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Bets Prinsloo, farm wife of Kromdraai -- tortured with candles, hammer, knives

Farm attackers tortured elderly woman with burning candles, knives… 

September 28, 2006  LIMPOPO – Four men have put elderly farmer’s wife  Bets Prinsloo, 60, through four hours of torture, burning her feet with a candle, hitting her with a hammer and stabbing her in the legs.

  • Mrs Prinsloo of Prinshof smallholdings in Limpopo’s Kromdraai area where she and her husband have farmed for the past 11 years, now wants only to sell their property and move to Pretoria. Husband Joggie Prinsloo, 62, has deep wounds on his wrists where the attackers bound his hands with wire behind his back.

Four attackers hit the smallholding after crawling through a broken fence on Tuesday evening. The Prinsloos’ son, Dries, said: “The dogs usually crawl through that opening to get off the farm. “Trackers say the robbers definitely entered the farm there. It looked as if they knew what they were doing.”

  • The four forced open the back door of the house and overpowered the unarmed Prinsloos as they watched television.

Malesela Ledwaba of Waterberg police said the men had a panga and an axe. They overpowered the couple and tied their wrists behind their backs with wire. Dries said his parents were locked up in the bathroom from 20:00 until about midnight. During their ordeal, Mrs Prinsloo was burnt under her feet with a candle flame. She was hit on the head and shoulders with a hammer.

Dries, who lives in Bela-Bela/Warmbaths, said the men also stuck a kitchen knife into his mother’s legs several times.

During the couple’s four-hour ordeal, the men plundered the home and stole household goods as well as five firearms from a safe. They fled in the Prinsloos’ bakkie. Dries said on Wednesday: “My parents are going to sell everything on their farm as soon as possible and move in with family in Pretoria.The attacks on farmers are out of control. When is someone going to do something to stop these attacks?”The Prinsloos were treated by a doctor on Wednesday.Source: Crime Expo South Africa
http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/node/2673

20060923

Tonder, van, Kobus and Charlotte, murdered, Merino farm, Vrede Sept 23 2006

 

20060923 Kobus, 78, and Charlotte van Tonder, 68, stabbed to death, Marino farm, Vrede

September 23, 2006 VREDE – An elderly Free State farmer and his wife have been found murdered. A cattle herder found the mutilated bodies of 78-year-old Kobus van Tonder on the farm Merino near Vrede. His 68-year-old wife Charlotte was found stabbed to death in their house.

  • Pres. Thabo Mbeki and his Ministers are responsible for these murders, as they are not doing anything about the situation of farms.
  • According to reports the couple had lived on the farm for about 30 years. It is believed the couple was murdered at the weekend, but their bodies were only found yesterday.

    Jacqueline Chatterton of Boston, Christiaan C Moolman of Cedarville murders: four black killers sentenced

    Meanwhile it is also reported from Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal that four men were sentenced to life imprisonment in two separate cases for farm murders. Thuthukami Miya was sentenced for the murder of 46-year-old Jacqueline Chatterton of Boston. In passing sentence, Judge-President Vuka Tshabalala said killings on farms gave South Africa a bad name.

    • In an adjacent court, Judge Leona Theron sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the murder of Cedarville farmer Christiaan Colin Moolman. Two of the three killers were only 19 years old.

    Source: Crime Expo South Africa
    http://www.crimexposouthafrica.org/node/2590