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The fracas erupted on Friday-night December 31 2010 when the Laynes couple, their son Adriaan and his fiancee Mrs Martina van der Merwe, 35 and her 16-year-old son were enroute in Rietfontein to Jan Niemand Park, driving on Frates Road, with the elderly Mr Laynes driving his Nissan Maxima passenger car: View ‘Die Moot ‘ region Google map for the route they were on http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/01/disabled-boer-couple-assaulted-by-saps.html http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/922
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DIE MOOT POLICE STATION, Rietfontein, Pretoria. Sixty-nine-year-old frail pensioner Willemina Laynes – whose left foot was amputated in 2010 – had her hip broken in two places and her knee-bone chipped during an assault by the SAPS who then also beat and kicked her husband Willem, 72 and her son Adriaan Strydom, 44.
566 people died in SAPS custody in 2010 alone…
There have been a great many deaths and severe injuries sustained by citizens at the hands of the SA police last year - at least 566 people are known to have died in 2010 alone in SAPS custody, for instance….
Picture: Beeld journalist Fanie van Rooyen and the editoral staff depicted the assaults as a ‘road-rage fracas’ caused by the victims: two defenceless Afrikaner pensioners, one on crutches, pitted against armed police officers: the old man had erupted in anger when his frail and terrified wife, who has an amputated foot and walks with crutches, was allegedly pushed over by a police officer. The frail 69-year-old Mrs Laynes had to be rushed to a public hospital to reset a broken hip while her elderly, beaten up husband and son were held overnight in Die Moot ‘s police cells. The two men were released on $50 bail without formal charges. Mr Strydom and Mr Laynes lodged formal assault complaints against the SAPS.
Mr Strydom told Beeld newspaper that a marked SAPS vehicle had suddenly pushed right in front of his dad’s car at a crossing because they were apprently chasing some unknown counter-traffic driver. The SAPS vehicle then screeched to a sudden halt right in front of the Laynes car. Mr Laynes stopped and then slowly detoured around them and said through his window: ‘You should at least look where you go before you drive.’
‘My dad was calm until the police officer pushed my mother over…’
Said his son: ‘My dad continued driving but the next minute the same SAPS vehicle flashed their lights and ordered my dad to pull over. However there was no place to pull over safely right there at that spot so my dad tried to pull over into Mchael Brink Road. At the crossing the SAPS official climbed from his police vehicle and reached into the car, grabbing my dad’s keys from the ignition. My dad climbed out and tried to grab his keys back. The official then attacked him and started struggling with him. Meanwhile my mother got very scared and climbed from the car with her crutches. The officer then pushed my mother over, she fell and hurt herself and then all hell broke lose. My father was calm until the police officer pushed my mother over.’
‘ My father was kicked into the police van … ’
His father only has the use of one arm due to an old injury, said the son. However with his healthy arm he then hit the two officers at the scene with a crutch. Suddenly more police vehicles showed up and police officers jumped out, started kicking and beating the two men and sprayed them with pepper-spray and handcuffed them. ‘My father struggled to get into the van so they kicked him into it,’ said the son.
The two men were released from police jail with R500 bail ($50). They lodged immediate complaints of assaults against the police members who were allegedly involved in the fracas, confirmed warrant-officer Marinda Swanepoel. She claimed however that the police officers had ‘pulled over the Layne’ vehicle because it was ‘overloaded’ (four adults and a teen in a Nissan Maxima) and didn’t want to pull over right away.’ Neither the Afrikaans newspaper nor the SAPS mentioned whether the Laynes couple and their son faced any official charges.
- http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Polisie-gesin-slaags-20110102
- http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/01/disabled-boer-couple-assaulted-by-saps.html
- http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/view/922
sources and related references:
23 November 2010, Sowetan: 566 deaths in police-custody up to Oct 31 2010…
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Examples of really overloaded vehicles on South African roads:
overloaded bakkie, Krugersdorp, picture Johan Vermeulen July 30 2009
The Star May 14 2009 – 23 people and one goat spill out of overloaded taxi
The Independent, 13 June 2009: One taxi, one driver and 112 passengers
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Pretoria, Die Moot police station map: Phone No.012 353 5300 If calling from outside South Africa: +27 12 353 5300; fax 012 353 5359
If calling from outside South Africa: +27 12 353 5359 Latitude -25.7127° Longitude 28.2162°
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