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02-20-2007, 03:20 PM #801
3 gesinne geslag
Verskeie families is gister geruk toe dit bekend geword het dat drie gesinsmoorde kort ná mekaar op verskillende plekke plaasgevind het.
’n Hele huisgesin van Vanderbijlpark is uitgewis. Eers is ses mense eergisteraand in die kop geskiet. Die man wat in verband met die voorval gesoek is, het vermoedelik gister by die Gariepdam selfmoord gepleeg.
Die ander twee voorvalle was albei in Secunda in Mpumalanga. Eers het ’n man klaarblyklik sy vrou eergisteraand doodgeskiet voordat hy na sy seun begin soek het. Nadat hy hom nie kon kry nie, het hy homself doodgeskiet.
En gisteroggend het ’n man sy vrou klaarblyklik in haar kantoor gaan doodskiet voordat hy homself om die lewe gebring het. (Berig op bl. 2.)
Die polisie het gisteroggend ses lyke in ’n huurhuis in Vanderbijlpark gevind.
Die lyke was dié van vier seuns, ’n ma en ’n ouma.
Al ses is met ’n 9 mm-pistool in die kop geskiet.
Die Reneke-boeties, Riaan (8), Andrew (15) en Lawrence (11), asook Jaco van Heerden (10), mee. Ester Reneke (32) en Ria van Heerden (85) is vermoedelik eergister reeds doodgeskiet.
Mnr. Kobus van Heerden (54), Reneke se vriend van die afgelope tien jaar wat ook in die huis gewoon het, kon daarna nie opgespoor word nie, het insp. Trudie Wilken, woordvoerder van die polisie in die Vaalrand, gesê.
Van Heerden is vermoedelik meer as ’n dag later ook dood. Hy is in die Karoo opgespoor en het homself vermoedelik ná ’n polisiejaagtog naby die Gariepdam buite Colesberg geskiet.
Wilken het gisteraand gesê daar is ’n sterk vermoede dat die man by die dam wel Van Heerden is, maar die ondersoekbeampte sou gisteraand self daarheen ry om te gaan seker maak.
’n Erg geskokte me. Doris van Vuuren, eienaar van die huis waarin die tragedie hom afgespeel het, het vertel sy het gisteroggend oor ’n heining van twee meter geklouter omdat sy vermoed het “alles is nie pluis nie”.
“Ek het ’n gevoel gehad die mense is in die huis nadat ek geklop het, maar geen antwoord gekry het nie.”
Sy het later ’n tuinstoel nadergetrek, daarop geklim en deur die venster gekyk.
“Ek het ’n kind in die kombuis onder ’n pienkerige kombers op ’n geel duvet sien lê. Dit het gelyk of hy slaap, maar daar was plakkies aan sy voete.”
Sy het afgebuk en klippies opgetel en na hom gegooi om hom te probeer wakker maak. Toe sy geen reaksie kry nie, het sy haar man, Freddie, gebel.
Mnr. Van Vuuren is daarna saam met die polisie in die huis in en het die mense help uitken. “Dis verskriklik. Ek kan vir niemand vertel hoe ek voel nie. Dis die eerste keer in my lewe dat ek so iets sien. Oral was bloed.”
Dit lyk of die een kind, wat in die kombuis was, in die voorkop geskiet is.
Volgens mnr. Van Vuuren het nóg ’n seun in die gang gelê. “Dit het gelyk of hy probeer wegkruip het, want hy het met sy kop in die gangkas gelê.”
Me. Ria van Heerden, mnr. Kobus van Heerden se ma, is op haar bed, ook in die voorkop, geskiet.
Me. Reneke en die twee jongste seuntjies het op ’n matras in die televisiekamer op hul mae gelê. Al drie is aan die kant van die kop geskiet.
Volgens mnr. Van Vuuren was die televisie nog aan.
02-20-2007, 03:29 PM #802
Jong polisielid kom voor bende van 18 te staan
Konst. Johan Slabbert, die jong polisieman wat in April 2005 tydens ’n gewapende roof by die Princess Crossing-winkelsentrum aan die Wes-Rand doodgeskiet is, het op dié dag teen ’n bende van tussen 15 en 18 mans te staan gekom.
Insp. Bennie Kganyago (38), een van net twee ander polisiemanne op die toneel, het ’n skrams skietwond aan sy ken opgedoen.
Dít was gister die laaste getuienis in die moordsaak teen mnre. Norman Sibongiseni Shangwe (25), Lungisani Mkhize Nugubane (28) en Sipho Mzokuthulo Ngubane (28) voordat die staat hul saak gesluit het. Dié drie mans word van die moord op Slabbert (22) en twee ander mense, wat ook tydens die rooftog geskiet is, aangekla.
