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07-08-2007, 03:45 AM #1021
Plaasaanvalle hoogste in vier jaar
Plaasaanvalle het sedert April verlede jaar tot 31 Maart vanjaar met 25% toegeneem.
Daar is in dié tydperk 794 voorvalle regoor die land aangemeld – dit is die hoogste syfer sedert 2002/’03. En 86 mense – 2 minder as in die vorige boekjaar – is tydens die aanvalle vermoor.
Volgens statistieke wat Dinsdag in Pretoria bekend gemaak is, het plaasaanvalle in Noordwes byna verdubbel van 68 voorvalle in die vorige boekjaar (2005/’06) tot 132 vanjaar.
Ander provinsies wat drastiese stygings toon, is die Vrystaat (63%), Gauteng (57%) en KwaZulu-Natal (39%).
Agri SA sê die statistieke is ’n bewys dat die landbougemeenskap nou meer kwesbaar is. Benewens die rooftogte ly boere ook groot finansiële verliese weens ’n toename in eiendomsmisdaad, sê mnr. Kiewiet Ferreira.
“Ál meer veediefstalle kom voor. Selfs produkte word gebuit. Pompe verdwyn en spilpunte se wiele en kabels word gesteel.”
Die regering het vier jaar gelede begin om die land se 183 kommando’s en 20 groephoofkwartiere te ontbind. Die kommandostelsel was die ruggraat van die landelike veiligheidsplan.
Maar volgens Ferreira is dit nie noodwendig die uitfasering van kommando’s wat agter die styging in plaasaanvalle sit nie.
“Dié tendens stem ooreen met gewapende rooftogte by huise in stedelike gebiede wat ook met 25% toegeneem het. Sommige kommando’s was in elk geval onaktief. Die ontbinding van die kommando’s het net ’n leemte gelaat in gebiede waar die lede aktief was.”
Sektorpolisiëring is nou vir landelike beveiliging verantwoordelik.
Oudkommandolede kan as reserviste by die polisie aansluit en by sektorpolisiëring betrokke raak. Maar teen April vanjaar het nog net sowat 3 000 oudkommandolede dit gedoen.
Agri SA wil nou met mnr. Charles Nqakula, minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit, vergader om die werwing van reserviste in landelike gebiede stukrag te gee, sê Ferreira.
07-08-2007, 04:57 PM #1022
Moord in polisiesel
’n Boukontrakteur van Middelburg, Mpumalanga, is deur mede-aangehoudenes in die polisieselle in Grabouw doodgeslaan en -geskop nadat hy gearresteer is omdat hy na bewering dronk in die openbaar was.
Twee mans sal volgens kapt. Randall Stoffels, polisiewoordvoerder, vandag in die landdroshof in dié dorp op ’n aanklag van moord in verband met die dood van mnr. Peter Wheeler (55) Saterdagaand verskyn.
Die “groot en frisgeboude” Wheeler is oorspronklik van Pretoria, maar het die laaste drie jaar in Middelburg gewoon. Hy het die afgelope twee maande in die Witrivier Lodge-gastehuis in die dorp gebly terwyl hy huise daar gebou het.
Sy ontstelde broer, mnr. Hans Wheeler, het gister uit Pyramid, Pretoria, gesê die polisie het hom gisteroggend omstreeks 09:00 van sy broer se dood in kennis gestel.
Hy was geskei en die pa van drie kinders, van wie die jongste 22 jaar oud is.
Wheeler het gesê hy is deur die ondersoekbeampte ingelig die oorledene het met sy bakkie “vroegaand Saterdag langs ’n pad op die dorp gaan staan omdat hy onder die invloed van drank was en nie verder kon ry nie”.
“Hulle kon hom nie weens dronkbestuur opsluit nie omdat hy buite sy voertuig was. Hy is toe gearresteer op ’n klag van openbare dronkenskap. Hy is vir die nag in die aanhoudingselle opgesluit.
“Daar het ’n bakleiery in die sel langsaan die een waarin hy was, uitgebreek. Om dit te stop, is van die betrokkenes in die bakleiery in die sel geplaas waar my broer aangehou is.”
Volgens Wheeler het van dié mans na bewering toe met sy broer begin baklei.
Die oorledene is gedurende die skermutseling vermoedelik erg geslaan en geskop omdat geen steek- of skietwonde volgens Wheeler aan sy lyk gekry is nie.
