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Farm Attacks Jan 25 2010

Jan 23 2010 - Ernest Giesekke murdered on Ficksburg farm: wife told by attacker: “You don’t have a husband any more…’

 

    Bloemfontein. – Retired chemistry scientist and philantropist Dr Ernest Giesekke, 69, was found cruelly murdered on his farm Good Hope near Ficksburg on January 23 2010, write Sandra Coetzee of Volksblad newspaper and freelance photographer/journalist Gavin Boy. Dr Giesekke’s head was bashed in with a rock, and as also become known after forensic examination, is that he was repeatedly stabbed with a screw-driver before his throat was slashed.
    Giesekke Dr Ernest murdered Goodhope farm Ficksburg Jan232010 retired chemistry scientist Picture by Volksblad photographer/journalist Gavin Boy -  who reported that the farm attack was well-planned: the electric fencing around the homestead was cut a week earlier.
    The only items missing were a cellphone and R50 in cash (about $5). A team of police, the Gumtree Farmers Association, farm workers and the Ficksburg security- and safety committee all teamed up to track down the three attackers.
    Police said Dr Giesekke ‘s wife Eve, 77, was still in bed when her husband stepped outside at 5:45 am to feed the livestock and check up on the irrigation system.
    The Giesekke couple raised lavender for the manufacture of essential oils, and also raised berries. He was murdered near the water tank, which can seen behind the homestead on the picture, left. The attackers then assaulted Mrs Giesekke in the bedroom, telling her: you don’t have a husband any longer.’ Police sr.supt. Mptantsi Makhele said the attackers only managed to abscond with Mrs Giesekke’s handbag containing R50 and a cellphone. The first person on the scene was James Brown, owner of the private Alarm Security company, who discovered the murdered scientist’s body.  Dr Giesekke is the third Ficksburg farmer who was murdered in the past three years. http://www.volksblad.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2114/8a4dbddf1bf1425dba96ff9123f7a9ed/25-01-2010-05-14/Filantroop_vir_R50_vermoor

    Giesseke, Dr Ernest murder Bloodied grass and rock with which he was bludgeoned Jan 232010

