British engineer 'in love' with South Africa, hacked to death for his mobile phone

British engineer 'in love' with South Africa, hacked to death for his mobile phone

A British engineer who moved to a remote farm in South Africa after “falling in love with the country” has been murdered in his own home by a machete-wielding gang who stole just £210 and a mobile phone.

Dan Newling & Erin Conway-Smith | Daily Telegraph.UK | 9:30PM GMT 26 Nov 2012

Chris Preece, 54, was stabbed to death in his kitchen by thieves at Fleur de Lis farm, near Ficksburg, a town along the South Africa-Lesotho border. Police believe he may have stepped outside to investigate a power cut when he was ambushed by three man and dragged back into the house.

His wife Felicity, 56, was also stabbed and suffered a fractured skull after being beaten with a pole - but managed to survive a 12 hour wait for help by bandaging her own head.

It is thought the thieves may have come from neighbouring Lesotho and fled back across the border after the assault. They stole only a wallet containing 3,000 South African rand (£210) and a mobile telephone.

The murder, on Saturday evening, is the latest in a spate of so-called “farm attacks” in South Africa: brutally violent robberies targeting relatively wealthy white farmers.

Pravin Ghordan: Perpetrators of More than Million Crimes in SA GO FREE

R65bn crackdown to put criminals away

Murray Williams | Cape Argus | February 23 2012 at 02:06pm

THE perpetrators of more than a million serious crimes a year are getting away free, Treasury documents tabled by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan show.

Criminals who burgle homes and businesses or hijack cars are even more likely to get away, with only 18.25 percent of about 40 000 of these crimes “detected” (resulting in arrest, court appearances and possible conviction) by police, according to Budget documents.

The Treasury yesterday presented exact targets by which the SAPS wants to reduce crime – supported by billions of rand to fight criminals.

The total police budget was set at R65 billion, a 6.8 percent rise.

Budget documents showed a total of just over 2 million serious violent crimes in the past financial year – which police have targeted to drop by 100 000 this financial year, by a further 40 000 next year and another 30 000 in the 2014/15 financial year.

In the meantime, though, the total detection figure for “serious crimes” was 51.84 percent, meaning half the perpetrators of about 2 million of these crimes went free.

The government’s target is for the detection rate, which could result in a successful conviction, to increase by just under 10 percent in the next three years – which would mean police would have to catch around 100 000 more criminals a year by 2014/15.

Of the 2 million serious crimes, between 629 000 and 649 000 were “contact crimes”. The target is for police to cut this by a third, around 200 000 violent crimes, by 2014/15.

Impossible for Dewani to get Fair Trial in Systemically Dysfunctional SA Justice System: Complaint to UK Min. of Justice

[4] If the Radical Honesty SA Application to proceed as an Amicus Curiae (Annex B) was approved; the Radical Honesty Amicus Curiae would prove beyond any reasonable doubt that:

1. It is legally impossible for the Plaintiffs to provide the Defendant with a free and fair trial; in South Africa
   

2. If the Systemic Intellectual, Moral and Legal Dysfunction of the SA Legal System as it exists today, was managed by White Afrikaner males; every single Anti-Apartheid ‘Human Rights’ Organisation in Europe would be screaming their lungs off, organising protests, filing Amicus Curiae objections, etc; arguing that Mr. Dewani was incapable of receiving a free and fair trial because the SA criminal justice system is a criminal injustice system; but when the current Systemic Dysfunction is far, far worse than under Apartheid (3,000 % worse in the case of farm murders; 25000% worse in the case of deaths in Police custody, etc, etc) and under the management of the corrupt, incompetent, unprofessional, ANC; the ‘Anti-Apartheid Human Rights (sic)’ organisations conduct is that of the 3 monkeys. It is submitted Mr. Dewani as an Indian would have stood a 3,000% better chance for a free and fair trial under a conservative White Afrikaner Apartheid Judge and Justice System.
   