Wheeler het gesê ’n nadoodse ondersoek sal vandag op sy broer uitgevoer word. “Ons sal daarna begin met reëlings om sy lyk in Pretoria te kry.”
Volgens hom is die voorval “absoluut erg “omdat die mans wat hom (na bewering) vermoor het eers in die sel langs syne was, voordat hulle by die een waarin sy broer was, toegesluit is.
“Hoekom is dié mans nie alleen in ’n ander sel toegesluit nie? Die polisie het geweet dié ouens maak moeilikheid.
“Ek het hulle gevra hoekom hulle nie gaan kyk het wat aangaan in die selle nie. Hulle het net gesê die selle is oorvol op Saterdae. Ons wil eers hoor wat die polisie verder oor die voorval sê, voordat ons gaan besluit of ons die aangeleentheid verder gaan opneem.”
Stoffels het gesê daar is reeds met ’n strafregtelike en departementele ondersoek begin.
“Twee verdagtes wat saam met die oorledene in die sel was, is weens die moord gearresteer.”
Hy het gesê die mans sal vandag in die landdroshof in verband met die moord verskyn.
Stoffels het gesê die departementele ondersoek sal bepaal of daar enige onreëlmatigheid óf nalatigheid aan die kant van die polisie ten opsigte van Wheeler se dood was.
07-08-2007, 05:05 PM #1023
Vrae oor dagsorg ná baba daar sterf
’n Baba het in sy bedjie gesterf, ’n ander baba se voet is op vier plekke gebreek, nog ’n baba se been is gebreek en hy het kneusplekke oor sy lyfie gehad, en ’n vierde baba se arm was vir ’n week lam nadat hy glo hardhandig gehanteer is.
Die vier seuntjies is by dieselfde dagmoeder, me. Elize de Klerk, in Dorandia in die noorde van Pretoria versorg.
Nicholis Potgieter van The Orchards was ses weke oud toe hy op 28 Maart by die dagmoeder dood in sy bedjie aangetref is. Sy ma, Iline, sê sy is oortuig daarvan dat hy versmoor het.
’n Buurvrou van De Klerk het gesê die dag toe Nicholis dood is, het De Klerk geskreeu en haar geroep om te kom help.
“Toe ek daar kom, het die kind op ’n tafel wat hulle gebruik om doeke om te ruil, gelê. Hy was met ’n kombersie toegedraai.
“Ek het hom oopgedraai en probeer om hom mond-tot-mond-asemhaling gee. Maar hy was al yskoud.”
Die buurvrou sê sy het toe vir Potgieter, ’n ambulans en die Pretoria-dagmoedersvereniging gebel.
Potgieter sê toe sy by die dagmoeder kom, het haar kind op dieselfde plek gelê waar die buurvrou hom probeer help het.
“Daar was ’n kombers oor hom. Ek het hom opgetel en deur toe gehardloop. Toe ek hom styf teen my druk, het ek gevoel my kind is al koud. Ek het op my knieë geval en begin bid, want ek het iewers in ’n boek gelees dat ’n mamma haar kind lewend gebid het, maar dit het nie vir my gewerk nie,” het sy snikkend vertel.
Volgens Potgieter het De Klerk glo aan haar gesê sy het Nicholis omstreeks 11:00 die oggend ’n bottel gegee en hom daarna neergelê en eers weer 14:00 by hom gaan inloer.
Dít, asook die feit dat Nicholis se gesig, arms, mond, ken, oë en knieë vol blou- en spierwit kolle was, het haar aangemoedig om die saak self te begin ondersoek.
“Ek dink die dagmoeder was nalatig om my kind so lank alleen te laat. Die twee paramedici wat daar opgedaag het, het gesê my kind het versmoor as gevolg van die kleur van sy gesig,” het Potgieter gesê.
Kapt. Lucas Sithole, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die polisie is besig met ’n geregtelike doodsondersoek.
Potgieter het drie gesinne opgespoor wie se kinders vroeër by dieselfde dagmoeder beserings opgedoen het (berig hiernaas).
Dié kinders se ouers het gesê hoewel hulle nie klagte wil indien teen De Klerk nie, sal hulle hul kinders se doktersverslae beskikbaar stel om Potgieter te help om vas te stel wat werklik met haar kind gebeur het.
Hulle meen dit is belangrik dat ander ouers moet weet wat met hul kinders gebeur het.
