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20110210

Six more mystery deaths

 Deon van Staden, 51, Babs Strecker, 73, bashed over the heads with a spade, then shredded by numerous knifewounds, Bethanie NW smallholding http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Paartjie-opgekap-flenters-gesteek-20110210

Strecker Babs murdered with partner Deon van Staden Bethanie NW smallholding Feb42011 Staden_ v_ Deon murdered with partner Strecker_ Babs murdered with partner Deon van Staden Bethanie NW smallholding Feb42011 2011-02-10 Road-equipment mechanic Deon van Staden, 51 and  friend Mrs Babs Strecker, 73, were brutally murdered in the kitchen of their smallholding, Madikwe Village, Bethanie, North West , Friday-night, Feb 4 2011. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Paartjie-opgekap-flenters-gesteek-20110210 The poor lower-working class Afrikaans friends were in their kitchen of their  delipadated smallholding., playing a board-game at the kitchen-table when they were bashed from behind with a spade and then grossly mutilated: their bodies were “shredded by numerous knife-wounds’. The murdered mechanic Mr Du Plessis was found still lying inside his chair which had fallen over backwards on the kitchen-floor. Journalist  Virginia Keppler of Beeld interviewed the murdered man’s distraught sister Mabel du Plessis, 61, of Silverton, Pretoria,  and his son Deaan van Staden, 30. “He was mutilated; shredded by many knife-wounds and was bashed over the head and body from behind with a spade,’ said his sister. “It looks as if Babs had tried to flee to the room because her feet were still lying inside the kitchen-door entrance. She also was stabbed  a great many times and bashed over the back of her head with a spade. “She said a man who ‘had delivered wooden poles to her brother’s smallholding’ had discovered the bodies and notified police. The murdered man’s  son, 30-year-old Deaan, said he’d arrived shortly after the police did when he was notified - and noticed that the couple had been playing a board-game at the kitchen-table when they were attacked  and murdered. “The murderers fled with my dad’s red bakkie, a 9mm pistol, some goods and some cash from the safe. There was no forced-entry, which indicates that they were murdered by someone they had known and trusted. What I saw was indescribable. My dad was lying inside his chair on the floor. I just don’t know any more… ‘’  The sister said she last spoke to her brother on Friday-morning. She tried phoning them again on Friday-night and over the weekend but their cellphones were switched off. I tried to find people to drive to their homestead but couldn’t find anybody. The crime is too high. We can’t handle this any more,’ she said. SAPF captain Adéle Myburgh of the NW police confirmed that they had opened two murder-investigation dockets. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Paartjie-opgekap-flenters-gesteek-20110210

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Mrs Georgie Jacklin, 65, Linden Johannesburg guest-house owner, brutally killed Friday Feb 4 2011, he rmutilated corpse dumped in her bloodied bed-clothes at a field near Viljoensdrif outside Sasolburg, Free State.  http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Ons-het-op-beste-gehoop-die-ergste-verwag-20110208

Jacklin Mrs Georgie 65 SleeplessGuestHouseDisappearanceFeb72011 Beeld journalists Riata Nel and Jody Nel quotes detective-sergeant Marius de Beer of the Viljoensdrift station as saying that two residents came across her mutilated body in a veld near the Vaal River. “She was badly mauled’,’ he said. Indeed: her head was caved in with a concrete-block, plastic cabling tied up her mouth, her teeth were bashed out, her nose was broken and her bed-clothes she was found in, were soaked in blood. The police discovered that the concrete-block she was murdered with, ‘had been neatly washed off and placed back at the entrance of her guest house.’ They also discovered her blood at the front door. She was identified by her daughters Vanessa Jacklin-Levin and Natalie Jacklin-Chetty and their dad Normand as the Sasolburg police station. “She was a courageous and trusting woman, said Vanessa. She used to teach special-care children at the St Barnabas College in Bosmont, Johannesburg for about eight years. Mrs Jacklin’s eight-year-old red Ford Fiesta, reg. MGZ-641-GP, a handbag, cellphone and laptop-computer, remain missing. She leaves her daughters, ex-husband and three grandchildren: Richard, 20, Elizabeth,2 and Mila, 7 months. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Ons-het-op-beste-gehoop-die-ergste-verwag-20110208

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De Jager, Doris, 50, Joburg High Court stenographer, executed,driveway Feb42011

Johannesburg; mystery murder of Doris de Jager, the Johannesburg High Court stenographer in Agliotti- and Selebi cases; killed execution style by four-member gang, nothing robbed.... De Jager Doris COURT STENOGRAPHER executed FEB42011 RidgewayJohannesburg High Court stenographer Doris de Jager, 50, was murdered execution style in the driveway of her Ridgeway home on Saturday Feb 5 2011 by one of a gang of four black men who waited for her return from shopping on Saturday with her daughter Margie, 21.  Nothing was robbed and the car was not hijacked.

