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Hundred farmers protest at Senekal, FS law court

Gruesome meathook murders of Van Zyl couple; farmers ask: “where are the news media whenever farmers are murdered?’

2010-01-09 SENEKAL, FREE STATE.More than 100 upset Free State farmers protested outside the Senekal magistrate’s court during the first appearance of two black murder-suspects who were arrested for the gruesome ‘meathook’ murders of Afrikaner farmers Koos and Retha van Zyl, 63 and 66, on their farm Poortjie between Senekal and Steynsrus on Jan 7 2010.

“Where are the news media today? Where are the TV-cameras? If a farmer were to kill a farm-worker, there would at least have been government ministers at the court today. But murders of farmers are just too commonplace,’ said Fanie Ferreira, chairman of the Emdonia farmers’ cooperative. He said there is a strong feeling of dismay among the farmers. “Those guys are angry,’ he said.

Appearing in court were two black South African citizens, Ndaba (29)and  Pule Jacob Mpanyane (22) on charges of armed robbery, motor vehicle theft, livestock theft and the double murder of the Van Zyl couple. They were not asked to plead, the case was postponed to 1 February 2010 while the suspects would be seeking legal-aid assistance. They remain in police custody until their bail-application hearing.

The Van Zyl couple were assaulted most cruelly with a meathook before they were shot dead with their own shotgun before fleeing in the couple’s daughter’s car. Alert police officers spotted the car, which had been reported stolen, and arrested the two suspects. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/89d07c7f2d4b405e837be3ef2541b315/08-01-2010-12-38/Boer,_vrou_geskiet_n%C3%A1_vleishaak-houe

Ferreira said the worst part of the tragedy was to witness the suffering of the couple’s daughters. Estie, a Ventersburg teacher and younger daughter Marietjie, a candidate-lawyer in Bloemfontein, were also present at the court. Their brother Erik was expected to arrive soon from the United States of America, where he works, they said. The couple’s burial takes place from 11am on Tuesday on the farm Bethsaida. A memorial service will be held at 12:00 at the NG (Dutch-Reformed) Church North, opposite the Paul Erasmus Afrikaans High School in Senekal, and will be led by Rev Pieter van Heerden, said the family in an interview with Volksblad newspaper.

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There have been many gruesome farm murders on Free State farms of late: such as the following:

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Visagie couple murdered on FS farm Dec 16 2009
20091216 Hennie, 55 and Magda Visagie, murdered on Free State farm, found dumped in North West

Visagie Hennie and wife Magda murdered TauLekoaMineCarpenterVierfonteinFarmOwnersWeltevredeDec152009Vierfontein (North Free State). Dec 16 2009.  The bodies of Free State mineshaft-carpenter Hennie Visagie, and of his wife Magda were found dumped along a North West province road by the SAPS --  near Orkney and Potchefstroom -- after an alarm was raised by a fuel-pump attendant. He alerted the SAPS after a man in a ‘bloodied’ BMW tried to purchase fuel with a pin-card – but didn’t know the pin-code, report Tom de Wet en Johan Brits of Volksblad newspaper.

The fuel-pump attendant alerted the police at 03:00 when he also noticed that this man was washing blood from his hands at the petrol-station. The police pulled over the BMW near Fochville, write the journalists. “The inside of the BMW was coated in blood, as was the luggage-compartment, and the vehicle was filled with household-goods and electrical appliances. ‘

The 26-year-old suspect was arrested for questioning while the SAPS traced the car’s ownership to Hennie Visagie, a 55-year-old mineshaft-carpenter at Anglo Ashanti’s Tau Lekoa-mine near Vierfontein in the Free State. The couple lived not too far from the mine in a homestead on the farm Weltevrede.

The suspect -- "described as “a French-speaking 26-year-old man from North Africa”-  admitted that there ‘had been an incident on the farm’. The SAPS called in the dog-unit and police helicopter to mount a search for the Visagie couple, and located Mr Visagie – with a gunshot wound in his head – hidden beneath a blanket on the outskirts of Orkney. The suspect admitted that he had dumped Mrs Visagie’s body along the road outside Potchefstroom, but that he could not remember exactly where. The helicopter search also located her, again with a headshot and hidden beneath a blanket, about 12km outside Potchefstroom.

Their son Frikkie said he couldn’t believe that his parents had to die this cruelly – just for their car and a few household goods. His father’s boss had phoned him on Tuesday at around 12:15 asking why his dad hadn’t shown up for work. The son said he stood outside his parents’ home from 13:00 to 18:00, praying while the police search was going on. Just after 18:00, the SAPS told him that their bodies had been found.

