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08-08-2007, 06:55 AM #1221
Quadbiker shot at
Pretoria - The police are investigating a case of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm against an unknown man in Annlin, north of Pretoria, after he allegedly fired an airgun at a 22-year-old biker and her friend, hitting both of them.
The man apparently fired at them because he was angry about the noise and dust from their bikes.
Sarita van der Walt, 22, of Montana and her friend Stiaan Potgieter, 21, went bike riding on an open piece of land next to a block of flats where the unknown man lives at about 16:45 on Sunday afternoon.
"I ride a quadbike and my friend rides an ordinary streetbike. We've often gone riding on that vacant land because there are no fences or signs indicating that we can't.
"We stopped there again for a cigarette just before 17:00 on Sunday. The man suddenly started shooting at us as we were leaving.
Open land is private property
"I was hit in the right thigh and another friend of mine who'd arrived there by chance, Leendert Roos, 21, was hit in the buttock shortly afterwards," she said.
"My medical costs already amount to more than R1 100.
"The pellet from the airgun is lodged more than 10cm deep in my thigh.
"The doctor said it was too small to cause lead poisoning and that they'd have to cut through the muscle to remove it. I'm hoping that it will either fester out or not fester at all."
"I suppose that the man was angry because of the noise and dust from our bikes, but that's not enough to warrant shooting at us," Van der Walt said.
She has meanwhile established that the open land is private property.
"If there'd been signs on the property, we wouldn't have gone riding there."
08-08-2007, 06:59 AM #1222
Rape suspects 'watching TV'
Durban - While three young women were repeatedly raped in Pennington last year, two of the three men accused of the brutal crime claim they were at home watching television.
Mthokozisi Innocent Mbambo, 29, and Sithembiso Joseph Shelembe, 23, on Tuesday told the Scottburgh High Court that on December 29 last year, they were at their homes in Oshabeni watching television.
Shelembe explained that on the night in question, he had listened to some music and had watched Jam Alley and Generations before going to bed. He claims that his girlfriend and three adult sisters were with him.
Although Shelembe denies ever being at the rented home where the three young women were raped and robbed, the State has rejected his alibi saying that if he was "tucked in bed" with his girlfriend, she would have told the court.
Girlfriend was there to testify about cellphone
His girlfriend, Simangele Nyathi, testified against him on Monday when she told the court that he had given her a cellphone, which the State later discovered had been stolen from the couple who the accused are alleged to have robbed after the attack on the three young women.
When asked why his attorney did not ask Nyathi to back up his alibi, Shelembe said that he was of the understanding that his girlfriend was only there to testify about the cellphone.
State prosecutor Dorien Paver also demanded to know why Shelembe was not calling his sisters to support his alibi.
He told the court that he could not call them because he did not have a phone card and he had no means to make contact with them.
Property was found on him
When asked about his DNA that was found in the vaginal swabs of the rape victims, Shelembe replied that he did not believe in "such things".
He could not explain how his semen was found on a cloth at the scene.
"I won't be able to explain that because I wasn't there and I know nothing about it," he said.
He told the court that it was a coincidence that property from the victims was found on him and at his house.
His co-accused Mbambo entered the witness box on Tuesday afternoon and told the court that he was at home watching movies with his brother on December 29.
It is expected that he will be cross-examined on Wednesday.
08-08-2007, 07:02 AM #1223
Man in BMW boot 'a swindler'
Pretoria - The Pretoria broker whose body was found in the boot of his car has been described as a "swindler" on a website dedicated to exposing crooks, before his death.
The body of Ian de Wit, 42, was found on Monday morning in the boot of his silver BMW 3-series, which was parked at the Pick 'n Pay Hypermarket in Atterbury Road.
De Wit was wrapped in a cream-coloured duvet.
Neither his hands nor his feet were bound and there weren't any visible signs of injury on his body.
From what Beeld heard, De Wit was last seen at Willow Acres, where he lived, on Friday.
He had not been reported missing.
De Wit is accused on the website of swindling someone out of R220 000.
One of De Wit's business contacts said: "Ian cheated and there were people who didn't like him."
"However, I don't know of anyone who threatened or wanted to kill him," said the man, who did not want to be named.
The police meanwhile have examined the closed-circuit tv footage of Pick n Pay's car park.
Beeld heard that they had seen something on the tapes that could possibly help them in the investigation.
Captain Lucas Sithole did not want to confirm what it was, or if it could have been possible suspects.
De Wit's wife Saskia, a primary school teacher, declined to speak to Beeld.
