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Constable Rebecca Mfisa of Florida SAPS crime-prevention unit arrested for May 22 2010 farm attack attempt against Schweizer-Reneke farmer Abraham Oosthuizen

Johannesburg – SAPS Constable Rebecca Mfisa of the SAPS Crime Prevention Unit in Florida, Gauteng was arrested and appeared in court for the attempted murder of Schweizer-Reneke farmer Abraham Oosthuizen, 36,  on Friday. May 22 2010.   She was remanded to May 31 for a formal bail application with two other suspects in the North West magistrate’s court on Monday and is being investigated for an attempted murder charge, North West police Lt-Gen. Lesetja Ephraim Beetha told the news media.

The female constable was arrested in a road-block while driving away from the crime scene – which is 333km from her duty station in Florida. Two other suspects appeared with her, namely Mr Modisaotsile Advocate Koki, 37, and ex-police officer Mr Thembila Johannes Rens, 35 – the latter is believed to be a in a relationship with Mfisa. The fourth suspect is still being sought, reports SAPA.

Mr Oosthuizen was attacked and fired upon at his car-port next to his homestead at about 20h00 Friday.  The attackers fled after Oosthuizen fired off a shot and then barricaded himself inside his homestead while alerting the local farm-watch volunteers --  some neighbours arrived on the scene within seven minutes while other farmers organised road-blocks around the farm and launched searches for the attackers. Mfisa was allegedly captured with incriminating materials in a white bakkie,  chasing away from the crime-scene at high speed.

Police searching Mfisa’s bakkie discovered her police identification, a police-issue gun, apolice-issue torch, an orange emergency light and two-way hand radios in the vehicle. http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=177721&sn=Marketingweb%20detail

North West farms embroiled in land-claims

North West farms are lately targetted more than other regions  by organised, armed black gangs. There is-- because there is a fierce battle for control of the land: mainly sparked by the large deposits of  a variety of highly valuable minerals such as platinum. Members of the Mekgareng tribe – more specifically the Makuwe-clan, have submitted claims to the Land Claims Court to large portions of North West land. http://www.broederstroomlandclaim.co.za/Court-order-22-02-2010.PDF 

The farmer, Abraham Oosthuizen (35), a crop- and cattle-farmer on the farm Grootlaagte near Schweizer-Reneke, told Beeld newspaper that was attacked Friday at around 8pm after he had offloaded workers at their homes. He parked his bakkie in a car-port about 15m from his homestead and had just climbed out with some documents in one hand, and his .22 shotgun in the other, when three black people stormed towards him and fired a shot at him, he told Beeld newspaper.

“My first reaction was to attack and I fired off one shot from the hip,’ he said. One attacker ran away, two hid behind his bakkie. “They started shooting at me across the engine-cover,’ he said.

Instead of shooting back, Oosthuizen went inside his homestead, locked the doors and called in the help from surrounding farmers on the two-way radio system of the farm watch system. Within seven minutes farmers arrived from all directions – and on their way to the farm, also called around to other farmers to set up road blocks. They also launched organised search partyies for the attackers together with a number of police officers.

“The farmers were terrific. They drove long distances, from as far away as 60km, to come and help. And as they drove they also put up roadblocks and started searching people’s cars, ’ said Oosthuizen.

Warrant officer Sam Tselanyane said that the Colt bakkie’s registration showed that it belonged to a former police officer of Rustenburg who had resigned as a cop in February this year. It is believed that this person also formed part of the farm-attack gang firing at Oosthuizen and Tselanyane claimed that this man had ‘undertaken to turn himself in’. However by the time the newspaper was put to bed, this had not yet happened, reports Beeld.  Another suspect, 36-years old, was arrested in Ipelegeng township outside Schweizer-Reneke. Another suspect remains missing.  The privately-owned Cold-bakkie contained various items which were of great interest to the investigating police: the ex-cop’s police appointment certificate, the woman constable’s appointment certificate, a police-issue flashlight, two hand-radios and an orange emergency light. A suspect’s driver’s license, a police-issue Z88-pistol and a magazine containing 15 live bullets also were confiscated.

Oosthuizen said he was ‘deeply disappointed about the SAPS’ involvement in the attack against him. The two arrested persons will appear on a charge of attempted murder at the Schweizer-Reneke Magistrate's Court on Monday.

