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Crime report Jan 23 2010

Among the many people who died violent deaths today were two Afrikaner farmers, a Kempton Park medical doctor, an Afrikaner dad who died after a dog attack, a print journalist found dead in the Lowveld; a Butterworth robber; a mystery man whose body was pulled from Durban’s heavily-polluted Blue Lagoon… also, gutsy undercover drugs-trade cop Sarie Meiring is left to rot in a Senegal prison by the SA police service… An average of 89 people a day die violent deaths each day in murders and homicides

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2010_01_23 Lavender-oil cultivator Ernest Gieseke, 69, killed, Ficksburg, farm Good Hope, three questioned

23 January 2010, Free State police were questioning three men on Saturday afternoon in connection with the murder of a Ficksburg farmer. Farmer Ernest Gieseke, 69,’s wife Dorothy was alone in the homestead when she was surprised by three men armed with a firearm and screwdriver. Mosupa said the woman  pressed the panic button inside the house and the three suspects ran away without hurting her. Police said when the woman went outside to look for her husband she found him dead. He earlier went outside to feed animals and water some plants. Mosupa said a blood covered stone was found at the scene with which the attackers hid Ernest Gieseke, 69, on the head. "His throat was also cut with a sharp object." Mosupa said a search for the attackers started immediately and three males between the age of 16 and 30, were found not far from the farm. Police are still looking for more suspects in the case. Another farmer in the Gumtree-district, Anton Kok, said the death of Gieseke was a huge loss to the community. "He was an outstanding person and a great gentleman in the community. Ficksburg’s economy is based chiefly on mixed agriculture, concentrating mainly on asparagus, cherries and deciduous fruit. Other crops are farmed on a smaller scale. At present there is renewed attention being payed to apples, with more farmers than ever planting apple trees." He said Gieseke farmed with lavender, extracted oils, cultivated berries which customers could come and harvest themselves on the farm and cattle.  http://www.thestar.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20100123180040420C214805

2010_01_23 Johannes Venter, 64, murdered Middelburg farm, wife injured – nothing robbed.

Radio Sonder Grense reports on January 23 2010 that 64-year-old farmer Johannes Venter was shot dead inside his homestead near Middelburg, Mpumalanga and his wife was injured in her left arm. The couple’s son was alerted when he heard his parents screaming before shots were fired. Nothing was robbed. The killers gained access by breaking through a bedroom window. They fled and police have mounted a search, said the Afrikaans-language news broadcaster in its 13:00 broadcast on January 23 2010 http://www.rsg.co.za/nuusbulletins.asp

Well-known Lowveld print journalist found dead in car

23 January 2010 - A well-known print journalist was found dead in his car in Lowveld, Mpumalanga on Saturday, the SABC reported.
The man's name would be released once his family was notified.The car was found on a farm road near Kaapsehoop. A swimming pool pipe was found connected from the car's exhaust to the window. Sapa http://www.thestar.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20100123194751464C711272

 

Kempton Park medical doctor shot dead – no apparent robbery…

23 January 2010  Kempton Park  - An unnamed 55-year-old doctor was shot and killed in Kempton Park on Friday night, Johannesburg paramedics said.  Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha said it was believed the doctor went to lock his kitchen door around 20:00 when he was attacked by ‘several gunmen’. Netcare 911 paramedics arrived on scene and found the doctor lying in the courtyard just outside the kitchen door. It’s not known if anything was robbed. ‘Gunman also shot in the leg by his comrade…’ They raced over to treat the man but on examination found that he had been fatally wounded. "One of the suspects was wounded by his fellow gunman in the fracas. Police arrested the wounded suspect some metres away from the crime scene. Paramedics found the wounded man lying in a prostrate position on the roadway with a gunshot wound to his leg," said Botha. After being stabilised the suspect also was transported under guard to an area hospital for  treatment.  http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/5bba2f5e4c7c48b6ab735fd899286460/23-01-2010-07-31/Joburg_doctor_shot_dead

Carelse Jacques 40 dead after dog attack by American fighting dog from street Jacques Carelse, 40, dies from dog-attack, Rynfield, Benoni

PICTURE: 2010-01-23  Jacques Carelse, 40, who died several hours after he was savaged in a cruel dog attack in Rynfield, Benoni by an American fighting dog which had stormed onto their erf from the street and attacked the family poodle/ Mr Carelse tried to save the family dog when he was bitten. The Afrikaner father died of traumatic shock several hours later. It’s not known if police have arrested the owner of the dog and charged him with culpible homicide as yet…   http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/6291584678f44035aa58e4a778c5cc38/23-01-2010-01-52/Man_sterf_na_hond_hom_pak

