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01-27-2008, 08:16 AM #1961
Misdadigers slaan toe op veiligheidskomplekse
Hoë mure, geëlektrifiseerde heinings en veiligheidswagte kon die laaste maande nie ’n vlaag aanvalle op inwoners van veiligheidskomplekse keer nie.
Die afgelope week is twee mense in veiligheidskomplekse in rykmansbuurte in Johannesburg doodgeskiet.
Hoewel misdaadstatistieke nie onderskei tussen losstaande huise en dié in veiligheidskomplekse nie, was daar in 2005/2006 ’n toename van 25% in gewapende rooftogte by huise.
Die statistieke het ook gewys dit is inwoners van gegoede buurte in Gauteng wat miljoene rande bestee om hul eiendom te beveilig wat hoofsaaklik slagoffers van gewapende rooftogte was.
Onder die tien onveiligste woongebiede was Midrand, Douglasdale en gesiene buurte in Pretoria soos Garsfontein en Brooklyn.
“Mense verkeer dikwels onder die vals indruk hulle is misdaadvry in ’n veiligheidskompleks,” sê dr. Johan Burger, senior navorser by die Instituut vir Sekerheidstudies.
“Hulle voel veilig agter hoë mure en hekke en dink dis onnodig om die voordeur te sluit.”
Burger sê hy ontken nie dat veiligheidskomplekse ’n mate van veiligheid skep nie, maar dit skep beslis ook geleenthede vir misdadigers.
Komplekse skakel “rondlopermisdadigers” grootliks uit, want dis moeilik om daar in te kom. Maar dit raak ’n teiken vir georganiseerde misdaad en sindikate, meen Burger.
“In sommige gevalle huur misdadigers eenhede in sulke komplekse en beplan ’n misdaad lank vooruit sodra hulle weet wat inwoners se gewoontes en roetine is. Hulle praat met huishulpe, tuinwerkers, veiligheidswagte en weet later presies hoe alles werk,” sê Burger.
In nog drie voorvalle in komplekse in Sunninghill, Johannesburg, die afgelope twee maande is huisrooftogte gepleeg deur misdadigers wat hulle as veiligheidswagte van ADT voorgedoen het.
ADT het erken een van die wagte was ’n voormalige werknemer van hulle en regstappe is teen die persoon gedoen.
Mnr. Richard McGhee, direkteur van bemarking en verkope by ADT, sê as ’n wag sonder kennisgewing loop, is dit byna onmoontlik om sy uniform terug te kry. Daardie uniform kan dan vir misdaaddoeleindes aangewend word. Die prosedure is egter dat ’n wag eers sy laaste salaris kry sodra hy sy uniform indien.
Mnr. Tim Kendall, uitvoerende hoof van Top Security, sê mense moet daarom baie goed vertroud wees met hul veiligheidsmaatskappy en indien moontlik moet hulle weet watter wagte wanneer aan diens is.
Van die voorvalle wat onlangs plaasgevind het, is:
* Die Harmse-gesin is vroeër vandeesmaand drie keer in een nag in hul huis in die The Wilds-kompleks in Pretoria aangeval;
* Mnr. Nelson Mampuru (37), ’n navorser by die WNNR, is in sy huis in die Estate Esparanza-kompleks in Pretoria doodgeskiet.
* ’n Bejaarde vrou is die afgelope week in die Braemar-kompleks in Sandown geskiet;
* Mnr. Willem Odendaal is die afgelope week in ’n kompleks in Parkmore, Johannesburg, geskiet.
01-27-2008, 03:56 PM #1962
Robbers kill elderly woman
Johannesburg - A 76-year-old woman was found killed in her Highland Road home in Kensington, paramedics said on Sunday.
"Paramedics responded to an assault and robbery call at the house on Saturday after 16:00.
A gang of robbers had assaulted and tied up the woman and her husband," said Netcare 911 spokesperson Nick Dollman.
