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Running Up the Stairs Kids Hoodie 24/09/2008 10:00 - (SA)Bongani HansPietermaritzburg - A 52-year-old woman from Umlaas Road in Cato Ridge became the latest victim of the "blue light bullies" - abusive government employees driving vehicles fitted with blue lights.Jude Ward, a farmer and businesswoman, said she was attacked on the N3 near Camperdown on Tuesday morning.She was allegedly pushed out of the fast lane of the N3 south-bound and was forced to pull over by the two occupants of a white VW Polo Player flashing blue lights in the southbound lane at about 08:00.After Ward stopped, near the Halfway Garage near Camperdown, the two men, who were wearing name tags, got out of their vehicle and manhandled and assaulted her, claiming she had been hogging the fast lane.The Witness has confirmation that the Polo Player belongs to the KZN Transport Department.It was not clear why the occupants were in a rush at the time of the incident."As I was entering the off-ramp with the aim of stopping at the garage, following their orders, they cut in front of me and forced me to a dead stop at the off-ramp."They jumped out of their vehicle and ran to my car."While one of them was pulling me by my hand, through the window, another one was opening my door," said Ward, who reported the matter to the Camperdown police station.Ward said that as the men were approaching her vehicle, she quickly reached for her cellphone to call her husband."As he was pulling me, my husband heard me screaming 'leave me alone, leave me alone' and he heard the man talking back," she said.Ward said that as one of the men pulled her, she fell out of the vehicle and sprained her arm.She immediately got back into the vehicle and locked her door.But as she was trying to close the window, the man forced his hand in, preventing her from closing the window.She said the attack stopped after another motorist intervened and shouted at the attackers to leave her alone.Ward was taking her two workers to Hillcrest, one of whom was sitting on the back of her bakkie.She said she had been driving at 120km/h in the fast lane trying to overtake trucks in the highway, which had heavy traffic."Suddenly, I saw this vehicle flashing behind me. I drove fast in order to overtake the trucks and move from the fast lane."This vehicle tailed mine and the men used their hands to signal me to move over."As I continued to accelerate, they came close and the passenger opened a window and shouted that I pull over," said Ward.Transport spokesperson Nonkululeko Mbatha offered the following explanation: "There were emergency deployments today (Tuesday) that required vehicles to travel under emergency circumstances."She had no further details on this specific complaint as night staff deployed had not yet returned.Police spokesperson Henry Budhram confirmed that Ward had laid a complaint.He said police are investigating a case of negligence and reckless driving and assault.Source:News24http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2398694,00.html
Posted by Rudi Prinsloo on 27.9.08. Link
Sep 23 2008 10:00:51:350PM - (SA)Francois Oosthuizenfrancois.oosthuizen@beeld.comSes gewapende rowers het Saterdagaand ses gaste by die Hippo Lodge in die Wieg van die Mensdom by Muldersdrift aangehou en twee vroue verkrag.“Ons woon al 13 jaar hier en dit is die eerste keer dat so iets hier gebeur,” het mnr. Geof Maud, eienaar van die Hippo Lodge, gister gesê.Die ses familielede, van wie die dogter en haar man in Engeland woon en die lodge vanjaar ’n tweede keer besoek het, het in hul chalet gekuier toe een van die rowers ’n vuurwapen deur die venster gedruk het. ’n Ander een het die voordeur met ’n baksteen oopgebreek.“Die rowers het . . . die mans vasgebind en toe selfone en juweliersware gebuit. Net een van die rowers het die vrou en haar pa se vriendin verkrag.”Maud was nog baie emosioneel ná die voorval en het gesê hy kon die afgelope twee nagte nie slaap nie.“Dink net waardeur moet die slagoffers gaan.”Hy het gesê hy weet nie hoe die rowers die perseel binnegekom het nie omdat dit met ’n geëlektrifiseerde heining en alarms toegerus is.Volgens insp. Tebogo Kgomo, polisiewoordvoerder, het die polisie eergister die gesteelde Nissan Tiida waarin die rowers gevlug het, in die Diepsloot- informele nedersetting gekry. “Geen van die gesteelde items is teruggevind nie en niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie.”Dié voorval volg op die moord op mnr. Franz Richter, eienaar van die nabygeleë Heia Safari Ranch, in November verlede jaar.Die polisie in die omgewing het nou die Trio-taakspan op die been gebring om huisbrake, inbrake by sakeondernemings en kapings hok te slaan.Kgomo het gesê ondersoekbeamptes van die Florida-, Roodepoort-, Muldersdrift-, Honeydew-, Randburg- en Douglasdale-polisiekantoor gaan kragte saamspan om dié soort misdaad hok te slaan.Oorsprong:Beeldhttp://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2398676,00.html
