Thursday, 4 December 2008

Tourists unsafe in S-Africa

SA is dangerous boycot WC2010South Africa is too dangerous -- just don't go!

 

20081204 Schoolgirl, 15, of Dubai, survives shooting at God's Window overlook, Graskop


GodsWindowOverlookTeenGirlShotinjuredDec42008_DubaiTourists_ Picture of God's Window by Komatiland Eco-Tourism

Dec 4 2008 Beeld journalist Buks Viljoen reports that an 15-year-old girl whose mom works in Dubai, while her two children attend boarding school in Pietermaritzburg, was shot and injured during an armed attack by three men. Her mom, Mandy Cocco, 43, was taking pictures at the famous God's Window overlook at rural Graskop, Mpumalanga.

Ms Cocco lives and works in Dubai and was in the country to fetch her son and daughter for a Dubai holiday. Ms Cocco - her maiden-name -- does not want her daughter identified by name for fear of reprisals. The mother and daughter had stopped at the world-famous overlook to take pictures enroute to Hoedspruit to fetch the girl's brother. Three black men walked past, one grabbed her handbag, she screamed and hit him with the camera, she said. Then one of the black men pulled a gun from a plastic bag and simply shot her daughter for no apparent reason whatsoever - they had already robbed the visitors. The teen was hit in the right shoulder. The three attackers climbed into Ms Cocco's rented Mercedes-Benz and chased off. The vehicle was found abandoned in Phalaborwa several hours later. The girl underwent surgery at Nelspruit Medi-Clinic to remove the bullet. Mc Cocco said her child was very traumatised. It's presumed the family still flew to Dubai for the holiday - the report does not say.
Police capt. Malcolm Mokomene confirmed the attack and said no-one has been arrested.
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2437580,00.html

Rural Rhuslancea lodge in Hennops River attacked, owner, guard critical

Oct 21 2008 - Luxury lodge owner Riaan Malenze and guard suffered critical wounds in armed attack at rural Rhuslancea Lodge, Hennops River Valley, Gauteng

Oct 21 2008 -- The owner of a luxury Hennops River lodge, Riaan Malenze, 35 and its security guard Joseph Antionio, are fighting for their lives in hospital after armed attackers dug as tunnel beneath the electrified fence, invaded the lodge and tied up the owner, the guard and the owner's wife on Saturday.

  • The two unarmed men were shot -- and then also stabbed in the stomachs as they fell down. By Tuesday, both men still were reported in critical condition.

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Particularly nasty crime...police:

The attack - described as a 'particularly nasty crime' by police - took place at the four-star luxury Rhuslancea Lodge in Hennops River Valley area, northern Gauteng during the early hours of Saturday morning, is part of a wave of violent crimes gripping the area. The gang struck just after 1am when they dug a hole under an electric perimeter fence and overpowered a security guard. After tying up the guard, several of the robbers stood watch over him while their accomplices made their way to the lodge's main house where they forced their way inside through a back door.

Sexually taunted, shot, then stabbed...

Once inside, the gunmen overpowered the owners Riaan Malenze, 35, and his wife, Tertia, and tied them up before ransacking the house and forcing open a safe, which is believed to have contained firearms, jewellery and cash.

  • The black gunmen then taunted the couple - threatening to sexually assault them both -- before they opened fire on the unarmed Mr Malenze, shooting him in the stomach. It is not known how many times Malenze was shot.

As the gunmen who shot Malenze fled, their accomplices, who were keeping watch over the guard, also stabbed him repeatedly before escaping. Malenze was rushed to Unitas Hospital by his wife, while the guard was taken to Kalafong Hospital. Both are in a critical condition.

They shot them just for the fun of it....

Erasmia police station commissioner Superintendent Faan Steynberg confirmed that the farm attackers had gained access to the property by digging a hole under the perimeter fence which is electrified. "They knew exactly what they were doing. Some went straight to the owner while the others overpowered the guard. This is a particularly nasty crime. It appears as though the owner and the guard were deliberately shot. "It looks as though they shot them for the fun of it," said Steynberg, adding that a task team was in the process of tracking down the gunmen.