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    Jan 25 2010 - Viljoenskroon smallholder attacked: woman in critical conditionVermaansdrift, Viljoenskroon smallholder: the police responded an hour later
    Viljoenskroon farm attack victim panga injuries Jan 25 2010 pic Carien Somers Dippenaar FacebookJanuary 25 2010 – VILJOENSKROON -- The latest farm attack report comes from Viljoenskroon in the Free State, where this Afrikaner farm-wife with the first name of Theresa was attacked with a panga.
    Picture by Hannes Dippenaar, reporting for the private Afrikaans community radio station Overvaal Stereo 96.1
    An emergency meeting was held about the poor police response that very same day at 13:00 between the SAPS, smallholders, ratepayers and local political leaders.
    Carien Somers Dippenaar, who sent us this photograph of the victim while she was being stabilised for transportation to hospital in Klerksdorp, writes us:
    “Her name is Theresa and she is in her 40s. There was only one attacker, a worker that she fired in December 2009. This happened at between 24:00 and 01:00 on 25 January 2010. She is currently in a very critical condition in the Wilmed Hospital in Klerksdorp.” Apparently the woman’s businessman-husband was away from home at the time.
    Mrs Dippenaar writes us: “Nothing was stolen. No vehicles, jewellery or money. Thanks to the "fast" response of the police (1 hour later) and the ambulance (1 and a half hour later) she was taken to  hospital in a very critical state. The attacker however was found by the surrounded neighbours and friends 4 hours later and arrested by the police after he showed them where he had left the panga.” source of picture: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1026941238#/photo.php?pid=3098112&id=539439346
    Robbery syndicate, including two cops from Wolmaransstad police station, arrested in North West
    WOLMARANSSTAD, NW. Jan 22 2010 - Eleven people, including two police officers were arrested for being involved in a spate of bank and business robberies in Ventersdorp, Viljoenskroon, Orkney, Christiana and Wolmaransstad, the department of public safety said. "Eleven suspects including two senior policemen stationed at Wolmaransstad Police Station were arrested by the North West Provincial Organised Crime Task team," Lesiba Moses Kgwele said."The captain and inspector are alleged to have escorted members of the syndicate to and from targeted banks and businesses. In the event that alarms went off during break-ins, they would be nearby to mislead whoever responds to the alarm into believing that it was a false alarm." The suspects, most of whom are from Klerksdorp are linked to 15 bank and business break ins and in robberies. Three vehicles, a BMW X5,Golf 3 and Audi A4, 317 cellphones valued at over R150 000, and an undisclosed amount of cash were confiscated during the arrest. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/crime-reports-jan-22-2010_22.html
    Free State traffic cop pulled over Afrikaans motorist near Viljoenskroon:  ‘wanted sexual experience with a white woman’
    2January 21 2010 - Bothaville, Free State. The Freedom Front Plus demands discliplinary action be undertaken against a traffic officer of Nala-municipality who had pulled over an Afrikaans woman driver from Pretoria on New Year’s Eve on the road between Viljoenskroon and Bothaville, pretended that she had committed a traffic-offense: and then told her that he ‘had always wanted to have a sexual experience with a white woman.’
    The terrified woman – a widow – said she felt very trapped and afraid because the man had pulled her car over in a lonely, rural area of the road which was surrounded by maize-fields.  After the incident – she was issued with a traffic citation for which she had to pay a fine -- the woman felt so unsafe about lodging a formal complaint of sexual harassment that she wrote a letter to Beeld newspaper, asking whether someone could assist her. The Freedom Front Plus party, which represents the Afrikaner voting community, was asked to assist – and the party has already been in touch with municipal officials about the matter, demanding an investigation into the traffic official’s behaviour, said provincial leader Abrie Oosthuizen. Mr Oosthuizen also expressed concern about other reports regarding such incidents and asked that anyone who has experienced similar problems, to contact them directly. Beeld was unable to obtain formal comment from the municipal officials of Nala, they wrote. http://www.nuus24.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1479/45c49eb92f1d4c49b3e9b5d51b035db6/21-01-2010-09-15/Verkeersman_teister_vrou_glo_seksueel__
    2009-04-01 Jan van Wyk, 82, and Basie Venter, 65, mutilated for ‘traditional medicine’ on their farms, Vierfontein Viljoenskroon, Free State
    Bloemfontein – April 1 2009 - The brutal ‘muti-related murders’ of two farmers at their farm Vierfontein near Viljoenskroon were deplored by the commercial farmers body Free State Agriculture’s president Louw Steytler, who strongly condemned the cowardly and gross manner of the murders."I urge farmers to get involved in Free State Agriculture's rural safety plan," he said in a statement. This follows the arrest of an unnamed, 25-year-old man on Tuesday morning on the farm of Jan van Wyk, 82, at Vierfontein. It was reported that the arrested man was found sweeping the veranda and calmly making food on Tuesday morning, when he was discovered by Johan Engelbrecht and other members of Free State Agriculture's rural safety organisation. The man ran inside the homestead and threatened the security detail with gardening shears. They were able to apprehend him, however, reported Tom de Wet and Marisa Phillips of Beeld newspaper. Van Wyk's mutilated body was found in the dining room of the house. One of the suspected murder weapons and beads covered in blood were found buried in the fields next to a lion camp on Venter’s homestead. Van Wyk,  a retired policeman who only alone stayed on his farm over the weekends, was allegedly lured outside where he was bashed over the head with a shovel, dragged inside the homestead while still alive -- and then mutilated.  This is a clear indication that this was a 'murder to harvest body parts for ‘traditional medicine’, as this is inevitably done while the poor victims are still alive. Johan Engelbrecht of Free State Farm Security said he was also investigating the muti-murder of another neighbouring farmer, Basie Venter, 65, a few hours before when another farmer stopped him on the road and  warned him that he ‘suspected trouble’ on the Van Wyk farm next door, too. Van Wyk wasn’t on his stoep as he usually did early in the morning, reading his Bible.
    • There seems little doubt that the same man was also involved in the murder of Basie Venter. Venter's widow Mary, 68, had witnessed the attack around 21:15 on Monday through a window in the house. Venter was attacked with an iron rod, police said.
    Steytler said the murders, which  are muti-related, was ‘barbaric and had no place in a modern world’.
    In May 2003, 62-year-old farmer J P Prinsloo was reported murdered on the farm Linden in VILJOENSKROON
    recent crime reports:
    Jan 22 2010: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/crime-reports-jan-22-2010_22.html
    Jan 21 2010: ‘You all have to die’, screamed violent gang at Raath family; slashed wife’s face and robbed nothing
    Jan 20 2010: ANC-members groove with Zuma’s machine-gun…
    Jan 18 2010: Crime news from Brits, Magalies, Madibeng Jan 18 2010
    Jan 17 2010: Katrina Hendrika van den Berg, 65, murdered, Daspoort AH
    Jan 16 2010: “ANC” carved on murdered Bainsvlei man’s back by vengeful Tswanas

    Viljoenskroon farm woman attacked

     Farm attacker captured by neighbours of attacked Vermaansdrift, Viljoenskroon smallholder: the police responded an hour later

    Viljoenskroon farm attack victim panga injuries Jan 25 2010 pic Carien Somers Dippenaar FacebookJanuary 25 2010 – VILJOENSKROON -- The latest farm attack report comes from Viljoenskroon in the Free State, where this Afrikaner farm-wife with the first name of Theresa was attacked with a panga.

