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07-09-2008, 03:25 AM #2851
Mom holds robber at bay
Pretoria - "Lift your head and I'll shoot," threatened 1.54-metre-tall Martie Klopper as she held a robber at bay with her revolver outside her house.
This was after her 1.95m husband, Flip, 38, who weighs 120kg, knocked down one robber and tied another's hands behind his back with a belt.
Flip, Martie, 36, and their children Nelmarie, 12, and Martinel, 10, had just returned from shopping at the Colonnade Shopping Centre in Pretoria, when Martinel saw someone in their house.
"I said, 'Mom, someone just closed Nelmarie's bedroom door'," said Martinel.
Martie walked to the door and, through a slit, saw a man in her daughter's room.
"At that stage, Flip was next to me and I told him there was a man in the room."
Martie ran to get her revolver.
Flip opened the door immediately. He said: "Two men were standing there. I went into action and knocked down the first one.
Tied hands behind back
"He fell to the ground and crawled under me. I tried to catch him, but missed when the other robber tried to jump over me.
"I grabbed the second guy and we started wrestling. He hit me, but I hit him back hard. I pinned him to the ground and tied his hands behind his back with my belt," said Flip.
He carried the robber out of the house by the man's belt. Martie then stood, her revolver in hand, guarding the robber.
In the meantime, the other robber ran right past Martie and Martinel.
Martinel said: "He could've grabbed me if he'd wanted to. I got a very big fright."
Found the accomplice
Just after the man ran outside, she went to hide with her sister in her bedroom.
Martie and Flip said the police arrived within moments and arrested the robber.
The police put him in the police van and went to look for his accomplice, whom they found at Montana Crossings Shopping Centre in Pretoria North.
The robbers had stolen a watch and a ring.
07-09-2008, 03:28 AM #2852
'Fanie, we all make mistakes'
Pretoria - "Hey Fanie, we all make mistakes," a police captain apparently told Fanie Kriel of Monument Park after about 10 police had mistaken him for a robber and badly beaten him.
Kriel, 53, is in Unitas Hospital in Centurion with serious bruises to his back, neck, arms, knees, ankles and head, and cuts to his leg and wrists.
"I begged them to leave me alone and tried to explain that it was a mistake, but they kept on hitting," said Kriel, crying on Tuesday while he spoke of the Roodepoort police.
On Sunday night, Kriel was at the flat where his late mother lived in the Club Roodendal Complex in Roodekrans to pick up some of her belongings.
About 22:00 he began loading some of the things into his car.
A neighbour apparently mistook him for a robber and called police.
A male and a woman officer arrived in a police vehicle.
Assaulted with a baton
"The male officer asked what I was doing there. I explained. They ordered me to get out of my car.
"I saw the neighbour standing behind them. I asked him who he was and he said he had phoned the police.
"I got angry and we exchanged words, but I wasn't aggressive. Suddenly the female officer assaulted me with her baton. She repeatedly hit me on my back, head, neck and shoulders."
The male officer handcuffed Kriel. The woman apparently hit him again "and said I had to co-operate".
Kriel protested when they wanted to take him to the police station.
"Then the woman sprayed teargas into my eyes and they yanked me around by the handcuffs."
More police vehicles showed up.
"They dragged me backwards (by the handcuffs) and I fell over. There were about 10 police then. They kicked me in the stomach and the woman jumped on my legs and knees.
"They yanked me by my hair and sprayed more teargas into my mouth and eyes."
He was thrown into a vehicle and his leg was slammed in the door, Kriel said.
He was then placed in a police cell.
Said they had made a mistake
"They said I was charged with assaulting a police officer."
Kriel said a police captain took him back to the house about 03:00 on Monday.
"He said they had made a mistake, that I should calm down and 'leave it'."
Kriel's brother took him to hospital on Tuesday. Kriel now wants to take legal steps against the police.
07-11-2008, 03:05 AM #2853
Tophengelaar op strand vermoor
Durban. – “Hardloop, liefie! Hardloop!”