Butterworth, Port Elizabeth man shoots robber in self-defence

23 January 2010 Eastern Cape police have opened an inquest docket after a would-be thief was shot and killed by the owner of the house he was in the process of robbing, they said on Saturday. "A Butterworth man was woken up by some noise in the early hours of Saturday morning. He saw a man had broken into his house and was loading items in a wheelbarrow. The home owner, who was armed, shouted for the man to surrender," said Captain Jackson Manatha. He said the man lunged forward with a knife instead of surrendering. "At that stage the home owner shot at the man in self defence," said Manatha.http://www.thestar.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20100123165910648C189677  also today: Man hacked to death with axe in Tuleni village, East Cape and Protesters stone car in North West

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Marike de Klerk ‘s ex-body guard, undercover-cop Sarie Meiring, left to rot in Senegal jail for doing her job

Former top cop cries foul from jail Jan232010 SatStar SarieMeiringUndercoverDrugMuleArrested Mrs Sarie Meiring, an ex-bodyguard of the late, (murdered) SA first lady Marike de Klerk, has been  left high and dry by her South African Police Service handler after she was caught as an undercover-operative with 6kg of cocaine in Dakar, Senegal. The claims are given credence in conversations between a friend of Sarie Meiring and her police handler, as well as a series of SMS communications which the Saturday Star has seen.

Meiring, 45, was apparently undercover as a drug mule in a transcontinental narcotics operation when she was arrested at Dakar International Airport on July 30.
She was on her way to South Africa after collecting the cocaine consignment on behalf of a Nigerian syndicate in South America. Her handler, an operative from the police's Crime Intelligence Gathering Unit (CIGU), whose name is known to the Saturday Star, confirms he was aware of the operation and that Meiring was in constant contact with him as it unfolded.Meiring, who lived in Kyalami, north of Joburg, flew from Joburg to Dakar on July 18, then on to Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina before returning to Africa again via Dakar, where she was arrested with the cocaine. It also emerges from records that Meiring expressed concern for her personal safety as the drug-run unfolded, but was repeatedly reassured by her handler that everything was under control and that she would be looked after. It is unclear why he changed his mind, but as Meiring prepared to leave for Dakar, the handler advised her to pull out of the operation. By that time, however, it was too late and Meiring said it was no longer an option to withdraw. Two weeks later she was taken into custody by the Senegalese police.Her handler says, in a recording, that the CIGU is ‘ unable to intervene as it could cause a diplomatic incident if it was admitted that South African law enforcement authorities were conducting operations on foreign soil without the host country's permission’. "They will say we are sending couriers, drug smugglers. They will want to know what we are doing with the drugs." A former intelligence operative and handler of undercover agents said: "In the absence of mutual undercover agreements, the undercover agent enjoys no protection whatever. "But getting the authorisations involves a lot of paperwork, and often compromises the security of the operation, so often the handlers don't bother; they just hope for the best; hope the whatsit doesn't hit the fan... like it has this time around." http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20100123073540900C192909

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Mystery body pulled from Durban Blue Lagoon

Durban park beachfront Pic by Snowy Smith Death of Durban rageblog 2010-01-23 DURBAN A male corpse has been recovered from Durban's Blue Lagoon, after fisherman discovered the body of the mystery man in the early hours of the morning. 

Netcare911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks said paramedics were called to the scene after a fisherman found a body floating in the lagoon on Saturday morning.It was discovered that the body had been in the water for several days before it was found. Police were piecing together clues to trace the man's identity and his next of kin.

Durban’s Blue Lagoon beach area has become a very dangerous place, according to a recent report by the Democratic Alliance’s ward councillor Avrille Coen. (click on picture for many more details).

She has repeatedly urged increased visible policing patrols, adopting a zero-tolerance programme of enforcement and maximising the use of closed-circuit television. She said the ANC had however vetoed these motions, saying that ‘the situation was well under control’.

Coen said the area between Blue Lagoon and the military museum was worst hit by crime caused by out-of-control beach parties.