    Picture by Hannes Dippenaar, reporting for the Afrikaans community radio station Overvaal Stereo 96.1

    An emergency meeting was held about the poor police response that very same day at 13:00 between the SAPS, smallholders, ratepayers and local political leaders.

    Carien Somers Dippenaar, who sent us this photograph of the victim while she was being stabilised for transportation to hospital in Klerksdorp, writes us:

    “Her name is Theresa and she is in her 40s. The attack took place on Plot 15, Vermaansdrift, District Viljoenskroon. There was only one attacker, a worker that she fired in December 2009. This happened at between 24:00 and 01:00 on 25 January 2010. She is currently in a very critical condition in the Wilmed Hospital in Klerksdorp.” Apparently the woman’s businessman-husband was away from home at the time.

    Mrs Dippenaar writes us: “Nothing was stolen. No vehicles, jewellery or money. Thanks to the "fast" response of the police (1 hour later) and the ambulance (1 and a half hour later) she was taken to  hospital in a very critical state. The attacker however was found by the surrounded neighbours and friends 4 hours later and arrested by the police after he showed them where he had left the panga.” source of picture: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1026941238#/photo.php?pid=3098112&id=539439346

    Robbery syndicate, including two cops from Wolmaransstad police station, arrested in North West

    WOLMARANSSTAD, NW. Jan 22 2010 - Eleven people, including two police officers were arrested for being involved in a spate of bank and business robberies in Ventersdorp, Viljoenskroon, Orkney, Christiana and Wolmaransstad, the department of public safety said. "Eleven suspects including two senior policemen stationed at Wolmaransstad Police Station were arrested by the North West Provincial Organised Crime Task team," Lesiba Moses Kgwele said."The captain and inspector are alleged to have escorted members of the syndicate to and from targeted banks and businesses. In the event that alarms went off during break-ins, they would be nearby to mislead whoever responds to the alarm into believing that it was a false alarm." The suspects, most of whom are from Klerksdorp are linked to 15 bank and business break ins and in robberies. Three vehicles, a BMW X5,Golf 3 and Audi A4, 317 cellphones valued at over R150 000, and an undisclosed amount of cash were confiscated during the arrest. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/crime-reports-jan-22-2010_22.html

    Free State traffic cop pulled over Afrikaans motorist near Viljoenskroon:  ‘wanted sexual experience with a white woman’

    2January 21 2010 - Bothaville, Free State. The Freedom Front Plus demands discliplinary action be undertaken against a traffic officer of Nala-municipality who had pulled over an Afrikaans woman driver from Pretoria on New Year’s Eve on the road between Viljoenskroon and Bothaville, pretended that she had committed a traffic-offense: and then told her that he ‘had always wanted to have a sexual experience with a white woman.’

    The terrified woman – a widow – said she felt very trapped and afraid because the man had pulled her car over in a lonely, rural area of the road which was surrounded by maize-fields.  After the incident – she was issued with a traffic citation for which she had to pay a fine -- the woman felt so unsafe about lodging a formal complaint of sexual harassment that she wrote a letter to Beeld newspaper, asking whether someone could assist her. The Freedom Front Plus party, which represents the Afrikaner voting community, was asked to assist – and the party has already been in touch with municipal officials about the matter, demanding an investigation into the traffic official’s behaviour, said provincial leader Abrie Oosthuizen. Mr Oosthuizen also expressed concern about other reports regarding such incidents and asked that anyone who has experienced similar problems, to contact them directly. Beeld was unable to obtain formal comment from the municipal officials of Nala, they wrote. http://www.nuus24.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1479/45c49eb92f1d4c49b3e9b5d51b035db6/21-01-2010-09-15/Verkeersman_teister_vrou_glo_seksueel__

    2009-04-01 Jan van Wyk, 82, and Basie Venter, 65, mutilated for ‘traditional medicine’ on their farms, Vierfontein Viljoenskroon, Free State

