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Four cash-van guards torched: case postponed to Jan 4 2010

 

Deon Stein, Marcus Maleta, Dirk Kleinhans and Hennie Botha died when their cash-van was torched near Marken by some 22 men --  and at least two of of the suspects reportedly are former Koevoet members…

SBC security van made by OffRoadTrucksTrailersCo_ToyotoHino for CITmarket Polokwane/Pietersburg. December 21 2009 - The parents of murdered cash-van guard Deon Stein, 20, killed by a huge armed gang near Marken, Limpopo on September 29 2006 – amongst the arrested suspects purportedly were ex-members of  Koevoet , the 1,000-member SA Police’s Namibian counter-insurgency squad  --  are getting ‘gatvol’ about the constant postponements in the accused men’s trial.

Is everybody scared of conducting this case --  or what is going on?

Last Friday, Advocate Jacques Pienaar couldn’t appear due to ‘deaths in his family,’ the court was told. In June 2008, the trial was postponed  because Hettie Groenewald, legal representative for two defendants, handed in a medical certificate claiming she was under psychiatric care: the court proceedings were disrupted when Groenewald, representing two of the accused Alpheus Msiza, 30, and Kenneth Moitshela, 35,  the only two accused who had been granted bail (of R10,000), let the state prosecutor advocate JP Marais know that she had been under treatment at the Crescent Clinic in Randburg for psychiatric treatment since May 22 and would remain there until June 18 2008 - according to a medical certificate handed in at the court. After this June 2008 postponement, Dirk Kleynhans's widow Colette reportedly told the news media that  "can't believe how much time has already been wasted with this court case"; and Hennie Botha's mother Elize van Rensburg also asked whether there ‘would ever be an end to the case.’ Judge M W Msimeki  has had to repeatedly postponed the case.

Ons is al verby gatvol,’ said the young murdered security guard’s mom Elise outside the high court after the case was postponed once again, this time to 4 January 2010. Mrs Stein and her husband Rex had taken special leave to attend the trial, which was scheduled to take all week.

  • Security guard Stein, his three colleagues Marcus Malete (24), Dirk Kleinhans (28) and Hennie Botha (22) were torched to death after the gang poured petrol over their SBV-cash-transit van and set them alight while enroute from Pietersburg to Ellisras/Lephalale after the van was pushed off and overturned on the road between Marken and Baltimore.

A farmer from a nearby farm still managed to rescue Mr Stein from the burning van but the young Afrikaner died shortly afterwards from smoke-inhalation, reports Beeld.

Seven of the arrested men remain in Pietersburg prison, awaiting their trial:  Emmanuel Malebo (37), Joseph Malebese (50), Emmanuel Baros (39), Asser Ndjamba (37), Lawrence Mabitsela (29) (a former SBV-security guard), Wilson Manaka (32) and Antonio Ndala (42). Two other accused,  Alpheus Msiza (32) and Kenneth Moitshela (37) are out on R10,000 ($1,000) bail each. Now the case has been placed on the court rolls for a two-week trial from Monday, 4 January 2010, Beeld writes. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/74c66f6a668d4feda106863b13f1f5fb/21-12-2009-01-24/Gru-transitoroof_Familie_van_slagoffer_keelvol_n%C3%A1_n%C3%B3g_%E2%80%99n_uitstel

Ex-SBV security firm employee Lawrence Mabitsela, 26, who also among those arrested for the crime – and reportedly had even attended the funerals of the four murdered guards – and continued working for the company for another four months after the gruesome attack.

Ex-Koevoet men also arrested
Mabitsela was arrested  at his place of work – the Pietersburg branch of SBV. Others also arrested were two former members of the notorious former Koevoet apartheid-era police murder squad operating in then-South West Africa (Namibia).. Another suspect, Emmanuel Barros, 36, was arrested in Nelspruit in Mpumalanga after he participated in a robbery at a pension payout point.

  • Two others, the brothers Pieter, 40, and Jackson, Dlamini,, were released after their arrest because there was not enough evidence against them. An officer investigating the case, who did not want to be named, has said that as many as 22 men may have been involved in this incident. Hettie Groenewald in Randburg for psychiatric treatment

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What happened to these fine young men after they were dumped?’ asked a blogger…“What happened to these fine young man after they were dumped? Are they helping out in Iraq, Afganistan or else where in Africa, or else-where in the world, because they are certainly not service men in the NDF (Namibian Defence Force)? They were not dumped only, the SWAPO corrupt regime, confiscate their meagre pension fund of N$36 million and gave N$12 million to SWAPO PLAN. Let 's hope they do not believe in an eye for an eye. Maybe they have simply forgotten about this money. Maybe, maybe, maybe they are just stupid and say, it's fine. Take a look at how these boys performed. .. http://www.hellonam.com/open-forum/13677-bief-history-koevoet-south-west-african-counter-insurgency-unit.html

The Star of  December 18 2008 reported that ABI Coca-Cola in Devland, Johannesburg, was robbed of R900,000 in a slick robbery carried out by men in SBV-uniforms who were well-acquainted with the security procedures of the company. http://citizenalertza.blogspot.com/2008/12/cash-in-transit-six-former-cash-in.html

Koevoet (Afrikaans for crowbar), also known as "Operation K" and officially known as the "South West Africa Police Counter-Insurgency Unit" (Swapol-Coin), was a police counter insurgency unit in South-West Africa (now Namibia) during the 1970s and 1980s. ("Crowbar" was an allusion to their mission of prying insurgents from the local population). They were the most effective unit (in terms of personnel lost versus enemies killed) deployed against SWAPO fighters (seeking Namibian independence from South Africa)[1][2] and were accused of brutal and indiscriminate use of force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koevoet

http://www.sasbo.org.za/asp/finhouses/sbvservices/index.asp

KOEVOET MARCHING SONGS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7JbseSHEY&feature=related

PICTURES OF MURDERED CRIME VICTIMS IN SOUTH AFRICA

 

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