3. Furthermore, on May 23, 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled that conditions in California's prisons violated the constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" and affirmed a lower court's order that the state drastically reduce its inmate population. The photo’s attached to Brown v. Plata convinced the Justice’s. As a former political prisoner under the ANC government; I can unequivocally and categorically inform you that California (where my former African American husband is and has been a prisoner since 1982) and SA prison conditions can be described respectively as: California five star cleanliness and discipline v. SA hellhole of filth and anarchy. The space between beds in SA prisons is about 30 cm, if prisoners are lucky to have a bed. Blankets, sheets and pillows are a luxury. Discipline and any complaints procedure simply does not exist. In the US Supreme Court decision, writing on behalf of the court's five-vote majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy noted that US Supreme Court’s unprecedented measure had become the only way to remedy the "serious" and "uncorrected" constitutional violations against inmates in the state's correctional facilities, particularly the sick and mentally ill.

Zimbabwefication of SA: State Security's Strategic Collapse: Police Brutality & Corruption

Boer Volkstaat 10/31/16 Theses Briefing Paper:

Deaths in Police custody increase 25,725% in ANC’s ‘TRC Rainbow Democracy’

‘Crime Against Humanity’ Apartheid South Africa:

1963 – 1994: 75 Deaths in 31 Years = 2.4 Deaths per year

Throughout the entire apartheid-era up to 75 people died in police-custody throughout the period between 1963 and 1994.

The Anti-Apartheid organized worldwide protests against this ‘crime against humanity’!

‘Rainbow Democracy’ South Africa:

Jan – Nov 2010: 566 Deaths in 11 months = 617.4 Deaths per year

Political parties yesterday called for a swift investigation into the deaths of 566 people at the hands of police in the current year. The call comes after the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) revealed yesterday that out of this overall national figure, 16 of those killed by police were innocent people. Many of the policemen involved have not even been suspended, let alone charged!

The Anti-Apartheid movement celebrates ‘TRC Rainbow democracy’ and ‘freedom’.

• Police brutality in South Africa: When the sheep dogs turn on the sheep
  
• SA Police tells Afrikaners, "You should all Fuck-Off"
  
• No end to the shocking brutality of the ANC police against Afrikaners
  
• Paramedic's Christo Coetzee & Lukas Hattingh Attacked by Gauteng Flying Squad
  
• Boer Volkstaat Theses 10/31/16 Briefing Paper: [C] Rainbow Illusions: Truth & Reconciliation Fraud: [8] Zimbabwefication of South Africa: State’s Strategic Collapse

Czech Mafia Godfather Krejcir Organized Crime SA Adventure: The murders: Five bodies and counting

[SA Organized Crime Gangs] :: [SA Crime: Gov. & Police]

Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir arrived in SA four years ago and set up a network involving strip club owners, gold and diamond dealers, hoodlums and top cops until, that is, the body count started to rise.

O’Sullivan claims that at least five people who were murdered are linked to Krejcir and the Jackie Selebi corruption trial. He said the murders started with the death of Kevin Trytsman in 2009.

“Uwe Gemballa who was murdered in February 2010, then we had Lolly Jackson who was murdered in May 2010, then we have Chris Kouremetis who was murdered in September or October 2010 [and] then we had Cyril Beeka…” O’Sullivan said.

It is understood Gembella was involved in a deal with Krejcir and Beeka involving sports cars being used to smuggle cash into South Africa.

Trytsman was a self-styled Umkhonto we Sizwe agent who stored weapons and vehicles for the ANC in the 1980s. He was arrested in November 1990 for possession of illegal weapons and stolen vehicles and later granted amnesty by the TRC. In November 1999 his company, South African Investigation Service Group, was contracted without a tender by then deputy minister of environmental affairs and tourism Rejoice Mabudafhasi to investigate allegations of corruption in the fishing industry and earned a fee of R558000 for 31 days’ work.

Employee Attacks [4]: Brink Botha, Brits farmer murdered

[SA Employee Attacks] [SA Farm Attacks]
[Farm Murders] [SA Farm Attack Report]

Brits Farmer, Brink Botha, 53, murdered & robbed by two farmworkers, who shot him twice; after having poisoned 8 of their dogs.


Life for HIV-positive farm killers

2011-03-12 09:31
CityPress

Thomas Chauke (left) and Zondi Nkuna in High Court Pretoria prior to being sentenced to life for murder of Brink Brits. Photo: Alet Pretorius

Pretoria – Two men who killed a Brits, North West, farmer were sentenced to life imprisonment by the Pretoria High Court yesterday, despite being HIV-positive.

Judge Peter Mabuse said the fact that Thomas Chauke (30), a Mozambican, and Zondi Nkuna (31) of Soshanguve were both HIV-positive was not a compelling reason to deviate from the prescribed life sentence.

