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Attacks on white South Africans posted on Farmitracker from May 1 2010 to date:
Attacks and murders in Cities and towns:
ATTACKS AND MURDERS ON FARMS, RURAL LODGES AND SMALLHOLDINGS:
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More than 70 rural murders in West, South Cape
List of murdered rural dwellers in Western and Southern Cape
Amidst increasing armed attacks targetting Cape smallholdings, rural lodges and farms, an Aberdeen farmer and his son were arrested for ‘murder’ – after they had shot dead a suspected burglar… There is a widespread perception that Cape farms get off scott-free in the farm-attack epidemic – however this is not an accurate assessment of the facts.
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July 22 2010 - Lavern de Vries, crime writer, writes that an unnamed Southern Cape farmer and his son have been charged with murder after an armed man suspected of burgling their farm was shot dead. Preliminary reports revealed that he was shot with a shotgun and a rifle.The case, considered "high profile", has been handed over to the Hawks unit to investigate. Police said the 58-year-old farmer had taken his workers to Aberdeen at about 5.30pm on Saturday. When he returned to the farm about 68km south-east of Beaufort West on the Aberdeen road, he became suspicious because a light was on inside his homestead, the house was ransancked and a window forced. He phoned his son, who rushed to his father's aid.
While they were having coffee in the kitchen, they saw the shadow of a suspicious person outside. They then switched off the light but noticed that the suspect was pointing a gun at them, according to police. He said that the pair then ran to arm themselves and allegedly shot at the man with a shotgun and a rifle. Police have been unable to identify the alleged intruder. Both the farmer and his 29-year-old son have been charged with “murder” -- but were released after consultation with the prosecuting authority, pending the outcome of the forensic and ballistic analysis. The farmer, meanwhile, registered a case of housebreaking.
Carl Opperman, chief executive of Agri WesCape, said farmers were "sitting ducks" because of their isolated situation. Opperman also explained that the Western Cape’s smaller, high-occupancy farms (thus having a higher level of social control) did have a “relatively low incident level compared to provinces further north, where grain farms were larger and posed a bigger security risk.”
- We list the details of some 70 people who were murdered at rural sites in the Western Cape over the past few years - below this article.
FURTHER RECENT FARM-ATTACK REPORTS - ACCESS: http://www.farmitracker.com/reports/?c=1
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Picture left: Farmer Wilhelm Roche also was arrested on 24 January 2010 – after he had made a citizen’s arrest of an armed stock thief who had been caught in the action. Roche was unable to raise any SAPS members at the local station because the Police commissioner was throwing a bash at Bloemfontein stadium for 50,000 police officers – which had left many rural police stations unmanned.
On May 16 2008 Delareyville farmer Jaco Swart also was arrested and thrown in a police cell overnight after defending himself against a large group of armed farm attackers -- and during which one attacker was shot dead during the firefight on May 16 2008.
Picture left: Many Afrikaner women aand girls also risk being locked up on trumped-up charges while they are out in traffic: women are arrested, thrown into cells and gang-raped; and then released without any charges the next day. These recorded events prompted worried Bellville Western Cape dad Gideon Theron to resort to physically guarding the police-cell where his daughter Tonia, 16, had been locked up on trumped-up charges at the Bellville Police station February 10 2009. She also was released the next day without any charges being lodged against her. He stood in front of her celldoor all night.
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Picture right: Pretoria student Werner Smook was arrested in July 2009 for lodging a formal complaint about a specific case of police corruption he had recorded on his cellphone. He and a fellow student also complained of racist comments made to them by several black members of the Mondeor police force.
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Spate of attacks on Stellenbosch wine farms, June 2010
Beeld newspaper also reported on 10 June 2010 that more than 7 wine farms were attacked at gunpoint by groups of armed men in the Stellenbosch area in the previous and that Western Cape farmers were taking increased security measures. http://www.nuus24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Bende-teiken-glo-Stellenbosch-plase-20100628
8 murders on Philippi farms linked to one murder gang whose leader has a “Jesus” tattoo:
In 2005, farmers in the Philippi area near Khyalitsha township also rushed to beef up their security in the wake of a spurt of motiveless killings by an armed gang of three men which targetted farmworkers. Farmworkers were convinced that the eight murders committed in the area recently were linked. The three suspects - led by a man marked by a "Jesus" tattoo - made use of the same kind of murder weapon. Farmer Errol Ohlhoff, owner of a nursery where two workers were murdered, said he'd appointed a security guard to safeguard his employees. "Up to three families are sharing a house at night because they fear for their lives. The police should do more to make us safe. It's their job," said Ohlhoff. Gunter Engelke, of Engelke flower farm, had also appointed two security guards on his grounds. Source: ‘ Farmers beef up security”, Kaapse Son newspapers 2005-11-24; http://www.scribd.com/doc/25734968/
Opperman said the Western Cape’s much smaller, high-occupancy farms did have a “relatively low incident level compared to provinces further north, where grain farms were larger and posed a bigger security risk.” Yhe names of the 62 murdered Western Cape rural dwellers; farmers, workers, family members and tourists murdered at rural overlook sites, are listed below).
