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02-04-2008, 08:52 AM #2041
Woman hurt in Spar shooting
Durban - A Durban cashier was wounded during a cash heist at the weekend, police said on Monday.
Captain Debbie O'Brien said the incident took place at a Spar in Kloof on Saturday.
"Two Coin security guards had picked up three cash boxes and as they were leaving nine armed men entered the premises and opened fire," said O'Brien.
A female cashier was struck in the arm and later taken to hospital.
"One security guard was disarmed and three cash boxes were taken," she said.
The robbers fled in three cars, O'Brien said.
02-04-2008, 08:59 AM #2042
Man dies in Jhb pub robbery
Johannesburg - An armed robbery at a Johannesburg pub on Saturday at midnight ended in tragedy when two patrons took on the robbers, hitting one over the head with a bar stool.
Fortunately, the bar was half-empty with accounts indicating about 20 customers enjoying drinks at the time.
One man was killed after wrestling with the robber and another was shot in the legs after trying to help by hitting the gunman over the head with a bar stool.
According to sources who were at the restaurant, four armed robbers held up the popular Keg and Brewer at the Rock Cottage Shopping centre in Honeydew just after midnight on Saturday.
'At least four robbers'
While the accounts differ about the number of robbers involved, Dewald Cillie who was having a drink with friends at the time said he saw at least four robbers.
"Two stood at the door and another two came inside," said another patron who wished to remain anonymous.
The robbers stormed in, according to the patron, and told everyone to get down. "Everything was calm until one of the patrons decided he wanted to take on these guys," said Cillie.
The man wrestled the robber to the ground and had him pinned down when the second robber came from behind and tried to shoot him.
"He cocked his gun and pulled the trigger about three times and the fourth time the shot went off," said Cillie.
The man was shot in his shoulder. "He was hit in such a way that the bullet went down towards his heart," police spokesperson, Inspector Karen Jacobs told News24.
Another patron, trying to help the man on the floor swung a bar stool at the gunman and hit him over the head, knocking him down.
"Once that happened the first robber regained his feet again and he fired a shot at the guy with the bar stool," said Cillie.
The man, 32, was shot in his legs, according to police. He was in a serious condition but was reported to be stable on Monday afternoon.
"It was quick but it feels like an hour or two," said one patron. "You just lie there and you can't look up and you hear shots going off around you."
Police said nothing had been reported stolen but Cillie said he spoke to someone whose car keys, phone and wallet was taken.
Another patron said the robbers took a waitress's moonbag with about R1 000 in it.
The Keg and Brewer management confirmed that the robbery and shooting took place but would not offer any comment.
A patron said police and ambulance arrived quickly.
Police are investigating a case of murder and armed robbery. "No arrests have been made yet," said Jacobs.
02-05-2008, 12:16 AM #2043
‘Niemand was in bevel, ons het instinkte gevolg’
“Niemand was op die toneel in bevel nie. Ons het almal ons eie instinkte gevolg soos wat ons opgelei is.”
Só het sers. Anna-Marie Neethling, een van die polisielede wat destyds by was met die Jeppestown-slagting, gister met ’n strak gesig geantwoord op die verdediging se skerp vrae oor watter middele die polisie dié dag ingespan het om lewensverlies te beperk.
Adv. Robin Ford, regsverteenwoordiger van twee van die beskuldigdes in die Jeppestown-verhoor, het die verskeie polisie-getuies in die Johannesburgse hooggeregshof gevra watter polisielid daardie dag op dié gru-toneel in bevel was.
Hy het hulle daarna beurtelings gevra of middele soos traangas, radiokontak tussen die polisie op die toneel, mediese hulp en ’n aanvanklike oproep tot die rowers om hulself oor te gee, daardie Sondagoggend ingespan is.
“Ek stel dit aan jou dat dié ’n onnodige en skandelike verlies aan lewe was wat vermy kon word indien middele van minimum geweld éérder gebruik is,” het Ford gesê.
Neethling het getuig die lede het nét voor hulle na die huis in Morduantstraat ontplooi is, opdragte by die Jeppestown-polisiekantoor ontvang.
Maar dat niemand by die huis meer “in direkte bevel” was nie.