Met dié woorde het ’n tophengelaar van Zoeloeland waarskynlik sy vrou se lewe gered oomblikke voordat ’n rowerkoeël sy longe en hart deurboor het.
Mnr. Clive Hunter (35) en sy vrou, Zelda (34), het Dinsdag kort voor 18:00 op Alkantstrand, Richardsbaai se hoofstrand, gehengel toe vier jong mans hulle uit die bosse genader het.
Die egpaar was besig om op te pak nadat die res van die hengelaars wat saam met hulle by Pipeline, ’n gewilde visvangplek, was al vroeër vertrek het. Toe Hunter die mans sien, het hy vir sy vrou gesê sy moet die see inhardloop as hy die teken gee.
Volgens mnr. Errol Hunter, die oorledene se pa, het die rowers die egpaar waarskynlik vooraf dopgehou. Die Hunters is van twee kante genader, waarna die mans ’n geselsie aangeknoop het. Toe die mans na Zoeloe oorslaan, kon sy skoondogter aanvoel haar man raak gespanne, het Hunter sr. gesê.
Toe een van die mans ’n pistool uithaal, het hy vir sy vrou geskreeu om te hardloop.
Mev. Hunter het tot kniediep die water ingehardloop en daarna parallel aan die strand na die naaste pier om hulp te kry.
Terwyl sy “soos nog nooit tevore nie” gehardloop het, het sy agter haar ’n skoot hoor klap, het Hunter sr. gister vertel.
Sy skoondogter het sowat 300 m verder ander hengelaars teëgekom wat saam met haar terug is en in die donker na haar man gesoek het. Sy lyk is later op die strand gekry.
Die aanvallers het net met Hunter jr. se hengelgereikis ter waarde van sowat R60 gevlug.
“Dank die Vader hul kinders was nie saam met hulle nie, want ek weet nie wat dan sou gebeur het nie,” het Hunter sr. gesê. Sy kleinkinders, Brandon (13) en Megan (6), het tydens die tragedie by hom op Scottburgh gekuier.
Hunter was die vise-president van Zoeloeland se strandhengelvereniging en is onlangs aangewys as die beste hengelaar in die streek die afgelope jaar. Sy vrou sou die naweek aan haar eerste hengelkompetisie deelgeneem het. Hunter jr. was ’n vriendelike mens wat uit sy pad sou gaan om mense te help, het sy pa gesê.
’n Gedenkdiens word oormôre 11:30 op Alkantstrand gehou.
Richards Bay - "Run, love, run!"
07-11-2008, 03:07 AM #2854
Sakemanne van agter in kop geskiet
Polokwane (Pietersburg). – Twee bekende eiendom-sakemanne van dié stad het ’n gru-dood gesterf in wat vermoedelik ’n saketransaksie was wat erg skeefgeloop het.
Mnre. Evré Hoffman (41), ’n direkteur van Hoffman-Properties, en Ricus van Zyl (42), wat ook by die onderneming gewerk het, is albei op ’n kort afstand van agter in die kop geskiet, waarna hul moordenaars petrol oor die bakkie waarin hulle was, gegooi het. Die bakkie is toe in die Burgersfort-gebied in Limpopo aan die brand gesteek.
“Hulle is dood voordat die bakkie aan die brand gesteek is, maar albei het ook verkool,” het ’n geskokte me. Sydelle Neuhoff, Hoffman se suster, gesê.
Mnr. Koos Hoffman, pa van Hoffman, het gesê: “Ek is heeltemal in ’n toestand oor my seun se dood.”
Hoffman en Van Zyl is Dinsdagaand net ná 19:00 vermoor.
Hulle het saam met twee mans wat ook betrokke was in die saketransaksie in ’n Ford Ranger-dubbelkajuitbakkie op die R37 van Polokwane na Burgersfort gery.
Volgens Neuhoff het hulle “ ’n baie groot bedrag geld” by hulle gehad waarmee hulle grond in die Steelpoort-gebied sou koop.
Me. Lindie Hoffman het gesê haar man en Van Zyl moes geld aan ’n hoofman betaal vir dié grond waarop hulle chroom sou ontgin.