08-08-2007, 07:22 AM #1224
Theunis Olivier sentenced
Six-year-old Steven Siebert's murderer Theunis Olivier was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Cape Town High Court on Wednesday.
Handing down sentence Cape High Court judge Essa Moosa described Olivier as a cold and callous murderer.
"The victim must have endured excruciating pain when you indecently assaulted him and your conduct has been cold and callous," he said.
Olivier was sentenced to 10 years for kidnapping, 14 years for indecent assault and life imprisonment for murder.
08-08-2007, 05:17 PM #1225
Huiseienaar skiet vermeende rower dood
'n Vermeende rower is in Midrand doodgeskiet nadat hy 'n kombuisvenster gebreek het om toegang tot 'n woonhuis te verkry.
'n Woordvoerder van Netcare 911 sê die man is dood aangetref op die kombuisvloer van die huis in Glen Austin.
'n Polisiewoordvoerder het aan Sapa gesê die huiseienaar het die rower doodgeskiet nadat hy (die eienaar) wakker geword het van 'n hond se geblaf.
08-09-2007, 04:49 AM #1226
‘Koud, geslepe, lafhartig’
Kaapstad. – “Klein Steven het ’n alleen en verskriklike dood gesterf. Sy ouers was nie daar om hom te beskerm nie – hulle was naby, dog so ver.”
Met regter Essa Moosa se vonnisoplegging gister van die pedofiel en moordenaar Theunis Christiaan Olivier het Steven se ouers, mnr. Thomas en mev. Elaine Siebert, styf teen mekaar in die hofsaal gesit
Mev. Siebert het sag, maar bitterlik gehuil. Olivier het geen emosie gewys nie.
Moosa het gesê die hof het groot begrip vir die gevoelens van die ma wat Steven in haar baarmoeder gedra en in die wêreld gebring het, net om “permanent en gewelddadig” van haar af weggeskeur te word.
Moosa het gesê die gewelddadige misdade wat Olivier gepleeg het, het ’n algemene tendens in die land geword.
“Ons lees of hoor daagliks in die gedrukte en elektroniese media van jong kinders, seuns en meisies, wat ontvoer, verkrag, onsedelik aangerand en vermoor word.”
Hy het gesê die hofrolle in streek- en die hooggeregshowe is ’n bewys van die stygende aantal voorvalle van dié misdade. Olivier is lewenslange tronkstraf opgelê weens die moord op Steven, tien jaar weens sy ontvoering en 14 jaar weens sy onsedelike aanranding. Die vonnisse word gesamentlik uitgedien.
Hy het gesê daar is geen onafhanklike bewyse dat Olivier ’n veelvuldige persoonlikheidsafwyking het nie en die enigste afleiding wat die hof kan maak, is dat dit agterna uitgedink is waarna Olivier sy getuienis aangepas het. Die doel was om sy dade die dag dat Steven vermoor is, te plaas op sy denkbeeldige alter ego, “Theo”.
Moosa het bevind Olivier is ’n erkende pedofiel met psigopatiese neigings. “Jy is ’n patologiese leuenaar en jy sal tot enige lengtes gaan om mense valslik te diskrediteer wat nie met jou saamstem nie.”
Die regter het na ’n brief van Olivier verwys. Daarin het Olivier gevra die gemeenskap moet hom ondersteun om die regering te versoekskrif vir die doodstraf se terugkeer.
“Die volle mag van die gereg moet vir my geld en daar moet op geen manier vir my enige genade betoon nie word omdat ek geen genade gehad het vir klein Steven nie en daarom geen genade verdien nie.”
Moosa het uitgewys dit is nie die woorde van die staatsaanklaer, Steven se ouers of klein Steven nie, dit is Olivier se eie woorde. “Dit weerspieël baie veelseggend wat die gevolge van jou kriminele optrede op die Siebert-familie is.”
“Klein Steven moes uitsonderlik gely en pyn gehad het toe jy hom seksueel gemolesteer het. Sy laaste oomblikke was meer vreesaanjaend. Ek is seker hy kon nie verstaan wat gebeur nie. Hy was te onskuldig, te jonk om te besef … ”
Moosa het gesê die seksuele aanranding was tussen 15 en 20 minute. “Vir Steven moes dit ’n ewigheid gewees het. Toe hy beswaar maak, het jy gedreig om hom in die see te gooi – jou optrede was koud, lafhartig, geslepe en berekend.”
Dit is ook verswarend dat Olivier gekyk het hoe hy doodgaan en geen emosie gewys het toe hy hom verwurg het nie.