LOTS MORE VIOLENT ROBBERIES IN AREA:

Sharon Bernhardt, who runs a community assistance programme in the Hennops River Valley, said crime in the area was increasing. "We have a lot of robberies, especially violent ones," she said.

Chris and Rachelle Lubbe: attacked, tortured with hot iron: left for Australia...2 weeks later...

There were the attacks on Chris and Rachelle Lubbe who were attacked and tortured with a hot iron after being tied up and assaulted earlier this year.Rachelle was burnt on her left breast, shoulder and buttocks while Chris was burnt repeatedly on his back. The couple and their family left for Australia two weeks after the attack, said Bernhardt.Bernhardt, herself a victim of three robberies, said crime was happening more often. "The attacks happen on such a regular basis that residents are becoming used to them," she said.

Sayer family also attacked:

Agreeing, Claire Sayer, owner of Fossils Family Kitchen and Pub, said people were attacked every month.

  • "It is definitely getting worse, especially the violent attacks," she said, adding that her family had also fallen victim to armed robbers...

Captain Tessa Jansen said the gunmen at the lodge gained access to the house by forcing their way through a back door before they made their way to the couple's bedroom where they overpowered and tied them up. "The robbers ransacked the house and then shot the owner before they fled with their loot," she said.Kate Chvitanic, Unitas Hospital spokeswoman, confirmed Malenze was in a critical condition in the hospital. amily spokesman Johan Snyman, declined to comment. Anyone with information on the identity or whereabouts of the attackers can contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20081020054740340C310376

"4m SA 'TOURISTS CLAIMS ANC-REGIME' --

MOST ARE STARVING REFUGEES FROM THE REST OF AFRICA...

Oct 17 2008 - The glowing SA propaganda reports keep claiming that some 4-million 'foreign visitors' entered SA last year - however 79% of all these 'tourists' were hungry, scared African refugees who walked into the country on temporary visitors' visas.... the SA authorities assured us that the WC2010 football tourists 'will be safe', trotting out two brand-new helicopters to reassure the worriers. And FIFA is bringing 3,500 journalists on lavish media-junkets to 'see South Africa for themselves.' http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=855400

While those 3,500 journalists will be confined to their carefully laid-out, highly-supervised and patrolled 'Putemkin-village" environments, the country's 110,000 police officers are increasingly unable to control the world's most violent crime epidemic . Undoubtedly the foreign news media won't be given access to these on-the-beat cops to find out exactly how they hope to protect all those hundreds-of-thousands of football tourists when they can't even protect the SA population from the country's ' routine crimes...'

TELL FIFA WC2010 WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THIS ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE: http://www.fifa2010.us/fifa-2010-fifa-world-cup/fifa-cape-town-world-cup-2010/

The first crime-hurdle: arrival SA's international airports:

HippoLodge_LooksSoPeaceful_ButWasRobbedByHugeGangSept2008These fans should be forewarned that, besides massive looting from their luggage, they also will be targetted by very violent, heavily-armed gangs which are moreover, armed with advance'insider information' about all their holiday-plans.... and proceed to track them down at their holiday resorts. In September 2008 for instance, a group of British tourists was terrorised and two UK visitors also raped during an attack by a six-man armed gang at the Hippo Lodge, Honeydew - by gangs which had followed them from the airport. The heavily-armed black men had somehow managed to get past the lodge's electrified fence and electronic security systems. Its traumatised owner Geof Maud, pictured on the left, said the attackers tied up the UK visitors with electric wire and terrorised them while looting the defenceless guests - and then one man raped two of the women.They robbed the guests of all their valuables and cellphones. The men then fled in a lodge car - which they only used for a getaway because it was found abandoned at Diepsloot, the infamous squatter settlement. Frans Richter, owner of the nearby Heia safari ranch, also was murdered in November last year. http://www.default.aspxtelegraaf.nl/telesport/voetbal/1990973/__Luipaard_Zakumi_mascotte_WK__.html

...and this happens to many other visitors and South Africans alike, day in, day out... SEE CRIME STATS...