Mev. Lydia Venter van die Pretoria-Dagmoedersvereniging het gesê sy het met twee ma’s gepraat oor hul griewe. “Ons kan egter net die griewe ondersoek as hulle ’n skriftelike klag en doktersverslae indien,” het sy gesê.
De Klerk en haar dogter sien tans om na agt kinders.
Sy het Beeld by navraag na die polisie verwys. “Ek kan nie sien dat iets wat hier by my gebeur het enigiets met iemand anders daar buite uit te waai het nie,” het sy gesê en toe die foon doodgedruk.
Toe ’n Beeld-span haar verlede week tuis besoek het, het sy deur haar seun laat weet hulle het geen kommentaar nie.
Ouers vertel hoekom hulle kinders wegneem
Damian Malherbe van Chantelle was ’n jaar oud toe sy voet in 2005 op vier plekke gebreek is. Volgens sy ma, Lizette, het die dagmoeder gesê sy voet het in ’n bababedjie se panele vasgesit.
“Die dokter het egter gesê dit is asof iemand met ’n kruiwa vol bakstene oor sy voet gery het. Ek het nooit weer my kind teruggeneem nie, maar ek het die Dagmoedervereniging in kennis gestel van wat gebeur het.”
Malherbe het gesê sy het aanvanklik nie ’n klag teen De Klerk ingedien nie, omdat sy te kwaad was en haar nooit weer wou sien nie.
Jared van der Merwe van Hestiapark was ’n maand oud toe hy in 2005 ’n senuwee in sy arm beseer het. Sy ma, Lea, het gesê in die drie maande wat hy by die skool was, het haar seun altyd kneusplekke aan sy lyf gehad.
“Sy arm het soos ’n stuk materiaal langs sy lyf gehang. Die dagmoeder het gesê hy het geval, maar die dokter het gesê die kind is hard aan die arm geruk.
“Ek het nooit weer my kind teruggeneem nie en nie eens sy speelgoed gaan haal nie.”
Van der Merwe sê sy het gedink dit was ’n geïsoleerde geval, en daarom het sy nie ’n klag by die polisie gaan indien nie.
Ryno Erasmus van Roodeplaatdam was tien maande oud toe sy been in 2003 gebreek is. Hy het ook telkens met blou arms, bene en selfs beserings op sy lae rug huis toe gekom.
Mnr. Johan Erasmus, sy pa, het gesê nadat hulle hom een aand gebad het, het hulle teruggery na De Klerk om te hoor hoekom hy so vol kneusplekke was. Sy het gesê Ryno se arm en been het in sy bed se panele vasgesit.
“Toe ek hom eendag weer gaan haal het, was sy ore binne potblou. Ek het hom nooit weer teruggeneem nie.”
Hulle het ook besluit om eerder hul kind weg te neem as om ’n klag in te dien.
07-08-2007, 05:21 PM #1024
Builder beaten to death in cell
Cape Town - A Pretoria building contractor who was locked up overnight for being drunk in public, has been beaten and kicked to death by inmates in a cell in Grabouw, near Cape Town.
Captain Randall Stoffels said two men were due to appear in the magistrate's court in the Boland town on Monday in connection with the death of Peter Wheeler, 55, on Saturday night.
Family members said "the burly and well-built" Wheeler, who came from Pretoria North, had lived at Witrivier Lodge guesthouse in Grabouw for the past two months while he built houses in the area.
His deeply upset brother Hans Wheeler, who spoke to Die Burger from Pyramid in Pretoria, said the police had told him about 09:00 on Sunday morning about his brother's death.
Peter Wheeler was a divorced father of three children, of whom the youngest was 22.
Held for being drunk in public
Hans Wheeler said the investigating officer had told him that Peter "had stopped his bakkie alongside a road in the town early on Saturday evening, because he was under the influence of liquor, and could not drive any further".
"They could not lock him up for drunken driving because he was outside his vehicle.
"So they arrested him for being drunk in public, and he was locked up for the night in the holding cells."
"A fight broke out in the cell next to his. To stop the fight, some of the men involved were placed in the cell with my brother."
According to Hans Wheeler, the men picked a fight with his brother "probably because he was the only white man in the cells".
It seemed that Peter Wheeler had been beaten and kicked to death because no stabbing or shooting wounds were found on his body, said his brother.
A post-mortem was planned for Monday.
