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06-02-2006, 11:57 AM #201
'Govt is failing farmers'
Bloemfontein - Government and its structures are failing the farming community miserably in terms of rural security, Free State Agriculture said on Friday.
"You all know that criminals are simply operating with impunity within the confines of our society," the organisation's president Louw Steytler said during a media briefing on safety and security in the province.
The farming body was reacting to various farm murders and theft in the Free State in the last two months.
Steytler also announced that Free State Agriculture has forwarded statistics on crime and farm murders within the province for a legal opinion for a possible class action against the State.
"It is in regard to their [the State's] failure in terms of safety and security to farmers in general."
Steytler said the organisation had asked that the safety of "soft targets" like old people and other identified individuals be given special attention from within the farming community.
06-02-2006, 12:02 PM #202
Share land, white farmers told
Cape Town - White landowners in South Africa were challenged on Friday to start talks about sharing their land before it was too late.
"The people who are yearning for land are running out... of patience," senior ANC member Peter Moatshe stressed in the National Council of Provinces on Friday.
Moatshe, who chairs parliament's land and environmental affairs select committee, questioned the pace at which government was moving on land reform.
"This government is negotiating with those who have land. But those who have land are unwilling... to comply with the... sentiments of the Freedom Charter, that we shall share this land.
"The Freedom Charter does not say those who came must go. What... it says is white and black in this country must share the land. The land belongs to the people of this country.
"Therefore we make this challenge to those who have the land, that they shall make up their minds, otherwise it will be too late," he warned.
Legacy from 1652
Speaking during the agriculture and land affairs budget vote debate, he said the threat to land ownership had arrived in Africa with white colonialists.
"The white birds which were crossing the sea to South Africa and the continent of Africa - that was the beginning of the threat towards land.
"It's where it starts. These are facts that cannot be disputed by anybody. The question of land becomes imperative, and that's why we are debating this budget vote today.
"It is an endeavour to address this legacy from 1652. It is therefore very important that those who have the land, and those who do not have the land, must come to a point of agreement. That the land shall be shared by those who occupy it.
"These imbalances cannot be allowed to continue for ever and ever and ever," he said.
The budget being voted on was a "drop in the ocean" towards addressing the land question.
Satisfying the masses
Speaking in the House immediately after Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza, he said there were still great imbalances when it came to land, 12 years after the advent of democracy.
"Are we really moving at a speed that will satisfy the masses of this country? Are we not going to be caught up between those who have the land, and those who thirst for land? We have to speed up this process."
Moatshe cited the Bible in his plea for faster land reform.
"The people of this country are becoming much more politicised on the land question, and therefore the land must come back to the rightful owners in the spirit of Leviticus, Chapter 25."
This, he said, stated "the land must go back to the rightful owners".
If government sought to achieve a 30% distribution of land by 2015 to previously disadvantaged people, the pace of land reform would have to be considerably accelerated, he said.
06-03-2006, 03:48 AM #203
Bodyguard trial postponed
Pretoria - The trial of a Pretoria bodyguard trainer, who allegedly murdered the unwilling hitman he had hired and then burnt the body, will continue in November in the Pretoria High Court.
Judge Natvarial Ranchod postponed the trial of Andries Calitz, 30, to November 6 on Friday.
The postponement is to give Calitz's counsel time to obtain Calitz's cellphone and SMS records, which the court had earlier ordered handed over.
Calitz has denied murdering Nico Furstenburg in September 2003.
He claimed his former fiance, Sunette Venter, had murdered Furstenburg and he had helped her to get rid of the body because he did not want her to go to jail for life.
Venter, however, had a different tale to tell.
She admitted she had lied to the police about the murder. She blamed one of her ex-boyfriends, a local attorney.
But after eight months in jail, she decided she was not going to take the rap for Calitz.
She said Calitz had unexpectedly shot her bodyguard, Furstenburg, while Furstenburg was licking cocaine off her finger. The three were on their way to a strip club in Hillbrow.
Partner knew of plot to kill him
She said Furstenburg was still alive and tried to get control of the car, but Calitz shot him three more times, telling the dying man "I'm sorry my friend, but you talked".
