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June 2009 murder attempt against Pastor Charl Pretorius: a cold case file

‘ People don’t bother to phone the police any more.. ‘

Thursday 22 October 2009 By Cynthia Dreyer, co-editor of Madibeng Pulse

BRITS --- What do you do when there has been an attempt on your husband’s life and you cannot get a case number from the police? This is the strange situation that Mrs Antoinette Pretorius has found herself in after two rogue detectives reluctantly took details down days after the attempted murder incident against her and her husband --  but never entered it in the police crime register!

The miracle of Psalm 27

MadibengPulse reported on the case on 23 June at 23:30 in Broederstroom when pastor Charl Pretorius was shot at apparently from about three metres through a glass door with a 9mm pistol, but miraculously wasn’t hit.

  • The family have attributed the miracle to the fact that Pastor Charl was reciting Psalm 27 shortly before the shooting.

The Pretorius family was looking after a home whose owner was away overseas at the time. After Maxi Security had responded to their panic button, the family was helped to move their most vital possessions in the middle of the night to their in-laws in Skeerpoort, with no reaction from police who were apparently attending to another shooting in Broederstroom. No one came out the next day to take statements or collect evidence and eventually after having a student constable slam down the phone, Mrs Pretorius phoned the Station Commissioner, Senior Superintendent Matlala on the Monday.

He apologised and sent two investigators out -- but they didn’t even give us a case number afterwards.

  • “You want to feel the police are there for you!” she told Madibeng Pulse at the time. “Now people are not even bothering to phone the police, they are just doing things themselves. It’s scary!”

Previously police had given her a case number by sms when there was an attempted burglary in May. Mrs Pretorius says that she contacted the Hartbeespoort Community Policing Forum after MadibengPulse told her to report the incident to them as they are the liaison between the public and the police -- and was shocked to hear that the two investigating officers who attended to her case “had left the Hartbeespoort Police Station under a cloud.”

We no longer know what it’s like to live in peace…

They’re Not Wearing Uniforms, But It’s War Against All Our Rural Communities…

Thursday 22 October 2009 - By Cynthia Dreyer, co-editor, Madibeng Pulse

Broederstroom, Kalkheuvel, Leeuwenkloof, De Wildt, Skeerpoort, Rietfontein and all the farming communities around Madibeng are under a state of siege each night and often during the day.

Patrols by armed companies, radio contact and neighbourhood watches have become everyday phenomena in our communities as armed criminals target ordinary citizens of all colours all the time, night and day..  They’re not wearing enemy soldiers’ uniforms but are doing the same job, terrorising the community and looting whatever they can lay their hands on.

South Africans no longer know what it is like to live in peace…

read her entire article: http://www.madibengpulse.co.za/?Task=system&CategoryID=29505&HeadingText=CrimeAlert+221009+rural#t

“South Africans no longer know what it is to live in peace, being able to walk in the streets at night and are sometimes scared even to leave their homes. Is this the legacy we are leaving to future generations? In some rural areas such as Broederstroom and Rietfontein, residents have simply abandoned their homes for fear of being the next victim of some mindless but ruthless farm attack.

Brits: The latest such incident to be reported happened early on Sunday morning in the Geluk farming community north of Brits. Five armed robbers attacked a man and his wife before tying them their hands and feet and hitting the man over the head with a sharp object before ransacking the house. They even tried to dislodge the safe from the wall with a corner iron. The thieves were able to escape with a TV, hi fi equipment and clothing which they loaded into the couple’s silver Toyota Corolla before driving off with it. The registration number is FRK 654 NW. The public is urged to be on the lookout for this vehicle and to report it to the Detectives Unit at Brits on 012 252 9320.

Geluk farm, Brits: In another incident on a Geluk farm, a farmer who was issuing instructions to his workers on his lands at around 19:00 on Friday night was suddenly forced from his Mazda bakkie by two armed robbers. They raced away in the direction of Barseba, but according to Inspector Brian Dlamini of Brits Police, the farmer was able to alert his neighbours who gave chase. “The suspects fired at their pursuers when they were traced to the Barseba cemetery, jumped out of the Mazda and fled into the bushes,” he told MadibengPulse yesterday. “Fortunately no one was hurt. The investigation is continuing and detectives will do everything in their power to trace the robbers and bring them to book. We cannot allow such criminals to upset the lives of communities, holding them to ransom!”