’n Groep rowers het op 24 April 2005 by die Pick ’n Pay-winkel in die Princess Crossing-sentrum toegeslaan en geld uit die winkel se kluis geëis.
Die polisie is ontbied en toe Slabbert en sy kollegas by die winkel aangekom het, het ’n skietery tussen hulle en die rowers ontstaan.
Insp. Jan Fourie, ondersoekbeampte, het gister getuienis oor die toneel van die rooftog, waarin twee van die vermeende rowers ook doodgeskiet is, gelewer en gesê uit die polisie se samestelling van al die bewyse wat op die toneel gevind is, wil dit lyk of die bende wat op die Pick ’n Pay toegeslaan het soveel as 18 mans kon gewees het.
Verskeie verdagtes is in die loop van die ondersoek ondervra en sommige ook in hegtenis geneem, maar net die drie beskuldigdes nou voor die hof kon aan die rooftog verbind word.
Die verdediging sal na verwagting vandag begin met aansoeke om ontslag vir die drie beskuldigdes.
02-20-2007, 03:54 PM #803
Pretoria - A woman confronted her neighbour's killer and prevented his escape from the murder scene until police arrived, Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday.
Sonette Botha testified in the trial of a former law student, 23-year-old Lebogang Frank Mohlakoana, who pleaded not guilty to murdering and robbing Botha's neighbour, William Henry Thomas on May 8 2005.
The State alleges Mohlakoana had attacked Thomas with a knife and a dumbbell before cutting off his private parts.
He allegedly had loaded a television set and hi-fi into Thomas's car and was trying to flee when police arrested him.
Police found Thomas's naked body in a pool of blood inside the house and his private parts under a dressing table.
He had died of head injuries and loss of blood.
Botha testified that she had heard people talking and the front door to Thomas' house inside their security complex being slammed several times earlier that evening.
When her dog started barking furiously about an hour later, she went to investigate and saw a man, dressed only in shorts, coming out of Thomas's house with a television set and loading it into Thomas's car.
The man went back into the house, but when her dog started barking again, Botha went outside and this time saw the man loading a hi-fi into the car.
She thought it was a housebreaking and went to fetch her firearm while asking her husband to phone the police.
She confronted the man, but he ran away. She followed and fired a warning shot, which made the man go back into Thomas's house.
Before he slammed the door, she saw the body lying on the floor.
By then, another neighbour had come to help her and the two of them guarded the back and front of the house to stop the killer escaping.
The man tried to jump over a wall, but went back into the house when Botha warned him that she was going to shoot.
She said saw the light being switched on in the main bedroom and bathroom and heard someone taking a shower.
She stayed on guard outside the house until the police called her and she saw the same man lying outside on the porch fully dressed.
Mohlakoana 'not seen before'
Botha said she had never seen the man at the complex.
Thomas's mother, Gertruida, testified that she had spoken to her son on the morning of his death, when he wished her a happy mother's day, but had not seen him again.
Counsel for Mohlakoana stated that he had known Thomas well and often visited him at his house, but Mrs Thomas said she had not met Mohlakoana before.
02-21-2007, 02:31 AM #804
'I've never seen so much blood'
Vanderbijlpark - An entire family died at Vanderbijlpark on Monday night - all six were shot in the head.
The man sought in connection with the shootings apparently committed suicide at Gariep Dam in the Northern Cape on Tuesday.
The police found six bodies when they were called to a rented house in Vanderbijlpark on Tuesday morning.
Four boys, a mother and a grandmother had been shot in the head with a 9mm pistol, apparently on Monday.
Those who died were Ester Reneke, 32, her three boys Riaan, eight, Lawrence, 11, and Andrew,15, as well as Jaco van Heerden, 10, and Ria van Heerden, 85.
Shot himself after chase
Reneke's friend of the past 10 years, Kobus van Heerden, 54, who also lived in the house, could not be found after the shooting, according to inspector Trudie Wilken of Vaal Rand police.
Van Heerden was apparently traced to the Karoo, and after a police chase, he shot himself at Gariep Dam near Colesberg on Tuesday.
Wilken said the investigating officer was due to leave for Colesberg on Tuesday night to make sure, but there was a strong suspicion that the suicide man at the dam was Van Heerden.
A shocked Doris van Vuuren, owner of the house where the shootings took place, said she had climbed over a two-metre fence because she suspected that "all was not well".
"I had a feeling that the people were inside after I knocked and no one answered."
She got hold of a garden chair, climbed on to it and peeped through the window.
"I saw a child lying in the kitchen under a pinkish blanket on top of a yellow duvet. It looked as if he was sleeping, but he was wearing slip-slops."
She picked up pebbles and threw them at him to wake him up, but there was no response, so she phoned her husband, Freddie.
Van Vuuren went into the house with police, to help identify the bodies.