The State alleged Calitz had murdered Furstenburg after he had made a statement to police claiming Calitz had asked him to "exterminate" his business partner and his fiancee's ex-boyfriend.
The investigating officer told the court Furstenburg had told him he had done many bad things in his life, but he had never killed a man, which was why he had decided to make the statement.
Calitz' former partner, Joe Smit, said Furstenburg had also told him about the plot to kill him and Venter's ex-boyfriend.
He said Furstenburg was so afraid of Calitz that he had left a letter with him to give to the police in case something happened to him.
A police pathologist and forensics expert testified that bullet marks in the passenger seat of Calitz' car and on the body meant the person driving the car - Calitz - was the shooter.
Inspector Michael Tupper testified Calitz was arrested after investigators found a shoe with blood on the tip, as well as grass and manure on the sole, of a shoe in his house.
There was grass and manure where Furstenburg's burnt body was discovered.
06-03-2006, 04:09 AM #204
Man eis van ministers ná verdagte hom skiet
KAAPSTAD. – ’n Sakeman van Faure wil skadevergoeding van sowat R950 000 van die regering eis nadat ’n moordverdagte op borgtog hom in die Strand in die gesig en arm geskiet het.
Mnr. John Steven Haggard (48) het sy aansoek hier in die hooggeregshof ingedien teen die minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit sowel as dié van justisie en staatkundige ontwikkeling.
Luidens sy hofstukke is ene mnr. Sibulele Mavangwana in Februarie 2002 van moord en ontvoering aangekla, maar voordat uitspraak gelewer kon word op borgtog van R5 000 vrygelaat.
Op 4 September 2002 is Haggard, wat paraffien in grootmaat verkoop het, en mnr. Clinton Wyngaardt, destyds die plaaslike hoof van Total Suid-Afrika, na ’n winkel in die Nonzamo-woonbuurt in die Strand om bestellings te neem vir paraffienaankope.
Mavangwana het na bewering sonder enige waarskuwing of uitlokking met ’n vuurwapen op hulle losgebrand. Wyngaardt is op die toneel dood terwyl Haggard in die regterarm en gesig geskiet is.
Haggard beweer die voorval is veroorsaak deur die verbreking van die regsplig wat die werknemers van die verweerders teenoor hom en ander lede van die publiek gehad het.
Haggard het weens die voorval ’n operasie ondergaan om los stukke been uit sy kakebeen te verwyder, terwyl hy ook ’n beenoorplanting moes kry toe been uit sy heup vir sy kakebeen verwyder moes word.
Luidens hofstukke is dit die verweerders en hul werknemers se plig om die grondwetlike regte van landsburgers te beskerm.
Haggard eis skadevergoeding van sowat R948 009,35 weens mediese koste en verlies aan inkomste omdat hy ná die voorval vir ses maande nie kon werk nie.
Verder eis hy vir algemene skade, verlies van lewensgenietinge en die permanente verminking van sy gesig.
Die verweerders beoog om die eis teen te staan. Hulle erken hulle het ’n algemene regsplig teenoor landsburgers om te verseker hul grondwetlike regte word nie geskend nie.
Luidens hofstukke weet die verweerders nie van die voorval nie en daag hulle Haggard uit om in die hof te bewys hul werknemers het hul regsplig teenoor Haggard verbreek of dat hulle enigsins nalatig was.
Die ministers voer aan Haggard het hulle ook nie binne ses maande oor die beoogde eis ingelig nie.
Die saak word in April aanstaande jaar verhoor.
06-04-2006, 01:24 AM #205
Moordraaisel dalk ná dekade opgelos
04 Junie 2006
'n Tergende moordraaisel van 'n dekade gelede kan moontlik opgelos word nadat die polisie die naam van 'n man gekry het wat met inligting kan help. Daar word nou landwyd na hom gesoek.
Die man, volgens die polisie 'n moontlike verdagte, het uit Stutterheim verhuis kort ná die moord op die 21-jarige Rae Cawthorn in September 1997.
Cawthorn is verskeie kere met 'n mes gesteek en die vriendin saam met wie sy gebly het, is verkrag.