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Police Report Oct 22 2009

 

20091021 – Jan Potgieter, 65, caretaker, shot dead, Villa Nora, Johannesberg farm, Limpopo

2009-10-21 Jan Potgieter, 65, caretaker of the holiday chalets Villa Nora at the Johannesberg farm near Ellisras/Lephalale in Limpopo, was shot dead inside the homestead and a Zimbabwean man – injured  by Mr Potgieter’s wife Annelie during the attack, was later arrested by a commando of local farmers and police, reports Beeld journalist Marietie Louw-Carstens

  • The speedy arrest was due to the rapid action of farmers and police who barred the access roads and trapped the 18-year-old injured, armed Zimbabwean man, said police superintendent Mohale Ramatseba.

Local farmer  Neels Hennop said the Zimbabwean man had apparently worked for Potgieter. It’s not known exactly what took place inside the homestead.  Japie Spanio, security chairman of the Transvaal AGricultural Union of South Africa, said the farmers are linked in a security-radio network, and managed to encircle the farm roads and also engaged spoor-finders and a private helicopter in the massive search. The man will appear in the local magistrate’s court on a remand hearing soon, said the police. .http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/d8276acf338448709c64d5cedfc50660/21-10-2009-11-30/Opsigter_by_rusoord_deur_Zimbabwi%C3%ABr_doodgeskiet

Woman finds adult son Morne le Grange, 27, dead in Disselboom Park, Elardus Park bathroom

An Elardus Park, Pretoria woman has discovered the dead body of her 27-year-old son in their bathroom in the high-security complex of Disselboom Park.  Police spokeswoman Lynnette Erasmus, said it’s not yet known what the cause of death was. The dead man,  Morné le Grange, showed ‘several bruises across his body’ but no other injuries. His mother said Mrs Le Grange went to the bathroom at around 6am but turned away when she realised her son was inside.  At 9am, she tried the door again but he was still inside – she then  called to him and tried to speak to him but got no response.  The third time she opened the door, came across her son in the bathroom, seated on the toilet with his upper body hanging halfway across the bathtub. “She touched him, realised he was ice-cold, and called the police, said Ms Erasmus. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/55c4881035f44184bf8c2f8e3c7eb03e/22-10-2009-11-51/Vrou_kom_op_haar_seun_se_lyk_in_badkamer_af_

Murdered 17-year-old Lanche Robert’s attackers still missing

Roberts Lanche murdered ambush Randfontein quarry Oct 19 2009 Amanda Roestoff – Nobody has been arrested thus far for th emurder of  Lanché Roberts, a grade-ten pupil at the Hoërskool Jan Viljoen, shot by a large armed gang while the youth was riding on a bakkie with a classmate whose father was delivering the payroll to a local sandstone quarry in Randfontein. The bakkie was ambushed by an armed gang which had blocked the access road – and when the father drove off at high speed with the gang in pursuit, firing madly, the youth was shot dead Police Supt. Gert Kruger of the Randfontein-police said the attack gang fled in a silver  VW Polo. Anyone with information about the incident may call him at telephone 082 413 2635 bel. ’A memorial service is held on Friday at 15.00 in the Ou Apostoliese Kerksaal on the corner of Greenhills Avenue and Nerine Street in  Greenhills, Randfontein. Read original Beeld report of shooting

Vereeniging civil-engineering student killed – nothing taken

2009-10-22  Johannesburg - A 19-year-old VaalTechnology university student from Limpopo was stabbed to death in near his residence in Vereeniging, Gauteng police said on Thursday

"He was walking to his residence with his friend at 23:00 on Wednesday, after they studied together at the campus library," Constable Teboho Lephoto said. The students were walking through Bedworth Park when two men with knives demanded cash and cellphones. "The robbers took the friend's cellphone and he managed to flee... the friend was stabbed in the upper body," Lephoto said. The attackers  fled , leaving the stabbed student to die at the scene. They did not take anything, ‘he still had his cellphone on him as well as cash…’ said the constable. Lephoto said the student was from Limpopo and was in his first year, studying civil engineering. His parets were informed of the murder on Wednesday night and were driving up from Limpopo to identify the body. "It's very sad, they sent their child to study and become something, and now his body is going home," he said. No arrests had been made as yet, and a case of murder was being investigated. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/696a9e8062774ec1962dbba618692b1e/22-10-2009-10-42/Student_killed_in_robbery

Afrikaner minority rights debate angers SA Human Rights Commission delegates

 

Oct 21 2009 – Afrikaner minority-rights activists yesterday launched a determined verbal attack at the African Human Rights Day conference in  Parktown yesterday  - with Afrikaner intellectuals climbing into the draft report drawn up by ANC-officials for the UN Human Minority Rights Commission conference in Geneva on November 11.