- Quote: “The very same figures of 794 farm attacks and 86 farm murders published in the 2006-07 Annual Report were repeated and included by mistake in the 2008-2009 annual report (p 69 Parliament, internal question paper No 16-2010). The SAPS and Minister of Police regret this mistake.” http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=187408&sn=Marketingweb%20detail
July 23 2010 the small farming community of Villiersdorp in the Western Cape is in shock after the body of a missing farm worker, Jakobus Deez, nicknamed “Roman’, was found with his head, arms and penis hacked off. Police say farm workers came upon the mutilated body in a ditch on Linquenda Farm, outside Villiersdorp, at about 9am on Wednesday.Villiersdorp Police Station Commander Lieutenant Colonel Adri Kriel said it was suspected that the body is that of Jakobus "Roman" Deez, 32, who went missing on July 3.Relatives of the missing man identified the body by the clothes that were found next to him, but we are waiting on the results of DNA tests to confirm the deceased's identity," said Kriel.He explained that the body couldn't be positively identified because the head and both arms were hacked off and are still missing.The man's upper body was also slit open and some of his intestines were removed and his penis was also cut off.But despite the gruesome injuries, there was very little blood on the scene, leading police to believe that the deceased had been murdered somewhere else and then dumped in the ditch.Jakobus's family believe that it is his body and are struggling to come to terms with his brutal death.His wife Gillian Deez, 37, said she got the shock of her life when cops came to her door asking her whether she could identify the clothes that were found near the body.She said that although she had reported her husband missing, when he didn't come home after police arrested him on July 3 for being drunk in public, she assumed that he found work on another farm and was going to return home soon."Last Friday was our seven-month anniversary and I thought he was going to come home that night to surprise me," she said.She now hopes police will find her husband's missing body parts in time for his funeral next week.Constance Deez, 45, said the thought of burying her brother without his head and other body parts is too much to bear."But I guess we just have to thank God that his body was found so that we don't have to keep wondering where he is," she added.His daughter Jacqueline Andreas, 13, said she had had a feeling her dad was dead.Anyone with information can contact Officer Hendrik Wilmot on 028 840 8000 or on 079 893 9915. - Daily Mail http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Crime%20And%20Courts&set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=iol1279877957379D121
Following are the recorded violent rural deaths for the Western and Southern Cape region
- ABRAHAMS MARIAM AND ISMAEL 2001-020-08 ASIAN FARMERS killed on farm Groot Drakensteyn, Boland, WC
- BADHOLDT JANNA F 2003-11-01 Nov 2003, Paarl smallholding
- BASSON ANDRIES A F 2003\12 PAARL SMALLHOLDING WC
- BASSON PIERRE M 2003\12 PAARL SMALLHOLDING WC
- BEACON CLIFFORT AND UNNAMED GIRL-FRIEND 2006\05 GORDONS BAY RURAL SITE MURDER WC
- BEKKER FANIE M 2007\02 TYGERBERG SMALLHOLDING WESTERN CAPE
- BOCK REIMOND 44 2003-04-15 WESTERN CAPE FARM PHILLIPI WC
- BURGER ELMA 72 F 2008-11-10 MONTAGU FARM - LOOT: ONE CELLPHONE
- CILLIERS P M ,MALE, FARM LORAINE, CERES 2009-12-04 WESTERN CAPE FOUR SHOTS FIRED BY ATTACKERS, NOTHING ROBBED
- COCKS MICHELLE F 3 2002\09 STELLENBOSCH SMALLHOLDING WESTERN CAPE
- CRONJE HENRI M 2005\07 FRANSCHHOEK FARM WC
- DEEZ, JAKOBUS “Roman”, worker, July 23 2010 found chopped to pieces, went missing after SAPS arrest July 3 2010, Villiersdorp, Western Cape.