Hoewel die polisie destyds tydens hul ondersoek byna al die jong manlike inwoners van Stutterheim genader het vir DNS-toetse, kon hulle nooit enigeen met die moord verbind nie. Die man wat nou gesoek word, se DNS is glo nooit vasgestel nie.
"Dit sal voortydig wees om te sê daar kom 'n deurbraak in die saak. Die man na wie ons nou soek, is bloot 'n moontlike verdagte met wie ons graag wil gesels," sê supt. Andrew Middleton, ondersoekbeampte in die saak.
"Ons kry gereeld leidrade wat opgevolg word. Hierdie is maar net nog een waarna ons moet kyk. Mense moenie te gou opgewonde raak nie."
Cawthorn se familie het onlangs die hulp van mnr. Christiaan Botha, 'n private speurder van Oos-Londen, ingeroep. Hy het glo vasgestel dat 'n kennis van Cawthorn ná haar dood verhuis het.
Botha wou die afglope week nie oor die saak gesels nie. Hy het alle vrae na Middleton verwys.
Volgens Cawthorn se suster, Adele, het haar suster die aand wat sy vermoor is, by 'n vriendin gaan kuier. Sy het ná ete huis toe gegaan en was in haar kamer toe sy oorval is.
Die oorledene se vriendin, wat verkrag is, het glo vroeër die aand 'n slaappil gedrink en nie gehoor hoe Cawthorn aangeval en vermoor word nie. Volgens inligting wat sy later aan die polisie verstrek het, is 'n identikit van die verdagte saamgestel, maar dit het steeds nie die moord opgelos nie.
"Dit is vir ons baie snaaks dat daar nie by die huis ingebreek is nie. Die moord op Rae slaan ons nou al jare lank stom. Ons het heelwat onbeantwoorde vrae. Hopelik kan die man na wie die polisie nou soek, help om die raaisel op te los," sê Cawthorn se suster. Die man wat die polisie soek, was glo 'n kennis van die oorledene.
Enigiemand met inligting oor die saak kan supt. Andrew Middleton bel by 082 779 7150.
06-05-2006, 03:43 AM #206
Farm Attack - 3 June - Soutpansberg
Incident - Saturday 3rd June 2006 at Waterpoort - Soutpansberg; Northern Transvaal at about 4am.
Aldrie Farm/Boerdery 70 year old couple - Nico & Tokkie Janse van Rensburg.
Attacked by 3 Zimbabwe citizens, The couple was violently assaulted with an object. Nico's jaw was broken.
The 3 Attackers escaped in the couple's bakkie/pick-up with 2 hand guns, money and jewellery.
Security Support Circles were activated and reacted immediately. Roadblocks and patrols ensued.
The police were notified and the 3 attackers were apprehended and arrested near Pietersburg.
The firearms were recovered.
06-06-2006, 04:17 AM #207
Dina: 'Confessions' cause delay
Cape Town - Hearsay evidence should not be allowed in criminal cases, it was contended on Monday, on behalf of Dina Rodrigues in the Cape High Court.
Only last week, Judge Basheer Waglay gave judgment in one of many technical trials-within-a-trial.
On Monday, prosecutors Nicolette Bell and Maria Marshall introduced yet another technicality - an application for hearsay evidence in the case to be allowed against Rodrigues and her four co-accused.
They also applied for confessions made by the co-accused to be ruled as mere statements.
If the court rules the confessions are nothing more than statements, their content may be used against all five accused.
Case on hold until Thursday
But if the court rules the statements were, in fact, confessions, they may be used only against those who made them, and not against those implicated in the confessions.
The case has been postponed to Thursday, when judgment will be given in the application.
With Rodrigues in the dock are Sipho Mfazwe, Mongezi Bobotyane, Zanethemba Gwada and a youth who may not be named.
It is alleged Rodrigues contracted her co-accused to gain entry to the Jordan home in June last year, by posing as couriers delivering a parcel.
Once inside, they had to stage a burglary and stab baby Jordan-Leigh Norton.
Bell contended that hearsay evidence could be ruled admissible, if it was reliable and in the interests of justice.
She said the youth's statement about the murder was exculpatory, even though it placed him at the murder scene.
In the statement, the youth told what had happened at the Norton home, but the statement was not a confession, she contended.
