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News Jan 17 2011

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Summary:  The Sutherland French-survivalist couple who gunned down two cops still on the run; Afrikaans Post Office-mistress Magda Frazer bludgeoned to death by two black males in Highlands North; four suspect attackers of Afrikaner jailer Jannie Brits and Witbank smallholder Gordon Cooke arrested in squatter camp; another of the many petrol-station execution-style murders by black gang which stole nothing; Pretoria prosecutor astonished about honesty of Karoo restaurant cleaner who returned her forgotten wallet; SA minister Nomusa Dube declares war on lightning;

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Magda Frazer, killed with hammer by two black males, Highlands north PO manager, Jan 15 2011

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2011-01-16 Greater Johannesburg - Mrs Magda Frazer, 42, Afrikaans post-office manager at Highlands North in Balfour Shopping Centre, was ruthlessly bludgeoned to death with a hammer on Saturday Jan 15 2011 by two black men who followed the unarmed woman inside just as she was dropped off at work at 06:30 by her husband. SAPS spokesman Philip Maganedisa said one suspect was a parttime worker who was filmed on CCTV killing the white woman with another black man. However, Maganedisa said 'security officials watching on CCTV, 'thought nothing of it when they saw a man unlocking the back door of the post office. They identified the man as a post office worker." Frazer's husband had dropped her at work at 06:30 that day and Maganedisa said she entered through the front door, followed shortly thereafter by her two black murderers. One murderer was clearly identified on the CCTV video as a part-time worker at the PO. Mr Mike Sears from the local community policing organisation CAP said a client alerted security when they could not get inside... "Members of the CAP and the police went to investigate and discovered Mrs Frazer's lifeless body. Closed circuit television cameras in the post office filmed the entire murder”, Sears said. “The video shows Mrs Frazer being repeatedly beaten with a hammer." And one of the two black murderers was clearly identified as a part-time employee at the post office. Maganedisa said the post office's safe was found open and empty. Frazer's personal belongings were also stolen. Written by Salette Cloete and Jani Meyer,Beeld http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Womans-murder-captured-on-CCTV-20110116

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Another petrol-station execution-style murder: this time in Soshanguve Jan152011 

2011-01-16 Fanie van Rooyen, Beeld. SOSHANGUVE, Pretoria. The 35-year-old manager of the Engen-petrol station in Soshanguve, a township northwest of Pretoria, was murdered in cold blood by four armed black males who arrived at 8:30am in a luxurious silver BMW without number-plates. They gunned down the unnamed manager down. SAPS Dumisani Ndlazi said the men then left in their posh car without stealing anything whatsoever. The manager was rushed to the nearby hospital but died from his wounds. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vier-boewe-skiet-man-by-vulstasie-20110116

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SAPS w/o Glenwald du Toit, shot Jan132011 by French survivalist-cultist couple at Sutherland farm talks of ordeal http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cop-shot-by-cultists-speaks-1.1012732

 SUTHERLAND FRENCH ARMED COUPLE MANHUNT JAN152011 COP GLENWALL DU TOIT SHOT January 17 2011 SUTHERLAND. Warrant Officer Glenwall du Toit, left, shot in the spine during their attempt to confiscate an illegal arms-cache from a French survivalist-couple on a farm near Sutherland, is recovering in N1 City Hospital. Picture: Ayanda Ndamane. The policeman - who survived a deadly shooting at the hands of a middle-aged French survivalist-couple on the run, told of laying on the ground; praying his attacker would not finish him off. Speaking from the intensive care unit at N1 City Hospital in Cape Town, Warrant Officer Glenwall du Toit ‘was lucky to still be alive’. His colleague student constable Jacob Boleme, was killed on Hardie farm, 35km from Sutherland, on Friday. Philippe and Agnis Neniere, the middle-aged French couple are still evading a large manhunt with two helicopters and trackers in the mountainous region. “After he shot me in the back, he kept firing at the tyres of our cars. I lay on the ground, afraid I was going to die,” said Du Toit, 42. Du Toit said the shooting took place when he and three fellow officers went to the farm of Gerhardus du Plessis to collect unlicensed firearms from the farmer’s tenants, the Neniere couple.

“They wanted to have an underground bunker built… ‘

The Nenieres are self-admitted survival experts who are well-acquainted with the region they’d lived and explored for the past 12 years. They said they belonged to the Ramtha School of Enlightenment cult which believes that the end of the world will come in 2012. SUTHERLAND FRENCH ARMED COUPLE MANHUNT JAN152011 CULTISTSThe couple lived for free on the farm but were being legally evicted because the Du Plessis family bcame frightened by their bizarre behaviour. When the officers went to the farm on Friday they were accompanied by the Du Plessis’ two sons, Cobus and Jaen. Du Toit said they arrived and found the firearms without any problem. But when they were loading the guns into a police vehicle, Philippe, believed to be in his 60s, told them he was not feeling well. He asked for a few minutes and then turned away from them, said du Toit. “He turned around and suddenly I heard gun shots. We split in different directions.”

