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Wendy wilken executed: walkerville khoi farm
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Wendy Wilken (60), killed with a head-shot at their Walkerville Khoi-farm March 21 2011, nothing was robbed: husband Mario ends business: another 4 black workers without any income.
Smallholder Mrs Wendy Wilken was killed execution-style with a single headshot in their humble homestead where she and her husband Mario were raising Koi fish for the gardening-market. “My life is shattered, ‘ said her devastated husband. This was the second armed-attack against his smallholding in the past three years. Other smallholders also suffer regular attacks: Shortly after Mrs Wilken’s murder, neighbour Brain Ubsdell came to offer his condolances. He said he was attacked two years earlier: tied up and tortured with a hot iron.
“My neighbours also were robbed and another one was murdered last year,’ he told Riata Nel, a journalist at Beeld newspaper).
The Wilken couple have lived on the smallholding south of Johannesburg for the past 15 years to start the Khoi Farm as a business. Mr Wilken said he’s now lost all his courage to continue it: thus four black workers and their families now are without an income.
On March 21 2011, three black males attacked the small holmestead shortly after 9am and forced four workers into the house. Mr and Mrs Wilkens were forced at gunpoint into the food-storage area, which is called a ‘spens’ in Afrikaans. “We were forced to open our (registered) safe which is located in the spens,’ said Wilken. “There is nothing in the safe. They demanded money, dragged Wendy from the spens. I heard a shot, opened the door and Wendy was lying there, in a puddle of blood. She was the most generous person, always willing to help others irregardless of their skin-colour,’’ her grieving husband said. Nothing was robbed: after Mrs Wilken was shot execution-style, the attackers left.
Mr Wilken had just returned from Japan to place an order for world-famous, decorative Khoi fish, and was in the airplane home for about three hours when the earthquake hit there. “I just missed the earthquake and now my wife is dead.”“There were a lot of police on the smallholding afterwards. I doubt whether anything will come of this.’ Neighbour Ubsdell also wanted to start a Koi-businesses – but is deeply worried about the increase in armed attacks at the smallholdings in the region.
Mrs Wilken also leaves behidn the couples four daughters and five grandchildren. Original Afrikaans source interpreted by Adriana Stuijt - http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-val-oor-vrou-se-lyk-20110322
Attacks Walkerville logged on Farmitracker.com
Attempted xenophobic attacks in Walkerville, Johannesburg There was an attempted xenophobic attack in Walkerville, which was foiled by a sharp-eyed police reservist in the area Fri Jul 16 2010
Large-scale land invasions - emergency meeting Midvaal Walkerville 27 July 2010 SPECTRE OF LARGE-SCALE LAND INVASIONS RAISED MIDVAAL Emergency Meeting Walkerville Showgrounds Hall Tuesday 27 July 2010 7:30pm Milan Kavka milan@kavka.co.za Tue Jul 27 2010
Tortured Afrikaner Chris Bronkhorst of Walkerville smallholding dies: maltreatment in hospice Attacked, tortured Afrikaner smallholder Chris Bronkhorst, 67, dies from maltreatment and gross neglect in government-hospice April 24 2011 - Family-friend Marius Avenant writes
Wilken, Wendy, 60, killed execution style, Walkerville Khoi-farm NOTHING ROBBED Wendy Wilken (60), killed with a head-shot at their Walkerville Khoi-farm March 21 2011, nothing was robbed: husband Mario ends business: another 4 black workers without any income ... Mon Mar 21 2011 9:00:00 am
Farm murder death toll from 1994 to October 5 2010: 3,729 total killed on farms and smallholdings Death toll from 1994: 3,729 -- up to Oct 5 2010 Updates and corrections: contact: adrianastuijt@knid.nl Names of people notified as ‘murdered’ in agricultural/peri-rural region ... Mon Oct 18 2010
Farm murders soar to 3,756 whites killed on farms, smallholdings up to Nov 14 2010 - LIST OF NAMES Farm murder death toll soars to 3,756 Afrikaner-Boers, killed on farms, smallholdings: since 1994 up to Nov 13 2010 Updates and corrections: contact: adrianastuijt@knid.nl Sat Nov 20 2010 1:40:00 am
Weilbach, Marie, 79, Walkerville De Deur dies of brain injuries from attack by two workers who were killed by grandson Eon Viljoen self defence 0101224 Boer dairy farmer Marie Weilbach dies of her brain injuries in Sebokeng hospital, Dec 24 2010 after berserker workers' attack on DE DEUR, Walkerville dairy farm.Thu Dec 23 2010 1:47:00 am
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