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Marshall family of Hartbeespoort survives 2-hr attack by eight men
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“The only young black man who could speak some Afrikaans beat me the hardest…’ - Hester Marshall
HARTBEESPOORT, Gauteng. April 19 2010 – Stilll bruised, battered and traumatised after her family’s two-hour torture-ordeal at the hands of eight black attackers last Tuesday ( April 13 2010) at 9.15, Mrs Hester Marshall, (52) today received a terrifying series of cellphone and SMS messages warning her that ‘they will be back’ and that they are ‘on their way’. Mrs Marshall told Radio Pretoria in a telephone interview at 17:30 today the family – which runs a two-storey guest house – was attacked by eight young black males who all carried handguns and had broken in through the window downstairs, where her husband was seated. They immediately beat him unconscious and tied him up.
Then they started beating, kicking and verbally abusing Mrs Marshall, beating her so hard ‘that the blood spattered’, she told Radio Pretoria. At one point one pulled down her pants – but one younger man then stopped them, she said.
“They kept on beating me, demanding to know where the safe was. I told them we don’t have a safe so they kept on beating me,’ she said. Their eleven-year-old son then told them to stop beating his mother, even though the youngster was terrified himself, and said he would ‘give them anything they asked for, just stop beating up on my mother.’ Mrs Marshall: ‘he even gave them my diamond ring and that probably saved our lives. They demanded money and valuables and my son told them our money was in the bank, and handed them all the cards and all the security codes,’ she said. Then they beat up the boy (not named in the interview), warning him that if he had given them the wrong codes ‘they would be back’.
She said one of the young black male attackers did speak some Afrikaans – and he also was the one who also beat her the hardest. She believed that the other men all were probably Zimbabweans – they all yelled at her in English.
Attended funeral of murdered Brits farmer Koos van Staden week earlier:
Ironically, she had attended the funeral of murdered Brits farmer Koos van Staden (left) just the previous week – and told Radio Pretoria she “couldn’t believe that this could ever happen to her”.
No shots were fired during their ordeal. However Mrs Marshall told the men repeatedly that they could beat her but that the Lord would not let them kill her. “I was being beaten black and blue and then one of the younger men gave me a rag to clean myself up with and warned me quietly to ‘keep quiet, they will kill you.’ They were then given pillows to lie on and were tied up.
After the men took their valuables, cards and other goods they fled in the family’s brand-new car, she said. Shortly afterwards she managed to cut them all lose from their bonds and the mother and son jumped off the balcony and started screaming for the neighbours to come and help them. Help soon arrived and many neighbours have been visiting them regularly to bring food and comfort ever since, she said.
This morning she started receiving cellphone and SMS messages such as “It’s your last warning, you must give me your work,’ and ‘we will be back,’ and ‘we are on our way.’ “There’s no way I am going to sleep in this house tonight, we have warned the police.”
She also praised her son for his outstanding courage. “He was scared and yet still so brave, telling them: ‘ask me anything we will give it to you’, and when he gave them the diamond ring that saved our lives,’ she concluded.
Koos van Staden murder details: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1026941238&ref=profile#!/photo.php?pid=31119713&id=1026941238
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Attacked Suna Steenberg still survives after two headshots in smallholding attack, Kameelfontein Pretoria
Mev. Suna Steenberg, who was given two execution-style headshots on Friday April 16 2010 by two attackers at the Montana Pale construction business the family runs at the Kameelfontein smallholdings north-east of Pretoria, is still surviving in the Montana Hospital’s intensive care unit, reports Beeld newspaper today.
Mrs Steenberg, 45, was shot while the attackers held her mother-in-law 75, hostage. Her husband Jurie also was shot in the leg. The attackers fled without taking anything and no-one has been arrested. Two weeks earlier eighteen-year-old home-student Ernst Hoon was also shot dead at an adjacent smallholding – while asleep in his bed. The shot was fired from the outside. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrou-leef-nog-n%C3%A1-2-skote-in-die-kop-20100419
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Mass protest of 2000 farmers and workers brings Brits to standstill
Afrikaans report follows: Donderdag 15 April 2010 Deur Cynthia Dreyer Madibeng Pulse
Verteenwoordigers van SABC TV, radiostasies, Citizen, Sowetan, Sun en ander nasionale koerante het almal kameras geflits, mikrofone vorentoe gebring en notas gemaak toe ‘n skare van om en by 2 000 boere, gewone inwoners, plaaswerkers en belangstellendes gisteroggend deur Brits met plakkate omhoog, ‘n klagskrif aan die plaaslike Stasiebevelvoerder, Brigadier Mokhele Seboloke oorhandig het. Vooraan die vreedsame optog was ‘n trekker en sleepwa agter met drie kiste daarop as simbool van die landelike gemeenskap se bekommernis oor die moorde op veral boere.