This event was heavily-censored by the SABC-news TV however, which merely reported the following: 

“South Africa does not need a special dispensation to cater for indigenous groups and minorities as its Constitution protects and guarantees the cultural, linguistic and religious rights of all her people,” the  IEC president Pansy Tlakula told a meeting looking at minority rights :

roodt_dan pro Afrikaans Action GroupHowever, the often very angry, heated debate between the small number of Afrikaners and the black majority at this meeting – and which had led to this statement by Tlakula -- was not reported by the SABC-TV at all. And even though they also  also interviewed Dr Dan Roodt, the Afrikaner intellectual who headed this highly-critical minority-delegation, the SABC-TV chose not to broadcast this interview thus far…

Dr Dan Roodt’s report: http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/afrikaanse-nuus-magazine-401/6164-vonke-spat-by-minderheidskonferensie.html

Yesterday’s African Human Rights Day conference was called by the SA human rights commission to gain the stamp of approval for their concept report – however the Afrikaner intellectual delegation – comprised of Dr Pieter Duvenage, Dan Roodt, Louis Smuts and André Alkema, sharply criticised the draft-concept, saying that the Afrikaner delegation did not agree to the wording --  and would be getting together with other Afrikaner groups to draw up their own ‘dissenting minority-opinion report’ in time for submission to the November 11 2009 UN conference in Geneva, Switserland.

AT the start of the morning-session, while Dr Dan Roodt – the businessman and author who founded the activist Pro-Afrikaans Action Group (PRAAG) was holding a press conference outside the SABC-radio and TV station about the issue, Dr Duvenage was inside engaged in hot debates with delegates.

“SA State does not recognise the presence of Afrikaner minority…’

Stating his held viewpoint -- as a leading member of the Afrikaner minority in the country -- Duvenage said the South African state ‘’ can no longer be viewed as having any legitimacy because it cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens any longer’.

Moreover, he said –-- amidst loud and often very angry protestations from the black delegates -- that ‘the presence of the Afrikaner minority was  not even recognised by the SA State any longer’.

  • This raised the ire of one featured black conference-speaker, Ms Colet Letlojane – who flew into Duvenhage ‘s claim with counter-accusations of ‘disloyalty towards the black majority which had forgiven him (Duvenage) for apartheid…’

Afrikaners laughed at by head of SA Human Rights commission:

After the morning session, the newly-appointed head of the SA Human Rights commission, adv. Tseliso Thipanyane, was standing around amidst a large crowd of admirers and bystanders, and was heard ot joke in a demeaning way about the Afrikaner-minority delegates, repeatedly chanting; “"I want my Afrikaans, I want my Afrikaans" – to the huge amusement of bystanders.

  • “900 people killed in political violence during apartheid – but tens of thousands of Afrikaners have already been killed by the black majority after 1994…”
  • During the morning session, when the few Afrikaner delegates such as Duvenage were enduring verbal attacks in highly-emotional language by many other delegates, Dr Roodt also responded by saying that  ‘he was pleased that Duvenage was forgiven for apartheid. “

“However if one places this forgiveness towards Duvenage against the fact that 900 people were killed during political violence throughout the entire apartheid-period (1948-1994) in South Africa, while thus far some 750,000 people have already been murdered since 1994, amongst whom also were many tens of thousands of Afrikaners, Duvenhage should actually show forgiveness towards his accusers rather than the other way around, because ‘it’s the vast black majority who are committing this horrific crimes,” said Roodt.

This comment put the cat amongst the pigeons – with  black delegates then attacking the very concept a ‘minority group’.  One official of the Justice department even claimed that the concept ‘minority group’ was a ‘dynamic concept and that this doesn’t mean that South Africa was comprised of minorities…’

Many of the other black speakers also claimed that the concept of ‘minority rights’ was born during apartheid, that South Africa now was one homogenous nation without any minorities…

Another government official  also said that ‘ if minority groups joined the ruling party (i.e. the ANC) to participate in politics’.

  • Minorities in SA have no rights to influence political power…
  • Dr Roodt responded to this by asking whether this official thus was ‘lodging a plea for a one-party state’ with this invitation – to which this official responded that ‘minorities did not have any rights to influence political power nor have any political influence…’

The ANC-executives at the conference then tried to defuse the debate about Afrikaner-minority rights by changing the subject altogether – namely to that of the ‘rights of non-heterosexual people – submitting that this group should be viewed as a ‘minority group’ and that this should be reflected in the concept-draft to the UN meeting on November 11.

