News Summary Jan 20 2011

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Summary: fugitive French cop-killer couple shot dead;  Namibian assassination puzzle: two African-American men smuggled in gun-barrel, scope in their luggage; Abbie Phillipson 80 murdered by gardener in front of neighbours;  PRAAG supports controversial visit by Israeli ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni to SA; theology Prof Hannes Viljoen and family survive armed attack Pelgrimsrus;  500 families occupy municipal land in Grens, Potchefstroom; Joburg metrocops arrested while plunding booze-truck near Fochville…

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Fugitive Neniere cop-killer couple shot dead by huge police force on Hardie farm Sutherland; Boer Willie vd Walt of Brits survives panga-attack ; 

Jan 20 2011 French-born South African Neniere couple on the run from police in the Karoo town of Sutherland since killing one police officer and injuring another one on a farm, resisting confiscation of their illegal arms-cache on Jan 15 2011, were shot dead at a building they had barricaded themselves in, some 20km outsideSutherland just before noon, the SAPS has announced.  A reporter at the scene described it as a "Hollywood style movie", overrun with police and journalists. The couple was shot after barricading themselves inside a house on the farm.  It’s not known at this stage whether the couple returned fire but they were heavily-armed with a shotgun, a hunting rifle and various pistols. Philippe Menieré, 60, and Agnes Jardel-Meniere, 55, evaded police since Friday, after shooting dead police-student-constable Jacob Boleme, 27, and wounding w/o Glenwall du Toiet, 42 in the spine on the farm Hardie. Its owner Gerhardus du Plessis had called in the police after he had tried to evict them from his property, where they had been living for 12 years, when he found a number of unlicensed firearms in their possession. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/French-couple-barricaded-selves-in-house-20110120

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Boer Willie vd Walt, farm De Kroon, Brits, badly injured, brutal panga-attack 5 blacks  Jan 19 2011 - one attacker arrested by security company during fierce gunfight BRITS. Farm attack at 5am, Jan 19 2011 –Well known local community leader Willie van der Walt of the farm De Kroon near Brits fought back so fiercely against five black men who hacked away at his face and body with pangas inside his own homestead that he saved his wife Rina, 54,  in the bedroom, from also being attacked.The farmer is in serious condition after surgery to his face, which was slashed during the panga-attack.  http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2011/01/boer-willie-vd-walt-injured-panga.html

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Abbie Phillipson 80 retired Roodepoort City cashier, choked to death in front of neighbours:black gardener arrested Jan19201 Krugersdorp - Beeld newspaper - Eighty-year-old retired Roodepoort municipal cashier Mrs Abbie Phillipson was murdered in her heavily-barricaded backyard on Wednesday Jan 19 2011. A ‘trusted black gardener ‘ was arrested for throttling her to death with a shoelace after stuffing her mouth with a rag and taping over her face - in full view of horrified neighbouring workers who had climbed on the roof when they heard her screams. Some of her jewellery was found hidden inside the lawn-mower bag by the cops afterwards. Her cellphone is missing. No other valuables were robbed from the house. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2-sien-van-dak-af-hoe-man-moor-20110119

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Namibian assassination: two African-American men arrested with gun-barrel, scope in luggage from USA – African-American suspects Marcus Kevin Tomas, Kevin Townsend arrested  - The Namibian – Two African-Americans were arrested for the execution-style murder of 24-year-old André Heckmaier, the son of a local restaurant-owner in Windhoek. The young man was shot with a single bullet through the right-temple on Friday January 7, 2011 at noon, in Klein Windhoek. The Namibian police reports finding a gun-barrel and gun-scope in the luggage of the arrested Americans who had arrived the previous day and were staying at a guest-house. They are to appear in Windhoek court on March 7 2011 for a bail application. http://www.southerntimesafrica.com/article.php?title=Two_US_nationals_up__for_murder_in_Namibia&id=5378

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PRAAG supports visit of ex-Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni to South Africa - "The idea (mooted amongst pro-Palestinian groups in South Africa) that ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni of Israel could be a 'war criminal and should be arrested in SA' is ridiculous," said Dr Dan Roodt of the pro-Afrikaans Action group. "Much rather we should look at the real war crimes ...in our own country i.a. the thousands of farm murders; the constant incitements to genocide by ANC-office bearers such ...as Julius Malema." http://www.yallakadima.co.il/fullArticleDetails.aspx?id=244

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Land occupation: 500 families: municipal-owned Grens area, Potchefstroom - Frustrated Promosa residents marched to the town council offices on Thursday demanding promised land-rights on the municipal land referred to as “Grens’. (border). Chris Drift, spokesman for  Promosa Concerned Residents Association, said they are incensed at official spokesman Maphetle Maphetle for reneging on a land-settlement deal with acting mayor Eddie Modiakgotle – wherein 500 families from Promosa township were promised land-sites at Grens. Maphetle then refused to negotiate further. The 500 families then occupied  the ‘promised land’ by 6 January despite a stand-off with the municipal security guards, the infamous Red Ants. They threaten with lawsuits at  the High Court and Constitutional Court if they are not allowed to stay. ,.http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/top10.htm#1

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Theology Prof Hannes Viljoen, family escape unharmed from armed attackers in Pelgrimsrus -  Prof Francois “Hannes’ Viljoen of the Theology faculty at the University of Potchefstroom was attacked by an armed gang with his family while celebrating his 50th birthday at a holiday-chalet. The family was robbed of several valuables but remained physically unharmed. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/index.htm

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Joburg metrocops arrested for plundering booze-lorry in NW - Jan 20 2011 – FOCHVILLE, North West police arrested a team of metro-cops from Johannesburg while they were plundering a liquor-transport on the N12 freeway between Potchefstroom and Fochville, reports the Potchefstroom Herald. http://www.potchefstroomherald.co.za/index.htm