The woman died on the scene while her husband was rushed to a local hospital with head and facial injuries, he said.
The robbers, who'd been armed with knives, ransacked the house before fleeing, Dollman said.
01-27-2008, 05:39 PM #1963
‘S y het nog gesoebat dat hulle haar asseblief net uitlos en vat wat ook al hulle wil hê, maar hulle het aangehou skreeu en slaan totdat als in die huis later net stil geraak het”.
Só het ’n hartseer mnr. Fanie Basson (66) die laaste oomblikke beskryf toe vier rowers hom en sy vrou, Dixie (77), eergisteroggend vroeg in hul huis oorrompel en gemartel het totdat sy uiteindelik in ’n bloedbad in die bejaarde egpaar se slaapkamer gesterf het.
Volgens Basson wil dit voorkom asof die rowers met net twee horlosies, sy selfoon en “ ’n paar rand” gevlug het nadat hulle eers van kamer na kamer in die oënskynlike goed beveiligde huis in Highlandstraat in Kensington, Johannesburg, gegaan en dit “omgekeer” het.
Hy het gister aan Beeld vertel dat hy en sy vrou Vrydagaand eers laat bed toe is omdat hulle saam die eendag-krieketwedstryd tussen Suid-Afrika en die Wes-Indiese Eilande op televisie gekyk het.
“Dit is ’n ding wat my altyd sal bybly; om wakker te skrik en te sien hoe staan hulle om jóú bed met ’n koevoet en messe in hul hande,” het Basson vertel.
Kapt. Cheryl Engelbrecht, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê die rowers het deur ’n venster toegang tot die huis gekry.
Hulle het die Bassons gedwing om op hul maag op die bed te lê en het hul hande en voete met skoenveters vasgebind en stukke materiaal in hul mond geprop.
Mnr. Basson is verskeie kere tydens dié struweling met die rowers met ’n mes in sy linkerhand en -arm gesteek. Hy is ook herhaaldelik met die koevoet oor sy liggaam geslaan voordat die rowers kussings oor sy kop gegooi het sodat hy nie kan sien wat gebeur nie.
“Hulle het geskreeu en gevloek: ‘Bly stil! Bly stil! Waar is die kluis?’ Ek het aan hulle verduidelik ons het nie ’n kluis nie en gehoor hoe hulle na elke vertrek gaan en dit omkeer,” het Basson verduidelik.
Dit het uiteindelik stil geraak in die huis en ’n bebloede mnr. Basson het dit reggekry om van die bed af te rol.
“Dit is tóé dat ek my vrou op die mat sien lê het. Ek het na haar geroep maar sy het nie geantwoord nie. Daar was orals net bloed in die kamer,” het Basson afgemete vertel.
Volgens mnr. Nick Dollman, Netcare 911-woordvoerder, is me. Basson deur paramedici op die toneel dood verklaar.
“Die presiese oorsaak van haar dood is nog nie bekend nie, maar daar was tekens van ’n struweling met die rowers,” het Dollman gesê.
Mnr. Basson is na die Bedford Gardens-kliniek gehaas waar hy sowat 33 steke gekry het om sy snywonde te heg. Hy is eergisteraand reeds ontslaan.
Die egpaar was veral bekend in kerkkringe en was tot omtrent ’n jaar gelede nog in die kerkraad van die NG gemeente Kensington, berig Sarie van Niekerk.
Ds. Gert Els, voormalige predikant van dié gemeente wat in Doebai in die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate bedien, het gister gesê “dit is ongelooflik en baie, baie tragies”.
“Die twee oumense was sulke saggeaarde en wonderlike mense.
“Tannie Dixie was hierdie klein mensie wat so maklik oorrompel kon word, hoekom haar so wreedaardig doodmaak?”
01-28-2008, 01:38 AM #1964
Meisie (15) laat nie toe dat grypdief haar ore aansit
WELKOM. – ’n Grypdief van dié stad het Vrydagaand sy moses teëgekom toe hy ’n meisie se handsak in die middestad gegryp het.
