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01-22-2007, 02:22 AM #651
01-22-2007, 02:28 AM #652
Robbers milk Cape Cobras
Johannesburg - "All I could think was that I would never see my wife and child again," said Cape Cobras cricketer Charl Willoughby after he and seven team-mates were robbed.
The still shaken cricketer and his team-mates were hit by armed robbers at Nandos in Croydon on the East Rand on Saturday night.
At one stage, Vernon Philander, who has been included in the preliminary group of 30 players for the World Cup squad, was looking down the barrel of a gun.
The Cobras, who were staying at a hotel near O R Tambo Airport for their SuperSport match again the Titans in Benoni, had decided about 20:00 to eat out at the chicken franchise.
Put valuables beside them
Just after they had placed their orders, three armed robbers - in Chubb security guard uniforms - stormed into the restaurant.
They ordered the eight players and four other customers inside, to lie down on the floor.
They had to place their cellphones, purses, wallets and other valuables next to them.
Philander was standing with his back to the entrance, while phoning his girlfriend, when he heard his captain, Con de Lange, shout that there were problems.
The other players involved were Dominique Telo, Andrew Puttick, Alistair Gray, Henry Davids and Robert van der Ross.
One of the robbers pushed his firearm into Philander's face and told him: "Don't try to be clever."
Their valuables were taken, including the keys to the minibus in which they had arrived, and the players were all pushed into a fridge before the robbers fled.
Hit them later
Coach Shukri Conrad said: "When Con phoned me later to tell me they had been robbed, and I must fetch them, I thought he was joking."
"We had a few drinks at the hotel later on Saturday night to celebrate the fact that they were all still alive.
"I could see in the dressing room on Sunday that the full impact of what had happened was hitting home only then. It was all they could talk about," said Conrad.
01-22-2007, 04:25 AM #653
Armed robber 'quite arrogant'
Pretoria - An armed robber repeatedly beat a 64-year-old woman from Erasmuskloof, Pretoria, with a blunt object over the head before ripping her wedding and engagement rings from her fingers.
"He hit me about five times with a round, blunt object until I became dizzy. My glasses fell off and I couldn't see a thing."
"He then grabbed my wedding and engagement rings, cellphone and watch and ran away," said Marie Meyer from her bed in Kloof Hospital on Sunday.
She had to receive several stitches to her head and her eyes were still black and blue.
To make matters worse, the police had still not taken her statement by Sunday afternoon, despite the fact that the robbery and assault took place about 23:30 on Friday night.
According to Meyer she was watching television when her dog started growling. The dog ran up and down inside the house and barked at the windows and sliding door of the lounge.
"I switched on the garden lights, but didn't see anything. When I returned to the lounge I saw a movement like as if there were two people on the veranda."
"I ran to the other side of the room to push the panic button."
The next moment the large window of the lounge was shattered.
"The robber simply walked in, quite arrogantly."
"I ran to the kitchen and tried to leave the house, but the door was locked. The man reached me and started hitting me. I stumbled around in the kitchen because I was very dizzy."
Meyer's son, André, had to take down his mother's statement with the help of a former policeman and take it to Brooklyn police station.
He was angry because the police only turned up at his mother's house on Saturday afternoon to investigate the incident. "When I called them on Friday night, they told me to be patient, that they were busy and that they would be at my mother's home only about 04:00."
Meyer and her son were considering laying a charge against the police.
According to police spokesperson inspector Anton Breedt, the police would soon visit Meyer. He said police had already taken fingerprints at the house.
Meyer's daughter, Corné, who lives in a townhouse in Moreleta Park, was also robbed on Saturday.
01-22-2007, 05:19 PM #654
Held geskiet, maar red gesin
‘Liefie, hulle het my geskiet. Ek kan die deur nie langer toe hou nie.”
Só het mnr. Willem Smit (41) van Akasia, noord van Pretoria, Saterdagaand aan sy vrou, Magda (44), gesê terwyl hy verbete geveg het om drie gewapende rowers uit hul huis te hou.
Hy is voor sy vrou en hul 13-jarige seun, Steven, dood nadat die rowers hom deur die kombuisdeur van hul huis op ’n kleinhoewe in Heatherdale geskiet het. Smit het die deur probeer toedruk terwyl die rowers van buite die deur probeer oopdwing het.
“Willem het sy laaste krag gebruik en kon daarin slaag om die grendel toe te druk. Toe het hy die slot uit my hand gegryp en die deur gesluit,” het sy diep bedroefde vrou gister vertel.
Smit sê haar man het haar gevra om die polisie te bel.
“Hy het toe agteroor teen die muur geval en gesê hy het baie seer. Hy het gesê: ‘Kom sê vir my koebaai, ek gaan’, en toe word hy flou.