Hoffman en Van Zyl is vermoedelik sowat 10 km van Burgersfort in die Driekop-gebied af oorval deur die twee mans wat op die agtersitplek gesit het.
Albei is in die agterkop geskiet. Die twee verdagtes het die geld gevat en die bakkie aan die brand gesteek.
Volgens Anne-ke Venter, Hoffman se skoonma, het die polisie ’n nommerplaat van die bakkie gevind en só eerste met die Hoffman-familie kontak gemaak.
Me. Mientjie van Zyl het gesê die transaksie waarmee haar man en Hoffman besig was, sou werk aan minstens 1 000 mense verskaf het. “ ’n Mens voel so magteloos. Hoekom is hulle geskiet? Hulle wou net goed wees vir ander.”
Supt. Ronel Otto, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gesê lede van die gemeenskap het skote gehoor en gaan ondersoek instel.
Hulle het op die brandende wrak met die twee verkoolde lyke afgekom. Twee verdagtes is eergister vir ondervraging in hegtenis geneem. Otto het teen druktyd gesê hulle is in aanhouding, maar nog nie van enige misdaad aangekla nie.
“Die polisie ondersoek wel ’n moordsaak.”
Hoffman was jare gelede ’n Recce in die weermag. Hy het die afgelope sewe jaar ook veiligheidswerk in Irak gedoen, voordat hy verlede jaar na Polokwane teruggekeer het en Hoffman-Properties saam met sy skoonma begin het.
“Hy was hoogs opgelei, ons vermoed hulle het hom eerste uitgehaal omdat hy definitief sou terugveg,” het Neuhoff gesê.
Hoffman laat sy vrou en twee seuns, Zander (6) en Ryno (2), agter. Van Zyl laat sy vrou, Mientjie, en die 12-jarige Armand, en twee kinders uit ’n vorige huwelik, Werner (19) en Monique (17), agter.
Polokwane - Two well-known men in the property industry have died horrific deaths in what was presumed to be a business transaction that went terribly wrong in the Burgersfort area in Limpopo.
Evré Hoffman, 42, a director of Hoffman Properties, and Ricus van Zyl, 42, an employee, were each shot in the back of the head at short range, after which the killers poured petrol over the bakkie in which the men were sitting and set it alight.
"They died before the bakkie was set alight, but they both also were burnt to ashes," said Evré's sister, Sydelle Neuhoff.
Evré's father, Koos, said, "I am in an absolute state about my son's death."
The murder took place on Tuesday night shortly after 19:00.
Evré and Ricus drove in a double-cab Ford Ranger bakkie with two other men, who were also involved in the business transaction, on the R37 from Polokwane to Burgersfort.
Went to pay for land
Sydelle said they had "a very large sum of money" with them with which they were going to buy property in the Steelpoort area.
Evré's wife, Lindie, said that Evré and Ricus went to pay money to a chief for the piece of land on which they were to mine minerals.
Evré and Ricus presumably were overpowered by the two men, who had been sitting in the back seat, about 10km from Burgersfort in the Driekop area.
Both were then shot in the back of the head. The two suspects took the money and set the bakkie alight.
Evré's mother-in-law, Anne-ke Venter, said the police found a number plate from the bakkie and contacted the family.
Ricus's wife, Mientjie, said the transaction with which her husband and Evré were busy, would have provided jobs for at least 1 000 people.
She said: "One feels so helpless. Why were they shot? They just wanted to be good to others."
Police spokesperson Ronel Otto said members of the community heard shots and went to investigate.
Had worked in Iraq
They found the burning wreck and the two burnt bodies.
Two suspects were arrested on Wednesday for questioning. At the time of going to press, neither of the men had been charged with anything, but they were still being detained.
"The police are investigating a murder case," said Otto.
Years ago Evré was a recce in the military. He had been doing security work in Iraq for the past seven years before he returned to Polokwane last year and started Hoffman Properties with his mother-in-law.
"He was highly trained. We presume they took him out first because he definitely would have fought back," said Sydelle.