“Ons het hulle (die rowers in die huis) nie gevra om oor te gee nie,” het sy gesê.
Op ’n vraag van Ford of dit standaard-opleiding is om in só ’n situasie dit nié te vra nie, het sy gesê “ja”.
En oor die feit dat sy en haar twee kollegas wat dié dag aan die voorkant van die huis waggestaan het, nie in radiokontak met die res was nie, het sy getuig “ons het nie genoeg radio’s om aan almal te voorsien nie”.
Konst. Christelle Harmse het daarna getuig die polisie wórd opgelei om “minimum geweld” te gebruik.
“Maar ’n gewapende rooftog is kort tevore uitgevoer, en daarom is ons gewaarsku die verdagtes kán gewapen wees. Ons is toe aangesê om die nodige voorsorgmaatreëls te tref,” het sy gesê.
Op sy beurt het Hechter getuig hoe hy in ’n stadium die huis se agterdeur binnegegaan het en sers. Wimpie van Niekerk gewond op die kombuisvloer aangetref het.
“Ek het toe gesien hoe ’n gewapende figuur by die kombuis ingestap kom en ek het begin retireer.
“Die persoon het daarna op ons begin skiet.”
Hy het vertel hoe insp. Leonie van Heerden, wie se man, Frikkie, dieselfde dag doodgeskiet is, in die kop gewond is.
Hy het toe weer sy oorspronklike posisie by die tuinhekkie ingeneem, waarna hy “ ’n vuurwapen binne teen die venster” gesien het.
Toe het hy sy R5-aanvalsgeweer opgetel, waarna ’n skoot vanuit die huis op hom gevuur is en hy “verskeie skote” deur die venster teruggeskiet het.
Dié skietery het “etlike ure” aangegaan, het Hechter getuig.
Die verrigtinge duur vandag voort.
02-05-2008, 12:20 AM #2044
Plaaswerker in arres nadat vrou verkrag, verwurg is
’n Plaaswerker word daarvan verdink dat hy die ma van ’n nege maande oue babadogtertjie verkrag en vermoor het.
Dié man is eergisteraand omstreeks 19:00 in hegtenis geneem.
Dit was slegs ’n paar uur nadat die lyk van mev. Elize Havenga (26) langs ’n grondpad gevind is, ’n paar honderd meter van die hoewe in die Rietfontein-hoewegebied, in die ooste van Pretoria, waar sy gewoon het.
Kapt. Prince Mokhabela, polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê ’n 39-jarige man is in die omgewing gearresteer waar Havenga verkrag en vermoor is.
Die man is ’n plaaswerker van die omgewing.
Mokhabela wou nie meer inligting oor die omstandighede van die arrestasie gee nie.
“Die man is in hegtenis geneem nadat die saak verder ondersoek is,” het Mokhabela gesê.
Die man sal binnekort in die landdroshof in Bronkhorstspruit op aanklagte van moord en verkragting verskyn.
Havenga was sowat ’n dag lank vermis voordat haar lyk gevind is.
Sy is klaarblyklik oorval en vermoor terwyl sy huis toe gestap het om met haar man te gaan gesels nadat hulle vroeër ’n uitval gehad het.
02-05-2008, 12:25 AM #2045
Verkragter van 2 studente sit 30 j.
Frankfort. – Een van die drie mans wat op dié dorp by die verkragting van twee Europese uitruilstudente betrokke was, is vir 30 jaar tronk toe gestuur.
Sers. Philani Mvuna, polisiewoordvoerder, sê mnr. Daniel “Ntuli” Mthimunye (37) van Sebokeng is gister in die rondgaande streekhof op Frankfort gevonnis nadat hy skuld op aanklagte van verkragting en roof beken het.
Mvuna sê die twee vroue, onderskeidelik 19 en 20 jaar oud, is op 5 Desember 2005 verkrag en beroof langs die Wilgerivier op Frankfort waar hulle gekampeer het. Hulle het aan die universiteit van Stellenbosch gestudeer.
Die vroue, wat na Johannesburg op pad was, het in hul motor geslaap toe ’n ruit met ’n moersleutel uitgeslaan is. Drie mans het hulle beroof en verkrag.
Hulle is aan ’n paal vasgemaak, maar kon hulle loswriemel en het deur die veld na die naaste vulstasie gestrompel om hulp te kry.