'Knew they were trouble-makers'
"We've heard that it will be completed by 12:00, and when it's done we'll begin to make arrangements to get his body back to Pretoria."
Hans Wheeler said "the worst is that the men who (allegedly) killed my brother were at first in the cell next door, before being locked up in the cell with him."
"Why did the police not put them in a separate cell? They knew that these men were causing trouble."
"I asked them why they did not go and check on the cells.
"They just said the cells were filled to overflowing on Saturday nights.
"We first want to hear what more the police have to say about this before we decide if we'll take any further steps," said Hans Wheeler.
Stoffels said criminal and departmental enquiries had been launched immediately after Wheeler's death.
"Two suspects who were in the cell with Peter Wheeler are being detained in connection with the murder."
"We have taken statements from all the men who were in detention at the time and, from this, we have identified the two men as possible suspects."
He said the two men, whose identity had not yet been released, were scheduled to appear in the magistrate's court on Monday.
Stoffels said the departmental enquiry would determine if the police had acted in an irregular or negligent way, in connection with Wheeler's death.
07-09-2007, 04:06 AM #1025
Toddlers 'covered in bruises'
Johannesburg - One baby died in his crib, another's foot was broken in four places, yet another one's leg was broken and he had bruises all over his body, and a fourth baby's arm was paralysed for a week after being treated roughly.
These four boys were all in the care of a day mother, Elize de Klerk, from Dorandia in the northern parts of Pretoria.
Nicholis Potgieter from The Orchards was six weeks old when he was found dead in his crib at the day mother's house on March 28. His mother, Iline, said she was convinced he had suffocated.
A neighbour said De Klerk called her to come and help on the day Nicholis died.
'Tried to pray him back to life'
"When I arrived, the child was lying on a table they used to change nappies. He was wrapped in a blanket.
"I took off the blanket and tried to resuscitate him. But he was already cold."
The neighbour said she called Potgieter, an ambulance and the Pretoria Day Mothers Association.
According to Potgieter she found her child in the same position the neighbour had left him.
"He was covered with a blanket. I picked him up and ran towards the door. I held him close and could feel he was cold. I fell down on my knees and prayed, because I had read somewhere about a mother who had prayed her child back to life, but it didn't work for me," she said, crying.
According to Potgieter, De Klerk had told her that she had given the baby a bottle at about 11:00 before putting him down in his crib. She only went to see how he was about 14:00.
That, as well as the fact that Nicholis's face, arms, mouth, chin, eyes and knees were covered in blue and white spots, encouraged her to investigate.
"I believe the day mother was negligent in leaving my child alone for such a long time. The two paramedics who arrived to take care of him said the colour of his face indicated that he had suffocated," said Potgieter.
Police spokesperson captain Lucas Sithole said the police were busy with a judicial inquiry.
Potgieter found three other families whose children had earlier suffered injuries while in the care of the same day mother.
The parents of these children said although they didn't want to lay charges against De Klerk, they would make their children's medical reports available to Potgieter in order to find out what had happened to her child.
They believed it was important for parents to know what happened to their children.
'Too angry' to lay a charge
Lydia Venter of the Pretoria Day Mothers Association said she had discussed the grievances of two mothers. "We can only investigate their grievances once they have submitted a written charge and the doctor's reports," she said.
De Klerk and her daughter were at present taking care of eight children.
She referred the newspaper to the police. "I can't see how anything that happens here has anything to do with anybody else out there," she said before putting the phone down.
When reporters visited her home, she let them know through her son that she had no comment.
Other parents told these stories:
Damien Malherbe from Chantelle was a year old when he broke his foot in four places in 2005. His mother, Lizette, said the child's foot got stuck in the panels of the crib, according to the day mother.
"According to the doctor it was as if somebody had driven over his foot with a wheelbarrow filled with bricks. I never took my child back, but informed the Day Mothers Association."
Malherbe said she didn't lay a charge against De Klerk because she was too angry and never wanted to see her again.
Jared van der Merwe from Hestiapark was a month old when he injured a nerve in his arm in 2005. His mother, Lea, said her son always had bruises to his body while being in the care of De Klerk for three months.
"His arm was hanging like a piece of cloth next to his body. The daymother said he had fallen, but the doctor said the child must have been pulled roughly by his arm.
"I never took my child back and didn't even fetch his toys."