Posted by Rudi Prinsloo on 24.9.08. Link
19/09/2008 09:05 - (SA)Virginia Keppler, BeeldPretoria - A haemophiliac from Pretoria North thought he was going to bleed to death after he was attacked and stabbed in his bed by intruders at about 02:30 on Wednesday.Frans van Tonder, 52, sustained a head wound and bleeding on the brain after three armed robbers beat him with a steel pipe.His attackers also stabbed him in the chest, head, arms and hands."I would never have thought that something like this could happen to me."They got in despite the six-foot-high fence around my stand and all the security gates and doors," Van Tonder said from his bed in Akasia hospital in Pretoria on Thursday.Fought backHe was asleep when the attackers entered his home.Van Tonder, an SAB Miller employee, said it wasn't clear how they got in, because there were no signs of a break-in and he knows that he didn't leave his doors open."The next moment they were on my bed and on top of me and started hitting me with a steel pipe. They stabbed me in the chest, head, arms and hands, but I fought back," he said."I think I must have shouted out really loudly, because the noise woke the couple living in the flat on my property and they came to my rescue."They (the attackers) then stole my wallet and a few things and fled."Van Tonder said the couple immediately called the police and the ambulance service.He was bleeding profusely. "The once white carpet in my bedroom is now soaked in blood. And my bed too."The hospital said his blood count was normal and that he was recovering well.Van Tonder said he usually slept with his gun under his pillow, but had recently started to lock it in the safe."I'm actually glad I locked it away, because otherwise they might have knocked me unconscious and stolen my firearms. They could even have shot me with my own gun," he said.Source:News24http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9909,2-7-1442_2395955,00.html
Mnr. John de Jager van Cullinan, oos van Pretoria, is eergisteraand drie keer in die been geskiet. Foto: Herman VerweySep 16 2008 08:35:29:050PM - (SA)Virginia Keppler‘Sê vir die minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit ek sal nie Australië toe gaan nie, want Suid-Afrika is my huis.”So sê ’n suurlemoenboer van Cullinan, oos van Pretoria, wat eergisteraand om 22:30 tydens ’n huisrooftog drie keer raakgeskiet is.Mnr. John de Jager (37) is drie keer in sy regterbeen geskiet toe hy sy vrou, Petronella (37), te hulp gesnel het nadat drie gewapende rowers haar by hul wasgoeddraad oorval het.Sy het wasgoed gaan afhaal toe sy skielik begin gil. Hy het dadelik uitgehardloop, het De Jager gister uit sy bed in die Montana-hospitaal gesê. “Ek het ’n man naby haar gesien staan. Hy het niks gesê nie en my sonder enige waarskuwing geskiet. Toe die eerste koeël my tref, het ek op die man afgestorm en toe skiet hy my nog twee keer in dieselfde been.”Die rowers het hom buite laat lê en sy vrou die huis ingevat.“Hulle het haar na ons kamer geneem om die kluis vir hulle oop te sluit en toe steel hulle twee vuurwapens en geld uit die kluis.”Die rowers het ook die paartjie se selfone, mev. De Jager se trouringe en juwele gesteel. Daarna het hulle haar hande met haar man se skoenveters agter haar rug vasgebind.“Hulle het my hande en voete ook met my skoenveters vasgebind en toe sit hulle op my. Toe ek vir hulle sê ek het mediese hulp nodig, het hulle my gevloek.“Voordat hulle gevlug het, het hulle ’n kombers oor my kop gegooi.”Sy vrou kon haar loswikkel en het hom ook losgesny.