Dr Roodt however continued the Afrikaner-rights debate, pointing to the example of the voting-distrists’demarcation of the Pretoria municipality by Dr Michael Sutcluffe as a ‘prime example of discrimination and suppression of minority groups’ where primarily Afirkaner-suburbs were cut up and added to black-majority-voter suburbs to guarantee an ANC-majority vote in those new voting districts.

This raised the ire of Mrs Nkaro Mateto, senior manager of the Independent Electoral Commission – who said that she was a member of this demarcation commission for the Pretoria region – and that the purpose of the voting-district demarcations had not been to ‘discriminate’ against Afrikaners, but rather to ‘integrate’ them.

“Integration is just another word for forced assimilation and genocide…

Dr Roodt replied to Mrs Mateto’s claim by noting that in his view, ‘integration was just an euphemism for forced assimilation":

  • “There are three ways to commit genocide,’ he said: (1) “through ethnic cleansing, for instance by driving Afrikaners from the country through a variety of laws barring Afrikaners (from public life); (2) by forced assimilation and through violence.
  • “And all of these elements already exist in South Africa (targetting the Afrikaner minority).’

Then the Human Rights Commission chairman angrily replied that, “as a Sotho whose ancestral lands were taken away before 1930 he, as a member of the black majority, was not prepared to make any kind of concessions to the civil rights of the Afrikaner minority.’

During the afternoon-session, the chief editor of the Department of foreign affairs’ human-rights and humanitarian affairs, Pitso Montwedi, also denied Dr Roodt’s claim that the official apartheid-era death-rate was 900 people, saying this was ‘a lie” . Dr Roodt then asked that ‘the true apartheidheid-era political death rates’ be published, since these he had quoted, came directly from the SA Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

“Hundreds of thousands of blacks were killed by Afrikaners during Apartheid…’

An Indian academic from the University of the Witwatersrand, Prof Ayesha Kajee and South African head of the International Human-rights exchange programme,  then suffered an extraordinary anger-outburst, screaming that ‘hundreds of thousands of blacks were killed by Afrikaners during apartheid’, and that ‘Dr Roodt can’t establish fact from fiction.’

  • Dr Roodt replied: “don’t believe your own propaganda.”
  • Throughout the conference, all the Afrikaner delegates submitted point-by-point criticisms of the concept-report placed before the conference delegates for ‘final approval”. This document would then be tabled as representative of the entire SA population’s opinion at the  11 November UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.

Roodt and Duvenage submitted to the meeting that they would be drawing up a minority-opnion report which would be tabled together with the official government version – and that they would be calling on all Afrikaner organisations to help draw up such a minority report – and which would be submitted to the 11 November meeting.

Dr Roodt concluded that ‘from this meeting it also becomes clear – judging from the recriminations and accusations flying amongst the delegates – that the issue of minority rights in South Africa is an explosive situation.”

Dr Roodt’s interviews – conducted in English and Afrikaans – about this conference, have thus far not been published by the SABC. http://www.praag.co.za/nuus-magazine-402/afrikaanse-nuus-magazine-401/6164-vonke-spat-by-minderheidskonferensie.html#

Also read:

Afrikaner-News Magazine

Bullet-proof vests for German team WC 2010

 

Bullet-proof vests for German football stars - World Cup in South Africa ..-

SportsBild Germany Football stars to wear bulletproof vests in South Africa WC2010... Bulletproof vests for German football team necessary warns top security expert in SportsBildOct 21 2009 --  PRETORIA. Germany's football stars have been warned to expect to wear bullet-proof vests at next summer's World Cup in South Africa. The head of  their top security firm said players would need such protection if they ventured away from the team's Pretoria hotel amid safety fears.

Guenter Schnelle from BaySecur told the German magazine Sport-Bild: (click on the pictures to read the original story in German):  "The possibility for the players of moving outside of the hotel boundaries should be kept to a minimum. Otherwise there must be a full escort: armed security guards and bullet-proof vests for the players.”’

BaySecur looks after the German Football Federation (DFB) and their guests when the national team plays away from Germany. It is one of the security firms expected to be employed by the DFB while the team is involved in the tournament from June 11.

The final are planned for July 11 2010 at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium. This is the upgraded former 80,000-seat FNB_stadium near the football-crazy townships of Soweto. About 40 percent of greater Johannesburg's population live there - and this close proximity “is bound to make the stadium a hub of activity throughout the 2010 finals…” promise the organisers of FIFA on their website.

Vemore Grande Hotel location in downtown PretoriaMeanwhile, the German Football League is looking to step up security around the team's five-star hotel in downtown Pretoria, and all-set  to recruit 20 extra security guards.

