April 24 2008 at 08:31AM
He lay in his bed, hands and feet bound with a tie, the duvet cover pulled over his body exposing only his shoulders, a swollen forehead and dried blood around his mouth.
His small cottage on a 4,5-hectare plot in Honeydew, north-west of Joburg, a place he had called home and where he had lived peacefully for eight years, had been transformed into a murder scene.
The gate on the fence that protected his home stood wide open; the security gate on the back door had been tampered with and forcefully unlocked, and the door left ajar.
Personal papers had been rummaged through and discarded in his office. His bedroom had been turned upside down - drawers were ripped out and lay on the floor. Items of clothing not stolen were left scattered on the ground.
The new DVD player he had received as a Christmas present, his cellphone, radio and money from his wallet were gone.
This is the scene Silas Mokadi stumbled across on Wednesday morning after he found his employer, garden services veteran Tony Goddard, 78, dead.
"I arrived at work at 8.15am and knocked on the front door a few times, but there was no answer. I saw that the gate was open, so I went around the house and noticed that the security gate was also open and so was the door," Mokadi said.
He started to worry when several calls to Goddard went unanswered, so he entered the house to investigate and was devastated by what he found - the murder of not only his employer of 16 years but someone he considered a friend.
"I'm feeling very bad because Tony was a nice person and he looked after me well," he said.
Hillary Minnaar, owner of the plot and a close family friend, said they were shattered by the senseless murder.
"He was the kindest, dearest gentleman in the whole world. To think that he sold his big house to move in here with us to be safe, and then he gets murdered here, is unbearable," she said.
The Minnaar family still question how the perpetrators managed to gain access to their property without tripping the electric fence alarm, forced their way into Goddard's cottage and escaped without anyone hearing a thing.
Honeydew police spokesperson Inspector Karen Jacobs confirmed that Goddard's cellphone, radio and DVD player had been stolen and said police suspect suffocation as the cause of death.
She said a case of murder and armed robbery had been opened and urged anyone with information to call the investigating officer on 079-889-6578.
This article was originally published on page 2 of The Star on April 24, 2008
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Luca Foto: Herman Verwey
Apr 23 2008 10:18:07:760PM - (SA)
’n Man van Lyttelton in Centurion het gister twee rowers met sy kaal hande toegetakel en met ’n besem by sy kombuisdeur uitgeboender.
Terwyl die skote geklap het, het mnr. Julian van der Westhuizen (29) aangehou baklei om die rowers van sy vriendin af weg te hou.
In die skietery is hy en Luca, sy hond, gewond.
Luca het ten spyte van haar skietwond die rowers van haar baas probeer verwilder.
Van der Westhuizen is in die lies geskiet en Luca is skrams in die keel getref.
Van der Westhuizen is kort daarna deur Netcare 911 na die Unitas-hospitaal geneem waar hy gister geopereer is.
Luca is deur Animal Ambulance Services na ’n dierehospitaal in Pierre van Ryneveld geneem vir behandeling.
Van der Westhuizen en sy vriendin, me. Lana Steynberg, het geslaap toe rowers die kombuisdeur oopgebreek het.
Mnr. Pieter van der Westhuizen, Julian se broer, het gister gesê ’n rower het ’n vuurwapen gehad en die ander een het ’n flitslig vasgehou.
“Luca het begin grom en blaf en toe word my boetie wakker. Hy het die flits se lig gesien en besef daar is mense in die huis,” het Pieter gesê.
Volgens hom het sy broer opgespring en op die rower met die flitslig afgestorm. Hy het hom geslaan en in ’n kamer gedruk.
“Toe storm hy op die tweede rower met die vuurwapen af, maar dié het hom geskiet. My boetie het steeds aangehou baklei.”
Pieter het gesê vier skote het afgegaan. “Albei rowers het Julian aangevat, maar hy het met hulle in die gang af baklei om hulle weg te hou van sy kamer, waar Lana weggekruip het.”
Volgens Pieter het die gewapende rower die wapen probeer laai om weer te skiet, maar die wapen het blykbaar geweier.
“Julian het hulle tot in die kombuis geslaan. In die kombuis het hy ’n besem gegryp en hulle toe daarmee begin slaan.
“Hy het hulle met die besem by die kombuisdeur uitgeslaan waarna hulle weggehardloop het,” het Pieter gesê.