    Bloemfontein – April 1 2009 - The brutal ‘muti-related murders’ of two farmers at their farm Vierfontein near Viljoenskroon were deplored by the commercial farmers body Free State Agriculture’s president Louw Steytler, who strongly condemned the cowardly and gross manner of the murders."I urge farmers to get involved in Free State Agriculture's rural safety plan," he said in a statement. This follows the arrest of an unnamed, 25-year-old man on Tuesday morning on the farm of Jan van Wyk, 82, at Vierfontein. It was reported that the arrested man was found sweeping the veranda and calmly making food on Tuesday morning, when he was discovered by Johan Engelbrecht and other members of Free State Agriculture's rural safety organisation. The man ran inside the homestead and threatened the security detail with gardening shears. They were able to apprehend him, however, reported Tom de Wet and Marisa Phillips of Beeld newspaper. Van Wyk's mutilated body was found in the dining room of the house. One of the suspected murder weapons and beads covered in blood were found buried in the fields next to a lion camp on Venter’s homestead. Van Wyk,  a retired policeman who only alone stayed on his farm over the weekends, was allegedly lured outside where he was bashed over the head with a shovel, dragged inside the homestead while still alive -- and then mutilated.  This is a clear indication that this was a 'murder to harvest body parts for ‘traditional medicine’, as this is inevitably done while the poor victims are still alive. Johan Engelbrecht of Free State Farm Security said he was also investigating the muti-murder of another neighbouring farmer, Basie Venter, 65, a few hours before when another farmer stopped him on the road and  warned him that he ‘suspected trouble’ on the Van Wyk farm next door, too. Van Wyk wasn’t on his stoep as he usually did early in the morning, reading his Bible.

    • There seems little doubt that the same man was also involved in the murder of Basie Venter. Venter's widow Mary, 68, had witnessed the attack around 21:15 on Monday through a window in the house. Venter was attacked with an iron rod, police said.

    Steytler said the murders, which  are muti-related, was ‘barbaric and had no place in a modern world’.

    In May 2003, 62-year-old farmer J P Prinsloo was reported murdered on the farm Linden in VILJOENSKROON

    recent crime reports:

    Jan 22 2010: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/crime-reports-jan-22-2010_22.html

    Jan 21 2010: ‘You all have to die’, screamed violent gang at Raath family; slashed wife’s face and robbed nothing

    Jan 20 2010: ANC-members groove with Zuma’s machine-gun…

    Jan 18 2010: Crime news from Brits, Magalies, Madibeng Jan 18 2010

    Jan 17 2010: Katrina Hendrika van den Berg, 65, murdered, Daspoort AH

    Jan 16 2010: “ANC” carved on murdered Bainsvlei man’s back by vengeful Tswanas

    Kempton Park ratepayers besieged by armed gangs

    ’South Africans who remain silent about the crime-dangers at the WC2010 will have the blood of gullible tourists on their hands’  -- says crime victim Dr Hennie Barnard of Kempton Park, who writes:

     

    Dr Hennie Barnard says Kempton Park is under siege from armed criminal gangs 2010-01-25 – Kempton Park adjacent to Johannesburg International Airport -- “. But if we remain silent towards the world about the true crime situation in our country, we will be responsible for every drop of blood which will be spilled by gullible World Cup 2010 tourists,’ warns Dr Hennie Barnard of Kempton Park.

    Dr Koos van Staden shot dead in Kempton Park Friday-night…

    Dr Barnard also wrote to Adriana Stuijt of Censorbugbear-Reports with more information, warning that Kempton Park’s ratepayers are under siege from armed criminal gangs and that the police clearly aren’t interested in solving these horrific crimes. The SAPS crime statistics confirm this: there were 98 murders/homicides; 291 robberies of families and businesses; and 3,000 armed street robberies between March 2008 and April 2009 – which are the last available SAPS statistics.

    Dr Barnard writes:  “Two months ago there was an armed robbery opposite the home of Dr Theuns Botha, two weeks ago Dr Herman Roodt and his family were targetted, Tuesday our family was attacked, and on Friday-night, Dr Koos van Staden was shot dead -- about three blocks away from our house.” Since 1994 his own family has been targetted by several armed robberies, he was shot in the neck during a hijacking/kidnapping; they’ve had three break-ins and two frauds perpetrated against them. “And in all those cases, the police scored zero versus seven for the criminals, ’ he writes.

    Dr Barnard wrote earlier in Beeld newspaper: “What is the true extent of the crime? The police statistics are unreliable because they are so easily manipulated.,.”

    Traumatised people taking out duplicate-licenses…

    “However one can find out how bad the situation really is by spending a day at the drivers’ license office – and observe the great many traumatised people taking out duplicate-licenses because they had been violently attacked and robbed.