“Hulle (die rowers) het niks gekry nie, maar hulle het my man se lewe gevat,” het sy deur die trane vertel.
Mnr. Smit is in die linkersy geskiet en die koeël het ’n slagaar en sy longe getref.
Mev. Smit sê sy het Saterdagaand omstreeks middernag toilet toe gegaan. Haar man het ook wakker geword.
“Ek het iets by ons motor gehoor en toe hoor ek iemand stamp teen die staaltafel buite langs die kombuisdeur.”
Sy het die deur oopgemaak en met hul flitslig na buite geskyn. Haar man het die veiligheidshek oopgemaak en na buite gestap.
“Dit is toe dat hy die rowers sien. Hy het terug in die huis gehardloop, maar was te laat om die veiligheidshek te sluit.”
Smit sê die rowers het Afrikaans gepraat en het die heeltyd vir hulle gelag.
Nadat hulle besef het hulle gaan dit nie regkry om in die huis te kom nie, het hulle op hul tyd weggestap.
Steven, wat sy ma gehelp het om die ambulans en die polisie te bel, sê hy het alles gesien.
“Ek het wakker geword toe ek ’n gedoef teen die ruit hoor.” Hy het na sy ma-hulle gehardloop en kort daarna gesien hoe sy pa sterf.
Mev. Smit sê sy voel baie verbitterd. “Al troos wat ek het, is dat my man tot die einde geveg het om ons te beveilig. Hy is my held,” het sy huilend gesê.
Volgens haar broer, mnr. Sampie Esterhuizen, is mnr. Smit die derde lid van hul familie wat vermoor is.
Esterhuizen se broer, Kobus, ’n polisielid, is in November 1995 doodgeskiet. Esterhuizen se skoonpa, mnr. Douw Kaltwasser, is in Augustus 1995 met klippe doodgeslaan.
Esterhuizen het gister ’n beloning aangebied vir iemand wat kan help met inligting wat kan lei tot die verhoor en skuldigbevinding van sy swaer se moordenaars.
’n Lid van die publiek het die wenk vir dié berig aan Beeld gegee en nie die polisie se woordvoerders nie.
Dit gebeur dikwels dat misdaadvoorvalle nie deur die polisie aan die koerant deurgegee word nie en daarom is die publiek Beeld se oë en ore. Laat ons weet van sulke en ander nuuswenke by [email protected].
01-22-2007, 05:44 PM #655
Rowers lag, moor en maak amok in Afrikaans
Drie gewapende rowers wat vlot Afrikaans praat en hul slagoffers uitlag, het die naweek drie gesinne in Akasia, noord van Pretoria, aangeval en in een van hul plundertogte ’n man vermoor.
Insp. Katlego Mogale, polisiewoordvoerder, sê die wreedheid van die verdagtes is soortgelyk aan dié tydens plaasaanvalle.
Die rowers se verwoesting het Saterdagaand begin en Sondag in die vroeë oggendure geëindig.
Mogale sê die verdagtes het Saterdagaand omstreeks 23:00 eers toegeslaan by mnr. Charles Fourie se huis in Amandasig.
Hulle het sy seun, Donovan (26) en dié se meisie sowat 45 min. lank vasgebind en toe beroof. “Ek het eers agtergekom wat aan die gang is toe ek my in die gang amper vasgeloop het in ’n rower met ’n geweer.”
Hy en sy vrou, Karin, het hulle in hul slaapkamer toegesluit en die polisie gebel.
“Ek wil komm. Jackie Selebi (nasionale polisiehoof) se selfoonnommer hê sodat ek hom kan bel as ek weer aangeval word. Dalk sal hy kan reël dat die polisie vinniger opdaag en nie ’n uur later soos wat hulle nou met ons gedoen het nie,” het Fourie gesê.
Hy sê die rowers het selfone, horlosies, twee skootrekenaars en die kinders se beursies gesteel voordat hulle gevlug het.
Mogale sê in die tweede voorval, omstreeks middernag, is mnr. Willem Smit (41) van Heatherdale deur sy kombuisdeur doodgeskiet. Hy het die deur probeer toedruk om die rowers buite te hou.
Mev. Magda Smit sê die rowers het die heeltyd vir hulle gelag. Hulle het gevlug sonder om iets te steel.
Volgens Mogale is die rowers Sondag in die vroeë oggendure terug na Amandasig waar hulle nóg ’n gesin oorval en vasgebind het.
“Hulle het die huis geplunder en verskeie goed gesteel.
“ ’n Vrou is ook onsedelik aangerand. Een van die slagoffers het losgekom en die verdagte wat hulle aangehou het, met ’n metaalpyp geslaan.