The two were last year convicted of murdering Brits farmer Brink Botha and robbing him and his wife Christelle of cellphones, R200 and their bakkie.

Both were also convicted of animal cruelty after poisoning eight of the couple’s Boerboel dogs. One died at the scene and two had to be hospitalised.

Police shot and killed a third suspect.

The two accused were part of a gang who entered the house by smashing a bedroom window. When Botha charged at them they shot him in the chest.

One of the robbers grabbed his wife, who had fled to the study, and demanded money.

She and her daughter were tied up before the robbers left. They found her husband dead in a pool of blood.

Zimbabwefication of SA: ANC Elections by Bribery, Coercion & Terror

Knives out in Cape ballot

Mandy Rossouw & Glynnis Underhill
Mail and Guardian
Feb 18 2011 07:50

Allegations of bribery, threats of violence and unconstitutional decisions by leaders about who can vote lie in the wake of the recent conference in which deputy minister of international relations Marius Fransman was chosen as African National Congress (ANC) chairperson in the Western Cape.

Two affidavits in the possession of the Mail & Guardian claim Fransman's supporters tried to bribe delegates to persuade them to vote for candidates who would support him at the regional conference or to vote for him at the provincial conference from February 11 to February 13 in Cape Town.

According to one affidavit, date-stamped February 8 by the South African Police Service, a delegate at the West Coast regional conference in Clanwilliam was asked to "make his price" for his vote.

ANC delegate and branch chairperson Johannes Snyders, who is a school janitor in Eendekuil outside Piketberg, says in his one-page affidavit that two delegates who supported Fransman offered him money for his vote.

"On Saturday, January 4 at about 18h00, I was in Clanwilliam. We were approached and told that we must say what amount of money we want in order for us to side with them."

SA Legal System Incompetent: The Silence of the Lawyers

The Silence of the Lawyers

Jeremy Gauntlett questions the dangerous complacency of the legal profession

01 February 2011
Jeremy Gauntlett, Politicsweb

Legal Expert Kickstarts ‘SA Courts are Incompetent’ Debate

Speech by Adv Jeremy Gauntlett, SC, to the Conference of the Society of Law Teachers, Stellenbosch, January 17 2011

Thank you for the honour this invitation constitutes. It stirred many feelings in me. The first was doubt as to how your Society took that decision. I say this because I know the way my own profession takes decisions. This is best exemplified by the decision of the Johannesburg Bar Council some 40 years ago.

A well-regarded but cantankerous judge was hospitalised. A delegation was despatched by the Bar Council to his hospital bedside. The leader cleared his throat and told the judge that the Johannesburg Bar Council had mandated him to convey two messages. The first was that he was asked to wish the judge on behalf of the Johannesburg Bar a speedy recovery. The second was to tell the judge that this was on a vote of six to five.

My second feeling was one of nostalgia: nostalgia for those who taught me here, and who either as teachers or as fellow students became my friends for life; and those who taught me, or with whom I worked, in my own postgraduate life. Allow me to mention JC de Wet, Willem Joubert and Tony Honoré - now in his 62nd year of teaching at Oxford.

I and many of my colleagues in practice owe an inexpressible debt to you and to your predecessors. It concerns me that often law teachers seem to doubt the worth of what they do. Their task is ancient and vital. As CP Snow writes of Cambridge in his elegaic novel about university ambition, The Masters, it "[i]s hard not to think of other men walking as we did, of the chain of lives going back so long a time, of others walking those same narrow streets in the rain".

That is not to say that law teachers at times lack brutality. I remember Sir Rupert Cross, great writer and teacher on the law of evidence, handing back collections (essays) at Oxford and saying: "I know you can't help your laziness, but you should really try to do something about your stupidity".

When you invite a practitioner to speak, you should know that his own scholarship will not have been sustained by the bits of writing and lecturing which only earlier years at the Bar readily allowed. So I do not venture a scholarly theme.

On the other hand, if you expect me to speak about things that matter to the profession, I shall do so, but only in part. For what I want to talk about today is a common malaise: a lack of critical faculty not merely in the Faculty, but across the face of legal life in South Africa. My thesis is that, for all lawyers, there are disturbing developments about which we are insufficiently articulate and active.