Gerna de Blom (15) het nie twee keer gedink nie en die grypdief agternagesit. Naby ’n taxistaanplek het sy met die hulp van omstanders haar handsak en selfoon teruggekry.
Gerna was vroegaand saam met drie vriende in die omgewing van Milky Lane waar hulle roomys geëet het.
Sy sê die grypdief en sy makkers het haar van agter af stormgeloop. Een het die handsak van haar skouer afgeruk en die ander een het haar met ’n voorwerp gedreig toe sy weerstand bied.
Gerna se ma, Petra, sê dié rowers ken duidelik nie haar dogter nie. “Haar goed is haar goed en dit is nie onderhandelbaar nie.
“Toe sy sien daar gaan haar handsak, het sy nie twee keer gedink nie en die man soos ’n vlakhaas in Stateway agternagesit terwyl sy luidkeels skreeu.”
Omstanders het haar gehelp, maar teen daardie tyd was sy al amper in die taxistaanplek. Van die straatkinders het die skelms se wegkruipplek aan haar uitgewys. Omstanders het die man daar uitgehaal en hom reggesien.
Die straatkinders het ook haar handsak en selfoon, waar dit weggesteek is, opgespoor en vir haar teruggegee.
De Blom sê dit was teen daardie tyd reeds donker en sy kan Gerna se nek omdraai.
De Blom sê Gerna se arm en skouer is gekneus en haar gemoed het ’n bloukol weg, maar sy is nie ernstig beseer nie.
“Vir my as ouer is dit ’n dilemma. Ek is bang om my kind weer op ’n Vrydagaand toe te laat om saam met maats ’n roomys te gaan eet.
“Hoe beskerm jy jou kind? Jy kan haar tog nie in die huis vasketting nie.”
“Gerna is nou baie meer streetwise, maar hoe beskerm ek haar teen al die gevare daar buite?”
01-28-2008, 01:47 AM #1965
Pretoria - A pregnant woman decided to strike back when an armed robber tried to rape her in front of her fiance and other guests during a robbery in Menlo Park.
Three men, armed with a firearm, knobkerrie and steel pipe descended on the home of Dean Lentz and his wife Belinda, both 45, while a group of people were having supper there.
This is the fourth time in 20 months that the Lentzes have been attacked by criminals.
Andre Griesel, 25, a Hartbeespoort police officer and a relative of Lentz's, and his eight-months pregnant fiancée, Chereze Ehlers, 21, were visiting.
Three minors, children of the Lentz couple's friends, were also present when the robbers burst in.
A calm Belinda Lentz told on Sunday how she was serving dessert when the three men stormed in through the back door of the TV room-cum-dining room, yelling.
Wanted laptops, cash and cellphones
"We think they must have climbed over the neighbours' wall and hidden in our garden for a while, as the children had been swimming before supper. They must have been watching us."
Two robbers hit the men over the head with their weapons and Lentz lost consciousness.
Then a robber also hit his wife on the head and started yelling that they wanted laptops, money and cellphones.
A robber took Griesel's firearm away from him and, still yelling, started plundering the house and even demanding cellphones from the children.
Belinda and Chereze were lying under the table and one of the robbers was demanding for money and goods from the pregnant woman.
Chereze said: "I lay on my stomach there on the carpet and feared most for my child."
"One of the robbers tried to lift my skirt and I begged him not to do anything to me, but he carried on threatening me and holding me down."
The robber succeeded in pulling down her underwear.
"That was when I decided to retaliate and try to fight him off."
He gave up and carried on plundering the house together with his cronies.
"I took off all my jewellery and offered it to them, but they took only my ear rings and my engagement ring."
Pulled up her underwear
The robbers later tied everyone up and ordered them not to "try anything", before they made off with cellphones, electronic equipment and jewellery.
One of the robbers pulled Chereze's underwear back into position and adjusted her skirt before they fled.