• English-language version: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Cop-arrested-after-farm-attack-20100523
• Afrikaans-language version – notice the difference! http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Boere-trek-polisievrou-vas-20100523

Police involvement suspected in previous attacks

Farmer Chris Grobler, foreman Eugene Lloyd arrested for defending themselves against two armed attackers – Koppies police station

March 14 2010 – KOPPIES, Free State. Journalist Charles Smith of Volksblad newspaper reports that  twenty-three year old Afrikaner farmer Chris Grobler and his foreman Eugene Lloyd both were illegally arrested and locked up for 48 hours in the Free State this past weekend without being booked in at the official police registry --  for defending themselves against two men who had attacked them with knives. The two Afrikaners had made citizen’s arrests of the two attackers and the police were alerted – but only showed up a day later. And instead of arresting the attackers, the two white men were arrested when they went to the police station to make formal statements – and then their dockets were ‘lost’ for 48 hours while they were locked up in a large holding pen with dozens of aggressive black detainees. http://www.volksblad.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2114/a4d8f29425584edf86d3eee442d8be9a/17-03-2010-12-53/Boer_(23)_in_hegtenis_geneem_wat_plaasaanvaller_ontwapen

The two white men were threatened in the overcrowded holding pens of the Koppies police station by black inmates who started singing and dancing very loudly, said his father Christo. The two young white men were held illegally:  three attorneys hired by the parents have established that the two Afrikaners initially had been held without any mention of their names being registered in the police-registry at Koppies police station. “The dossier was ‘ missing ‘ and there were no entries in the incident book…’ said the father. Moreover, the police officers even denied that they had even been to the farm, where Mr Grobler and the foreman had made citizen’s arrests of two men who had assaulted the two white men with knives on Sunday.

• The two men were released only after two farm workers who had witnessed the assaults and the arrival of the police that Monday, had submitted signed and sworn statements to the police, did the cops even acknowledge the fact that the two white men were in a holding pen with scores of black detainees.  The police had been called twice over the weekend after a drunken ex-farm worker had shown up there with a comrade and started attacking the residents with knives but only showed up on Monday when two constables showed up.

“Don’t behave like a white woman…’ distraught farm wife told by arrogant SAPS constable…

“My wife wanted to know why they didn’t show up on Sunday when the two men were making all the trouble, and she was told ‘don’t behave like a white woman’… said Grobler. The commander of the Heuningspruit police station also told the father that his son ‘should have stood still to be stabbed’ and then the attacker would have been in the cells instead of Chris…’ Allegedly the two arrested black knifemen had lodged charges of assaults against the farmer and his foreman, said police captain Msisitheki Selima of the Kroonstad police; and Volksblad also quoted a claim from another cop that the police ‘have a rule’ that “anyone accused of anything should be locked up for 48 hours…. “

When the young farmer was asked to go to the police station on Monday with his foreman to make a formal statement about the details surrounding the citizen’s arrest of the two armed men which the police had been taken away by the two constables earlier that day, these crime-victims were arrested instead and held illegally for 48 hours.  Volksblad http://www.volksblad.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/2114/a4d8f29425584edf86d3eee442d8be9a/17-03-2010-12-53/Boer_(23)_in_hegtenis_geneem_wat_plaasaanvaller_ontwapen

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Police abuse of Afrikaner woman recorded on video

March 14 2010. The Mnet TV programme Carte Blanche published video footage of the arrest of Afrikaans motorist Magdel Steyn, 24, who was still busy parking her car at a private garage of a shopping centre in Pretoria when she was arrested by a large, very aggressive Pretoria police force in front of a large black crowd --  however their aggression was caught on camera and also published on the internet by Afriforum civil rights movement… She was released without any charges.

March 14 2010 – PRETORIA  AfriForum released the shocking visual material showing Pretoria metro male police officers unlawfully yanking around the Afrikaans woman in front of a large black crowd and then illegally arresting her. Her ‘crime?” – she was accused of double-parking at a private parking lot while she was still busy parking her car.

It was broadcast on the M-Net programme, Carte Blanche, on Sunday 14 March 2010. She was brutally arrested in front of her relatives and a alrge crowd of black people by the (Pretoria) Metro Police on a fake charge of “reckless and negligent driving” -- after allegedly double-parking at a privately-owned parking lot.

 It’s not known why the Pretoria metropolitan police were present in such large numbers just to arrest one defenceless Afrikaans woman who had done nothing wrong. No charges were ever placed against her.  Afrikaners say they are increasingly targetted in public by officials and members of the public in such racist incidents.