“Die verdagtes het in die gesin se bakkie probeer vlug. Hulle moes die bakkie ’n paar meter van die huis af agterlaat, omdat die satellietopsporingstelsel geaktiveer was,” het Mogale gesê.
Die polisie ondersoek ook ’n voorval waar ’n man in die been en ’n ander in die enkel geskiet is toe ’n groep gewapende rowers hulle Vrydagaand in Navadasingel in Faerie Glen oorval het.
01-22-2007, 05:51 PM #656
Vrou sterf ná aanval
BELLVILLE. – ’n Vrou van Boston wat die naweek wreed aangerand is, is gisteroggend dood terwyl haar eggenoot nog om sy lewe in die Tygerberg-hospitaal veg.
Die Horstmann-egpaar, Robert (73) en Julie (74), wat langer as 50 jaar in hul huis op die hoek van 6de Laan en Lincolnstraat gewoon het, was vermoedelik etlike ure lank in hul slaapkamer aan ’n stoel vasgebind.
Hulle is Sondagoggend bewusteloos in hul huis aangetref nadat rowers vermoedelik deur hul badkamervenster toegang tot die huis verkry het.
Naasbestaandes en kennisse is dronkgeslaan omdat daar oënskynlik niks uit die huis gesteel is nie.
Die polisie ondersoek nou ook ’n klag van moord, benewens ’n klag van huisroof en een van poging tot moord.
Mnr. Wesley Horstmann, een van die egpaar se seuns, het die aanval en moord as wreed en sinloos bestempel.
“As iemand gebel het en gesê het my ma het ’n hartaanval gekry, sou ek kon verstaan. Maar nie dít nie.”
Hy vrees ook vir die lewe van sy pa. “Dit gaan nie goed nie. Hy’s nog kritiek. Hy was nog swakker as my ma gewees. Ek weet nie of hy dit gaan maak nie.”
Met Die Burger se besoek aan die toneel was forensiese beamptes nog besig om die huis te fynkam vir leidrade.
Volgens Wesley Horstmann lyk dit nie of daar iets gesteel is nie.
“My ma se handsak met haar ID het nog in die huis gestaan.”
Supt. Billy Jones, ’n polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê op die oog af word niks uit die huis vermis nie, maar sal “net die slagoffers kan bevestig of iets geneem is”.
’n Buurvrou van bykans 30 jaar, ene Jeanne (wat nie haar van wou verskaf nie), het ook mev. Horstmann se dood as sinloos beskryf.
“Hulle was nie lawwe ou mense nie. Hulle was versigtige ou mense. Ek dink net as hulle niks gevat het nie, hoekom het hulle ingebreek?” het sy gesê.
Wesley Horstmann wou hom nie uitlaat oor die misdaadsituasie in die land nie, maar was vol lof vir die polisie se hantering van die saak.
“Die publiek dink die polisie doen niks nie, maar ek haal my hoed af vir hulle.
“Ek wil net vir Boston se mense sê: Julle moet wakker skrik. Dis al waaroor dit gaan. Julle moet jul sekerheid opskerp.”
Volgens hom het hy en sy ouers al baie gepraat oor die moontlikheid om ’n alarmstelsel te laat installeer.
“Maar hulle verstaan nie hoe dit werk nie. Ek het net nou die dag vir hulle ’n DVD-masjien gekoop. Dis nog nie eens gekoppel nie.
“My ma het al die dinge in die huis gedoen. My pa het maar gesit en koerant lees of televisie gekyk.”
Volgens hom word die begrafnis vir later in die week beplan.
“Die kerk reël alles,” het hy gesê.
Die egpaar was 52 jaar getroud.
01-22-2007, 06:07 PM #657
Oudinwoner van Parys op nuwe plaas vermoor
PARYS. – Mnr. Piet Barnard Venter (68), wie se lyk Vrydag deur werkers naby sy plaas se hek in die distrik Buffelshoek gekry is, is ’n bekende in die Parys- en Vredefort-omgewing.
Hy het vroeër in die distrik Parys geboer voordat hy sy plaas verkoop en na die nuwe plaas, Somerplaas, by Buffelshoek tussen Parys en Fochville, verhuis het. Hy het daar met varke geboer.
Hy het voordat hy begin boer het, vir baie jare by die Lorraine-goudmyn op Allanridge gewerk waar hy grootgeword het.
Sy vrou, Jeanetta, wat sowat 12 jaar gelede by Koppies verongeluk het, was lank orrelis op Allanridge.
Supt. Louis Jacobs, Noordwes-polisiewoordvoerder, sê Venter is vermoedelik verwurg.
Daar was ’n tou om sy nek, maar geen sigbare beserings aan sy lyk nie.
Venter se wit Toyota-viertrekbakkie is vroeër verlate langs die pad sowat 4 km van sy plaas deur ’n buurman opgemerk.