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Mnr. Andrew Modikela, een van die twee mans wat gesoek word vir die gruwelmoorde op mnr. At (60) en mev. Katrien Deysel (56) tussen Lichtenburg en Ottoshoop, asook mev. Zaiboon Jeena (61), wat in Maart vermoor is nadat haar vingers gebreek is, sy met 'n strykyster gebrand en verkrag is. Bel insp. Carina Fourie by 082 856 1613 as jy hierdie man herken.
Apr 23 2008 10:17:44:663PM - (SA)
Lichtenburg. – Die reuse-polisie-soektog na twee ontsnapte mans wat van ’n wrede plaasmoord verdink word, gaan steeds voort.
Teen druktyd gister het die polisie bevestig hulle volg steeds leidrade op en werk onverpoos om die boosdoeners op te spoor.
Lede van die polisie se honde-eenheid in Noordwes, die plaaslike lugvleuel, die berede eenheid, die eenheid vir sigbare polisiëring en die eenheid teen georganiseerde misdaad neem onder meer aan die soektog deel, het insp. Carina Fourie, polisiewoordvoerder, gesê.
Sy wou nie sê presies wat die gebied is wat deurgesoek word nie, aangesien dit “sensitiewe inligting” is.
Die twee gesoektes het die afgelope naweek uit die Ottoshoop-polisiestasie se selle ontsnap.
Mnr. Philip Moremi en sy vermeende medepligtige, mnr. Andrew Modikela, word daarvan verdink dat hulle mnr. At (56) en mev. Katrien Deysel (60) Maandag op hul plaas tussen Lichtenburg en Ottoshoop vermoor het. Moremi word ook verdink van die moord op me. Zaiboon Jeena (61) in Maart vanjaar in Ottoshoop. Sy is verkrag, met ’n strykyster gebrand, met ’n mes gesteek en haar vingers is gebreek.
Intussen het me. Edwa Molewa, die Noordwes-premier, haar skok en afkeer van die moorde uitgespreek. Sy het by monde van haar woordvoerder, mnr. Cornelius Monama, gesê die wreedheid en gewetenloosheid van die moorde het haar die meeste geskok.
“Namens die Noordwes-regering wil ek my opregte simpatie uitspreek met die familie van die oorledenes. Ek doen voorts ’n beroep op die gemeenskap om die polisie te help met hul ondersoek en hulle van inligting te voorsien sodat die oortreders vasgetrek kan word,’’ sê Molewa.
Intussen het die Transvaalse Landbou-unie van SA sy skok en ontevredenheid met dié en ander plaasmoorde in die land uitgespreek. Hulle het reeds te kenne gegee hulle wil ’n klag by die menseregte-kommissie hieroor indien. Die president van die TLU, mnr. Paul van der Walt, het in verklaring gesê dat dié organisasie sy lede maan om nie eie reg te gebruik of om só op te tree dat dit lyk asof hulle die wet oortree nie.
“Maar die boere se geduld is op breekpunt en dit word al hoe moeiliker om hulle tot kalmte te maan. Niemand hoef immers toe te laat dat jy weerloos afgeslag word terwyl die regering met gevoude hande sit en toekyk nie, en terwyl sy amptenare misdadigers voortydig vrylaat of laat ontsnap, sodat dié met hulle duiwelswerk kan voortgaan.”
Mense met inligting kan Fourie bel by 082 856 1613.
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23/04/2008 09:11 - (SA)
Lichtenburg - Police suspect an escaped murder suspect who was believed to have gruesomely tortured a slightly-built woman at Ottoshoop in March before murdering her, was involved in the farm murder of a couple on Monday outside Lichtenburg.
The police were investigating this possibility after Phillip Moremi, 29, and a burglary suspect, escaped from the Ottoshoop police cells on Sunday afternoon at about 17:00
Beeld heard from a reliable source that Moremi was out on parole and should therefore have been in jail and not held in police cells.
At, 60, and Katrien Deysel, 56, were brutally murdered on Monday night on their farm between Lichtenburg and Ottoshoop.
'We won't leave it there'
The bodies of the couple, who had been married for 40 years, were discovered on Monday by a neighbour.
Katrien had been shot inside the house.
At the time of going to press the police could not confirm whether she had also been raped.
Her husband's body was found some distance from the house behind a pile of stones.
The murderers also killed one of the couple's dogs as well as Pietie, Katrien's tame Ringneck parrot.
Four firearms and a cellphone were stolen.
