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Roossenekal farmer executed in racist murder
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20091203 Hough, Gawie, 42, executed “I will show you what I can do with a white man’.
Pretoria - A man from a farm in the Roossenekal district in Mpumalanga has been "executed" with his own firearm in a revenge attack.
Gawie Hough, 42, was attacked two months after a former employee of his brother Deon, 41, threatened him with the words: "I'll show you what I can do with a white man." This was reported by Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper.
My comment: Clearly, this murder information was released as a prominent news-feature today by the SAPS – which usually never volunteers such crime-information – possibly to prove the recent claims by SA deputy president Motlanthe that ‘it was the fault of white farmers that they were being murdered by disgruntled foreign employees’. As a result formal hate-speech charge against Motlanthe was lodged with the SA Human Rights Commission.
Domestic worker waited a full day to report the murder to police:
There are some very strange aspects to this murder: for instance, the domestic worker only reported the farmer’s murder to the police a day after it occurred, one of the farm workers has since disappeared; and the groundwork for the murder had clearly been laid for several months, with a militia-gang eventually arriving on Thursday to carry out the execution itself. Another aspect which features frequently in such farm-murders is the fact that the SAPS crime-scene investigation was botched and was only carried out three days later, and the scene meanwhile left unguarded.
Deon Hough, owner of the farm on the Steelpoort road, says his brother was murdered on Thursday night December 3 2009.
- "I left the farm on Thursday at about 16:30. We were still chatting and joking. Our neighbours heard four shots at 18:00. However, our domestic worker, who was at home with my brother, only went to the police on Friday morning to report my brother's murder."
Overpowered inside his homestead: gunpowder was sticking to his face afterwards…
According to Deon, the attackers overpowered Gawie inside the house before dragging him about 600m away. They were on a footpath when they shot him at very close range in the left side of his face, probably while he was looking at them. A source close to the Hough family says the gunpowder from the firearm was still sticking to Gawie's face after his death.
- "We suspect he bled to death because he was lying in a pool of blood. Then they dragged him 15m into the bushes, but possibly stopped to rest before dragging him another 15m, before leaving him under a tree," said Deon.
Left to die
The attackers then dragged his brother a further 20m to a river bank and left him there in the bushes before they fled. He was wearing only his underpants.
Deon says one of his farm workers disappeared after the incident. This worker's brother is a former employee of Deon. Both men are from Zimbabwe. According to Deon, he sacked the one brother a few months ago because he'd been threatening the farmer:
- “I gave him the R600”…
"Two months ago, that worker phoned me and said: 'I'll show you what I can do with a white man.' I asked him what he wanted, and he replied he wanted R600 from me. "I gave the R600 to his brother to give to him. I also asked the brother to get my cellphone back, which the other brother took when he left, but it was never returned." Gawie's murderers fled with his revolver, two radios, two cellphones and about R1,000 -- so the SAPS are listing this as just another armed robbery/murder.
Police investigation being botched:
On Sunday Deon expressed his dismay that the police did not take fingerprints at the crime scene. They also did not take his cellphone number in order to be able to contact him. Ronel Otto, provincial police spokeswoman, confirmed that the Houghs' domestic worker had reported the incident to the police on Friday. Otto says there is a possibility “three suspects were involved in the attack”. http://www.news24.com/Content/SouthAfrica/News/1059/5025879906414d28b8de85c4452f7a2c/07-12-2009-12-04/Man_executed_in_farm_attack
sources:
- Hatespeech charge against SA deputy president Motlanthe: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/12/hate-speech-charge-against-sa-depy.html
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