Die aanvallers het glo met die motor gevlug. Dit is later verlate gevind nadat hulle blykbaar ’n ongeluk daarmee gemaak het.
Mthimunye is op 29 Augustus 2006 in Meyerton in Gauteng in hegtenis geneem.
Die verhoor van Mthimunye se vermeende makkers, wat steeds in aanhouding is, duur voort.
02-05-2008, 12:30 AM #2046
Gesteek in gesig, op sy kop
’NGr. 12-leerling van die Hoërskool Reynopark in Witbank, Mpumalanga, moes doktersbehandeling kry nadat ’n medeleerling hom herhaaldelik met ’n passer in sy gesig en op sy kop gesteek het.
Die voorval het verlede Dinsdag op die skoolterrein gebeur.
Volgens Beeld se inligting het die aanvaller, wat ook ’n leier by die skool is, die ander seun eers aan sy hemp rondgepluk. Die seun het hom teëgesit, waarna die aanvaller na sy skooltas geloop, ’n passer gaan haal en die slagoffer verskeie kere bygedam het.
Hy het glo gesê hy wil die seun se oog uitsteek.
Ontstelde ouers het die voorval onder Beeld se aandag gebring en hul misnoeë uitgespreek met die wyse waarop die skool die saak hanteer het.
Die slagoffer se ouers het hom ná die voorval na dr. Willie Vonck, ’n plaaslike dokter, geneem.
Sy het bevestig dat sy die seun behandel het.
Sy het gesê daar was drie steekwonde op sy kopvel waaruit bloed geloop het en ’n lang skraap langs sy gesig.
Sy het ook bevestig dat hy steekmerke aan sy vingers gehad het soos wat hy die aanval afgeweer het.
“Ek het die ouers aangeraai om die saak by die polisie aan te meld. Ek weet nie of hulle dit gedoen het nie.”
Een van die ouers van die skool, wat anoniem wil bly, het gesê “dit is tyd dat skole strenger teenoor oortreders optree en minder aan hul sogenaamde naam dink”.
“Gaan skole dié dinge eers in ’n ernstige lig begin beskou as ’n kind dood is,” wou hy weet.
Die ouers van die seun wat aangeval is, wou nie gister met Beeld praat nie.
Mnr. Wolla Ras, hoof van die skool, het ontken dat daar ’n “aanval” was.
Volgens hom was dit maar net twee seuns wat bietjie baklei het en die een het ’n passer in sy sak gehad waarmee hy die ander gesteek het.
“Dit is glad nie só ’n ernstige situasie nie. Die seuns is albei vir drie dae geskors en terug by die skool.”
Ras het wel bevestig dat hy die voorval in ’n verslag aan die onderwysdepartement gemeld het.
Mnr. Hlahla Ngwenya, onderwyswoordvoerder in Mpumalanga, het nie gister sy selfoon beantwoord nie.
02-05-2008, 12:34 AM #2047
Pa sê dankie vir wag wat red
“Hulle is my helde.”
Só het mnr. André van Zyl van Brakpan aan die Oos-Rand gister aan Beeld gesê toe hy die motorwagte ontmoet het wat Lizandré (agt maande), sy babadogter, en Eddie Blignaut (12), sy stiefseun, uit ’n motorwrak gered het nadat ’n muur by die The [email protected] op die motor geval het.
Van Zyl se vrou, Liza (34), haar ma, Elize Botha (54) en Botha se seun, Shaun (13), is Saterdagaand in dié fratsongeluk dood.
Die Van Zyl- en Botha-gesinne het gister die twee motorwagte, mnre. Kande Kambomba (22) van die Kongo en Richard Aligustino (29) van Rwanda, wat Lizandré en Eddie gered het, vir die eerste keer by die winkelsentrum ontmoet.
Dit was ’n emosionele oomblik toe Van Zyl, met baba Lizandré in sy arms, vir Kambomba omhels.
“Jy het my kind gered en my kind is my hele lewe,” het Van Zyl aan Kambomba gesê.
Kambomba het gesê dat hy met die voorval ’n vrou hoor skree en in die stene gegrawe het totdat hy die motor se deur kon oopbreek.