"When I went to inspect it, the area was littered with broken alcohol bottles and rubbish. People were drinking in broad daylight and, while there were scattered metro policemen, nothing was done." http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/1d9591ff403c4bd787ecfa85f84faeb6/23-01-2010-12-17/Mystery_body_pulled_from_lagoon

Christmas massacre suspect ‘escapes’

22 January 2010   KwaZulu police are searching for a man who escaped during a police-shoot out on Friday morning in which three men had died: they were suspected of carryng out the Ntuzuma Christmas massacre were six people of the same clan were murdered.

Six people were killed: Inanda Radio-FM presenter Ntombikayise Ngwane, 24, her tribal relatives and friends Mtuseni Gumede-Mlanduli, 24, Njabulo Dlamini, 24, Mxolisi Sangweni, 25, S'mangaliso Nkosi, 24, and Neil Magwaza, 21; and three more injured by three men who stormed into their home with R5 military assault rifles and AK-47 carbines. SAPS Director Mrs Phindile Radebe claimed on Jan 22 2010 in a statement to the Natal Mercury: “Two of the arrested people were linked to the Ntuzuma Christmas massacre and one was wanted for hijacking and cash-in-transit.”

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Constitutional expert Bertus de Villiers fled to Australia

 

Afrikaner emigrants are different … they never wanted to leave the country of their birth’

2010-01-21 by Constitutional expert Bertus de Villiers - now is a member of the Bench in Perth, West Australia, who writes:

Springbok over the heart Wallaby on the other side rugby jersey Bertus de Villiers SA expat Perth... “Few subjects upset people as much as emigration. The advantages, the disadvantages. The longings, the new identity. The hatred, the love. The recriminations, the dream. In the ten years since my emigration, I have spoken to hundreds of emigrants to find out what motivated them, what’s going on inside their heads. I tried to get past the stories of violence to probe the underlying psychological motivation.

‘The gap between what white people expected to be happening in the New South Africa, and what is actually happening, simply remains too large. In the cities progressing to revolution, they ‘rebelled’ by leaving.

White people expected South Africa to somehow be ‘different’ from the rest of Africa; that it would be better; that white and black could really enjoy a place in the sun together.

“But it isn’t. And now they’re angry. Hurt, disappointed, rejected, gatvol. And their ‘revolution’ is to move, because it doesn’t help them to fight. It has nothing to do with racism or bitterness. It has everything to do with unfulfilled, subjective expectations. While the Constitution is a world-class document, the manner in which it is being managed repeatedly turns into a world-class mess.

“Within a decade, white people became bywoners in the land of their birth. Now they prefer to become bywoners in other countries which offer them more chances and also offer them acceptance.

The pushing-power moving people to leave South Africa is stronger than the drawing power to the land of their choice. White people leave South Africa with pain. With hatred even.

And it takes a long time to get over this. This makes us (Afrikaners) different from other emigrants. I meet hundreds of Brits, Italians and Kiwis who emigrated because they wanted to, not because they had to.

Yet in my past decade in Australia, I have not met one white (South African) person who wanted to be in Australia out of their own free will. They all would much rather be in Pretoria, Cape Town and Lichtenburg, go to church Sundays, go to Loftus (rugby grounds) and make a difference in their community.

But they feel kicked out. Their skills, expertise and the love for their country are treated with deep contempt. And another country is courting them. It’s like a man who neglects his wife. She will leave him for someone else who makes her feel like a woman.

And once the Boers arrive in Australia and note the appreciation of the people, they fall madly in love with their new country. That’s why the chance that people will remigrate from places such as Australia is about zero.

The lessons for policy-makers is that it is possible to slow down emigration. But forget trying to get back those who are in this country. Rather try and keep those who are still there – by giving them hope. A home. Recognition, appreciation.

Afrikaans is the key:

I once was with prof Pieter de Lange when he told senior ANC-guys before the organisation was unbanned: ““Don’t touch Afrikaans. If you touch it, Afrikaners will lose their fear of English and leave (like the English have done).”

Needless to say, they ignored this tip. And the results are clear. Afrikaners don’t fear English any longer. They arrive in Australia on Friday and start working on Monday. They aren’t ashamed of their accents any longer.

They talk Afrikaans at home but study and work in English. Just as they were in fact already doing in South Africa.

Now they just want to survive

What is a human being without a dream? White people now experience how their dreams about the future, about their advancement, about their children’s future opportunities, have been stolen.

