
Johannesburg - A 62-year-old man, accused of killing three cyclists with his bakkie, was granted R500 bail by the Oudtshoorn Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, Western Cape police said.
The culpable homicide case was postponed to May 14, Captain Bernadine Steyn said.
George Aspenaal was travelling on the R62 towards Calitzdorp on Monday morning when he allegedly tried to overtake a truck. He then allegedly struck a group of cyclists coming from the opposite direction, killing Frank Nel, 60, Jan Eloff, 73, and Magda van Lill, 50.
Another man was taken to hospital and is in a serious but stable condition.
03-10-2010, 04:02 AM #5760
We paid no ransom: M-Net
Johannesburg - The Supersport sound engineer who was kidnapped in Nigeria may be reunited with his family on Wednesday, Multichoice said.
Greyling was released on Monday night. He had been taken hostage with two of his Nigerian Supersport colleagues - cameraman Alexander Effiong and commentator Bowie Attamah - when their bus was attacked in the Imo province, near the Oweri airport.
"M-Net paid no ransom. We dealt directly with the Nigerian police," said Creasy.
"We are unable to provide such details. I think that would be left to Mr Greyling, if he wants to release such details," said spokesperson Nomfanelo Kota.
The international news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) reported from Nigeria that a security source in that country said 15 million naira ($100 000) ransom was paid, negotiated down from 120 million naira.
Greyling's father-in-law, RSG radio personality Johann Russouw, said the family was extremely relieved at his release.
"He said he was tired but healthy and looking forward to seeing his family again."
M-Net klankingenieur vrygelaat
Die Suid-Afrikaner wat in Nigerië as gyselaar aangehou is, Nick Greyling, is vrygelaat.
'n Woordvoerder van die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge, Nomfanelo Kota, sê die klankingenieur van M-Net Supersport is gisteraand vrygelaat.
Die Suid-Afrikaanse regering het ook sy dank uitgespreek teenoor die Nigeriese regering vir sy samewerking en Greyling sterkte toegewens met sy terugkeer na Suid-Afrika.
Volgens 'n berig op die iol website, wou die departement nie kommentaar lewer op spekulasie dat 'n losprys vir hom betaal is nie.
SuperSport-man behoort vandag in SA te land
Johannesburg. – Mnr. Nick Greyling, die SuperSport-klankman wat in Nigerië as gyselaar aangehou is, behoort vandag terug te wees in Suid-Afrika.
Me. Caroline Creasy, M-Net se bestuurder vir korporatiewe sake in Afrika, het gistermiddag gesê hulle het ’n vlug vir Greyling van Lagos gereël.
“Hy behoort môre (vandag) in die vroeë oggendure in Suid-Afrika te land,” het sy gesê.
Greyling se skoonpa, die RSG-omroeper Johann Russouw, het gistermiddag gesê die gesin wag angstig om te hoor wanneer Greyling sal land. “Die eerste prioriteit sal egter wees vir Nick om sy vrou en kinders te sien. Ons vra dat hul privaatheid gerespekteer sal word.”
Russouw kon nie sê of daar ’n mediakonferensie gaan wees sodra Greyling geland het nie.
Volgens hom het Greyling gister vinnig met sy vrou, Lorna, gepraat. “Hy het net gesê dit gaan goed, hy verlang en is geweldig moeg.”
Me. Nomfanelo Kota, woordvoerder van die departement van internasionale betrekkinge en samewerking, wou nie gister enige kommentaar lewer oor gissings dat ’n losprys vir Greyling betaal is nie. “Sodra hy terug is...kan hy self besluit of hy daaroor wil praat.”