"We are just thankful that the police acted so swiftly and truly hope something will now be done about the crime in the country," said Lentz.
Chereze was rushed to hospital in case she went into labour as a result of the trauma, but was discharged on Sunday.
01-28-2008, 04:17 AM #1966
’N Swanger vrou het besluit ’n gewapende rower die stryd aangesê toe hy haar tydens ’n rooftog in Menlopark, Pretoria, ten aanskoue van haar verloofde en ander gaste probeer verkrag het.
Drie mans gewapen met ’n vuurwapen, knopkierie en staalpyp het eergisteraand by die huis van mnr. Dean Lentz (45) en sy vrou, Belinda (45), toegesak terwyl ’n groep mense besig was met aandete.
Dit is die vierde keer in 20 maande dat die Lentz-egpaar onder misdadigers deurloop.
Mnr. André Griesel (25), ’n polisiebeampte van Hartbeespoort en familielid van Lentz, en sy agt maande swanger verloofde, me. Cherezé Ehlers (21), het daar gekuier.
Drie minderjariges, kinders van die Lentz-egpaar se vriende, het saam gekuier toe die voorval gebeur het.
’n Kalm me. Lentz het gister vertel hoe sy nog besig was om nagereg te bedien toe die drie mans al gillend by ’n agterdeur van die televisie-en-eetkamer instorm.
“Ons vermoed hulle moes oor die bure se muur geklim en vir ’n rukkie in ons tuin geskuil het, omdat die kinders nog voor aandete geswem het.
“Hulle moes ons dopgehou het.”
Twee rowers het die mans met hul wapens oor die kop geslaan en Lentz het sy bewussyn verloor.
Daarna het ’n rower sy vrou ook oor die kop geslaan en begin gil dat hulle skootrekenaars, geld en selfone wil hê.
’n Rower het Griesel se vuurwapen by hom afgeneem en, steeds gillend, die huis begin plunder en selfs van die kinders selfone geëis.
Mee. Lentz en Ehlers het onder die tafel gelê toe een van die rowers vir Ehlers begin pols vir geld en goedere.
“Ek het daar op die mat op my maag gelê en die meeste vir my ongebore kind gevrees,” het Ehlers vertel.
“Toe een van die rowers my romp probeer oplig en ek hom gesmeek het om asseblief niks aan my te doen nie, het hy aangehou dreig en my vasgedruk.”
Die rower het daarin geslaag om haar onderklere af te trek.
“Dis tóé dat ek besluit het om terug te baklei en só te probeer om hom af te weer.”
Hy het tou opgegooi en met sy plundertog saam met sy makkers voortgegaan.
“Ek het al my juwele afgehaal en vir hulle aangebied, maar hulle het slegs my oorbelle en verloofring gevat.”
Die rowers het almal later vasgebind en beveel om “niks te probeer nie”, waarna hulle met selfone, elektroniese toerusting en juwele gevlug het.
Een van die rowers het Ehlers se onderklere opgetrek en haar romp reggetrek voordat hulle gevlug het.
“Ons is net dankbaar dat die polisie so vinnig opgetree het en hoop werklik dat daar nou iets aan die land se misdaad gedoen sal word,” het Lentz gesê.
Ehlers is na ’n hospitaal gehaas uit vrees dat sy in kraam kon gaan weens die trauma en is gisteroggend ontslaan.
01-28-2008, 05:38 AM #1967
Feisty farmer sends thugs packing
TWO farmers were attacked in separate gang robberies in Rocklands at the weekend.
Joseph Matthee, 37, who bravely fought back and sent a gang of at least five men packing, was hit with a hammer while asleep at his Plot 76 home early on Saturday, while Matthuis Vosloo, 29, was assaulted by seven men at his Plot 7 home later that night.
Police spokesman Captain Johan Rheeder said Matthee and his wife awoke when a man wielding a hammer attacked him at about 3am on Saturday.
But the farmer fought back and disarmed his assailant. The man ran from the room and Matthee chased after him.
