Censorbugbear reports...

School principal Peter Stone, wife and 3 children of West Australia held hostage during South African gunfight, Pennington holiday home, KZN

 Dec 31, 2009 10:10pm – ABC.net.au reports -- A West Australian man has told how his family survived a frightening attack by armed men in (upmarket Pennington) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa on Tuesday night.  School principal Peter Stone, his wife and their three children were staying with family in a home in the eastern province of Kwazulu Natal when three gunmen burst into the house and took four (14?) people hostage.

SAPS map of armed robberies targetting families inside their homes up to April 2009. The greatest number of attacks are marked red. The white spot in the middle is Lesotho. Click on the map for the logo.

Mr Stone told the ABC says the hostages were held with guns against their heads and knives against their throats. He says the hostages were saved by neighbours, who shot one of the gunmen and wounded the two others during a shootout. "They came through with their firearms and burst into the house and then all hell broke loose," Mr Stone said."It was like the OK Corral all over again." URL LINK TO AUSTRALIAN STORY: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/31/2783693.htm?section=justin

South African police censorship: The story above was however hidden inside other crime reports in the South African Natal Mercury newspaper – which in this specific story also did not identify some of the victims as Australian nor did it identify them by name – the story was written by journalist Sinegugu Ndlovu: Hijacking suspects linked to massacre 31 December 2009, 10:25 Cele applauds police for swift arrests 

Pennington KZN crime victims not identified by SAPS as Australian citizens:

In Ndlovu’s story, The Mercury did not receive the Australian victims’ details from the SAPS about this incident -- in which one black attacker was killed and two others were wounded when holidaymakers foiled an armed robbery at a holiday house at Pennington, on the South Coast, on Monday. (story above from Australia: West Australian school principal Peter Stone, his wife and three children were among the hostages). The Mercury only reported that ‘the balaclava-clad men, carrying a handgun and knives, entered the house and held up 14 people, including four women and seven children. Neighbouring holidaymakers intervened and one robber was killed and his accomplices were wounded in a subsequent scuffle”. page 3 of The Mercury on December 31, 2009 . Pennington resorts under the “Umdoni’ municipal boundaries. Besides being a location for the worldfamous sardine run, it is also known as the location of the late SA president P W Botha’s home.

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other news report updates:

Policeman arrested for murder 01 Jan 2010 14:13 A 33-year-old police constable was arrested for shooting dead his neighbour in KwaBhokweni township, near White River, on Friday morning, Mpumalanga police said. The constable, who is stationed at a government building complex in Nelspruit, visited a house where his neighbours were drinking alcohol, said Captain Leonard Hlathi. They were talking to each other when an argument erupted at 6am. The policeman opened fire, shooting dead a 41-year-old man, he said. Five spend cartridges were found. The Independent Complaints Directorate was investigating. – Sapa  Police held for murder 

Cops arrested for theft and robbery 2009-12-31 13:44:24 Western Cape police have arrested two of their own members - one, a station commander, for stealing dagga from her own police station and selling it - and the other for robbing and attempting to kill four men. Full Story...

Three Somalis arrested in Delft for illegal cigarettes   01 Jan 2010 12:51 Three Somalian men have been arrested in a roadblock in Delft for possessing illegal cigarettes, Western Cape police said  Three Somalis arrested in Delft

Coca Cola plant in Pretoria under siege: 01 Jan 2010 12:40  The National Union of Metal Workers has expressed concern at what it claims is an abuse of the police's airwing to intimidate striking Fawu members. 'Abuse of SAPS airwing a concern'

Three New Year's Eve murders in E Cape New's Eve celebrations came to an abrupt end for three Eastern Cape men, who were stabbed to death in separate incidents. Full Story...

'Eybers family’s 5 dogs poisoned by crime-thugs' 2009-12-31 06:46:38 The Eybers family spent a few moments with their beloved dogs when they returned from their holiday. The next morning, all five animals were dead. Full Story...

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Orange Farm policeman’s ‘stolen’ gun used in mysterious massacre of 5 members of Khoza clan in Rustenburg

Police have confirmed that a legal police gun was used to murder the much-loved Rustenburg businesswoman Miriam Khoza and four of her clan-members this week in Lethabong township. The Mozambique-born matriarch owned three of the most important shops in the   township: the butchery, the liquor store and the supermarket and her entire family was murdered in the Christmas-Day massacre: her sons Karabo and Tsaona, brother-in-law Daniel Karfhia, 46, and another clan member, Nadir Khoza.

Police has thrown a cordon of mystery over this massacre of these five unarmed people in Rustenburg – and it thus also has drawn little attention in the international news media – which today focusses all its hysteria on the equally horrid massacre of five people in a Finnish shopping mall.

 SAPS superintendent Lesego Metsi said two men arrested in Sebokeng for the murder confessed that they stole the firearm from the home of a police officer in Orange Farm The same gun also was used to kill Karfhia in the same massacre. The police said they are concerned about the ‘different stories’ told by the suspects and the police officer. The cop claimed in his statement that the gun was taken away from him during a robbery; whereas the suspects told the police they had stolen it during a breakin into the policeman’s house. Superintendent Metsi said however that they were not investigating the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the gun – this was being handled seperately by the Vaal Triangle police under the Gun Control Law. “We only investigate the murders, said Metsi. This massacre is a deepening mystery: the police threw up a cordon around the court-room when the accused made their appearance, and would not even let the Khoza relatives inside to attend the hearings; and the magistrate decided to hold the entire case behind closed doors because one of the 5 arrested men was 17 years old. Usually under such circumstances, the trial for the youth would be held seperately – however the entire remand hearing was held in-camera. The self-confessed murderers remain in custody until their bail application in January.  http://www.nuus24.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1479/1d05d535a4b442ac952f488d36d6b8ef/31-12-2009-02-46/Polisieman_se_vuurwapen_in_moord_gebruik

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