“Ek het die baba eerste uit die motor gehaal en na ’n nabygeleë restaurant gehardloop om hulp te kry.”
Hierna is hy weer terug na die toneel waar hy en Aligustino vir Eddie ook gered het.
Van Zyl het gesê Eddie sterk tans aan in die waakeenheid van die Glynnwood-hospitaal in Benoni.
“Sy bene het die ergste seergekry.”
Intussen meen winkeleienaars die voorval het al sake in dié sentrum beïnvloed.
Me. Christel Swanepoel van die Look In-winkel het gesê sake is “aansienlik stiller”, omdat mense glo “bang is die gebou val op hulle in”.
Mev. Natalie Kaschula, bestuurder van Ocean Basket, het gesê winkelbase vrees nou dat die gebou op hulle gaan inval, terwyl mnr. Henry Swanepoel, bestuurder van Shoe City, gesê het daar is vir hulle (die ondernemings) gesê die sentrum is wel veilig.
Die departement van arbeid het ’n volledige ondersoek begin om die rede vir die voorval vas te stel.
Volgens mnr. Kenny Fick, dié departement se provinsiale uitvoerende bestuurder vir Gauteng-Suid, kon dit nie ’n storm gewees het wat die muur laat omval het soos eers vermoed is nie.
Fick sê hy is bekommerd oor die feit dat daar soortgelyke mure rondom die sentrum is.
Die sentrumbestuur dring egter aan dat die sentrum veilig is. Mnr. Tony Kyriazis het namens die bestuur gesê dat ’n onafhanklike ingenieur die sentrum as veilig verklaar het en sake normaal voortgaan.
02-05-2008, 12:41 AM #2048
Ryk Deen is doodgemartel, hoor hof
STRAND. – ’n Ryk Deen wat volgens die polisie doodgemartel is. Sy veel jonger Ugandese vrou wat 75% van sy bates gaan erf. En agterdogtige familielede van die vermoorde wat agter haar rug met die polisie praat.
Mense het gister in die landdroshof hier verstom geluister hoe die ondersoekbeampte na die dood van mnr. Preben Povlsen (71) die legkaart tydens ’n borgtogaansoek inmekaar laat pas. In die beskuldigdebank is mev. Maria Povlsen (31), weduwee van die vermoorde, haar suster me. Stella Ssengendo (39) en hul broer mnr. Francis Kimeze (35).
Die Povlsen-egpaar, wat twee klein kindertjies het, het om die beurt in Farum, Denemarke, en in Gordonsbaai gewoon. Ssengendo, hul huishoudster, het saam met haar sewejarige seuntjie in ’n woonstel onder hul Gordonsbaaise huis gebly.
Die susters pak al die skuld op hul broer, volgens hulle ’n gewese kindersoldaat wat al gemoor het en gedurig geld gevra het. Kimeze het gister sy borgtogaansoek laat vaar en die saak teen hom is tot 10 April uitgestel.
Sy susters se borgtogaansoek gaan voort.
Ssengendo meld in haar verklaring dat sy Kimeze op 14 Januarie, die oggend van mnr. Povlsen se verdwyning, met ’n bebloede mes in die kombuis aangetref het. Daar was ook bloed op die vloer. Aangesien Kimeze gedreig het om haar, mev. Povlsen en hul kinders dood te maak, het sy stilgebly en die huis skoongemaak.
Kimeze het soms onderhoudswerk daar gedoen weens die uitermatige probleem met klammigheid. In daardie stadium het hy met die matte gehelp, maar twee dae vroeër met mnr. Povlsen gestry.
Kimeze self sê in sy bekentenis hy het mnr. Povlsen ná ’n uitval vier keer met ’n mes aan sy sleutelhouer gesteek.
Die ondersoekbeampte, insp. Cobus Greeff, het egter getuig Povlsen is meer as 40 keer gesteek. Nie een wond was noodlottig nie. Hy is doodgemartel deur mense wat hom óf gehaat het óf iets van hom wou gehad het. Sy nek was gebreek en ’n stuk lap was daarom gedraai.