“When Matthee went outside, he saw four men in his yard with some of his stolen goods, including his television set, already loaded onto a wheelbarrow.
“He fired four shots at the robbers, but no one was injured. Police dogs traced (their) scent to the Lusaka township near Rocklands.”
No arrests have been made. Besides the TV, the robbers managed to get away with a video recorder, a radio and a jig saw.
The men who attacked Vosloo took his four guns, which were in a safe.
Vosloo was admitted to hospital but later discharged.
Rheeder said the men had fled in Vosloo‘s mother‘s car but later crashed the vehicle.
“Some stolen goods, a television (set) and a mini stove, were found in the car,” he said.
01-28-2008, 01:16 PM #1968
Jeppestown trial postponed
Johannesburg - Amid tight security, the 12 men and one woman arrested for what became known as the "Jeppestown massacre" appeared in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday, only to have the trial adjourned to Tuesday.
Closely guarded by armed policemen, with 10 lawyers between, the neatly dressed group shuffled into the dock tethered together with ankle restraints.
As they waited for proceedings to begin, some chatted to their lawyers, while others peered over their shoulder to see who was in the packed public gallery.
The 25 charges most of them face include robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder, and illegal possession of firearms, with evidence backed up by 99 witnesses.
On June 25 2006 they allegedly robbed a Pick 'n Pay at Honey Junction in Honeydew on the West Rand.
According to the indictment, the woman, Mary Dineo Maleke, worked at the supermarket.
Her boyfriend, second accused Senzo Mweli, allegedly arranged with her to meet some of the other accused and they discussed robbing the supermarket.
The state alleges that on Sunday Morning, Mweli, and 11 of the accused, with at least nine other people believed to have been robbers, drove to the supermarket in about six vehicles. A security guard saw them approaching and tried to flee but was shot at.
The group entered the supermarket and some began robbing shoppers of bags and money, money from pay points and from the cash office.
They shot one shopper they had frisked and then sped off in their getaway vehicles.
Police from various stations arrived and apprehended one person, Thembinkosi Tshabalala, and proceeded to a house in Jeppestown where accused three to 13 and four other people were found.
Police surrounded the house and Willem van Niekerk, Frederick van Heerden, Peter Seaward, Gert Schoeman and Nzama Mathye were among those who managed to enter the house.
Van Heerden, Seaward, Schoeman and Van Niekerk pushed open the door to a room where nine people were hiding and told them to lie down but the policemen came under fire.
Van Heerden, Seaward and Schoeman were shot down in the doorway of the bedroom while Van Niekerk was shot and wounded in the leg.
Van Heerden crawled through the house towards the outside and as he was sitting outside, Mathye, who also was wounded also came crawling out of the house.
Van Heerden dragged Mathye next to the house but while lying outside, he was shot again and died. Seaward and Schoeman also died from their wounds at the scene.
Firing continued from inside the house and from the police.
One of the robbers, Bonga Zondi, ran out of the house firing at police, who returned fire, killing him.
Another of the accused tried to escape but police arrested him.
After long negotiations, the remaining accused - three to 13 - were arrested as they emerged from the house.
After a brief appearance, the case was moved to Tuesday to allow the lawyers more time to prepare.
Judge Ratha Mokgoatheng also sought assurance from the lawyers that they would be available for the duration of the trial.
01-29-2008, 01:57 AM #1969
Pretoria - The principal of a crèche was killed by a single bullet in the heart after three armed robbers overpowered her and her family in their home.
The robbers fled on Saturday from the house in Aquila Street, Waterkloof Ridge, with only a cellphone.
Rinda Abraham's husband, Eric, 60, and two of their sons, Reggie, 35, and Christo, 34, tried in vain to keep their mother alive while waiting for an ambulance.
The death of Rinda Abraham, 55, principal of the Kleutermaatjies Crèche in Centurion, follows that of Fred Picton-Turbervill, 46, of Aries Stret, Waterkloof Ridge, who was shot in the head in front of his wife and children earlier this month. He died a few hours after the attack.