Due to the extremely high violent-crime rates in South Africa the DFB “is taking no risks,” its security boss Helmut Spahn told Sports-Bild. “ Private bodyguards will protect the players both in and around the Velmore Grande hotel in the province of Gauteng. We will probably use more personnel than we would normally have," said Mr Spahn, who will also spend four days in South Africa next week looking at security arrangements.

"We need to first of all get an idea of what security arrangements are already in place for both the team and the media. Then we will decide whether to improve the security measures or whether they are sufficient."

Germans also bringing their own security

According to Mr Spahn, “there is little chance the DFB will rely only on local security guards in South Africa” – in fact Germany's federal police force “are in talks with the DFB on the issue.” http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091021/twl-bullet-proof-vests-for-germans-at-wo-3fd0ae9.html

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Analysis, South African war-zone lifestyle:

168,906 people killed im criminal violence since 2002…

WC2010 will draw crime top Cape Town cop warnsI've been adding up all the statistics and have drawn up the following picture of the violent-crime situation since 2002 up to April 2009:

  Murders since 2002 totaled 94,774  -- plus Culpible Homicides totaled another 74,132 -- so added together, a total of 168,906 people were killed in criminal violence from March 2002 to April 2009.

Compare this to one of the worst war-zones: the total people killed in Iraq thus far in ALL their violence in the same period of time was 85,000 people -- and this included the number of trauma-related deaths in mortuaries also from traffic accidents...

The attempted murders in South Africa since 2002 were 132,398 - which means that many lives could still be saved in hospitals.

However with the hospital services deteriorating so fast now, the 'attempted murder' rates will undoubtedly be more rapidly converted to 'murders'.  It’s not known how many of these 132,398 'attempted murders' since 2002, also have died later from their injuries.

Some become so long-term traumatised and paralysed that it takes many months or even years to die... and the police won't change those deaths to 'murders' because, they claim, these deaths 'could be from other non-related medical causes'...

Street robberies: Then look at this horrid picture: the total number of "street robberies" since 2002 were officially recorded at a total 444,305...

  • 1,190,740 violence-driven robberies since 2002…
  • However -- then one must also add to these another 'robbery' category, listed elsewhere, namely the 'aggravated robberies' (identical to street robberies, but then carried out with weapons), which were another 746,435 since 2002...  I cannot figure out why they are listed seperatedly, however if you add these two statistics together,  you get the real picture of the incredibly violent society which South Africa has been turned into since 2002....
  • 444,305 + 746,435 robberies equals 1,190,740 violence-driven robberies -- and in a society with 47-million people that is an incredibly harrowing statistic. 

And there’s also a strong impression among many victims that these criminal attacks are driven by racial hatred, since the vast majority (90%) of all the criminals are blacks, 8,3% of these crimes are carried out by 'Cape coloured' gangs, the remaining 0,7%  by Asians and Whites combined, according to the Institute of Security Studies.

  • (In South Africa, culpible homicides do not include those deaths registered by the traffic authorities and related to negligence or willful violence in traffic accidents... )

Racial abuse often shouted during violent crimes by black criminals:

One can easily imagine why many of those victims might perceive this crime wave as being targetted against them for racial reasons, especially if they get racial abuse shouted at them during these crimes...

Attacks against unarmed families by black gangs inside their homes: And the racial angle is definitely being reinforced even more by the incredible terror endured by so many South African families inside their homes:

  • from those statistics it's clear that the most-targetted areas in 'residential homes robberies'   are those regions occupied by'white' families, especially in Gauteng province such as Sandton – where the Dutch football team is going to be housed…

"Residential robberies"  -- which are direct attacks against at-home families by gang s-- were 9,351 in 2002 and have soared to a whacking 18,298 by April 2009 -- and 90% were carried out by black youth-gangs operating in heavily-armed, organised rape/murder gangs of five or more, the ISS describes them as 'militia gangs'-- which are targetting families inside their homes:

  • add them all up and you get a total of 74,595 of these attacks against families since 2002... small wonder that more than 1,2-million of South Africa’s top-skilled young whites have already left the country permanently with their families…

Also, according to the analysis by the Institute of Security Studies about this specific crime-statistic, the homes most targetted were "working-class to upper-class homes in residential neighbourhoods in Gauteng province which suburbs are overwhelmingly occupied by white families. These include the great many attacks against the working-class Afrikaners living on the smallholdings of greater Pretoria, Randburg/Honeydew and the Vaal triangle, and also include the heavily-secured fortresses in the elite, 'white' upperclass suburb of Sandton...

So the ISS confirmed::

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Dutch ‘Orange-legion’ ignores security warnings:

South Africa cannot be protected warns Flemish news media 

 

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