07-11-2008, 03:09 AM #2855
Rowers lyk soos polisiebeamptes
Vereeniging. – ’n Bejaarde egpaar, hul tuinier en huiswerker is aangehou en beroof nadat agt gewapende rowers gister omstreeks 08:30 toegang tot die huis verkry het deur hulle as polisielede voor te doen.
Vier van die rowers was volgens mnr. Herman Nel (75) en sy vrou, Hannie (72), in donkerblou uniforms geklee wat “net soos polisie-uniforms gelyk het”.
Die ander vier rowers het glo gewone klere gedra.
“Die rowers het die hek se klokkie gelui en gesê daar is ’n verdagte in ons tuin. Ek het die hek vir hulle oopgemaak,” het mnr. Nel gesê.
Die rowers het volgens mnr. Patrick Lentsa (29), die egpaar se tuinier, in ’n wit motor met ’n sirene in die oprit van die huis in Sonlandpark stilgehou.
“Die mans het die kombuis binnegekom en my man het gesê ek moet doen wat hulle sê,” het ’n geskokte mev. Nel vertel.
Die rowers het die hande en voete van die egpaar, Lentsa en die huiswerker, me. Joyce Nhlapo (31), met kabelbinddraadjies (cable tie s) en dasse vasgebind en in die kombuis aangehou.
“Hulle het mnr. Nel sommer sonder rede met die kolf van ’n geweer oor die kop geslaan en hy het vreeslik gebloei,” het Nhlapo aan Beeld gesê.
Volgens haar het van die rowers deurentyd hul vuurwapens op hulle gerig, terwyl ander die huis deurgesoek het.
“Hulle het gedreig om ons te skiet as ons dit waag om vir hulle te kyk en gesê hulle sal my en mev. Nel verkrag as mnr. Nel nie vir hulle wys waar die kluis is en waar hy sy geld bêre nie.”
’n Bloedspoor in die gang na ’n slaapkamer het getuig van hoe mnr. Nel rondgesleep is.
Noodhulpwerkers van Netcare-911, ’n veiligheidsmaatskappy en die polisie se hulp is ontbied kort nadat die rowers met onder meer juwele, beursies, die Nels se motor en vuurwapens gevlug het.
Mnr. Nel se kopwond is by ’n plaaslike hospitaal met drie steke geheg en mev. Nel is vir skok behandel.
07-11-2008, 03:11 AM #2856
Huishulp help toe glo met rooftog
Rustenburg. – Met trane in sy oë het ’n sakeman van dié stad meer as twee weke gelede die huiswerker wat bykans vier jaar by sy gesin gewerk het, bedank omdat sy sy kinders veilig gehou het gedurende ’n rooftog by sy huis.
Verlede week is Virginia Thamage (48), die huiswerker, in hegtenis geneem op klagte van medepligtigheid aan die roof. Thabo Thamage (26), haar seun, en Tebogo Richard Seletlhela (23), ’n verdagte wat gedurende die rooftog gewond is, is ook in aanhouding. Al drie het reeds in die landdroshof in die stad verskyn.
Thabo is Vrydag op Kuruman gearresteer. Die polisie ondersoek aanklagte van huisroof en poging tot moord teen hom en Seletlhela.
Nog ’n verdagte, Ezekiel Marumo (18), is gedurende die rooftog doodgeskiet. Marumo was oorspronklik van Mafikeng.
Neels Bouwer het die rowers op heterdaad in die huis betrap nadat hulle glo vir Virginia en sy dogters (onderskeidelik ses jaar en nege jaar oud) vasgebind het. Gedurende ’n worsteling is skote geskiet en Marumo is op die toneel dood. Neels is vyf keer met ’n mes in die nek en op die kop gesteek en moes meer as 30 steke kry.
Virginia het aanvanklik vertel drie rowers gewapen met messe het haar op 23 Junie oorval toe sy die huis wou oopsluit nadat sy wasgoed opgehang het.
Neels het by navraag gesê hy mag nie in dié stadium kommentaar lewer nie.