A weeping Eric Abraham said on Monday: "I'm never going to get my poppet back."
Dog grazed by bullet
Christo and a friend, Theunis Claassen, 34, were sitting chatting in the TV room when the robbers struck.
Christo said: "Someone stuck his head through the sliding door and said we must remain quiet and calm.
"Another two followed him. Two of them were armed."
Christo's dog went for one of the robbers, and another fired a shot that grazed the dog on its upper muzzle.
Another shot was fired and hit the TV and DVD player.
Christo said: "One of the robbers stood in front of Theuns and me, pointing his firearm at us, while another one stood at the DVD player trying to remove it."
Meanwhile, Christo's parents had been woken by the shots. His mother ran down the passage, calling his name.
Reggie, 35, in bed by this time, also came out of his bedroom.
He said: "I went back into my room to get my firearm.
"Suddenly, there was a robber in the passage, who had been hiding behind my mother. He grabbed her by the neck and shot her in the heart," said Reggie.
Christo also saw his mother being shot. "Her last words before collapsing were, 'Christo, I've been shot'," he said.
The robbers then fled with Christo's cellphone.
Killed for cellphone
Eric Abraham said: "I know life has to go on, but for me it has come to a standstill. The dear Lord alone knows why they had to kill her for a cellphone."
The Abrahams's youngest son, Eric jnr, 30, said his mother's death was the saddest thing ever to have happened to him.
"I miss my mom," he said, sobbing.
Police spokesperson Prince Mokhabela said they were investigating the killing.
01-29-2008, 02:03 AM #1970
Nurse killer gets 20 years
Pretoria - A 22-year-old Westonaria man who bludgeoned to death a young nurse and almost killed her friend three years ago, was sentenced on Monday in the Pretoria High Court to 20 years behind bars for his "cruel and callous" deeds.
Acting Judge Joshua Dolamo sentenced Willem Strauss to 40 years in prison, of which he has to serve 20 years, on charges of murder, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
The court earlier rejected Strauss' claim that he had not been aware of what he was doing when he attacked 23-year-old nurse Laetitia Brown and her friend Deon Engelbrecht in March 2003 because of his use of drugs and alcohol. Strauss, a former truck driver, admitted to dealing in drugs.
The Judge took substance abuse, Strauss' youth and his difficult upbringing into account in mitigation of sentence.
Strauss' co-accused, Johan Johnston, was effectively sentenced to six years in prison for his role in robbing Brown of her car.
His bail was, however, extended pending an appeal against his conviction.
The court accepted that Johnston suffered from post traumatic stress as a result of seeing Strauss attacking Brown and Engelbrecht, which had affected his judgment.
The couple was viciously attacked with a stick after offering Strauss and Johnston a lift following a visit to a nightclub.
They had stopped to sniff cocaine, but an argument ensued between Strauss and Engelbrecht about who was to supply the drugs, causing Strauss to attack the two young people.
Engelbrecht suffered permanent brain damage as a result of the attack. He later told the court he had no recollection of the incident.
'Confidence in the law'
Judge Dolamo rejected argument by Defence Counsel that the men deserved no more than correctional supervision. He said the gravity of the offences called for the removal of the accused from society and direct imprisonment would serve "to restore society's confidence in the law".
Engelbrecht refused to comment about the sentence and had to fend off an angry verbal attack by Brown's sister, Gina, outside the courtroom. The angry young woman had to be warned by the police and calmed down by her father before she regained her composure.
Brown's father, George, said he "felt nothing" about the sentence, but his wife, Ina, blamed Engelbrecht for her daughter's death and the imprisonment of the two men.
She said the whole thing would never have happened if Engelbrecht had not offered the two accused a cocaine party.
"He knew my child and said this was the woman he wanted to marry. Now he can't even look us in the eye," she said bitterly.
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