Greeff het getuig dat Povlsen se seun en dogter uit sy vorige huwelik en sy skoonseun ná sy verdwyning na Suid-Afrika gekom het. Vir hulle was dit vreemd dat sy huis so skoon is omdat mev. Povlsen glo baie lui is. Die jongers kinders was ook skielik afsydig teenoor hulle.
Die hof het gehoor mnr. Povlsen was sowat R14 miljoen sterk, waarvan mev. Povlsen 75% sou erf.
Volgens Greeff het mev. Povlsen aangevoer dat sy die oggend van haar man se verdwyning tot 11:00 geslaap het. Hy het egter verklarings wat daarop dui dat sy en haar broer al voor 10:00 by ’n matplek was om te reël dat ’n mat vervang word. Bloed is in die aangrensende badkamer gevind en ná deeglike ondersoek ook in die betrokke kamer.
In die garage was ook baie bloed en voetspore wat met Kimeze s’n ooreenstem. Dieselfde oggend het Ssengendo ’n sterk skoonmaakmiddel gekoop.
Die aansoek voor landdros S. Du Toit Malherbe duur vandag voort.
02-05-2008, 06:11 AM #2049
Parents of Jeppestown slain face suspects
Coming face to face with their son's alleged killers was too much for Nelie and Stanley Schoeman to handle.
The parents of Inspector Gert Schoeman, who was one of the four officers killed in the Jeppestown massacre, cried uncontrollably outside court room 4A during the lunch time adjournment yesterday.
They had just listened to how their son along with his colleagues, Leonie and Frikkie van Heerden, Constable Pieter Seaward and Sergeant Wimpy van Niekerk were met with screams, followed by a volley of bullets that ended their lives.
It was the first time since the trial of the 12 men and one woman, accused of killing the officers after robbing the Honeydew Pick n Pay, began a week ago that the Schoeman couple had arrived at court.
Listening to evidence given by some of the police officers about that fateful day was particularly tough on Nelie Schoeman, who had to be consoled by some of the police officers on duty that day.
"We thought it would get easier but it hasn't," Nelie said.
"He was too young to die. He was only with the police for 12 years. Parents shouldn't have to bury their children. It is still too hard on us. We yearn for Gert, we yearn for him every day," she said.
The couple, who have two other children, and who will be married for 35 years this year, said they would never forget the evening of July 25 2006, when a policeman arrived at their door and broke the news that their son had been killed.
"He stood in the doorway, he didn't even come inside. We were heartbroken, we could not believe it," Stanley said.
Particularly hard to hear for the couple was the evidence given by Inspector Rickus Hechter, who said there was no radio contact between the police officers when they stormed the house.
"They shouldn't have gone into the house. It was not worth it," Nelie said.
Meanwhile, the 21-year-old daughter of Inspector Victor Mathye, who was one of the police officers killed that day, said she had forgiven the men who killed her father.
Neo Mathye was speaking at Tracker's head office in Joburg, where she received formal notification of a special tertiary bursary that Tracker sponsors for children of South African police officers and women who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
"I have no anger left. I don't hate these men, and over the past few months I have made my peace with what happened.
"In a way, I suppose, I've forgiven them. Hate is a horrible thing.
"It eats away at you and ultimately leaves you empty, like a hollow shell," said Mathye.
02-05-2008, 06:18 AM #2050
Witness links wife to Dane's death
The wife of a slain Danish millionaire, as well as her two siblings, have been accused of torturing him and turning their Gordon's Bay home into a bloodbath, in an alleged bid for 75 percent of his R14-million estate.
Maria Povlsen, 30, began her bail application yesterday after being charged with the murder of her pensioner husband Preben, 71 who disappeared on Monday, January 14, and whose body was found in Blaauwbergstrand five days later.
Huddled next to the slender, Ugandan-born woman was her elder sister, Stella Ssengendo, 39. The sisters and their brother, Francis Kimeze, 35, are all charged with the murder.
Where as he has signed a confession, and is not applying for bail, the sisters are proclaiming their innocence. 'I contacted a friend and told him that I wanted to sell a car'
But the investigating officer, Cobus Greeff insisted in the Strand Magistrate's Court yesterday that the sisters had been involved. Povlsen had "clearly been tortured" and was stabbed 45 times, he said.
In dramatic testimony the court heard the brother's statement that he alone had killed Povlsen.