“Ek kon nie beweeg nie en het net bly lê.”Hul seun, Günter (7), het gelukkig deur die hele drama geslaap.De Jager het meer as ’n week gelede twee kabeldiewe op sy eiendom gevang en aan die polisie oorhandig. Hy reken dit hou dalk verband met die aanval.Mnr. Charles Nqakula, minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit, het in 2006 gesê mense wat dreig om die land weens die hoë misdaadsyfer te verlaat, moet ophou kla of padgee.De Jager sê hy gaan nie die land verlaat nie. “Die minister moet eerder afgedank word.“Sê vir hom (die minister) ek is nie ’n klakous nie en ek sal nooit die land verlaat nie, want waarheen sal ek dan gaan? Ek wil net hê hulle moet die galg terugbring.“My vuurwapens is nou daar buite en dit gaan in ander gewapende rooftogte gebruik word.”De Jager het gevra Nqakula moet beter toerusting beskikbaar maak om misdaad te bekamp.Kapt. Sello Ngobeni, waarnemende bevelvoerder by die Cullinan-polisiekantoor, het gesê hulle ondersoek die voorval.Oorsprong:Beeldhttp://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2394519,00.html
Posted by Rudi Prinsloo on 17.9.08. Link
16/09/2008 22:53 - (SA)Virginia Keppler, BeeldPretoria - "Tell the minister of safety and security that I'm not going to Australia, because South Africa is my home."That's what a citrus farmer from Cullinan, east of Pretoria, said after being shot three times in a robbery that took place at his house on Monday night at 22:30.John de Jager, 37, was shot three times in his right leg when he came to the aid of his wife, Petronella, also 37, after armed robbers attacked her at their washing line.She had gone out to bring in the washing when she suddenly started screaming. He immediately rushed outside, De Jager said from his bed in Montana hospital on Tuesday.Shot without warning"I saw a man standing close to her. He didn't say anything and shot me without warning. When the first bullet struck me, I rushed at him. He then fired two more shots, hitting me in the same leg."The robbers left him lying there and took his wife into the house."They took her to our bedroom to open the safe for them and then stole two firearms and money from the safe."The robbers also took the couple's cellphones and Petronella's wedding rings and jewellery. They then tied her hands behind her back with her husband's shoelaces."They also tied my hands and feet with my shoelaces and then sat on me. When I told them I needed medical attention, they swore at me."Before they fled, they pulled a blanket over my head."His wife managed to free herself and also cut him loose.Son sleeps through drama"I couldn't move and just lay there."Fortunately their son, Günter, seven, slept through the drama.More than a week ago De Jager caught two cable thieves on his property and handed them over to the police. He believes the attack could be related to that.Minister of Safety and Security, Charles Nqakula, said in 2006 that people who threaten to leave the country because of the high crime rate should stop complaining or leave.De Jager said he wasn't going to leave the country. "The minister should rather be sacked."Tell him (the minister) I'm not a grumbler and I'll never leave the country, because where shall I go? I just want them to bring back the death penalty."My firearms are now out there and will be used in other armed robberies."Source:News24http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2394571,00.html
15/09/2008 09:44 - (SA)Jackie Pienaar-Brink, Die BurgerCape Town - The wife of a member of the team that carried out the world's first heart transplant was murdered in the early hours of Sunday morning in Hermanus.The body of Lulu Hewitson, 84, was found in the foyer of her house at about 04:00. She had a stab wound to her back.Her husband, Professor Rodney Hewitson, survived the attack as he was in another part of the house, said police spokesperson Superintendent André Traut. He was badly traumatised.The elderly woman was murdered after she presumably pressed the panic button.The suspects are believed to have gained entrance to the house through a living room window, which they took out. They fled the same way.'Awful and ironic'The murdered woman's husband was Professor Chris Barnard's right-hand man during the first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967."That he lost his wife in this way is awful and ironic," said Professor Johan Brink of the Chris Barnard Memorial Hospital's Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery."As a doctor, he had dedicated himself to the less fortunate. Over the years he helped