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Cruel attack on 5-member Free State family

Van Vuuren family assaulted by 6-member black male gang with knives, shovels

Van Vuuren Marthinus and family beaten up Jagersfontein six man black gang March 23 2010 2010-03-23 The five-member Afrikaner family Van Vuuren was brutally attacked by a six-man gang of black males who beat up patriarch Boet,80,  wife Francina, 77, wheelchair-bound brothers Marius, 44 and Marthinus, 35 (left) and nephew Juan, 13. The attack on Sunday-night was so relentless that blood coated the walls and floors of the homestead. Mrs Francina van Vuuren has been left in a coma.

The brothers are in wheelchairs because Marius was disabled by a spinar viral infection – and Marthinus was injured in a car accident. “It was like something out of a horror movie,’ said Johan van Vuuren after five of his loved ones were so brutally assaulted in their Harrington Street home. The attackers launched ruthless assaults on the Afrikaners with shovels and knives.

Johan was at work in the logistics department of Grootvlei Prison near Bloemfontein when he received the shock call and rushed home to Jagersfontein – but was unprepared for the carnage which met him. “Blood was everywhere against the walls and the floors, and the house contents were turned upside down,’ he said.

The family had just finished watching TV-news when old Mrs van Vuuren opened the front door for the dogs – and the attack gang stormed in, grabbing the old woman as a ‘buffer’. His dad always carries a .22 peashooter-pistol with him and wanted to shoot the man holding his wife – but was terrified of hitting her,’ said Johan. In the melee, the family members all were beaten and stabbed with knives and shovels, and kicked. “Marius was beaten from his wheelchair with a shovel’ said Johan. Boet had a a finger broken when an attacker wrestled him for the .22 and he was forced to open the registered gun-safe where about $3500 was stolen.’

Said Marthinus from his hospital bed at the National Hospital in Bloemfontein: “This isn’t human.’ Mrs Francina van Vuuren was beaten into a coma and is in the intensive-care unit of Pelonomi hospital – where Marius is also being treated for a broken left arm. The teenager Juan collapsed in shock and was rushed to Jagersfontein hospital. And dad Boet was treated for his injuries and has now moved to another house in town. “He doesn’t want to live in that attack house any longer’ said Johan.

“Nobody was arrested. Police detective-inspector Poena Rodgers can be contacted for more information at telephone 082-466-8479 or inspector Tiekie Ontong of the Jagersfontein police. http://www.volksblad.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2114/4b91016499a04529b738a9279c961869/23-03-2010-02-02/Gesin_wreed_aangerand

Afrikaans primary school  rugby-team robbed by armed gang at a KZN petrol station:

  • Yet a local police inspector sat on his duff and wouldn't leave his safe little police station right next to the crime scene…

2010-03-22 Durban. –A police-inspector manning a satellite office near a petrol-station at the KwaZulu southcoast was blissfully asleep while a teacheer and his team of primary school children were robbed at gun-point on the nearby parking lot.

Teacher Japie Visser of the North West province’s Swartruggens “Combined’ school near Rustenburg had stopped with the  under/13 rugby team to rest at an Ultra City fueling station along the Ns highway close to Umgababa south of Amanzimtoto. The team was encourate to the Sportweni sports academy near Port Shepstone and he was tired, needed a rest. So they pitched their tent at the petrol station’s lawn, said Visser. Some of the boys were kicking around a ball when three armed black gunmen stormed over, pushed a 9mm police gun in his back, demanded money; while others held up the boys at gunpoint, taking their cellphones, clothes and bank-cards.  And it took ‘a long while’ before they were able to wrench the lone policeman doing ‘duty’ at the satellite police post right next door to come outside. “When he did finally emerge he looked rather disheveled,’ said Visser.

However he was full of praise for the police dog unit which showed up quick as a flash with a detective shortly after the alert went out – even though the search for the attackers was unsuccessful. The N2 highway around the Umgababa region was infamous a few years back for the many attacks on motorists by robbers who also threw stones at the cars. The attacks ceased when police’s highway patrols started concentrating on the area. Police superintendent Vincent Mdunge confirmed that they had opened a docket for the armed robbery. He also said that ‘the satellite station is manned 24/7' and ‘as soon as somebody complains we will investigate…’ Visser says he can’t be bothered to do so because the dog-unit response was so fast. And next time they will make certain to rest at a different site rather than the lawn next to a police station. http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/5d3d8d7e5e2846e0a5c26a6921ff926f/22-03-2010-10-16/Rowers_oorval_laerskoolspan_by_Ultra_City

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