In the confession, read by Greeff, Kimeze said he had carried out regular maintenance at Povlsen's house. On the Monday, Povlsen had expressed dissatisfaction with his work.
"We exchanged sharp words... I was furious, he was angry... I hit him with a bottle... he fell on one knee... he grabbed my shirt... I stabbed him in the neck... in the chest... in the stomach..."
Kimeze said he had tried to clean the blood from the garage floor, loaded the body into the boot and had driven to Gugulethu.
'I had a problem, because I had killed someone and the body is still in the boot'
"I contacted a friend and told him that I wanted to sell a car, but that I had a problem, because I had killed someone and the body is still in the boot.
"He told me to come to Gugulethu and he then gave me R70 to take a taxi to my place. He said he would phone me I don't know what he did with the body."
Kimeze said he was sorry for the killing.
In court on Friday, the sisters' attorney, Zirk Mackay, read separate statements in which they pleaded their innocence.
Maria Povlsen told how she had to overcome the Povlsen's family's initial fears that she was "an opportunist out to cheat them from their considerable inheritance", when they were married in 2001.
She described Kimeze as a former child soldier with the "Ugandan rebel army" and said he had killed before.
She said he had issued violent threats demanding she hand over money from her "rich white man".
She said that since her husband's disappearance, Kimeze had called her begging for money to help him flee back to Uganda.
Her sister, Stella Ssengendo, in turn, said she had seen Kimeze with a bloody knife on the Monday, but that he had threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Once the sisters' statements had been read, Greeff told the court how he had arrested Kimeze.
When Povlsen was first reported missing, police had visited the family's holiday house in Chapman Road, Gordon's Bay. They had found nothing amiss.
Several days later, Povlsen's adult son, daughter and son-in-law had arrived from Denmark.
Greeff met the family, initially with the two Ugandan sisters. He said he had suspected the Danes wanted to speak privately, and met them again. Here, the Danes spoke of their suspicions.
Firstly, the house was immaculate. This was odd because Maria had always been "very lazy" and usually left things "lying around".
Second, the couple's children were not their usual friendly selves; their characters had changed. Third, they told Greeff the Povlsens' marriage had deteriorated.
Greeff decided to call in a full forensic team. No blood had been seen with the naked eye. The detectives worked until 4am, and special chemicals now showed that there had been a large pool of blood on the garage floor.
In the centre of the bloodstain was a footprint, which Greeff had analysed by a fingerprint expert.
"He told me I had to look for a man," Greeff testified. "He said it looked like it could be a family member."
Greeff now had Kimeze in his sights.
The sisters said they had no idea where he was, but offered his cellphone number.
"We figured if we called him he'd never come," Greeff said.
The sisters said they had helped the police lure Kimeze back to Gordon's Bay in a trap, and of his subsequent arrest.
They had told him by phone they had money for him, to help him flee back to Uganda. He had taken the bait, and police had arrested him near the Gordon's Bay Spar.
But on Monday Greeff used an extensive body of evidence to challenge the sisters' claim that they were not involved.
The State alleges the trio premeditated the murder.
Povlsen had not been stabbed four times, as Kimeze said, but 45, Greeff said.
The vast majority of these wounds, which were all over his body and head, were less than an inch deep. Also, one earlobe had been cut off.
"The deceased was tortured," he said. "Clearly there must have been a motive." Povlsen's torturer had "wanted something" badly, or had simply "hated him so much".
Greeff said the couple's two children aged four and seven had been assessed by experts.
"They have seen something gruesome,"he told the court.
The children had told social workers about seeing "a lot of blood", about hearing Povlsen cry "Help me, Maria!"
In the week after the body was found, Greeff inspected the Gordon's Bay home.
Extensive forensic work now showed evidence that their bedroom suite had been turned into a bloodbath. Blood had spattered in the bathroom, and on the walls of the passage.
Extensive efforts had been made to scrape the cupboards clean almost to the extent that the paint had been stripped but Greeff's team found blood underneath. He noticed that the carpets had been nailed down with new nails and a new aluminium strip, raising his suspicions further.
He had secured witness statements from a carpet company saying it had been called in to lay a new carpet.
And, crucially, the witnesses had told Greeff that Maria had been present with her brother at their shop.