The neighbour earlier saw the couple's bakkie next to the road and became suspicious because it had apparently been involved in a collision.
A retired mineworker
Meat and a television set were found on the back of the bakkie.
Blood was also found inside the bakkie.
"He so loved this place. That is why my father, after years of working in the mines, returned here, where he grew up."
This was according to Theresa de Abreu, the murdered couple's oldest daughter, on Tuesday.
At was a retired mineworker who for the greater part of his life worked at the Vaal Reefs mine near Orkney.
"My parents never bothered anyone. They only wanted a peaceful retirement. They lived for their animals and their garden. My father knew the name of every animal, every plant, every bird and tree. He was a walking encyclopaedia."
"My mother and father did not use labourers, but did everything themselves. It is still so unreal. It is so unnecessary", De Abreu said on Tuesday.
"We are definitely not going to leave the matter here. Those people should not have had the chance to murder again. Our mother was a delicate, fragile woman."
The couple are survived by five children and eight grandchildren.
At the time of going to press on Tuesday night, police members of the North West helicopter unit, the dog squads from Stilfontein and Potchefstroom and police members from Lichtenburg, Mafikeng and Delareyville were busy combing the bushy terrain for clues and the murderers.
Inspector Carina Fourie, police spokesperson, gave the assurance that the search for the suspects would continue.
Moremi is also suspected of being involved in another burglary after he escaped on Sunday night, as well as the murder of Zaiboon Jeena, 61, in Ottoshoop in March.
She was raped, burnt with a clothes iron, stabbed with a knife and her fingers were broken.
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22/04/2008 22:31 - (SA)
Grahamstown - An elderly woman told the High Court here on Tuesday how robbers broke into her house and assaulted her, then killed her partner.
On trial before Judge Johan Froneman, and charged with murder and housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery with aggravating circumstances, are Roro Mntwaphi, 41, of Xolora township, and Mbulelo Kula, 25 of Mlungisi township in Stutterheim.
They both pleaded not guilty to the murder of Stephanus Jacobus Williams, 60, and the assault and robbery of his partner Thelma Lily Petzer, 68, at their house in Stutterheim, on May 27 last year.
The pair also pleaded not guilty to the unlawful possession of a firearm.
They allegedly attacked the elderly couple after breaking into their house in the early evening.
Tried to bite off her rings
According to the charge sheet Williams was attacked outside the house and died as a "result of multiple blows to the head with a blunt object".
Petzer said she was badly assaulted by one of the accused as he tried to bite her rings off her finger, steal her watch and get the PIN for her bank card. She was tied up and kicked one of her assailants.
"He asked the other accused to bring him a knife so he could slit my throat. Then, suddenly they left. I was bleeding from my head and mouth. My arms were black and blue from bruising."
Petzer ran across the road and got help from her neighbours who called the police and her son.
When the police arrived she gave them a description of the clothes the men were wearing.
"Then they (the police) told me Stephanus had passed on, and I said I wanted to see him."
At this point, Petzer broke down and cried as the prosecutor and her family tried to comfort her. The court was adjourned.
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20/04/2008 23:26 - (SA)
Brits - An elderly woman's faithful boerboel didn't have a chance to protect her when she was stabbed to death with a paper knife and a bread knife in her farmhouse at Geluk near Brits in North West.
The bloody body of Lien Gronum, 71, was found on Friday at 16:00 by her husband, Willem, also 71, in their blood-smeared house after he had dropped off two workers at a nearby shop.
Gronum said: "When I got back, I saw blood and the bag, in which my revolver had been, lying on the patio. I knew immediately there was big trouble.
"The security gate was covered with blood and my wife's boerboel, also covered in blood, had been closed in between the front door and the gate."
While it was earlier reported that the dog died, Gronum said it had only been lightly cut.
The breadknife and the paperknife, both covered in blood, were found in the house. His wife had been stabbed repeatedly.
Her shattered husband said to Beeld on Sunday: "It was a senseless murder. The murderer took nothing but my revolver."
Shortly before the murder, Gronum had taken three workers to the shop in his bakkie. One of the workers had had a change of heart and got off near the house.
Gronum found his wife's body in the passage.
"The breadknife was lying on her chest and I saw the knife drawer open in the kitchen.
"I don't know whether she had grabbed the knife in defence or whether the murderer took it after he had overpowered her," said Gronum.
Dog was extremely protective
"She had been sitting at the kitchen table playing Sudoku when I left. That's how I saw her last. When I came back, she was lying there in so much blood."