Mrs De Jager also was an important witness who could have verified the accuracy of her court records for many politicallly-sensitive trials which took place at the Johannesburg High Court: for instance, the murder trial of Glenn Agliotti (acquitted of murdering mining-magnate Brett Kebble); and the controversial fraud trial of former SA police chief Jackie Selebi, amongst many others. Beeld journalist Jani Meyer reported that her son Danie, 29, witnessed his mother being shot to death through the windshield of their car. The gang then chased off without making any apparent attempt to ‘hijack’ her car – yet Beeld has chosen to report this as a ‘hijacking’. Ms Meyer writes: “the murderers apparently were waiting for Mrs de Jager and her daughter to return home after shopping on Saturday-morning. Margie was engaged in closing the gate to their erf entrance at their Ridgeway home when she noticed two men inside the erf. “One had a pistol in his hand. I ran into the house and yelled to Danie (her brother) while phoning the ADT (security company),’ she told the journalist. Seconds later she heard two shots. Danie, 29, was on the couch when his sister ran inside. “I heard a scream and flew out of the door,’ he said. He saw his mother inside his silver Corsa-bakkie where she tried to shie away from the gunman. “ His mother rolled from the vehicle and collapsed. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-sien-moord-op-ma-20110206

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Ettienne Gert Coetzer, 66, corpse of murdered Afrikaner builder, found in Shosanguve Jan 29 2011 - 2011-02-01 Why was independent Afrikaner builder Ettienne Gert Coezter, 66, so badly mutilated when he was found dumped in Soshanguve township three days after he went missing from his home in Claremont, Pretoria? Coetzer Ettiene Gert, corpse found murdered Soshanguve Pretoria Jan312011Three black colleagues at the construction company in Capital Park were arrested for his murder, confirmed w/o Patrick Zimu. All three male suspects are from Soshanguve. They are scheduled for a remand appearance soon, he said. Mr Coetzer was assaulted, throttled to death and then his body was dumped without any identification in a veld in Soshanguve extention 12. His torched bakkie was found Saturday-morning along the Rosslyn road north of Pretoria. One of the three suspects ‘was like a son to him,’ said the victim’s shocked son Mark, 39. His mother Dawn (63), had last heard from him on Friday-evening when he phoned her. The torched bakkie was discovered at 2am Saturday-morning and later that morning his body was also found. When the murdered man’s colleague then also disappeared without a trace, the SAPS launched a search for him and located him in Soshanguve. After questioning the worker, the other two also were arrested. “The first arrested worker had worked with my father for the past six years and they were very close,’ said Mark. “His arrest has shocked my mother tremendously because he was the very last man we would have suspected of participating in my father’s murder. Mr Coetzer sr.   also leaves behind his daughters Tanya Blignaut, Bernedett Hoal and  Merina Judd. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Drie-vas-na-man-se-lyk-gekry-is-20110201

Corpse of Mrs Marie Goosen, 67, who died a mystery-death at her Parys riverside home, floated past 105 horrified Vaal river wedding guests of the Rostron couple… 

Jan 29 2011 – Saturday. While newly-weds Annelize and Sheldon Rostron were posing for their wedding pictures against the beautiful sunset-backdrop of the Vaal river ‘s Sioleh resort, their 105 horrified wedding-guests watched the corpse of an Afrikaner woman floating past behind them at around 5pm. Rostron couple Sheldon_Annelize_CORPSE FLOATED PAST AT VAAL RIVER WEDDING JANFEB291011(Picture: photographer Mario van de Wall Beeld tel 082 570 7179)

“We were smiling happily for the camera when the flower-girls started screaming and all the guests ran to the river’s edge, pointing and shouting,’ said Annelize in an interview with Beeld newspaper. An emergency-service member was also seen following the floating dead woman in a canoo. She was identified as 67-year-year old Mrs Marie Goosen of Parys, who, it is being believed, drowned while she was trimming a tree near her riverside home along the river’s edge 16km away from Sioleh. Mrs Goosen’s husband Gert had left their home at around 4pm and found her missing two hours later upon his return. Police found scuff-marks on a slippery tree-trunk and her shears nearby. SAPS spokesman Maselela Langa said they were notified by other residents who had also spotted Mrs Goosen’s remains floating downriver from Parys. Emergency-service personnel and police divers were trying to retrieve her in the rapidly-flowing river, following her in a rubber boat and a canoe, as per Beeld journalist Tom de Wet. She was eventually retrieved at around 18:00 some 20km from her home near Vredefort. Her son Johan Claassen (48), a pharmacist in Parys, said his mother had just undergone major surgery to repair damage done to her jaw by a dentist four years earlier due to a broken drill-bit which had severed nerves and injured her jaw-bone. She is also survived by a daughter Mrs Zita de Lange (40), and four grandchildren, Dean (18), Darren (16), Samantha (15) and Danielle (13).’A cremation-service  was scheduled at the Dutch Reformed Church in Parys. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Lyk-in-rivier-skok-gaste-20110131