    “For us to tell the tourists of our ‘great SAPS also isn’t justified: they will arrive to help out with touching displays of concern at the crime scenes or on the day of the crime – but they then become dead-silent afterwards.’

    “Every one in South Africa must communicate all these crime facts  they know about to all their friends and family outside the country. Remaining silent will make all of us co-responsible for leading those football tourists like lambs to a slaughter.” http://www.beeld.com/Content/MyBeeld/Briewe/1976/5e49212ceb4d40d585ecb49f32ea04fe/23-01-2010-01-03/Bly_stil_en_jy_sal_ook_bloed_aan_die_hande_h%C3%AA

    We will kill you if you ever enter our property again with the purpose to rob while holding the family at gunpoint..’

    He also sent us an angry letter he ‘d also written to his local newspaper yesterday,  writing: “ This is intended for all armed robbers and like-minded criminals who are terrorising the citizens of Kempton Park:  We've been one of your victims the past week.  During this ordeal, you have shown us exactly how you surprize and attack your innocent victims, what your strategies are, how you operate and gave us insights into the way you work.  Thanks for that, because now we could put some plans of our own in place to in turn surprize you if this ever happens again - God forbids.  If anyone ever enter our property again with the purpose to rob while holding the family at gunpoint, we will kill you.  We will kill you all.  I assume a public warning like this will be adequate for our protectors at SAPS as the criminals will never be able to deny that they've been properly warned.”

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    our most recent crime reports:

    2010124 Dr Koos van Staden murdered in Edleen, Kempton Park

    Wolfram Zwecker of Beeld newspaper reports that 55-year-old medical practitioner Dr Koos van Staden was murdered at the backdoor of his Edleen, Kempton Park home by two armed attackers just after 8pm on January 24 2010. Dr Van Staden was shot four times in the chest, said police constable Nelda Hlase, who added that one of the attackers had also injured his own mate during the shooting. Resident Hennie Brandt who lives nearby also said he recognised the injured attacker as the same man who had also attacked him in October during a residential attack in their home. The injured attacker of Dr van Staden now is under police guard in hospital. Hlase said the uninjured attacker fled in a Volkswagen Polo but then crashed shortly thereafter in Modderfontein road against a Mercedes Benz – and fled on foot. The occupants of the Mercedes were ‘not seriously injured’,  she said. Police arrested two illegal immigrants shortly thereafter, suspecting that they can also be linked to the murder of Dr van Staden. He is survived by his wife Hanna and two daughters from a prevous marriage.

    http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/34f1f78e38874f89a804fe1075d35073/24-01-2010-11-42/Boef_skiet_Oos-Randse_dokter_dood,_wond_makker_

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    Viljoenskroon farm attack victim panga injuries Jan 25 2010 pic Carien Somers Dippenaar Facebook Farm attacker captured by Vermaansdrift, Viljoenskroon community:

    January 25 2010 – VILJOENSKROON, FREE STATE -- The latest farm attack report comes from Viljoenskroon in the Free State, where this Afrikaner farm-wife with the first name of Theresa, who was attacked with a panga. A Viljoenskroon neighbour who sent us this photograph of the victim while she was being stabilised for transportation to hospital, writes us:

    “Her name is Theresa and she is in her 40. The attack took place on Plot 15, Vermaansdrift, District Viljoenskroon. There was only one attacker, a worker that she fired in December 2009. This happened at between 24:00 and 01:00 on 25 January 2010. She is currently in a very critical condition in the Wilmed Hospital in Klersdorp.”

    Nothing was stolen. No vehicles, jewellery or money. Thanks to the "fast" response of the police (1 hour later) and the ambulance (1 and a half hour later) she was taken to  hospital in a very critical state. The attacker however was found by the surrounded neighbours and friends 4 hours later and arrested by the police after he showed them where he had left the panga.” http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=1026941238#/photo.php?pid=3098112&id=539439346

    other reports:

    Jan 22 2010: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/01/crime-reports-jan-22-2010_22.html

    Jan 21 2010: ‘You all have to die’, screamed violent gang at Raath family; slashed wife’s face and robbed nothing

    Jan 20 2010: ANC-members groove with Zuma’s machine-gun…

    Jan 18 2010: Crime news from Brits, Magalies, Madibeng Jan 18 2010

    Jan 17 2010: Katrina Hendrika van den Berg, 65, murdered, Daspoort AH

    Jan 16 2010: “ANC” carved on murdered Bainsvlei man’s back by vengeful Tswanas