“Of course one can become increasingly windgat about the grand holiday home or the car – but those are not the dreams a guy needs. You don’t want to crawl on your belly to get your dream; you don’t want to bribe a guy for your dream. You don’t want to say ‘comrade’ to a guy, or laugh when he makes stupid jokes, and you don’t want to keep silent about his gigantic mistakes because you want to be politically correct.

People want to know when you can sit back and start planning for your future. You want to know that if your child works hard, he can get out on top. But many have stopped having such dreams. Now, they just want to survive. South Africa has become a dream-breaker for many.

SA brainpower in Perth is formidable

The South African brainpower which has been collected by Perth, is incredible. There’s enough SA engineers to build an entire country. Enough teachers to educate children at hundreds of schools, enough doctors to get Nr 1 Military Hospital kick-started again. Enough nurses to populate countless clinics. And none of them wanted to be in Perth. But all their needs for recognition, for self-fulfilment, are fullfilled. They get acknowledged. They get advanced. They survive. They grow. And they are secure.

Rugby is the new patriotism.

Springbok over the heart Wallaby on the other side rugby jersey Bertus de Villiers SA expat Perth... People want to love their country. A land is more than just a place to stay. they call it patriotism. White people’s patriotism was taken away from them because they aren’t allowed to participate in their new country. Their cultural holidays are treated with disdain. Their language is back in the kitchen... They don’t know the names of their Ministers. They don’t know the (new) names of their towns. Their fears are being dismissed as ‘racism’. Their criticism is seen as bitterness. They are being turned into people who are ashamed of their own history.

And they have become visitors to Africa. That’s why they are nearly perverse when it comes to rugby. It’s the new patriotism.

Picture:I have a rugby-jersey which is half-Springbok and half-Wallaby jersey. (picture) When I wear it to the Subiaco-stadium in Perth the guys laugh and say; ‘mate you have got your bets hedged.’ At Loftus (in Pretoria) a guy snarls at me: ‘take off that f…ng jersey or I will donner you.’

Globalisation

The entire world is on the move. That’s different from two decades ago. It has become very normal to migrate. The emigration-process from South Africa however, is different from this migration-pattern in four different ways:

  • White people don’t leave South Africa temporarily. They go, never to return.
  • Those who emigrate sell everything. Not one asset remains behind for which they would need to return. That’s disinvestment on a massive scale.
  • The numbers leaving South Africa are proportionally very high. One-quarter of the entire white population aged 15 years or higher has already left. Any Western country would be forced to its knees by such a mass-exodus.
  • The tendency is that entire nuclear families and extended families leave the country of their birth.

Love/hate relationship between those who stay and those who left

Another unique thing about the South African migration pattern is the love/hate relationship between those who stay behind and those who leave.

Not one other country in the world is so pre-occupied with the emigration-debate, whether it’s in the letters-columns of Beeld newspaper or the sad stories from Sarie relating tales from people who miss the African sunset, or report about people eating biltong in Sydney, salted with their tears…

Other countries don’t talk about emigration that way – New Zealand, Britain, Italy. Nobody talks about it. Only in South Africa does the subject sweep up such massive emotions of hatred, anger, fury, and also jealousy and longing. I don’t know why but I know it’s weird!

Many expats from other countries become a source of economic ties between the old country and the new country. However when it comes to South Africa, there’s no new advantage between the expats and the old country except a Afrikaans CDs and Rooibos-tea. It’s almost as if the emigrants are already written off.

Where are the leaders?

And one thing which really makes me hopeless ab out the future is the lack of leadership in the new generation (of Afrikaners) in South Africa. The old leaders struggle with the past and try and explain that they haven’t given up and sold out. The new leaders drink beer in their lapas and try and remain as small a target as possible so that they won’t endanger their contracts or their jobs.  Everybody is lying low.

Leadership amongst whites and especially among Afrikaners is thinner than paper. There’s not one general. On the contrary there’s not even a bleddie corporal. The troopies wander about and everyone goes in their own direction.

A few years ago there were about 5-million white people in South Africa – about 12% of the total population. Now there’s about 4-million – about 9% of the population. Before long, there will only be one- or two-million white people left: the numbers will drop because of emigration, deaths, low-birth rates and low immigration (of whites) into South Africa.