- FOURIE LENIE AND ALBIE, 73 AND 72, MURDERED JAN 2002 ON PAARL SMALLHOLDING
- FREDERICKS WILLIE (38) killed (Ms H. Jantjies wounded), farm Vrede, Stellenbosch, WC
- GRUNDY ISLA F 2002\09 STELLENBOSCH smallholding, WC
- EIGHT FARM WORKERS KILLED IN PHILLIPPI FARM AREA IN 2005 BY THREE-MAN GANG WITH JESUS TATTOO
- HANEKOM JOACHIM 2001-09-02 killed on unnamed farm, Franschhoek, WC
- HERBERT JENNIFER F 52 2006\10 SMALLHOLDING KRAAIFONTEIN CAPE TOWN
- HILLS PHILLIP M 22 2002\05 STELLENBOSCH FARM WESTERN CAPE
- HORSTMANN ROBERT M 73 2007\01 BELLVILLE AH WC
- JONKHEID KLAAS DR. M 2009-06-01 SPIER AH ESTATE STELLENBOSCH WC
- JORDAAN CHRISTO M ASSASSINATED WITH 9MM TWO BLACK MEN KRAAIFONTEIN HOMESTEAD NOTHING ROBBED
- KOEN EUREKA F 2005\11 EDGEMEAD AH WC
- KRAPOHL THEUNS M 44 2002\07 BERGRIVIER FARM GOEDE HOOP WC
- LAMBINON BEATRICE F 2003\09 FARMLET DIEPRIVIER KAAPSTAD W
- MERRYWEATHER ANDREW M 22 AND MATTHEW 24, 2006\11 AH WESTERN CAPE RURAL SITE RONDEBOSCH
- MITCHELL MR 43 murdered 2000-11-01 on smallholding San Michells, Atlantis, WC
- MYBURGH JEAN AUDREY F 1999\07 FRANSCHHOEK SMALLHOLDING WC
- NEUENSCHWANDER ERNST 83 – murdered 2001/ Panorama smallholdings, Soetendal, Wellington, WC info: daughter Marlene@vatclaims.com June 29 2010
- NIEHAUS MRS Hrs H killed on unnamed farm, 200601 Worcester, WC
- OLIVIER CHRISTO 58 2002-08-07 smallholding JAN KEMPDORP WC
- OLIVIER HESTER MAGDALENA 55 20010729 killed, farm Lenterus, Twee Rivieren, Joubertina, WC
- OLWAGE ANDREW M 78 AND KOWIE, F, 75, 2006\10 SMALLHOLDING OUTSIDE BELLVILLE WC
- OPPERMAN TINUS JOHAN M 2002\11 LONG TOM PASS WC
- BEVERY SAPPHIRE, 46, SHOT DEAD, LOOKOUT DECK RESTAURANT PLETTENBERG BAY ATTACK APRIL 21 2010
- PLOUGHMAN Prof. Elizabeth (50) Poverty researcher tortured/killed on Masekhane farm, Paarl, WC
- ROUX ALET (farm murder investigator/journalist) 2000-12-13 killed, unnamed farm, Riversdale, WC
- RUITERS LEONARDUS 20021201 stabbed, beaten to death by ex-prisoner, Tuinplaas, Napier, WC
- SHELTON MARK M 37 2004\10 TYGERBERG SMALLHOLDING WC
- SMITH FAMILY (AUSTRALIAN TOURIST) M/F 2007\01 KIRSTENBOSCH GARDENS CAPETOWN CPT
- SNYMAN ALETA F AND JOHAN M 2006\10 STRAND rural site MURDERED WC
- STEVENS JULIE F 2002\11 LONG TOM PASS (ENGLAND TOURIST) RURAL WC
- Unnamed farmer (65) 20020808 shot livestock thief dead, arrested for murder charge Malmesbury, WC
- Unnamed farmer killed (SAPA report) 20020521 on unnamed farm, Grabouw, WC
- VAN DER LINDE STOFFEL M 54 2006\12 SMALLHOLDING TYGERBERG CAPE TOWN WC
- VAN REENEN SEBASTIAN M farmer 2003-07-19 SHOT DEAD at DEW FRESH FARM STALL PHILIPPI W
- VAN ZYL CHRISTINA F 2000\07 MOREWAG CITRUSDAL WC
- VAN ZYL Percy AND wife, physician Dr Loretta, killed on farm, Hoop-en-berg, Muldersvlei, WC
- VISSER LIEZETTE 33 ,JAN VISSER 41 , BENNIE 11, DANIE 8, 2001-06-01 OpdieBerg farm, Koue Bokkeveld, KLEINVELD, Ceres, WC
- VIVIERS JOHAN M 1998\02 NIEWOUDTVILLE SMALLHOLDING WC
- VORSTER VERNON M 2002\12 GORDONS BAY REMOTE RURAL SITE WC
- WALDEN MARC M 25 2006\07 TABLE VIEW SMALLHOLDING WESTERN CAPE
- WARREN SARA F 2006\10 TYGERBERG SMALLHOLDING DAIRY WESTERN CAPE
- WOLMARANS LOUIS M 40 2007\01 MELKBOSSTRAND RURAL SITE WESTERN CAPE
- ZETLER LENNY (LEONARD) M 60 2005\05 MOUNTAIN BREEZE AH STELLENBOSCH WC