Nothing else was missing from the house and the dog had only a light cut.
Gronum said: "He followed her like a shadow and was extremely protective."
Gronum said the emergency services and the police, including the dog unit, had arrived quickly.
The domestic worker and the farm worker, who had climbed off the bakkie on the way to the shop, apparently have disappeared without a trace.
Superintendent Lesego Metsi of North West provincial police said no one had been arrested yet.
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Apr 17 2008 07:18:51:600PM - (SA)
’n 73-jarige vrou van Valtaki in Bronkhorstspruit, oos van Pretoria, het ’n rower glo tydens ’n rooftog met sy eie vuurwapen doodgeskiet.
Dié eienaar van ’n spaza en haar assistent is Dinsdag omstreeks 16:00 oorval deur vyf rowers, wat kort tevore meel en Coke by haar winkel gekoop het.
Mev. Ivy White het gesê sy en haar assistent het gewonder wie die mans is toe hulle vroeër by die winkel was, want hulle het hulle nog nooit tevore gesien nie.
“Net toe my assistent wou huis toe gaan, het hulle hom in die deur oorval en sy motorsleutels en selfoon afgevat,” het White gesê.
Die rowers het hom toe op die grond platgedruk.
“Ek het gehardloop om my groot Rottweiler te gaan vrylaat, maar ek was te laat. Die een rower het vinnig na my toe aangehardloop gekom. Hy het ’n rewolwer in die hand gehad en ek het nog gedink: Hel, hier kom moeilikheid!
“Net toe hy byna op my was, het sy voet gelukkig gegly en daar val die rewolwer. Nee jong, toe spring ek vinnig, gryp die rewolwer van die vloer af én toe skiet ek.”
White het gesê die rower het die rewolwer probeer teruggryp en het haar met ’n stok oor die hand geslaan.
“Hy het toe die rewolwer met dieselfde stok uit my hand geslaan. Ek het gedog hy gaan my skiet, maar toe sukkel hy by die deur uit.
“Die stoel het onderstebo gelê en die muurhorlosie het op die grond geval soos wat hy wild met die stok geslaan het.
“Toe hy by die deur uit struikel, het ek net gesê: ‘Dankie Here’,” het White gesê.
Volgens haar het die ander vier rowers die hasepad gekies.
Kapt. Simon Mashiloane, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n plaaswerker wat naby die winkel woon, het die skoot gehoor. Sy het na die winkel gehardloop om ondersoek te gaan instel.
“Op pad het drie verdagtes verby haar gehardloop en gesê daar is ’n rower in die winkel.
“Die werker se honde het intussen na ’n nabygeleë bos gehardloop en hard begin blaf. Sy het hulle gevolg en afgekom op ’n man wat op die grond gesit en bloei het. Hy is eenkeer in die bolyf geskiet.
“Sy het verder gehardloop om ander werkers te roep, maar die man was reeds dood toe hulle weer by hom uitgekom het. Hy is later as een van die rowers geïdentifiseer.”
Mashiloane het gesê die polisie ondersoek klagte van gewapende roof en moord.
Hy het gesê die ander rowers het met sowat R3 000 en verskeie selfoonkaarte gevlug.
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Mnr. James-Thomas Geldart (20) gister in die Glynnwood-hospitaal nadat hy glo twee keer deur die Ekurhuleni-metropolisie geskiet is. By hom is sy ouers, James sr. en Amanda en en kleinsus Petri (15). Foto: Alan Murdoch
Apr 18 2008 08:38:04:820PM - (SA)
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15/04/2008 21:27 - (SA)
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Mev. Mari Lubbe (66) het gister op die O.R. Tambo-lughawe gehuil toe sy moes afskeid neem van haar kinders en kleinkinders wat na Australie; emigreer. Foto: Theana Calitz
Apr 11 2008 08:59:57:840PM - (SA)
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Mnr. Aaron Mashishi word deur lede van die polisie by die selle van die Pretoriase landdroshof uitgelei. Hy het verskyn op aanklagte van moord en roof met verswarende omstandighede nadat hy glo Estée van Rensburg (19) van Faerie Glen, Pretoria, vermoor en beroof het. Foto: Herman Verwey
Apr 10 2008 10:22:15:097PM - (SA)
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Tony Ehrenreich. Foto: Rapport
Apr 09 2008 11:01:52:117PM - (SA)
Die omstrede uitlating waarin boere met mal honde vergelyk is, en gesê is hulle moet gem**r word as hulle nie wil luister nie, is volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Menseregtekommissie (MRK) nie haatspraak nie.