Van der Merwe said she thought it was an isolated case and never bothered to report it to the police.
Ryno Erasmus from Roodeplaat Dam was 10 months old when he broke his leg in 2003. He also often got home with blue arms, legs ad even injuries to his lower back.
Johan Erasmus, his father, said after giving his son a bath one night, he returned to De Klerk to find out why his son was covered in bruises. The day mother said Ryno's arm and leg got stuck in the panels of his crib.
"One day when I fetched him the insides of his ears were blue. I never took him back."
They also decided to remove their child instead of laying a charge.
07-09-2007, 04:26 AM #1026
More arrests expected in Matthews case
Three years ago today blond student Leigh Matthews was snatched from the Sandton campus of Bond University and murdered in what was to become a saga that gripped South Africans.
She would have celebrated her 24th birthday on Sunday. Instead her family will mark the third anniversary of her death.
Matthews disappeared from the campus on a Friday afternoon just before her father received a call demanding R50 000 in ransom.
The money was paid but the Matthews family heard no more.
Eleven days later her body was found dumped in a veld in Orange Farm, bringing to an end the countrywide search.
Superintendent Piet Byleveld, of the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit, took over the investigation when the case seemed to stall.
After painstakingly checking every possible clue, he identified a suspect.
Weeks after the murder Byleveld arrested former Bond University student Donovan Moodley, who was eventually tried and convicted of kidnapping Matthews and shooting her.
In his findings, Johannesburg High Court Judge Joop Labuschagne found Matthews had not been murdered at the spot where her body was found, as Moodley claimed in a confession.
Labuschagne stated that he agreed with a string of State witnesses who testified that evidence suggested that Matthews had been shot and her body kept hidden in a cold storage facility before being placed in the veld only hours before it was discovered.
In August 2005 Moodley was sentenced to life in prison, and Byleveld renewed his investigations.
Moodley - who confessed to the murder and pleaded guilty, has since changed his story and said that he intended to apply to the Johannesburg high court for a retrial.
Byleveld, meanwhile, remains confident of success. "There will be more arrests, there will definitely be another trial, but that's all I can say for now," he said.
Moodley is in prison, serving his life term.
State prosecutor Zaais van Zyl said on Sunday that he was not aware of any application for a retrial or papers of any kind filed by Moodley.
07-09-2007, 04:54 AM #1027
Ma en dogter aangeval, terwyl omstanders toekyk
Odette Stander en haar dogter, Ilandre, wat in die hoofstraat aangeval en aangerand is.
Misdaad het nie altyd ‘n spesifieke tyd of plek nie en dit is presies wat Odette Stander en haar 13-jarige dogter verlede Woensdag uitgevind het.
Odette en dogter, Ilandre, is die aand na die KFC op die hoek van Songozwi- en Burgerstraat om kos te bestel.
Na hulle hul bestelling gegee het, is hulle gevra om so 10 minute te wag vir die hoender om gaar te kom. Odette en Ilandre het toe maar bietjie buite begin rondstap.
Skielik het twee mans hulle oorval. Odette sê dat haar aandag deur een afgetrek is, terwyl die ander man vir Ilandre gegryp het en haar serp in haar mond forseer het sodat sy nie kan skreeu nie.
Die man het probeer om Ilandre se selfoon te gryp en Odette, wat in daardie stadium ernstig vir haar kind se lewe gevrees het, het die man weggestamp. Dit het ‘n woede in die man ontketen waarna hy Odette herhaaldelik begin aanrand het in ‘n poging om haar uit te slaan.
Odette vertel dat sy gesien het die ander man is nie so aggressief nie. Sy het ‘n kans gevat en haar dogter se selfoon by haar gegryp. Daarna het die verdagtes vir Ilandre uitgelos en op Odette gekonsentreer. Hulle het haar gevloek en op haar geskreeu dat sy die selfoon moet oorhandig. Intussen is Odette aangehou slaan.
In ‘n stadium het Odette begin om terug te baklei. Die worsteling het hulle geneem tot voor die bakkery sowat ‘n straatblok vanaf die KFC. Odette vertel dat sy van die werknemers by die bakkery sien staan het en om hulp geskreeu het, maar dat hulle haar net bly aanstaar het sonder om enige iets te doen. Toe sy sien dat Ilandre nie meer vasgehou word nie, het sy vir haar dogter geskreeu om hulp te gaan soek. Kort daarna het die mans op die vluggeslaan.