The suspect is described in this report as ‘a French-speaking man from North Africa, who works in a butchery at Orkney, and is  the friend of a young woman who lives in another home on the same farm where the Visagies also lived, and the father of her young child’. There was no forced entry to the Visagie homestead and it is suspected that the couple had opened the door to the suspect, who may have been known to them.  http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/c3d06877ea3d44a3abf4fd47aa2f4d3f/16-12-2009-10-33/%E2%80%99n_PIN-penarie_%E2%80%93_%C3%A9n_sy_BMW_is_vol_bloed_ Farm murders – details, photos, sources 2008/2009 S.Africa

’Kill Boer Kill Farmer’ANC-slogan daubed with the blood of two tortured Afrikaans murder-victims’ on homestead walls…

KillTheBoere 20090401 Alice, 77, daughter Helen Lotter 57, tortured to death in muti-killing, “Kill-Boer” slogan daubed with victims’ blood on Allenridge, FS homestead wall

If any more proof were needed that a great number of these murders against Afrikaner families are racist hate-crimes targetting this small very visible minority; the Bloemfontein police reported in March 2009 that the hate-slogan Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer was painted on the walls of a homestead – and the murderers used the blood of Alice Lotter, 77 and daughter Helen, 57, after they were tortured to death:

    The cruel torture murder of Alice Lotter, 77, and her daughter  Helen, 57, caused a wave of abhorrance amongst the white community because of its incredible cruelty. The women, both frail, were  tortured to death at their farm in Allenridge near Welkom in the Free State on March 6 2009.

    Stabbed in vagina, anus with broken glass shards:

    According to forensic evidence, the Lotter mother and daughter had died excruciatingly painful deaths:  first tortured by being stabbed with broken glass bottles into their vaginas. One of the women also had her breasts cut off while she was still alive . Both women’s blood also had been used to paint anti-Afrikaner hate OdendaalsrustFarmersProtestAgainstMurdersApril192009courtslogans on the walls of their homestead.They were then allegedly killed by strangulation: i.e. they were hanged. 

    In response, Odendaalsrust farmers held a demonstration outside the law courts, left,  where the accused murderers were appearing with a reenactment of the way these women had died.

    The demonstration drew condemnation from the Afrikaans news media ‘for its gruesome nature’.  However this reenactment wasn’t nearly as gruesome and horrid as the torture these women had to endure.

    Afrikaner police officers who investigated this horrific slaughter and had to gather forensic evidence, were also severely traumatised and required trauma counselling. And, despite the fact that the Lotter homestead was only one block away from the police station, no-one inside responded to the screams from these women while they were being slowly tortured to death. Click here for report of Odendaalsrust law court demonstrations. 

    And to her eternal disgrace, the local ANC-mayor had then organised a counter-demonstration against a local white farmer who was appearing in court at the same time of a minor charge -- and has since been acquitted. The mayor totally ignored the horror these two white women had to endure. Cruel torture-murders of two Afrikaans women was muti-harvesting: Read the original story in Afrikaans

    20090401 Jan van Wyk, 82, and Basie Venter, 65, penises mutilated before these two empoverished Afrikaners were killed on Viljoenskroon farms – penises harvested live for ‘traditional medicine’ .

    Genocidal pattern  - the world’s top expert on genocide said the Trauma injuries in these farm attacks ‘show a genocidal pattern’

    Dr Gregory Stanton, the US-based legal expert who founded Genocide Watch after investigating the Cambodia Pol-Pot genocide, said in the SA TV documentary ‘A Bloody Harvest’ – after he had viewed SA police forensic videos of the scenes of such murdered Afrikaner/Boer farm families – that the reasons for these cruel mutilations and the repeated pattern of murderers’ ‘decorating victims’ bodies” (usually with Afrikaans bibles) are warnings that these victims were seen as ‘Inhuman vermin which had to be exterminated’- and that a ‘genocide was already in progress in an advanced stage’ against this small 3-million-strong,  highly visible minority in South Africa. View video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtLmJSQBiwa

    These armed militia-style attacks have become a very clear pattern since 1994 in South Africa: well-organised, armed gangs of young black males go through considerable trouble to break into rural, peri-urban and suburban properties occupied by members of the most visible minority group in South Africa, and which the black population refers to as “Boers” (their generic term for all whites). A total of 74,595 of these attacks have been logged by the SAPS statistics against urban families since 2002 – and 60% were carried out in ‘traditionally white’ suburbs, and on smallholdings/farms mainly occupied by whites. By Dec 16 2009, we logged 3,117 murders on smallholdings, peri-urban regions and on commercial farms since 1994 – whereas the SA government farm-murder statistics claim less than 1,700 murders up to 2006... All these ‘farm-murders’ and attacks against white families in towns, are frequently carried out in execution style: as the details below clearly indicate, however many of these murders also show their genocidal nature cruel tortures and grotesque mutilations carried out by the perpetrators. Yet these are all referred to as ‘just ordinary crimes’ by the SAPS…