Hearsay evidence 'not the norm'
John van der Berg, for Rodrigues, contended that the youth's statement was "overwhelmingly a confession" and, as such, could not be used against Rodrigues.
Concerning hearsay evidence, he said the court needed to be "very, very reluctant" to accept it.
That hearsay evidence had been accepted from time to time in other cases did not make it the norm.
06-06-2006, 07:31 AM #208
“Dit is nou werklik hoog tyd dat regeringswoordvoerders plaasaanvalle sonder uitsondering in die sterkste moontlike taal veroordeel, en ophou om uitsprake te maak wat plaasaanvalle vir selfs die mees versteurde as geregverdig kan laat klink. “Ons harte bloei vir die naasbestaandes van die bejaarde mnr. Cobus en mev. Charlotte van Tonder wat op hul plaas buite Vrede vermoor is,” sê die Vrystaatse leier van die ACDP, mnr. Casper Nordier.
“So onlangs soos 27 April vanjaar het Volksblad in ‘n hoofartikel geskryf dat plaasmoorde in die Oos-Vrystaat gereeld voorkom en dat almal skynbaar met wrede aanrandings gepaard gaan. Voorts is geskryf dat dit nie lyk of die regering op nasionale en plaaslike vlak die vlaag geweldsmisdaad kan keer nie.”
Sedertdien is nog ‘n aantal mense op Oos-Vrystaatse plase vermoor.
“In ‘n gewelddadige samelewing soos dié in Suid-Afrika, waar die geweldsterftesyfer ses keer hoër as die wêreldgemiddeld is, en meer as 50 mense per dag vermoor word, kan onvanpaste uitsprake nie geduld word nie.
“Onlangs is berig dat die Wes-Kaapse Minister van Landbou opnuut na vrot appels in die landbougemeenskap wat hul werkers swak behandel, verwys het, en toe ‘n voorbeeld genoem wat by mediaondersoek geblyk het foutief te wees.
Ongelukkig word sulke uitsprake dikwels eers die wêreld ingestuur voordat die waarheid aan die lig kom.
“Die invloedryke Londense Sunday Times se tydskrif het onlangs ‘n omvattende artikel geskryf oor die moord en doodslag waaraan Suid-Afrikaanse boere blootgestel word. Met verwysing na die heuwel in Limpopo waar ‘n wit kruis vir elke slagoffer van ‘n plaasmoord opgerig word, word geskryf dat bykans 2 000 mense die afgelope tien jaar vermoor is net omdat hulle boere is. ‘n Verslag van die Menseregtekommissie dui daarop dat die slagoffers van alle bevolkingsgroepe is.
“Volgens die Minister van Veiligheid en Sekuriteit blyk dit dat 560 mense tussen 2000 en 2004 in plaasaanvalle vermoor is. In dieselfde tydperk is 29 mense in die Vrystaat in 166 plaasaanvalle dood.
“Ons is bekommerd oor die impak op plaasaanvalle as kommando’s eers heeltemal uitgefaseer is. Boonop blyk dit dat geen bestaande afskrikmiddel die getal of wreedehid van aanvalle temper nie.
“Ons vertrou dat die polisie spoedig die skuldiges van hierdie jongste moordtog op bejaardes sal vastrek.”
06-06-2006, 07:33 AM #209
Farm Murders - what a big coincidence!
Since power was handed over to the ANC in 1994, almost two-thousand farmers were killed in more than eight-thousand farm attacks. This means 77 farm attacks per month on average or 313 murders per year for every 100-thousand farmers who were attacked. The general statistic for murders in South Africa is 55 per 100-thousand per year as compared to Europe where the statistics are two for every 100-thousand per year. This shows a definite ethnic attack against the Boer nation and no other motives given for these cruel murders make sense. It also emphasises the barbaric cruelty that marks these attacks and also shows that the murderers are trained and organised.