Kapt. Elsabé Augoustides, polisiewoordvoerder, het aan Noordwes-Beeld gesê die deurbraak is te danke aan die deeglike speurwerk van insp. Dirk Smit, ondersoekbeampte by die eenheid teen georganiseerde misdaad.
Hoewel ’n klag van moord en een van poging tot moord teen Bouwer ondersoek word, sal die dossier na die staatsaanklaer verwys word vir ’n beslissing. Indien besluit word om hom nié te vervolg nie, sal die saak na ’n landdros verwys word vir ’n geregtelike doodsondersoek.
Die finale besluit oor vervolging berus by die direkteur van openbare vervolging in Mmabatho.
07-11-2008, 03:13 AM #2857
Pia Bowman had just closed the gate to her Glenadrienne home and was busy deactivating the alarm when she heard the gunshots ring out... bang, bang, bang, bang!
Then she heard her husband Wim cry out that he had been shot.
The couple were returning from a dinner outing when the attack occurred at 8.30pm on Tuesday night.
Evidence at the scene indicated that Wim was able to fire at his attackers and was possibly even the first to shoot.
Unfortunately the 61-year-old stood little chance against his three assailants who were lurking in dark outside the house.
He died of a gun shot to the abdomen.
Wim's gun was found at the front door, facing his body.
Police recovered another firearm on the property, its serial number filed off.
It had been abandoned, presumably by the suspects, in the backyard near a neighbour's house which is situated behind on a pan handle.
According to Johannesburg metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar, a neighbour saw three suspicious-looking men approach the house shortly before the incident.
Another neighbour, Penny Steyn, said: "I heard about four or five very loud shots, then a pause, then four or five softer shots."
The couple had been victims of robberies a number of times before, with their cars being broken into.
Minnaar said metro police had received a call about the shooting at about 9pm on Tuesday night and had responded.
He had arrived on the scene soon after Bowman was declared dead.
"There appeared to have been some kind of shootout between Mr Bowman and the attackers because there were quite a few bullet holes in the yard and in a tree," he said.
Minaar added the assailants had possibly been disturbed while trying to break into the Bowman home when the couple arrived or else they had lain in wait, intent on hijacking them.
Steyn, who trains domestic workers in crime prevention and police officials in customer service, was on the scene on Wednesday night lending emotional support.
She said Pia Bowman had not stayed in the house, had not returned on Thursday morning and could not be reached.
Steyn said the security company ADT, which has worked extensively with her in the past, had indicated that they would step up security patrols in the suburb and would arrange trauma counselling for Pia.
Steyn, who said she herself felt very traumatised on Thursday morning, had spoken to other neighbours who all claimed to have heard the gunshots.
Parkview police spokesperson Captain Cynthia Magoai confirmed that a murder docket had been opened and the case was under investigation.
She said no arrests had yet been made.
07-14-2008, 08:01 AM #2858
Kriel. – ’n Man met Alzheimer se siekte is Dinsdagaand hier in die polisieselle dood ’n paar uur nadat hy van winkeldiefstal beskuldig is.
’n Veiligheidswag het mnr. James Frederick Brown (69) glo Dinsdagmiddag in Shoprite gegryp omdat hy nie vir ’n Top Deck-sjokolade van R8,50 betaal het nie.
’n Bejaarde ooggetuie, wat anoniem wil bly uit vrees vir weerwraak, het gesien hoe ’n groep mense in die winkel saamdrom en Brown dra. “Klein kinders het onderdeur die man gewoel en hom geslaan terwyl die ander mense hom bo gehou het. Dit was afgryslik. Selfs die kassiere het saam geskree dat hulle die ou man moet doodmaak as hy chocolates wil steel.”
Volgens Brown se dogter, mev. Rose-Marie Steyn, het hy omstreeks 12:30 die middag van hul huis in Springboksingel na die dorp se sakesentrum gestap en het almal op die dorp van sy siekte geweet. “Ons het bekommerd geraak toe hy omstreeks 13:30 nog nie tuis was nie.”
Intussen het ’n haarstilis mev. Steyn se man, Willie, laat weet dat mnr. Brown vir winkeldiefstal in hegtenis geneem is.