She said: "It was terrible. I can't begin to tell anyone how I feel. It's the first time in my life that I've seen something like that. There was blood everywhere."
She said it looked as if one of the children, who was in the kitchen, had been shot in the forehead.
Tried to hide in cupboard
Her husband said another boy lay dead in the passage.
It looked as if he had been trying to hide, because his head was in a cupboard.
Van Heerden's mother, Ria van Heerden who was lying on her bed, also had been shot in the forehead.
Reneke and the two youngest boys were lying on their tummies on a mattress in the television room, with the TV still on. All had been shot in the side of the head.
02-21-2007, 02:40 AM #805
Rattray man also up for rape
Durban - Cases of raping two young teenagers at gunpoint, and armed robbery are being investigated against one of the men who allegedly killed battlefields expert David Rattray.
This emerged on Tuesday at the Dundee magistrate's court during the bail application of Simphiwe Ndlovu, 25. Bail was denied.
Ndlovu is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, murder and attempted armed robbery in relation to Rattray's murder. He was allegedly part of a group of six men who participated in the attack.
The man who allegedly shot Rattray at his Fugitive's Drift Lodge on January 26 has been arrested and the court heard that there was a possibility that he might plead guilty and has made a statement implicating Ndlovu.
Another accomplice who has pleaded guilty to the murder and has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment has also implicated Ndlovu.
State prosecutor, Sandra Kloppers said that there was an independent witness implicating him. Investigating officer, Thinus du Plooy of the Organised Crime Unit said that a warrant of arrest was issued in February last year for Ndlovu's arrest on charges of raping two juveniles aged 13 and 16.
Investigations were also taking place linking Ndlovu to an armed robbery at the Rorke's Drift Museum. Ndlovu has not yet been arrested in these cases.
Ndlovu denied any involvement in Rattray's murder. He denied knowing the two men who have named him as their accomplice even though they all live in the same area.
He said that on the day of the murder he went hunting then "proposed love to a girl" and at 16:00 he went to a man to get cigarettes. Rattray was murdered after 17:00.
Ndlovu also said that upon his arrest he was assaulted.
The state called two community members who had known Rattray, to testify.
Tour guide Emmanuel Mkhize and Wilfred Mbatha both told of how Rattray contributed to the community financially.
Mkhize said that Rattray assisted him in his studies and helped assist community projects, churches and schools.
"He was everything to me," he said. He added that the local community had benefited from Rattray's deeds and following his death community projects have ground to a halt.
Mkhize added that fewer tourists were coming to the area.
In refusing bail, magistrate Vivian Hlatshwayo said that the State had "beyond reasonable doubt" established that there was evidence against Ndlovu that he was involved in the murder.
He said that Ndlovu was unemployed, had no fixed address and had not shown that exceptional circumstances existed which would permit his release on bail.
In his evidence, du Plooy said that the remaining three suspects would be arrested within the next few weeks.
02-21-2007, 04:49 AM #806
Missing girl: Cops question man
Pretoria - Police have located the man last seen with missing girl, Sheldean Human, late on Tuesday night. "He was found in Pretoria West, at his mother's house," said police spokesperson, Sergeant Sanku Tsunke.
He was taken in for questioning at 23:00 and questioned till late into the night.
Police have been looking for the man since Sheldean disappeared on Sunday evening. Concerned community members turned out in large numbers in an unprecedented show of support for the family.
Eblockwatch, the anti-crime initiative, mobilised its network in the area by sending out 5 000 SMSes to get its members to join the search party.
The 27-year-old man is connected to one of Sheldean's friends. He took Sheldean, the friend and another girl out for ice cream on Sunday night. The connection isn't clear, but Anne Botha, Sheldean's aunt, says he may be the friend's uncle.
The man confirmed that he brought the children back but denied taking Sheldean away after that.
However police received information that the seven-year-old girl was seen being driven in a bakkie by two unknown men close to her home.
Sheldean's mother, Elize Human, first noticed the girl was missing when she called her to come in for her bath at 19:00. She was last playing with friends in the front garden of her Pretoria Gardens home on Sunday evening.
Anne Botha told News24 that the mother was in shock at the moment, in the wake of yet more bad news. Sheldean's father was knocked down by a quad bike during Tuesday night's search, tearing his ligaments and calf muscles, according to Botha. "They operated on his leg late last night," she said.
Andre Snyman, founder of Eblockwatch, said that helicopters were in the air again on Wednesday at 06:00, searching for the girl.
Investigating officer, Inspector Andre Smith said the police would continue questioning the man on Wednesday. "We'll meet for a short briefing and then probably resume questioning."
Smith added that the search would continue for Sheldean on Wednesday. "There is still a bit of information that we received during the night that we need to follow up," he said.
02-21-2007, 04:52 AM #807
Port Elizabeth - The sensational killing and mutilation of businessman Roy Scallan took a new tack on Tuesday, when the chief suspect in the case committed suicide in his cell, within half an hour of his arrest.