Crime report Jan 23 2010

20090123 Johannes Venter, 64, murdered Middelburg farm, wife injured – nothing robbed.

Radio Sonder Grense reports on January 23 2010 that 64-year-old farmer Johannes Venter was shot dead inside his homestead near Middelburg, Mpumalanga and his wife was injured in her left arm. The couple’s son was alerted when he heard his parents screaming before shots were fired. Nothing was robbed. The killers gained access by breaking through a bedroom window. They fled and police have mounted a search, said the Afrikaans-language news broadcaster in its 13:00 broadcast on January 23 2010 http://www.rsg.co.za/nuusbulletins.asp

Kempton Park medical doctor shot dead – no apparent robbery…

2010-01-23  Kempton Park  - An unnamed 55-year-old doctor was shot and killed in Kempton Park on Friday night, Johannesburg paramedics said.  Netcare 911 spokesman Chris Botha said it was believed the doctor went to lock his kitchen door around 20:00 when he was attacked by ‘several gunmen’. Netcare 911 paramedics arrived on scene and found the doctor lying in the courtyard just outside the kitchen door. It’s not known if anything was robbed.

  • ‘Gunman also shot in the leg by his comrade…’ They raced over to treat the man but on examination found that he had been fatally wounded. "One of the suspects was wounded by his fellow gunman in the fracas. Police arrested the wounded suspect some metres away from the crime scene. Paramedics found the wounded man lying in a prostrate position on the roadway with a gunshot wound to his leg," said Botha. After being stabilised the suspect also was transported under guard to an area hospital for  treatment.

UK health-care company earns huge profits from saving SA crime-victims: 56% increase in its ICU-admissions for ‘body-injuries’:

Netcare, whose paramedics had rushed to the aid of this Kempton Park doctor, operates the largest private hospital group, primary care network and medical emergency service in South Africa. In addition, Netcare also is the country’s  largest private trainer of emergency personnel and healthcare workers. Their latest annual report showed a dramatic 56% increase in Intensive Care Unit admissions for “Injuries to the body” since 2007 to their private hospitals, which represents both accidents as well as crime-related injuries of people with gainful employment -  i.e. those who can afford health-care insurance. The UK company is coining it from its South African operations, which account for 46% of all its profits: and they registered R10,3-million in profits during its last reporting year (2008)  http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/5bba2f5e4c7c48b6ab735fd899286460/23-01-2010-07-31/Joburg_doctor_shot_dead

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Mystery body pulled from Durban Blue Lagoon

Durban park beachfront Pic by Snowy Smith Death of Durban rageblog 2010-01-23 DURBAN A male corpse has been recovered from Durban's Blue Lagoon, after fisherman discovered the body of the mystery man in the early hours of the morning. 

Netcare911 spokesperson Jeff Wicks said paramedics were called to the scene after a fisherman found a body floating in the lagoon on Saturday morning.It was discovered that the body had been in the water for several days before it was found. Police were piecing together clues to trace the man's identity and his next of kin.

Durban’s Blue Lagoon beach area has become a very dangerous place, according to a recent report by the Democratic Alliance’s ward councillor Avrille Coen. (click on picture for many more details).

She has repeatedly urged increased visible policing patrols, adopting a zero-tolerance programme of enforcement and maximising the use of closed-circuit television. She said the ANC had however vetoed these motions, saying that ‘the situation was well under control’.

Coen said the area between Blue Lagoon and the military museum was worst hit by crime caused by out-of-control beach parties.

"When I went to inspect it, the area was littered with broken alcohol bottles and rubbish. People were drinking in broad daylight and, while there were scattered metro policemen, nothing was done." http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/1d9591ff403c4bd787ecfa85f84faeb6/23-01-2010-12-17/Mystery_body_pulled_from_lagoon

Christmas massacre suspect ‘escapes’

22 January 2010   KwaZulu police are searching for a man who escaped during a police-shoot out on Friday morning in which three men had died: they were suspected of carryng out the Ntuzuma Christmas massacre were six people of the same clan were murdered.

Six people were killed: Inanda Radio-FM presenter Ntombikayise Ngwane, 24, her tribal relatives and friends Mtuseni Gumede-Mlanduli, 24, Njabulo Dlamini, 24, Mxolisi Sangweni, 25, S'mangaliso Nkosi, 24, and Neil Magwaza, 21; and three more injured by three men who stormed into their home with R5 military assault rifles and AK-47 carbines. SAPS Director Mrs Phindile Radebe claimed on Jan 22 2010 in a statement to the Natal Mercury: “Two of the arrested people were linked to the Ntuzuma Christmas massacre and one was wanted for hijacking and cash-in-transit.”

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