Terug by die KFC het die bestuurder aangebied om ‘n ambulans te ontbied. Odette het egter eerder verkies om mense te skakel wie sy ken.
Minute later was vriende Jimmy en Suzette Moodie op die toneel. Hulle het vir Odette na die Zoutpansberg Privaathospitaal geneem waar sy sewe steke bokant haar een oog moes kry.
Odette sê dit is skrikwekkend om te dink dat jy sommer so in die openbaar voor mense aangeval kan word. Sy sê dat dit nog nie eens so laat was nie en dat daar nog baie mense in die strate rondgeloop het. Wat haar egter die meeste ontstel het, was dat niemand haar kom help het nie.
Te midde van die seer en skok, is Odette egter baie dankbaar dat Ilandre die voorval oorleef het.
Wat haar aanvallers betref, het Odette gesê dat sy die een sal erken wat haar geslaan het. Sy sê sy dink dat hulle nog op skool kan wees, aangesien hulle baie jonk lyk.
Kapt. Maano Sadike, plaaslike polisiewoordvoerder, het na aanleiding van die voorval inwoners versoek om meer oplettend te wees en versigtig te wees oor waar hulle rondbeweeg. Sou iemand hulle in ‘n soortgelyke situasie bevind of sien, vra hy dat die polisie dadelik geskakel kan word by tolvryenommer 086 001 0111.
07-09-2007, 07:51 AM #1028
Cops warn: Don't just open gate
Johannesburg - A man was hijacked and robbed of his cellphone and wallet on the driveway of his home in Lambton, Germiston, police said.
Captain Steady Nawa said the man was about to close his gate when he was confronted by two armed men on Sunday.
"The suspects instructed him to lie down on the ground. They searched him and took his cellphone, wallet and car keys."
The men drove-off in the victim's Mazda Drifter with registration plate number TKG020GP.
Nawa appealed to anyone with information on the incident to contact the investigating officer Captain Phineas Boshomane on 082-319-9887.
"We advise members of the public not to open their gates without looking to see if there are any suspicious people around," Nawa said.
07-09-2007, 08:58 AM #1029
Prosecutor's knifeman 'deserves' life
Pretoria - A car guard who repeatedly stabbed a prosecutor while robbing her of her cellphone should be given a life sentence, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday.
Judge Tholi Vilakazi convicted 33-year-old Sipho Mnisi on charges of robbery with aggravating circumstances and attempted murder following a vicious attack on control prosecutor Marisa Booyse in her office at the Pretoria Magistrate's Court in September last year.
Prosecutor Andre Fourie argued that Booyse was a law officer who was attacked in her own office at a venue where she was surrounded by police.
The fact that Mnisi attacked her under those circumstances showed he had no respect for the law and he deserved life imprisonment.
The judge said it was clear Mnisi had foreseen that Booyse could die when he stabbed her 11 times. Mnisi had the intention to kill her when he attacked her, despite his denials.
Booyse partially lost the use of her right hand as a result of the attack and was still receiving counselling to overcome the trauma. She has not been back to her office since.
She has told reporters she could not convince herself to return to the place she associated with near death. She also said she was angry and shuddered when she thought that, if she had been killed, her two young daughters might have had to grow up without a mother.
Mnisi was, however, acquitted on charges of murdering and robbing 18-year-old Peet van der Merwe at the Centurion Mall in June 2005.
Van der Merwe was stabbed to death with a broken bottle after he and some friends smoked dagga under the bridge at the mall with a group of strangers.
One of his friends, Alex Barnard, six months later identified Mnisi as his friend's attacker, but Vilakazi said he was not satisfied that Barnard's identification was reliable.
There was no evidence to back up Barnard's testimony. It was also dark that night and there was no lighting under the bridge, the judge said.
The trial was postponed to July 26 for sentencing.
07-09-2007, 09:10 AM #1030
Police searches for missing girl
Stellenbosch police are searching for 16-year-old Elmare Laubscher who went missing six days ago.
Police spokesperson Constable Siphokazi Mawisa said she was last seen at the University of Stellenbosch during a winter school programme on July 3. Laubscher was from Calvinia. She had been wearing blue denim trousers, a black long-sleeved shirt, a jacket and a pair of takkies.
Call investigating officer, Detective Inspector Johan Vorster, at Stellenbosch police on 021 809 5013.