“Stop die misdaad, stop die verkragtings, stop die plaasmoorde” was die kreet van protesteerders en onder hulle was baie swart mense. Ma’s het kinders in stootwaentjies deur die strate gestoot as deel van die optog vanaf die sportterrein tot by die polisiekantoor ingang in Kerkstraat, skoolkinders het langs hulle ouers gestap, die oues van dae is in ‘n bus vervoer, almal met dieselfde boodskap. “Ons is gatvol!” het een van die mans uitgeroep. Ds Berto Boshoff, self ‘n boer en Voorsitter van die Bosvledwag, gemeenskapsleier en organiseerder van Woensdag se optog, het aan MadibengPulse gesê dat die opmars geen politieke doel het nie. “Dis ‘n gemeenskapsaksie, almal is bekommerd oor misdaad,” het hy gesê. Plaaswerkers en ander werkers is selfs meer weerloos as die meeste boere want hulle het nie alarmstelsels of sekuriteits maatskappye wat hulle beskerm nie, sê hy. Die uitnodigings aan alle belangstellendes om aan die optog deel te neem, is weerspieël deur gemengde massa wat op televise gewys is. Vanuit die sleepwa aan die voorpunt van die optog het Ds Boshoff Woensdagoggend sy klagskrif aan senior lede van die plaaslike SAPD oorgedra. Dit lees as volg:
Only one police vehicle to prevent crime in Brits!
“When God created the world, he said it was good. It isn’t good anymore. The disturbance of harmony is caused by people hurting other people. We are standing up to it.”
We love South Africa and want help, and want to help to show it. We want help and want to help to stop crime and criminals hurting our people in every community. Crime and criminals destroy the face of a beautiful South Africa: Crime and criminals are causing the brain drain to go on, the number of farmers to decline, the number of cattle to decline. The murder of farmers is causing a threat to food security, farm workers who lose their jobs, young people not to farm. Crime and criminals are causing stressed relations between races.
“In conclusion we hear, read, see and experience serious crime every day. In our community numerous people were hurt and seriously injured. Criminals also took a number of lives of farmers and farm workers.
“We want Government and the SAPS to intervene as a matter of urgency. We want Government and the SAPS leadership to help see that police stations, especially the Brits SAPS get the support and resources they need. They are in desperate need of vehicles and a radio system. There is only one vehicle for crime prevention in the greater Brits/ Madibeng area consisting of four sectors. Good and working dedicated policemen can’t do their job without the necessary resources.
“We are going to support the SAPS in any way we can. “We love South Africa and we want it to be a safe place for every honest working citizen to live in peace.”
Die klagskrif sal die aandag kry wat dit toekom
In antwoord, het Brigadier Seboloke namens die Noordwes Hoof van Polisie, Generaal Beetha die memorandum ontvang. Hy het die gemeenskap se bekommernisse erken asook hulle duidelike voornemens om saam met die polisie teen hulle gemeenskaplike vyand, misdaad, te baklei:
“Dit (die klagskrif) sal die aandag kry wat dit toekom, dit sal deur Provinsie geantwoord word.” Brigadier Seboloke het verder die marsjeerders vir hulle vreedsame gedrag en hulle wetsgehoorsaamheid bedank en gesê die SAPD sal spoedig met ‘n antwoord vir die gemeenskap se probleme vorendag kom.
Ds Boshoff het afgesluit met die woorde: “Ons moet sigbaar wees en ons stem laat hoor! Ons het ‘n sterk boodskap vir die polisie, ons sal binne sewe dae terugkom vir ‘n antwoord. Ons sê: Stop die misdaad, stop die verkragtings, stop die plaasmoorde!” An Interesting Analysis Of The ANC’ & ANCYL’s Culpability In Farm Attacks http://www.madibengpulse.co.za/?Task=system&CategoryID=30350&HeadingText=News+150410+stop+plaasmoorde#g
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