Yet the ANC government do nothing to end this murder campaign. It is time for the South African public to scrutinise the government's attitude towards farm murders. Is it inefficiency or lack of control over its own police force or are they too naive to realise that the statistics on farm murders are getting out of hand? Or are they just unfeeling because the victims are white? Farm murders are not the only problems farmers have to deal with. In a professional opinion poll the agricultural weekly, ProAgri, found that the majority of farmers in South Africa feel that the government's interference is their main problem. The government, who is supposed to support agriculture is agriculture's biggest problem. Is this coincidence or is there more than meets the eye? The ANC dissolved the commando system that protected farmers and they promulgated new legislation on firearms that threatens to disarm law-abiding citizens. Meanwhile, farm murders are increasing while many people are defenceless without their firearms. The new legislation has no promise that illegal owners would also be disarmed or brought to book. Is this also coincidence? Criminals get their weapons mainly from the police and defence force. Still, the government do nothing. The continuous hate speech by senior leaders, the threats regarding land reform, the minimum farm wages, Agri-BEE and suppressing legislation all lead to the one question: Is government busy with efforts to drive all white farmers from their properties? It is difficult to believe that there is no connection or no coincidence among all these factors. If the government really wants to prove that they are against farm murders, they will have to start proving it.
06-06-2006, 07:37 AM #210
MOORDE OP BOERE SAL NIE OPHOU NIE
"Die grusame marteling en moorde op boere en hul gesinne sal nie ophou nie. Die barbaarse marteling van mense en die alewige skuldverplasing deur dit aan sosio-ekonomiese oorsake soos werkloosheid toe te skryf, is nie meer aanvaarbaar nie" het Paul van der Walt, President van die TLU SA, gesê oor die verbranding en vergruising van boere en hul vrouens.
Die gewelddadige samelewing wat in SA ontwikkel is nie net die toedoen van die inwoners van die land nie. Die onbeheersde instroming van vreemdelinge uit die noordelike streke van Sub-Sahara Afrika dra ook daartoe by. Vir dekades is hierdie lande geteister deur geweld, konflik en voedseltekorte wat nou oënskynlik na die Suid-Afrikaanse platteland en boerdery gemeenskappe oorspoel. Indien die SA Regering nie die moordenaars en kapers uit dié Noordelike state nou keer nie, sal daar nooit genoeg veiligheidsmagte wees om dit stop te sit nie. Daar is steeds strukturele gebreke in die SAPD se inligtingsisteme wat nie voorkennis oor plaasaanvallers verskaf nie.
Die gemiddeld van twee tot drie moorde en meer aanvalle per week op boere neem nie af nie en die aanvalle op die boerdery gemeenskappe hou nie op nie. Dit noop TLU SA om sy strategie vir landelike veiligheid verder te vat en die volgende fase te begin implementeer. Daar is by verskeie geleenthede samesprekings met die hoofde van die SAPD gehou, en hoewel daar begrip is vir hul onmag in hierdie onveilige omgewing, kan die landbougemeenskap nie meer net toekyk hoe hul lede en gesinne uitgemoor word nie. Die onbeheersde en brutale optrede van misdaadsindikate wat op alle boere jag maak ten einde 'n kriminele ekonomie te bedryf moet voor die staat, en in besonder voor die deur van mnr Mbeki en sy kabinet, se deur gelê word. Tè min word gedoen om die probleem aan te spreek. Die vermoë om teen misdadigers op te tree bestaan, maar word nie benut nie. Die indruk word ook verkry dat solank dit swart op wit misdaad is, die SAPD nie geïnteresseerd is nie, maar as dit wit op swart misdaad is, daar vinnig gemobiliseer kan word deur die veiligheidsmagte.
TLU SA het by twee geleenthede briewe aan mnr Mbeki gestuur, etlike gesprekke met senior polisiebeamptes het reeds plaasgevind waartydens bepaalde aspekte en voorvalle in geen onduidelike taal oorgedra was en die inisiatief om TLU SA lede en hul afhanklikes te bemagtig om gewelddadige aanvalle, brandstigting en noodhulp te bemeester, is opgeskerp.
"Ons het geen keuse meer nie, as om meer doeltreffend op te tree vanuit die beginsel van self-beskerming. Ons is immers onder sulke omstandighede verantwoordelik vir die beskerming van eie lewe, familie, eiendom en om vrede in die gemeenskap te bewaar" het mnr van der Walt gesê.
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