Two brothers from Transkei were arrested in the Walmer suburb on Tuesday, in connection with the murder earlier this month of 54-year-old Scallan.
Scallan was found dead at his business premises in Walmer on February 12, with multiple stab wounds to his body and his genitals cut off.
The attackers may have surprised him the previous evening at his desk.
T-shirt could have been Scallan's
Senior superintendent Hein Fourie, head of Walmer region detective branch, said the men were arrested at about 16:00 and brought to Walmer police station for processing.
The 26-year-old suspect was found by police officials at about 17:30, where he had used a T-shirt to hang himself from the bars in his single cell.
Director Neil Jantjies, commander of the Walmer police station, said it was suspected that the Billabong T-shirt used by the suspect to hang himself, may have belonged to Scallon.
Die Burger had heard that the police were investigating the possibility that Scallon's killing may have been motivated by revenge for sexual deeds he was said to have committed with some of his workers.
Jantjies would not discuss this possibility.
Both men apparently worked for Scallan.
The latest developments have put an end to rumours of a possible muti-murder.
According to Jantjies the brother who committed suicide could have given them invaluable information on the rumours of sexual activities.
He confirmed that the suspect who died in the cell had been positively linked with Scallon, after a laptop bag and two cables that belonged to the murdered man had been found in his possession.
The stolen goods were identified by Scallon's widow, Juliette Scallon.
Fourie said the other suspect had been tied indirectly to the murder.
Die Burger was also informed that the police were following up on the possibility of other suspects.
02-21-2007, 05:00 AM #808
Domestic warns of farm attack
Rouxville - A warning by a domestic worker and the quick response by Free State Agriculture's intelligence division and the police prevented yet another farm attack in the Free State.
The domestic worker of Herman de Wet from the farm Kareefontein at Goedemoed outside Rouxville told him about the planned farm attack.
According to De Wet somebody called the farm house and asked the domestic worker who answered the phone about the safe in the house.
According the person calling they knew about the safe and would have fetched it from the farm last week on Friday.
The domestic worker was told not to be at work, or she would be killed along with the residents.
According to De Wet they gave the information to the police and Hennie Gerber, head of the intelligence division. The police maintained a high visibility on the farm and Gerber followed up information which led to finding the suspects.
Nobody has been charged yet, but further investigation may lead to arrests.
De Wet said he was thankful for the good work the intelligence unit and the police had done.
"It just shows that good work relations on a farm are invaluable. Not only the domestic worker, but the other workers also contributed," he said.
Volksblad last month reported that nearly 100 planned farm attacks had been prevented by the intelligence division in co-operation with the police over the past three years.
02-21-2007, 07:29 AM #809
Burglars kill man with own gun
Durban - A 62-year old man was shot dead with his own gun in a struggle with burglars who broke into his Ladysmith home on Wednesday, police said.
Captain Charmaine Struwig said Bernard De Wet was woken by a noise in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Taking his gun, he came across two burglars in another part of the house.
A struggle ensued in which De Wet shot one of the men in the thigh.
However, the other burglar disarmed him and shot De Wet in the chest.
The robbers fled after assaulting De Wet's wife.
On the scene within minutes, the police's dog unit tracked the two men through a nearby veld to a hill where they were arrested and De Wet's firearm recovered. The wounded robber was taken to hospital.
De Wet's wife was treated on the scene for a cut to the head and shock.
Struwig said the robbers faced charges of murder, burglary, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm and possession of an unlicensed firearm.
02-21-2007, 12:27 PM #810
A 26-year-old man arrested for the murder of Port Elizabeth businessman Roy Scallan committed suicide in a police cell, police said on Wednesday.
Captain Verna Brink said Robson Thando Wiseman Mdudi was found hanging from the door of his cell on Tuesday night.
"It was hours after police arrested him at his home in Walmer.
Our officers were about to question him further about the murder."
Brink said Mdudi used strips of torn cloth from a T-shirt, stolen from Scallan, to hang himself.
Mdudi was found in possession of Scallan's T-shirt and a laptop bag containing a network and printer cable when he was arrested.
His brother was also taken in for questioning and released on Tuesday night.
Brink said the two were employees of Scallan.
The Herald newspaper reported that Scallan was found lying in a pool of blood in the entrance hall of his business premises on Albert road in Walmer on Monday last week.
He was discovered by his ex-wife and children, who were accompanied by a security guard.
He had been castrated and stabbed once on either side of his chest.
The daily newspaper also reported that investigators were considering the possibility that the motive for Scallan's murder was related to his sexual relationships, but police did not confirm these claims.
Brink said the motive was still being investigated.
She said Mdudi's death was being investigated by the Independent Complaints Directorate.
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