As he was running for cover, Du Toit was shot in the back. “I jumped over a gate but I had run about 10 metres when I felt sharp pain in my back. It was one shot and I fell.” Du Toit said the man “fired a lot of shots” but he had no idea his colleague, Student Constable Jacob Boleme, had been shot. “When I was being taken away from the scene, I looked around and saw my colleague had been shot,” he said. Boleme, from Soutpan in the Free State, died on the scene.

Farm wife Joeline du Plessis said: “In the last two years, the Neniere couple got a little strange. They wanted to have an underground bunker, and asked Cobus’s dad about it and obviously he just laughed at them.” She said Philippe had this year come to town, selling utensils and electrical equipment to a trader. “They looked skinny and looked like they weren’t eating much. When he was at a braai he (Philippe) would put on long rubber gloves and goggles over his eyes. It seemed like they weren’t going to last a day outside. They were at my wedding in 2008 - we called them our friends,” Jolene said. Dave O’Hearns, owner of Primrose Cottage guest house, said he had not seen much of the couple in his seven years in Sutherland. It was probably four years ago when he last saw them in a local supermarket, he said. Sutherland police spokesman Hendrik Swart yesterday said they were still searching for the’ heavily armed, slender, grey-haired’ couple believed to have been wearing khaki or camouflage when they fled on foot into the hills. Two helicopters, police trackers and a large police ground crew had searched for them after the shooting.http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cop-shot-by-cultists-speaks-1.1012732

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Four blacks arrested for murder of Afrikaner jailer Jannie Brits, Dec 17 2010 Paxton Prison grounds Witbank –

  • also suspected of leaving Gordon Cooke, 27, permanently paralysed attack on 26 Dec 2010, Jackaroo smallholdings

Cooke Gordon paralysed after attack Witbank Dec272010_fianceeBiancaBarrand 2011-01-16 Buks Viljoen, Beeld. WITBANK. Four blacks suspected of murdering Afrikaner jailer Jannie Brits on Dec 17 2010 at his home on the grounds of Paxton-Prison prison have been arrested, reports warrant-officer Zero Masango. They are also suspects in the vicious armed attacks targetting residents at the nearby Jackaroo smallholdings where 27-year-old English-speaking white South African Gordon Cooke was left permanently paralysed when he was shot in the neck at midnight on Dec 26 2010. Cooke now is under 24-hour care at the Muelmed rahabilitation centre in Pretoria. His fiancee Bianca, pregnant with their second child, now has to somehow survive without the family breadwinner. W/o Masango said that police-forensics established that all these crimes were committed with the same gun. Their breakthrough came on Thursday when they arrested a man who led them to the three other suspects in the Coronation squatters camp. The suspected murder weapon, a 7.65-pistol, was found in their possesion. The camp is located 2km from the prison. Also confiscated were a man’s watch and jewellery, all suspected stolen goods. They appear for their first remand-date in Witbank magistrate’s court on Monday Jan. 17 2011. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vier-van-Witbank-vasgetrek-na-moord-op-bewaarder-20110116

Weird news of the day:

Pretoria prosecutor astonished about honesty of Karoo restaurant maid who returned her forgotten wallet…

2011-01-16 Beeld senior editor Philip de Bruin writes that Afrikaans advocate Retha Meintjes, deputy-prosecutor in Pretoria, discovered that her wallet with all her bank cards and cash was missing ‘somewhere in the dry Karoo’ she immediately believed that she had become another victim of the SA crime epidemic. “I work every day of my life with hardened criminals who will kill anyone for a cellphone,’ she said. Two days later however, to her immense astonishment, she received a phone call from her bank manager, informing her that her property was safe and sound. Someone had found it at the Surf-Side restaurant in the Strand where she’d been vacationing – and its manager Mrs Yolandi Groenewald had put the wallet in the restaurant’s safe after it was turned in by a cleaner.  On Monday, Mrs Groenewald contacted the bank – and had Mrs Meintjes’ wallet couriered back to her. Mrs Groeneveld it’s the restaurant’s policy to ‘return items they forgot at our place, back to them safely. People leave behind the strangest stuff at our place, even laptop computers…’ she was quoted as saying by De Bruin. And this kind of honesty and hospitality – for which Afrikaners used to be justly famous worldwide – now has become so extraordinary in South Africa that such a little gem of happiness actually becomes a news item.  http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Regsvrou-oorbluf-toe-beursie-nie-gesteel-is-20110116

SA Minister declares war on lightning 

2011-01-11 Mrs Nomusa Dube, the ruling ANC's MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs, says her department is prepared to "fight and wage war" against the pesky freaks of nature that have claimed several lives in the country over the past month.  "We can't stop an act of God but as people we can't die without a fight," said her spokesman, Lennox Mabaso. He said Mrs Dube wants to know from the Department of Science and Technology why ‘remote, rural areas are more prone to incidents of lightning…’ and wants them to launch an investigation at once. http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/YourStory/War-declared-on-freaks-of-nature-20110111

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