“Ons het die hele middag by die polisiestasie gesukkel om hom te sien, maar die polisie het geweier. Hulle het gesê hy is aggressief en moet liewer slaap.”
“Ons het vir die polisie verduidelik dat my man Alzheimer se siekte het, maar hulle het nie geluister nie,” het Brown se vrou, Rosa, gesê. “ ’n Polisieman het aan my gesê hy het sy rewolwer op my man gerig omdat James so wild was.” Die polisie het glo aangedring dat Brown tot 18:00 in die selle aangehou word.
“Toe hulle hom uiteindelik wou gaan haal, het Willie saamgegaan om my pa te kalmeer,” het mev. Steyn gesê.
Brown het op sy rug op die grond met sy kop in ’n plas bloed gelê. Volgens die polisie het Brown vermoedelik in die sel agteroor geval en sy kop gestamp.
Dr. Leon Pelser het Brown in die sel ondersoek.
“Die sel was so donker dat ek ’n polisieman moes vra om sy flitslig aan te sit sodat ek kon sien wat ek doen. Ek het in die haglikste omstandighede ’n lugpyp in mnr. Brown se keel gedruk en sy hart gemasseer, maar vergeefs. Ek het ‘onnatuurlike dood’ op die doodsertifikaat geskryf. Ek het alles deeglik nagegaan, want ek het besef hier kom ’n geregtelike doodsondersoek.”
Volgens supt. Abie Khoabane, die polisie se provinsiale woordvoerder, het Brown bloed aan sy gesig en op sy klere gehad toe die veiligheidsbeamptes hom aan die polisie oorhandig het.
Brown het wonde aan sy regteroogbank, neus en ken, sowel as ’n gat in sy agterkop gehad.
Volgens Khoabane wag hulle nog op die uitslag van die lykskouing, wat laat gistermiddag gehou is. Me. Sonto Mlotshwa, Shoprite se bestuurder, het gister bevestig Brown is vir winkeldiefstal aangekeer. Sy het egter geen kennis gedra van ’n aanranding nie. Die veiligheidswagte wou nie met Beeld praat nie.
’n Woordvoerder van die Shoprite-groep het bevestig daar was Dinsdag ’n insident in die winkel met ’n vermeende winkeldief.
“Die polisie ondersoek die voorval en die supermarkgroep is dus nie in ’n posisie om in hierdie stadium verdere kommentaar te lewer nie.”
Brown se gesin is woedend.
“Hoe kan hulle dit aan ’n ou man doen? Al was hy soms moeilik, het hy dit nie verdien nie. Hy het dalk net vergeet om vir die lekkerny te betaal,” het mev. Brown gehuil.
Black mob beats up white Alzheimer patient for 'shoplifting'
Address: Corner Andre & Brownwyn Street,
• "It was horrid. Even the cashiers added to the hysteria by screaming that the old man had to be killed if he wants to steal chocolates.'
• We spent all afternoon at the police station trying to see him but the police refused, claiming he was 'aggressive' and should rather sleep.'
• We told the police that he is an Alzheimer's sufferer but they refused to listen,' said his wife Rosa Brown. "A policeman even told me that he was keeping his gun on him because James was so wild.' They insisted that he be kept in the cells until 18:00.
• Dr Pelser said: 'it was so dark that I had to ask a policeman to turn on his flash light so that I could try and revive Mr Brown. Under these most horrid circumstances I opened up his airways with a pipe and massaged his heart, but to no avail. I entered the cause of death as 'unnatural'.
• "I examined him very thoroughly because I knew there will be an inquest.'
• She didn't know a thing about the way he was assaulted by the mob during this 'arrest' although she must have been present, and the security guards wouldn't say a word either.
• And Shoprite's management are also stonewalling: they were unable to comment as to how a confused old man with Alzheimer's ended up being arrested and assaulted by a howling mob of shoppers, being encouraged to 'kill him' by screaming tellers - just because he couldn't remember whether he'd paid for a R8,50 bar of chocolate or not.