“Ons is dankbaar die reg het sy volle loop geneem. Aan die einde is dit egter steeds ’n leë oorwinning,” het mnr. Siebert gesê.
Insp. John Nomdoe, ondersoekbeampte, het gesê Olivier gaan vanaf Pollsmoor na die Ladysmith-gevangenis in KwaZulu-Natal oorgeplaas word, waar hy tereg gaan staan op nog klagte van die seksuele aanranding van vyf kinders.
08-09-2007, 09:17 AM #1227
'Explain perjury to my client'
Durban - In an unprecedented move, the advocate of one of the three men accused of repeatedly raping three young women before attacking a couple in Pennington last year, has asked the Scottburgh High Court on Wednesday to remind her client of the law of perjury before calling his brother to support his alibi.
Shortly after 29-year-old Mthokozisi Innocent Mbambo advised his lawyer, Annelise Harrison, that he wanted his brother Xolani to testify that he was at home in his company when the Pennington attacks happened, the advocate asked Judge Leona Theron to remind her client of the perjury law.
Insistent the court explain the perjury law
A surprised Theron replied that it was not the time to bring up the matter as the norm is that after a witness has testified, he/she could face serious consequences if the court finds that the evidence was untruthful.
Harrison accepted this, but was nevertheless insistent that the court explain the perjury law to her client.
Before Judge Theron could give her final answer, Harrison requested that she and the other legal representatives meet with her in chambers to discuss the matter.
Mbambo's decision to call his brother to testify was prompted by intense cross-examination from State prosecutor Dorien Paver who had suggested that the only reason why Xolani Mbambo was not on his brother's witness list was because the alibi was a lie.
Mbambo had told the court that on December 29, when the three women aged between 20 and 22 years were repeatedly raped and robbed and a Johannesburg couple was attacked in Pennington, he was at his Oshabeni home watching television with his brother.
Paver put it to Mbambo that his brother had initially showed up at court to testify, but after consultation with Harrison, was not listed as a defence witness.
Mbambo said he had tried to phone his brother at home, but had been unsuccessful and that was why he was not in court.
'He's not going to support your claim'
Paver said: "That is a downright lie. Here's your brother and here you are in this dreadful predicament being charged for these dreadful crimes and your own brother does not make a plan to come to court. That doesn't seem right. It's quite obvious that Xolani is not here today (Wednesday) because he is not going to support your claim."
When asked about Phindile Thusi's evidence, which revealed that he had been in possession of two phones that had been stolen from the rape victims in December, Mbambo explained that the woman who claimed to be his girlfriend, was caught in possession of the phones and shifted the blame onto him because he had already been arrested.
Paver however rejected his explanation, saying that the phones were found at Mbambo's residence and not on Thusi.
Mbambo denied all the allegations against him and insisted that he knew nothing about the Pennington attacks.
Mbambo and his co-accused Sithembiso Joseph Shelembe (23) and Wonder Wiseman Mchunu (26) have been remanded into custody at the Umzinto prison until their next court appearance on September 10.
08-09-2007, 02:42 PM #1228
Warning issued for Table Mountain hikers
The Table Mountain National Park has called on people planning hikes on the mountain to stay in groups and not carry valuables, after another three mugging incidents.
On Wednesday two British tourists, an elderly couple and a local man were robbed in three separate incidents.
Table Mountain National Park communications manager Phumeza Mgxashe confirmed the incidents on Wednesday.
According to Mgxashe, the victims were an elderly couple on Maclear's Beacon, two female British tourists and a man who was hiking alone at Skeleton Gorge.
Mgxashe said: "They were all held at knifepoint and robbed of their valuable possessions."
She said the park had a team of 52 visitor safety rangers, who were responsible for the safety of the mountain visitors.
However, none of the rangers had been in the area when the muggings took place.
"They have to patrol a big, open access mountain, and can't be everywhere at the same time.
"We have safety volunteers to help the rangers, but they only help out on weekends," she said.
Mgxashe said the incidents were "regrettable" but urged hikers not to wear valuable items and to always hike in groups.
Police spokesperson Siphokazi Mawisa could confirm only one of the incidents.
"We're investigating robbery and no suspects have yet been arrested," she said.
08-09-2007, 09:27 PM #1229
Boer ernstig nadat betreder hom skiet
Ermelo. – ’n Boer lê in ’n ernstige toestand in die hospitaal nadat ’n betreder hom gisteroggend op sy plaas trompop in die gesig geskiet het.
Mnr. Jan Randell (39) van die plaas Mooigelegen sowat 30 km buite Ermelo is in die ken geskiet en die koeël sit nog in sy nek vas. ’n Noodoperasie is gisteraand gedoen.