Die buurman het die polisie ontbied.
Volgens Jacobs was die polisie nog na die plaas onderweg toe ’n berig hulle bereik het dat werkers op Venter se lyk afgekom het.
Die drie werkers het Venter die vorige aand laas lewend gesien toe hy hulle in Parys, waar hulle bly, gaan aflaai het.
Bakkiespore op die moordtoneel wys dat Venter vermoedelik oorval is nadat hy die hek, wat toegang tot die plaas verleen, oopgesluit, ingery, stilgehou en uitgeklim het om die hek weer te sluit.
Daar is volgens Jacobs tekens van ’n struweling in die gras by die hek waar Venter se lyk gekry is. Die aanvallers het met Venter se bakkie gaan staan toe die immobiliseerder geaktiveer het.
Daar is geen tekens nie van ’n inbraak by sy huis, waar hy alleen gewoon het.
So ver vasgestel kan word, is net ’n selfoon vermis. Dit is nie bekend hoeveel aanvallers betrokke was nie.
Hy word oorleef deur drie seuns, Bernard, Kallie en Phillip.
01-23-2007, 12:43 AM #658
01-23-2007, 01:01 AM #659
Pretoria - "Darling, they've shot me. I can't hold the door closed any longer," said Willem Smit before giving a mighty shove and locking three robbers away from his family.
Smit, 41, of Acasia, north of Pretoria, was shot through the kitchen door on their smallholding in Heatherdale in front of his wife, Magda, 44, and their 13-year-old son, Steven, on Saturday night.
Magda said: "He fell backwards against the door and said the pain was dreadful.
'Took my husband's life'
"He said: 'I'm going, come and say goodbye,' then he fainted," sobbed Magda.
Magda said she went to the toilet about midnight, and her husband also woke up.
She heard something happening at their car.
"Then someone bumped against the steel table outside next to the kitchen door."
She opened the door and shone the torch outside.
Her husband opened the security gate and went outside.
"That was when he saw the robbers. He ran back inside, but it was too late to close the security gate."
She said the robbers spoke Afrikaans and were laughing at them all the time.
"When they saw they were not going to get inside, they walked away, but did not run."
Steven, who helped his mom phone the ambulance and the police, said he saw everything.
"I woke up when I heard a bump against the window pane."
He ran to his mom, and saw his dad die shortly afterwards.
Magda said she felt bitter.
Third family member to be killed
"My only consolation is that my husband fought to the end to keep us safe.
"He's my hero," she said through her tears.
Their brother Kobus Esterhuizen, a police officer, was shot dead in November 1995.
Esterhuizen's father-in-law, Douw Kaltwasser, had been stoned to death three months earlier.
01-23-2007, 05:49 AM #660
Son struggles with mom's murder
Cape Town - A woman from Boston, who was brutally assaulted at the weekend, died on Monday morning while her husband was still fighting for his life in Tygerberg Hospital.
Robert Horstman, 73, and his wife Julie, 74, who were living in the same house at the corner of 6th Lane and Lincoln Street for more than 50 years, were apparently tied to a chair in their bedroom for several hours. They were found unconscious in their home after the robbers had apparently gained entrance to their house through a bathroom window.
Relatives and acquaintances were surprised by the fact that nothing had apparently been removed from the house.
The police were investigating charges of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
Wesley Horstmann, one of the couple's sons, described the attack and murder as cruel and senseless.
"If somebody had called to say my mother had had a heart attack, I would have been able to understand it. But not this."
He also feared for his father's life. "He is not well. His condition is still critical. He was weaker than my mother. I don't know if he is going to make it."
At the time of Die Burger's visit to the house, forensic officials were still combing the scene for clues.
According to Wesley Horstmann it didn't seem as if anything had been stolen.
"My mother's handbag with her ID inside was still inside the house."
Police spokesperson superintendent Billy Jones said it didn't seem as if anything was missing from the house first glance, but "only the victims can confirm whether anything had been taken".
A neighbour of nearly 30 years called Jeanne (she didn't want to provide her surname), also described Mrs Horstmann's death as senseless.
"They weren't silly old people. They were careful. If they (the robbers) didn't take anything, why did they break in?" she said.
Wesley Horstmann didn't want to comment on the crime situation in the country, but praised the police for the manner in which they had handled the case.
"The public is of the opinion that the police are not doing anything, but I have respect for them." "I just want to tell Boston's residents: Wake up. That's what it's all about. You must boost your security."
He said his parents often discussed the option of installing an alarm system.
"But they don't understand the way it works. I bought them a DVD-machine the other day, which has still not been connected."
"My mother did everything in the house. My father just sat and read the newspaper or watched television."
His mother will be buried later this week. "The church is organising everything," he said.
The couple was married for 52 years.