ONE Johannesburg airport gang jailed - 

BelgianMurderReportFrontPageSept92008 In Sept 2008 the SA Police proudly announced that they had managed to send one member of an 8-member armed gang to prison for 15 years... but this happens in only 6% of the time... most criminals are never caught. On Sept 28, Dominic Sebanda, 34, one member of an armed 8-member gang which was targetting hapless foreign travellers from Johannesburg airport, was sent to prison for 15 years by the Wynberg regional court. And the rest of this gang is also sitting in jail awaiting trial for robbing foreign travellers and killing one, Angolan traveller Edward Olisah (37). There are however still many gangs out there which follow foreign travellers to their destination, where they are robbed of all their valuables, often raped and even killed, many embassies are warning... Still awaiting trial are a group of much younger men who made up the rest of this criminal youth-gang: Thomsana Mkhize, Dumisani Moyo, Thabo Thomson Mamadi, Sibusiso Vincent Mkhize, Nthabiseng Shakes Sibula, Benson Khalushi amd Thuso Joseph Mafela. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2398612,00.html

 

 

 

TOURISTS WARNED TO STAY AWAY FROM CRADLE OF HUMANKIND - IT'S JUST TOO DANGEROUS...

CradleMankindBusinessPeopleWarnTouristsDec2007And near the Cradle of Humankind tourist centre local residents even got together and publicly demonstrated with placards warning tourists to stay away after the murder of local Heia safari park lodge owner Frans Richter. These protestors also demanded a return of the death penalty . Police from the region's seven local police stations - all badly understaffed -- regularly have to form impromptu commandos to try and track these ruthless attackers down.

Forty families a day attacked inside their homes in SA by armed gangs:

Every day, some 40 South African families are attacked inside their homes by such heavily armed, relentless gangs. During such attacks, entire families are terrorised, often even the youngest female members are raped, and the male homeowners often gunned down without any compunction. They also target the tourist industry with the same relentless ferocity and any policeman who gets in their way with their useless 9mm handguns, just gets gunned down by these gangs' weapons of choice: Chinese-made AK47s and South African made Uzi semi-automatic machine guns...

Wife, son of SA's World Cup 2010 roving ambassador Mark Fish robbed at gunpoint:

IIn August in Pretoria, Loui, the stunning wife of ex-footballer Mark Fish-- the roving football ambassador for the World Cup 2010 tournaments -- was robbed at gunpoint at their high-security luxury estate Mooikloof in Pretoria. The 500-home, protected estate for the superrich prides itself on its high-security system. Yet Mrs Loui Fish was held up and robbed at gunpoint inside her home together with son Luke and her assistant Dean Machison. Somehow the attackers got through this security cordon.. http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2400806,00.html http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Nuus/0,,752-795_2400806,00.html
  • Key to this story: the extremely expensive measures needed to be taken by ordinary South Africans just to protect their families from harm every day... South Africa now suffers from such violent armed attackers countrywide, in every region -- even small retirement-coastal towns which in the past were always presumed safe such as Kleinmond, now suffer from the scourge of heavily-armed feral youth-gangs which invade people's homes at will.
KurtHuppel_German_murderedLionParkSept2008 Krugersdorp Lion Park murder: Recently German visitor Kurt Huppel, left, also was shot dead in cold blood in front of his girl friend and her child - right amongst a 100-strong crowd of visiting families with many small children at the hugely popular Lion Park restaurant in the Krugersdorp region in Gauteng, during a massive armed robbery by gang which pitched up in a fleet of luxury-cars. They were armed with Uzis machineguns and brand-new Chinese-made AK47s.
http://www.702.co.za/news/news.asp#94214
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OTHER RECENT ATTACKS AGAINST TOURISTS:


Camps Bay: UK tourists attacked, their baby held hostage
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080303055509130C682905

Durban: 3 tourists hijacked: stopped at Chatsworth traffic light http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2185678,00.html

Durban: Russian marathon-scientist Dr. Sergey Krasnoschekov attacked, robbed in South Africa
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2343408,00.html

Durban: 9-member armed gang holds up all the guests at four-star Ghost Mountain Inn, Mkuze, KZN:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2165331,00.html

Johannesburg airport attacks:

NadineGordimerAssaultedParktownHomeParktown: Elderly SA Nobel laureate author Nadine Gordimer, left, was attacked by 3 blacks at her home: "When Gordimer refused to hand over her treasured wedding ring, one of the men simply hit the world-famous author in the face...'
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20061030031011931C787522

Pretoria:
Welsh visitor Stephen Peters, 52, shot dead in Elarduspark home:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/09/13/welsh-dad-shot-dead-in-south-africa-91466-21808887/

Pretoria: Belgian visitor, trucker Chris Theunis (44) shot dead in front of his young son in Equestria
http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2008/09/belgian-trucker-chris-theunis-murder-in.html

Randburg: Australian visitor missing after withdrawing cash - by October 19, 2008, he is still missing on Dec 4 2008 http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2392664,00.html


CliveHunterRichard's Bay: famous sports-fisherman Clive Hunter, left, shot dead during competition on KZN beach in broad daylight...
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2355563,00.html

Table Mountain tourists attacked at Kirstenbosch Botanic gardens ... again and again and again:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2142219,00.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2060797,00.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2068354,00.html

Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch: German tourists robbed, injured:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2283062,00.html Durban_city_of_filth

Cradle of Mankind tourist sites:

German restaurant owner Franz Richter murdered - local residents warn tourists to stay away in protest campaign against crime:
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2236216,00.html

Krugersdorp: famous German rosegrower Ludwig Taschner shot, survives:
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2390792,00.html

Kruger Park wildlife reserve attacks:


Port St. Johns: Eight tourists robbed. 4 armed men, luxury Mpande Holiday Resort Feb 7 2008 Local residents mounted a protest warning tourists to stay away: Two British tourists, one Namibian and five South Africans were robbed at the holiday resort in Port St Johns. Superintendent Mzukisi Fatyela said the eight holiday makers were confronted by four armed men with AK47s and handguns at the Mpande Holiday Resort and robbed of everything they owned. The local tribe has been given ownership of all the land in Port St. John's and now claim ownership of the developed properties, including a gambling casino. Tourists are being targetted for terror-style attacks.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2266570,00.html

Somerset West: Dutch tourist, 60, in two-hour rape ordeal at 'secure' Lord Charles Hotel
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2285625,00.html

SOURCES:

http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/alertsonhealth.msnw?
http://censorbugbearreports.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000044/004488.shtml
http://www.elsevier.nl/web/10204904/Nieuws/Sport/Nederlandse-cricketer-dood-gevonden-in-Kaapstad.htm?rss=true
Robberies over the past two years with links and pix, see:
http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/robberies.msnw
Murders over the past two years with links and pix, see:
http://groups.msn.com/crimebustersofsouthafrica/murders.msnw
SA Police crime statistics: http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/crime_stats_2008.htm
Dutch football site: http://www.vi.nl/web/show/id=469180/langid=43/cfe=469140/ff=469140/sf=469170/step=469115
Posted by Censorbugbear at 23:32
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have a report like this in Dutch on the blog http://LeavingSAverysoon.blogspot.com or is that a different person?

08 October 2008 07:39
Censorbugbear said...

Jan de Klerk maintains that blog to practice his Dutch because he's emigrating this month and needs it where he's going, once he gets confirmation from his new job. We update this story regularly, that's why it gets longer and longer, with new events. It's becoming a book almost - required reading for anyone planning to travel to SA soon.

21 October 2008 12:52

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