I have often thought that the trouble with political revolution, velvet or otherwise, is that it gives rise to the same illusions as university graduation. There is the sense of attainment and finality, of a status achieved and no more to be learnt or done. I believe the converse is true. It is just a beginning. That is true of the commencement of constitutionalism in 1994.

Legal Expert Kickstarts ‘SA Courts are Incompetent’ Debate

Legal Experts Argue about SA Courts Incompetence

2011-02-14 22:58
Phillip de Bruin, Beeld

Two of the country's top experts on constitutional law are in disagreement the state of the justice system and especially the constitutional court.

Adv. Jeremy Gauntlett SC, who has been a judge in Cape Town, has kickstarted the debate with a speech (The Silence of the Lawyers) at a conference of the Association of Law Teachers in Stellenbosch.

Jeremy J Gauntlett SC

Jeremy was called to the Bar in 1974 (commencing practice in 1977) and took silk in 1989. He became a member of Group 621 in 1999.

Jeremy is also a member of Brick Court Chambers in London, a barrister of England and Wales, an advocate of the High Courts of Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and a Judge of Appeal of Lesotho.

He has contributed three titles to the Law of South Africa and has written a number of journal articles.

Jeremy was President of the Cape Bar in the years 1997 to 1999, and Chairman of the General Council of the Bar in the years 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the South African Law Commission and of the Council of the University of Cape Town.

Gauntlett did not walk on egg shells and said the time has come to put an end to the approach that aparthy is the appropriate response to analysis of court decisions and how courts operate.

SA's Wild West Cops Factor in Mandelatopia's Criminal Mafia Parasite State, that breeds and feeds crime, for benefit of the TRC Fraud Elite

SA’s wild west cops

2011-02-13 10:00 | Erna van Wyk | City Press

A new study has found that police involvement in serious and violent crime is not limited to “isolated incidents” but a general pattern of behaviour that is common across the country.

Researchers say the 100 cases they examined are just “the tip of the iceberg” and they highlight ­alleged police involvement in ­serious crimes such as ATM bombings and house robberies, among others.

The research was conducted last year by the Unit for Risk Analysis at the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) and is due for ­release tomorrow.

The researchers studied media ­reports and gathered information from the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD). Within one week 100 cases of alleged police involvement in serious and ­violent crime were found.

The cases did not include petty crimes, poor service delivery or officials soliciting small bribes.

Three quarters of the cases studied took place between January 2009 and April last year.

They were not an indication of the total number of allegations against police officers or convictions of police officers for involvement in serious and violent crimes over the period.

“We have bumped into the tip of an iceberg of violent and criminal behaviour in the ranks of the police which needs to be aired in public,” says deputy chief executive at the SAIRR, Frans Cronjé.

5 SAP Insp.'s incl. Japhta Kgothule (brother of ANC Dan Kgothule, OFS MEC) in Assassination of Farmer Carel Marais & 2 Police Officers Conspiracy

Murder planned in prison, court hears

2011-02-04 00:39
Tom de Wet, Volksblad

IOL: 05-01-2011: 235km/h MEC’s fine partly suspended

VIRGINIA. – Witnesses told the High Court about how a group, including a few policemen, planned the murder of a well known businessman and farmer from Wesselsbron and two police investigating officials, from the prison in Odendaalsrus.

They also testified about how different prisoners were told to go and draw blood in the place of others, in order for the murders to be arranged.

This occurred irrespective of the fact that one of the main witnesses for the state has dissapeared between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, when he was required to testify.

Another testified how he was threatened in prison that he would be sodomized if he did not join the groups murder conspiracy, who are accused of conspiracy to murder Mr. Carel Marais and Insp. Nico Smith and Insp. Lizelle Herbst of the Hawks.

Mr. Lucas Kgobe, who was imprisoned on charges of rape, informed Judge S.P.B. Hancke how Insp. Japhta Kgothule (policeman brother of Free State arts and culture MEC Dan Kgothule), with whom he was imprisoned, was the spokesperson of the groups conspiracy.

He was approached by Mr. Godfrey Molefi (the witness who has since dissapeared) with information about “work” that Kghothule and his conspirators had for him. Molefi said that the work involved assassinating the complainant and the investigating officials in the accuseds case.

He was taken with Molefi to the other cell where Kgothule said he would make sure that Kgobe's bail was paid, so that they could get out to do the “work”.