“Ons het vandag groot genade gekry. Ons dank die Here dat hy nie dood is nie,” het Randell se broer, Phillip, gister kort ná die skietery aan Beeld gesê.
Randell het omstreeks 07:30 met sy bakkie op sy plaas tussen Ermelo en Lothair rondgery toe hy die verdagte man opmerk.
Volgens supt. Leoni Joubert, speurtakbevelvoerder van die polisie op Ermelo, het hy by die man stilgehou om met hom te praat.
Die man het weggehardloop. Toe Randell agter hom aanhardloop, het die verdagte ’n skoot op hom geskiet.
“Die verdagte het in Randell se bakkie gespring en weggejaag,” sê Joubert.
Randell se buurman, mnr. Popeye van der Linde wat sowat 800 m daarvandaan woon, het die skoot gehoor en ondersoek gaan instel.
Hy het die swaar gewonde Randell in ’n land aangetref. Sy vrou, Karin, het met hom na die hospitaal gejaag.
Hulle is langs die pad deur ’n ambulans ontmoet wat hom na die Ermelo- Medi-Clinic geneem het.
Hy is later na die Sunninghill-kliniek in Johannesburg oorgeplaas.
Ná die skietery is die hulp van die plaaswag ingeroep om die verdagte op te spoor, sê mnr. Hendry Geldenhuys, voorsitter van die plaaslike boere-unie.
Die verdagte is ’n ent daarvandaan deur ’n boer opgespoor. Hy het uit die bakkie gespring en weggehardloop.
In die hardlopery het hy glo sy baadjie uitgetrek en ook op dié boer losgebrand.
Die verdagte is in die gesig en skouer getref toe die boer teruggeskiet het.
Die verdagte het die vuurwapen in ’n dam gegooi voordat hy in hegtenis geneem is.
Polisieduikers is ingeroep om die vuurwapen in die dam te soek. Teen druktyd was hulle nog besig met hul soektog.
Geldenhuys sê hulle het duidelike spore in die sagte grond by die plek waar Randell geskiet is, gekry. Dit is onder ’n kartonboks toegemaak om dit te beskerm totdat ’n lid van die honde-eenheid gipsafdrukke van die spore kon maak.
Mnr. Phillip Randell was gisteroggend op pad see toe om te gaan hengel toe hy oor die skietery op sy broer ingelig is. Hy het dadelik na die plaas teruggekeer. Hy en Randell boer saam op die plaas.
Volgens Randell het die koeël sy broer in die ken getref en in sy nek vasgeslaan.
Mev. Randell waak tans by haar man en die egpaar se twee kinders, Angelique (8) en Charles (4), is by familie op die plaas.
08-11-2007, 11:13 AM #1230
Bewysstuk bly eers in gewonde boer se nek
Ermelo. – Een van die belangrikste bewysstukke in die skietaanval op ’n plaaslike boer, die koeëlpunt, gaan vir eers bly waar hy is – in mnr. Jan Randell se nek.
Randell (39) is Donderdagoggend op sy plaas, Mooigelegen, in die gesig geskiet toe hy ’n betreder daar betrap het.
Randell se broer, Phillip, het gister gesê die noodoperasie wat eergisteraand op Jan gedoen is, was suksesvol.
“Maar die dokters het voorlopig besluit om die koeëlpunt wat in sy nek vassit, eers later te verwyder.”
Die koeël het Randell in die ken getref en sy strottehoof beskadig.
Dit het teen sy nekwerwel geslaan en ’n stukkie van die been laat afsplinter.
Tydens die noodoperasie is daar net aan sy strottehoof gewerk en ’n gaatjie is in sy keel gemaak.
Intussen is polisieduikers steeds besig om die handwapen waarmee Randell geskiet is, in ’n dam op dié plaas te soek.
Die verdagte het dit glo daarin gegooi toe hy deur lede van die plaaswag vasgekeer is.
Hy het op dié lede losgebrand en is twee keer raakgeskiet.
Volgens supt. Leonie Joubert, speurtakbevelvoerder van die polisie in Ermelo, word die moontlikheid ondersoek dat Randell met ’n vuurwapen geskiet is wat onlangs in dié dorp uit ’n polisieman se huis gesteel is.
“Daar was drie inbrake in die betrokke omgewing die afgelope twee weke en vyf wapens is uit die polisieman se huis gesteel.”
Die verdagte word onder polisiebewaking in die Carolina-hospitaal behandel en sal eers later in die hof verskyn, het Joubert gesê.