07-14-2008, 08:02 AM #2859
Jong man sterf vlak voor sus se woonstel
Vanderbijlpark – ’n Jong man se voorgevoel dat hy voor sy 30ste verjaarsdag sal sterf, het Saterdagaand ’n werklikheid geword.
Mnr. Sharky (Eduard) Schürmann (24) het alleen na sy ouerhuis gestap toe hy eers deur een en daarna ’n tweede voertuig, ’n Volkswagen Polo, getref is.
Schürmann was op pad terug huis toe van sy suster, mev. Rika Rothmann (21), en haar man, Basie (23), se woonstel, waar hy die aand saam met sy familie gekuier het.
“Ons het kort nadat hy geloop het, ’n slag gehoor en deur die venster ’n liggaam in die pad sien lê,” het sy stiefpa, mnr. Christo Franken, gister gesê.
Die Franken-ouerpaar se woonstel is slegs ’n paar honderd meter van hul dogter se blyplek.
Schürmann se ma, Aletta, sy suster, sy swaer en ’n jonger broer, Freek (23) het, min wetende dat hy die slagoffer was, straat toe gehardloop om hulp te verleen.
Franken en die oudste Schürmann-broer, Hugo (25), was skaars op die ongelukstoneel, toe Rika ontdek dis haar broer se lewelose liggaam wat op die teerpad lê.
Sy is vyf maande swanger en het histeries geskreeu totdat noodhulpwerkers van ER24 haar na ’n hospitaal geneem het vir skok.
Volgens insp. Trudie Wilken, polisiewoordvoerder, het die bestuurder van die eerste – vermoedelik ’n silwerkleurige – voertuig dadelik ná die ongeluk van die ongelukstoneel na die Vanderbijlpark-polisiekanoor gery en die voorval aangemeld.
Wilken het gesê dat ’n klag van strafbare manslag teen dié bestuurder ondersoek sal word.
Volgens Franken het die bestuurder van die tweede voertuig stilgehou en “op die ongelukstoneel gesê hy kon dit nie verhoed dat hy my stiefseun ook tref nie.”
Schürmann het volgens dié bestuurder “deur die lug gevlieg” en voor sy voertuig te lande gekom.
Schürmann, ’n werknemer van Bafana Industrial in Meyerton en ’n getroue ondersteuner van die Sharks-rugbyspan, het volgens sy familie ’n voorgevoel gehad dat hy nie oud sou word nie.
“Hy het altyd vir my en sy ma gesê hy glo nie hy gaan ouer as 30 word nie,” het Franken gesê.
“Voor hy geloop het, het hy my gevra om vir ‘oulaas nog ‘n biertjie’ saam met hom te drink,” het sy swaer gesê.
Rika is ook oortuig daarvan dat hy aangevoel het dat sy lewe kortgeknip gaan word.
“Hy het my verlede naweek ’n soentjie op my wang gegee en gesê dit is ‘die eerste en laaste soen’ wat ek ooit van hom gaan kry.”
Volgens Franken het Schürmann nooit sy ma of suster gesoen nie en was dit ’n vreemde gebaar.
Volgens sy familie het Schürmann geleef vir sy werk, ’n biertjie en die Sharks. “Sharky het drie Sharks-tatoeëermerke laat aanbring en sy bynaam was te danke aan sy groot liefde vir dié Natalse rugbyspan,” het Franken gesê.
07-14-2008, 08:03 AM #2860
Man held after woman‘s body found on pass
POLICE have arrested a 24-year- old man in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found on the Outeniqua pass last week .
Southern Cape police spokesman Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe said the suspect was arrested by George police early on Saturday and was due to appear in court today.
He said Marissa Coetzee, who recently moved from Gauteng to work at a golf range in George, had called her workplace on Friday to say she would be late as her car had become stuck in the mud.
Later in the day, an anonymous caller informed police that there was a body at a rest stop 10km outside George on the N9 that winds over the Outeniqua mountains.
“We know she needed assistance of some sort because her car became stuck in the mud at her house, but we don‘t know yet what happened to her after that,” said Mangqwengqwe.
Coetzee had suffered multiple stab wounds to her chest and neck.