hundreds of people who had been stabbed in the chest. He was an extremely committed doctor and a mentor for heart surgery all over the world."One of the couple's sons, Dr John Hewitson, followed in his father's footsteps as a heart surgeon while another, Professor Bruce Hewitson of the University of Cape Town, is an internationally recognised climate expert. A third son is a pilot in Mozambique.According to Traut, the motive was presumably housebreaking with the intention to steal possessions, though nothing valuable was missing.No one has been arrested and the murder weapon is still missing.Source:News24http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2393506,00.html
Posted by Rudi Prinsloo on 15.9.08. Link
Zelda VenterSeptember 09 2008 at 09:39AMThe case against a domestic worker and her son who were allegedly involved in the 2006 murder of Susan Vermaak was on Monday postponed after new evidence of "crucial importance" came to light.The Pretoria High Court was told the arrest of another suspect in the murder of the Brooklyn resident was "imminent".The court postponed the case against Vermaak's domestic worker Don Mashadi Maloka, 46, and her son Samuel Maloka, 24, - both from Hammanskraal - to February 2.They are each facing a murder and robbery charge following the death of Vermaak on December 18 2006.The cause of death in the indictment was strangulation and a stab wound to the heart. They have yet to plead to the charges.According to the indictment, Don started working for the Vermaaks at their Clark Street home a month before the murder.It is claimed she asked her son to get people to help them rob and murder the family.The son, it is claimed, found two unknown assailants whom he introduced to his mother. Together the four conspired to rob and kill Vermaak, whom they overpowered when she arrived home from the gym.The State claimed that during the morning the pair let the two unknown assailants into the Vermaaks' home.After Vermaak was overpowered, she was forced to give her attackers the key to her safe in a study on the lower level of the house.Her attackers took R75 000 from the safe before tying her hands behind her back.It is claimed a white plastic bag was pulled over her head and tied around her neck with a rope. She was then stabbed and strangled. Various rooms in the house were ransacked and various items, including jewellery, were taken.Henry Vermaak, who owned a car dealership near Morula Sun, discovered the body of his wife when he came home at about 6pm. He also found the domestic worker in the study, but loosely tied.Susan Vermaak was killed a few days before she was due to celebrate her 64th birthday.She was a retired real estate agent and former ballet teacher. The family had lived in their Brooklyn home since 1985.Prosecutor Andre Wilsenach on Monday told the court that the case was not yet ready for trial as certain evidence which needed to be followed up had come to light last week.The evidence, he said, related to outstanding DNA results and further exhibits which would be placed before court.Wilsenach said it had also come to his attention that the arrest of another suspect in this case was imminent. He said it was unfortunate that this only came to light recently, but it was in the interest of justice that the matter be postponed.The court, meanwhile, granted R2 000 bail to Samuel, coupled with stringent conditions.His mother will remain in jail awaiting trial.This article was originally published on page 4 of Pretoria News on September 09, 2008Source:IOLhttp://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080909071130995C714482
Posted by Rudi Prinsloo on 9.9.08. Link
September 07 2008 at 09:31AMBy Mary CorrigallThe reign of terror unleashed on South Africans in their homes by gangs of armed thugs is worsening dramatically.Residential robbery is up by 14,5 percent nationally, according to the police's 2007-2008 crime statistics.Based on these figures, every day almost 40 homes are invaded by armed robbers.And it is not only robberies that are threatening the sanctity of the home. Sixty-eight percent of hijackings happen in driveways, according to Richard Brussow, a former policeman who runs the National Hijack Prevention Academy.The 2007-2008 police statistics show that the frequency of car hijacking has increased by 4,4 percent and that there has also been a spike in