Cape Coloureds & Elderly Blacks Miss Apartheid: Living Standards much better under apartheid; despite forced removals

The ANC is Not for US, Say Coloured Voters

Fadela Slamdien, All Africa
17 January 2011

Cape Town — Much has been said about the 'coloured vote' in the Western Cape being the ANC's Achilles heel. Being the one province in the country that does not have a majority black population - the ANC's traditional voter base - and the ANC's inability to woo coloured voters to provide them with an outright win has seen Cape Town swing between the DA and ANC until the DA gathered strength with the winning the province in 2009.

Not even Nelson Mandela's reign in the early days of democracy was able to grant the ANC an outright majority vote in the province. West Cape News hit the streets of Grassy Park in an effort to obtain insight into the mood ahead of upcoming local government elections.

Among the tens of coloured people canvassed during a day in Grassy Park, most elderly people said a lack of jobs and high levels of crime reflected badly on the ANC. Leaning toward the right, a number of people said their lifestyles were better under apartheid, despite the fact of forced removals.

"They should have left things as they were. Before, there was very little crime, the death penalty was in, and one could send your children to the shop at night. Everybody had jobs. People were given houses and not put out on the streets like now. In 1994," said a resident who did not want to be identified.

She said despite the Group Areas Act, the apartheid government provided for them. "People who were kicked out of Constantia were put in council flats. Look at the way people are living now. People are not put into flats. Now there is crime and drugs. Why vote for the ANC if all of this is happening?" she said.

Radical Honesty SA Open Letter to Dewani and Hindocha families: Shrien Dewani has zero% chance of fair trial in South Africa.

Andrea Muhrrteyn
Why We Are White Refugees

Radical Honesty SA Open Letter to Shrien Dewani and Anni Hindocha’s friends and family: Shrien Dewani has zero% chance of fair trial in South Africa.

Response to Open Letter to Shrien Dewani, from anonymous friends of Annie Dewani / Hindocha, published on 31/12/2010 in The Sun: Anni’s Pals: We want some answers, Shrien.

31 December 2010

Dear Anni’s Anonymous Friends,

My response to you addresses the following statements in your letter to Mr. Dewani. I would suggest that if you follow my recommendations, you are far more likely to provide Mr. Dewani with a free and fair trial, where you can find the honest answers to your questions:

We would ask you and your family to leave this case to the police and courts, rather than joining a media battle with your PR agents.

You state you're innocent of these allegations so please go back to Cape Town to prove to the South African police why they've got it wrong.

We have heard South African police give Tongo's version of events but we have yet to hear you publicly make clear your full explanation as to why he's lying.

We would like you to volunteer to go before a South African court and show how Tongo is lying. We believe that this would help the public understand the following questions:

* Why don't you voluntarily go to court and show South African police suspicions are wrong?

What we want is the truth to come out and justice to be served, which is possible only if you answer in front of South African Court of Justice.

If Anni had been murdered in any other country in the world, I might indeed agree with you that Mr. Dewani should return to South Africa to stand trial, where you would hear the truth. But Anni was murdered in South Africa, where our police and courts are that only in name, and where our government has been bullshitting the South African public and world with the most spectacular public relations TRC FRAUD publicity stunt.

The truth is that Shrien Dewani -- just like any and every other South African citizen -- stands 0% chance of a free and fair trial in South Africa. Unfortunately citizens voting for the ANC don’t seem to be bothered with free and fair trials, perhaps because they benefit from a corrupt police and courts justice system.

Similarly Anni’s friends and family stand 0% chance of ever hearing the truth about what happened to Anni, from any trial occurring in South Africa.

[www.kaffir-lily-riddle.co.nr]: Understanding Masculine Insecurity Poverty Pimping: Population Production of Poverty & Violence Breeding Wars

The Malthusian Tragedy of the Kaffir Lily Riddle Commons

“With complete freedom in reproduction, conscientious people will be eliminated.”
-- Garrett Hardin, The Feast of Malthus: Living within Limits & The Tragedy of the Commons

“We must all understand that the most potent weapons of war are the penis and the womb. Therefore, if you cannot convince a group to control its population by discussion, debate, intelligent analysis etc., you must consider their action in using the penis and the womb to increase population an act of war.”
–-- Jason G. Brent, Attorney and author of Humans: An Endangered Species

