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- Retired South African medical journalist, ex-Sunday Times of Johannesburg.
Afrikaner family attacked by gunmen shouting “Viva Malema”
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Cullinan farm family wins in fierce fight with armed farm attackers, SABC interviews them but then refuses to broadcast it; Nelson Mandela’s former bodyguard, the experienced hostage negotiator Gert Barnard goes missing in NW province; Debbie Kannemeyer, 19, was tortured with cigarettes, her hair was cut off and taken away by an armed gang in Sasolburg; and Canadian political refugee Brandon Huntley gets a review of his political-asylum approval after the SA government intervened… Just another ‘normal crime’ day in South Africa.
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Annelie Koekemoer writes from Cullinan on her Facebook page: Sat 10 April 2010:
“We were attacked this morning at 5am on our farm. We shot dead one attacker in the hallway and defended ourselves against another one with a hatchet. Two firearms were found with them. One attacker kept screaming "Mahlungu" and "Viva Malema". The SABC was here and interviewed us - but then later let us know that they couldn't broadcast it 'because they feared that this would increase the political tension'.
Thank our Heavenly Father for being with us so that we could fight back.' The Koekemoer family consists of dad Leon Johan, and the children Rudolph 6, Lionel, 14, Johan, 10. The story was confirmed on Radio Sonder Grense and Radio Pretoria.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=1026941238#!/group.php?gid=270783752762&ref=ts
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Gert Barnard, 43, ex-body guard for Mandela, missing in North West province
Retired pres. Nelson Mandela’s former bodyguard Gert Barnard, 43, of Centurion, has been reported missing after he left from Fochville and never arrived at his rural destination in Vredefort. Police said he was expected at a friend’s house but never arrived. Barnard was a member of the SAPS VIP protection unit in Pretoria , protecting presidents Mandela and Mbeki, before becoming a hostage-negotiator or the unit for four years. As were many Afrikaner policemen, he also was ‘retired’ in 2004 and now is the operational manager of the private security company Tactical Support Unit in Centurion. His sister Elsa Booysen said the family has been looking for him for the past five days.
Booysen arrived at the Fochville house of his other sister Sandra Muller and they spent the entire day with their mother Mrs Martie Barnard. “He was very quiet. As if something was bothering him,” said Booysen. About 9am the next day he departed in his dark-grey Mazda Drifter bakkie. When Toe Mrs Booysen tried to phone him later that day his cellphone was turned off. And none of the SMS’s sent throughout the day have not been accepted. His wife Sonja said she’s heard nothing from him since Monday – and she’s been phoning hospitals in the area, without any results. Two days ago she finally reported him missing. “I am very worried. I need to find my husband urgently,’ she said.
Police said they have not located any signs of Mr Barnard or his bakkie. It’s unclear whether he was travelling for his business – he wasn’t on leave however. His employer Chris Beukes refused to discuss the case with Beeld newspaper.
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April 9 2010 - Johan Brits reports from Sasolburg: Four armed black men tied up 19-year-old Debbie Kannemeyer, burnt her with cigarettes – and cut off some of her hair, taking it with them, reports constable Sellwane Legae.
She and her unnamed boyfriend, 29, were asleep in their smallholding cottage when four attackers tore off the burglar-bars and accosted the couple, taking them to seperate bedrooms. It’s not known why they found it necessary to torture the defenceless young woman. The men arrived in a white 1400-Nissan bakkie, which they used to load up a TV, playstation, the couple’s cellphones, a computer and jewellery. The vehicle was found in the nearby township Bophelong, said police.http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Rowers-brand-vrou-sny-van-haar-hare-af-en-vat-dit-saam-20100409 http://ping.fm/5UtAt
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Judge ponders fate of 'white refugee'
April 09 2010 at 07:42AM Judgment is at hand for Brandon Huntley, the white South African refugee who was granted a safe haven in Canada last August because he had been frequently attacked and cursed for a “white dog" and "a settler" -- and stabbed seven times by black South Africans in his hometown of Mowbray near Cape Town -- only because he was white.
After receiving objections from the South African government to this ruling, the Canadian government this week appealed against Huntley being granted asylum and Judge Francois Lemieux had agreed to review the opposing arguments. He did not set a date for his findings.
- Huntley was already granted refugee status in Canada last August. The ruling caused an uproar in South Africa, with pro-black “human rights groups” slamming the decision and the ruling African National Congress party even calling the Canadian ruling “racist”.
The court heard at the appeal hearing that 113,000 news articles had been written worldwide about the case. Huntley's lawyer Rocco Galati argued that the South African government had interfered with Canada's judicial system by pressing immigration minister Jason Kenney. "A foreign government is interfering with our minister of immigration. This court must be seen as independent or it will have no legitimacy. The public needs to be able to see a reasonable perception of independence. This court is being used by the minister for his political ends." He then asked the court to request the minutes of any meetings between the immigration ministry and the South African government.
- The Toronto Sun reported that the immigration department claimed the case was under review “ for legitimate reasons. We were asked to see if there was a legal basis for a judicial review. We read it (the decision to grant refugee status) and they got it wrong," was the opinion of Bernard Kaplan, counsel for the ministry. This article was originally published on page 6 of Pretoria News on April 09, 2010 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100409041531483C773253
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