Mnr. Tony Ehrenreich, Wes-Kaapse leier van Cosatu, het dié uitlatings sowat twee jaar gelede in Rawsonville in dié provinsie gemaak.
Hy het destyds ’n byeenkoms toegespreek nadat ’n 22-jarige plaaswerker beweer het ’n boer in die omgewing het haar verkrag en ’n 16-jarige seun ernstig aangerand.
Ehrenreich het onder meer op die byeenkoms gesê: “Ons is vandag hier om oorlog te verklaar. Ons is teen geweld gekant, maar as dit is wat dit vat om slegte boere in die regte rigting te dryf, sal ons hulle m**r.
“As boere aanhou om soos mal honde die regte van ons plaaswerkers te skend, moet ons hulle slaan – al is dit die laaste uitweg.
“Hulle sal k*k as hulle nie ophou nie. Daar is reeds bloed op die plaaswerkers. As dit nie ophou nie, sal daar bloed op die boere ook wees.”
Kollapen het eergister sy bevinding bekend gemaak: dat die stellings wel nie haatspraak is nie, maar nie wenslik is binne ’n demokrasie wat op menswaardigheid, gelykheid en vryheid gegrond is nie.
Ehrenreich het gistermiddag aan Beeld gesê hy stem saam met die MRK dat sy stellings nie haatspraak was nie.
“Dit was juis stellings teen haat wat tot baie praktyke op plase lei. Ek erken dat daar baie goeie boere is, maar ek moet die lig werp op die brutaliteit wat steeds op baie plase aan die gang is,” het hy gesê.
Mnr. André Botha, voorsitter van die wet-en-ordekomitee van Agri Sa, sê Kollapen se uitspraak skep die indruk dat boere nie deur die Grondwet beskerm word nie.
Hy verwys na Kollapen as ’n “onbekwame individu wat die MRK – wat ’n goeie stelsel is wat kan werk – diskrediteer”.
Oor Ehrenreich sê hy: “As jy die leier van ’n organisasie wil wees, moet jy verantwoordelike uitsprake maak.
“Hy moet homself afvra of hy hom met dié uitspraak nie verlaag het tot die vlak van slegte boere waarvan hy praat nie.”
Botha sê Agri SA veroordeel wandade teen enige Suid-Afrikaner met die minagting wat dit verdien.
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Attacks on whites show prejudice to be a contributing factor, writes Rodney Warwick
# Rodney Warwick is completing a doctorate in history through UCT, entitled: White South Africa and Defence 1960-1968: Militarisation, Threat Perceptions and Counter Strategies
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Apr 06 2008 07:47:08:137PM - (SA)
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06/04/2008 11:34 - (SA)
Pretoria - On Saturday they attended an emigration expo. On Monday Margot Ludik, 35, was raped by armed robbers. Her six-year-old son lay next to her on the bed while it happened.
All she could do, was to tell him, "Be quiet. Pretend to be sleeping".
During the ordeal her husband Andries, a lawyer who represents celebrities like Leon Schuster, Sonette Bridges and Louis van Wyk, and their five-year-old daughter were tied up in the bathroom of their house on a luxury estate in Kameelfontein, Pretoria.
"We want to be out of the country by the end of the month," says a determined Andries.
He has already started handing over his cases to colleagues. They are moving to Australia and the immigration agency is rushing their application.
Meanwhile, they have not yet gone back to the house.
"I have only one piece of advice for victims of crime in this country: pack up and leave as quickly as possible".
Margot could not stop crying this past week as she recalled that terrible night.
After robbers split up the family - father and daughter in the bathroom, son and mother on the bed - she thought they wouldn't hurt her. But then one of the robbers came back.
"He put his hand on my legs and said I had to open up. I couldn't, because my legs were tied. Then he climbed on me in any case."
"Fortunately, it was all over quickly".
The robbers woke them up around midnight. They asked for money and weapons. They said they were going to kill the Ludiks and hurt the children.
"Every minute it felt like a bullet was going to hit me now," said Andries.
The robbers were in their house for over two hours. Andries managed to wriggle free.
"I have to get to a hospital. I was raped," Margot then told him.
A psychologist claimed their son did not know his mother had been raped. The Ludiks' neighbours had been robbed in their home in December.
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