French Riddle of the Lily Pond: Understanding Exponential Growth In this riddle, the lily pond has a potentially virulent lily that apparently will double in size each day. If the lily grows unchecked it will cover the entire pond in 30 days, choking off all other forms of life in the water by the time it covers the entire pond. If a skeptic waited until 50% of the pond was covered before taking any remedial action to save the pond, when would he act? The answer: on the 29th day of the month! But by then, it would be too late. [See also: World Pop. Balance: Understanding Exponential Growth: Bacteria in a Bottle:] Compound Interest on Judas Iscariots' 30 Pieces of Silver “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.” -- A member of the Rothschild family

The Era of the Jackrollers: Contextualising the Rise of Youth Gangs in Sowetho

The Era of the Jackrollers: Contextualising the rise of youth gangs in Soweto


Seminar No. 7, 1991
Presenter: Steve Mokwena, former CEO of the Youth Commission.
Date: 30 October 1991;
Venue: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Introduction

At 2:10am on Christmas Day 1990, a gang of approximately twenty to twenty-five boys broke into the Salvation Army Girls Home in Killarney, Soweto. After attacking the night-watchman they broke the doors of the home and proceeded to make their way to the girls' dormitories. Brandishing an assortment of dangerous weapons, the boys threatened to kill the matron who they then stabbed with a sharp instrument. Amidst the turmoil and the panic, the boys selected their victims, who were then taken to various venues where they were raped.

For the first time the "Zebra Force"[1] became known beyond the confines of its immediate neighbourhood. Until then the gang was but a group of delinquent boys operating in the Meadowlands / Killarney area. This was one of the more conspicuously horrific forms of youth violence which aroused fear and revulsion in the people of the township. This was adolescent bravado run riot, but still it was one incident amongst many equally horrendous acts of violence committed in the township streets.[2]

There has been a rapid increase in the levels of violence in black communities like Soweto. It is arguable that the black "youth"[3] have been depicted as central protagonists in this tragic social drama.[4] A more popular tendency has been to speak of a "youth crisis" or "problem", and sometimes even a "lost generation". This approach fails to locate the structural and historical problems rooted in apartheid. On the other hand the political role of the youth has been covered extensively by academic writers[5] and it is no wonder that the youth have been identified as having been in the forefront in the making of South Africa's political history. These works, amongst others, have raised some major questions which have been placed on the agenda of the scholarly and social debates in recent years. Bundy, following Manheim,[6] attempts to provide an explanation for the role played by this generation of youth in the South African context. Like Hyslop,[7] he points out that the crisis of capitalism has led to disaffection and has spawned a fervent youth movement of the 1980s. The arguments go on to point out that the social conditions afflicting the youth were indeed the fuel behind the radicalism of the youth-based political movement. Hyslop in his study of the development of education policy and its political consequences, touches directly on the crisis of capitalism and its implications for the developing student movement.

SA's Literary Thilo Sarrazin Truth-Teller: Annelie Botes: “It has f**k all to do with apartheid. They are angry because of their own incompetence.”

If speaking with Honesty makes you Brave, you know you are living in a Totalitarian State

by Pat, M4 Monologue Blog
28 November 2010

Anneli Botes, winner of the 2010 K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award in the Afrikaans classification (3 sections: Sepedi, Afrikaans and English), is the bravest writer I have heard of in a long long time. When “…asked by Rapport newspaper to name the people she doesn’t like, she paused for a few seconds and answered: “Black people.”" (Source)

Well that’s pretty blunt.

Not much symbolism, assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia or any other of the million other literary devices available to the budding author there at all.

For her efforts in honesty Die Burger Oos “…fired her as a columnist.” “Her publisher, Tafelberg, an imprint of NB Publishers, distanced itself from her remarks. “We believe that all our authors are entitled to their own views. In this case the publisher does not share the author’s view,” NBP’s Riana Barnard said.” It’s certainly clear that Die Burger and Tafelberg are not admirers of honesty, which is as expected one would have thought, from a modern newspaper and publishing house. After all, if you thought that the purpose of journalism was to seek out truth or that literature was the domain of honest insight into the human condition then you must have been living under a rock.

Employee Attacks [Pt1] : Murdered, Tortured, Robbed or Raped by their Employees

TERREBLANCHE: Eugene, 69, leader of AWB on his farm Witrandjiesfontein, April 2010.

Tortured, beaten and finally murdered by two employees, Zimbabwean Chris Mahlangu, 28, and a 15 year old over an alleged wage dispute.

IOL & Rapport

Chris Mahlangu, 28, and his 15-year-old co-accused allegedly murdered the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging leader in April at his farmhouse.

Mahlangu was released in July on R5 000 bail but re-arrested in October after a Pretoria High Court judge said the magistrate in Ventersdorp had made “incomprehensive findings” in his granting of bail.

The judge found that Mahlangu was a flight risk.

At a previous appearance, the court heard that Terre'Blanche carried a panga with him everywhere he went and he frequently took off his underpants because of the heat.

Shortly after the murder there was speculation, fuelled by reports of Terre'Blanche being found dead with his pants down, and that he had attempted to sexually assault his killers.

It was revealed during the bail application that the trio had been consuming alcohol before the incident and were in a “jovial” mood.

The motive for the crime was believed to be over a wage dispute and missing cattle.

The court heard that Terre'Blanche had been struck with such force that his jaw was broken and a bone had pierced his tongue.

UK repulsed, sickened and disgusted with burglar-savages, who inflicted SA-like iron-torture on victims

Burglars strap hot iron to pensioner and threaten to pour scalding water over granddaughter, 3

• 69-year-old had iron tied to him for 30 minutes
  
• Terrified partner was handcuffed to him throughout

Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:39 PM on 17th November 2010

A pensioner had a red-hot iron strapped to his back by robbers desperate to find out where he kept his valuables.

David Ward was tortured for 30 minutes by the raiders, who also boiled a kettle and threatened to pour scalding water on his three-year-old granddaughter in an attack so sickening that police say it has even outraged the criminal fraternity.

The iron burned through the 69-year-old's skin, fat and muscle - leaving him in need of extensive plastic surgery - as his tied-up partner was forced to watch.

Terrified Ann Woodland, 66, was handcuffed to her partner throughout the ordeal, during which the robbers stole £200,000 worth of jewellery.

Miss Woodland, a grandmother-of-four, said: 'Those people are just barbaric. They do not understand the value of life.

'I was next to David as he was burning. He was incredibly brave, he didn't even murmur because he didn't want to wake up my granddaughter.'

Tourist Murdered in Khayalitsha, SA was Indian-Swedish; Indian-British Husband Pleaded with Carjackers

South Africa murder: husband pleaded with carjackers

The husband of a newlywed murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa has described how he pleaded with armed carjackers not to separate him from his wife.

11:30PM GMT 15 Nov 2010
Telegraph.UK

Shrien Dewani and his wife Anni had been married for just two weeks when their taxi was targeted in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town late on Saturday night.

The gunmen drove off with the couple inside the people carrier and forced Mr Dewani, 31, out of the window of the vehicle after driving around dark streets for 20 minutes.

With a gun held to his head, he was told that his partner would not be harmed.

The body of his 28-year-old Swedish wife was found the next morning.

"The first we knew that the cab was being attacked was when we heard the banging," Mr Dewani told the Daily Mail.

"I don't want to go into detail about what happened during the attack, because I will probably start crying. But they were so cold. They put a gun in my ear and pulled back the trigger - it really was the stuff of movies.

Capetown Murder of British Honeymoon Tourist Makes World News; while Police Launch Manhunt..

Honeymoon horror: Newlywed Briton's wife is killed after armed robbers hijack them in taxi

By Ian Evans, DailyMail.UK
Last updated at 10:04 AM on 15th November 2010

The wife of a British tourist has been murdered on honeymoon in South Africa by armed robbers who hijacked the taxi she and her husband were travelling in.

Anni Dewani, 28, was two nights into the holiday with millionaire businessman Shrien Dewani, 30.

The newlyweds were driving to their hotel at 11pm on Saturday when their taxi was stopped by two men in one of Cape Town’s impoverished townships.

After forcing the driver out, the robbers sped off with the terrified couple, who were married only two weeks ago.

An hour later, they released Mr Dewani unharmed about five miles from the hijack scene after robbing him.

His wife’s body was later found in another of Cape Town’s slums, slumped on the back seat of the abandoned minibus. Unconfirmed reports suggested she had been shot.