Pensioner shot in face - bleeds for six hours before rescue

Mr Willie van Zyl (58) A pensioner, was shot in the face by 4 men around 01:30 in his room on a smallholding near the Baviaanspoort jail, north east of Pretoria. He bled for 6 hours before found by his cousin.

He could not contact anybody for help because his cellphone was take by the attackers. It is uncertain if anything else was taken.

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From Dina

Farmer Shot - wife beaten

Back in May a farmer and his wife were attacked on their smallholding outside Klerksdorp Nort West Province.

According to a police spokesman four men called the 56-year-old farmer to his door "by name", When he opened the door the [men] stormed into the house and demanded money

After the farmer told them he did not have any money, one of the men shot him in the leg.

One suspect also confronted the man's 52-year-old wife, she was hit on the head with the butt of a firearm.

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More farm attack related news: http://www.news24.com/Tags/Topics/farm_attacks

Dina

South African cop held for attempted farm murder

A female police constable from the South African Police Crime Prevention Unit has been arrested for attempted murder – a suspect in a foiled farm attack carried out 333km from her duty station. In addition an ex-cop whose vehicle she was driving, also is sought as a suspect.

The allegedly targeted farmer apparently heard gunshots on his premises and saw three people entering through the gate gunshot was fired at him, in response he drew his own firearm and shot back.

The suspects fled on foot.

The officer was later apprehended with what is described as "incriminating evidence" in the back of a white truck belonging to a retired policeman

Further details at Censor Bugbear and News 24

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Thanks to Dina and Carl

A further update on recent farm attacks

Last month I posted a report about an attack on a Carolina (SA) farm where the attackers attempted to burn Cornelia de Wet and her children alive in their own home after sealing the doors with wire.

Cornelia de Wet was the victim of a further attack last weekend when she was shot and wounded in the leg in what is apparently the fifth attack on the farm since last months attempted arson.

We will post further details if I receive them

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Hat tip Dina

Man 26 injured in Farm attack

A farm worker was seriously injured when an armed gang shot him at a farm in Boskop outside Pretoria at noon on Tuesday, Netcare 911 said.

"It is believed that several armed gunmen entered the farm and just started shooting... one of the farm workers was critically wounded in the chest," spokesperson Chris Botha said in a statement.

The 26-year-old man was airlifted to the Steve Biko hospital.

"The team of emergency personnel worked fervently to stabilise the critically wounded man and after placing him on a ventilator and deftly immobilising him, they airlifted him to hospital for specialised treatment."

The farm owners were not home at the time and police could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Hat tip Birdman

Attackers attempt to burn farm family alive

Attackers set a wooden house on fire on a farm near Carolina at the weekend, while a woman and her children were still inside. The armed attackers had tied the door with a piece of wire, trapping the victims inside.

The woman's parents were shot at when they rushed to their aid after being called from the main farm house 50 m away.

"They were bent on killing us. This had nothing to do with theft," said Cornelia de Wet, 32, from the farm Kwaggafontein, near Carolina, on the route between Johannesburg and Swaziland in South Africa's Mpunalanga province.

Mrs. de Wet awoke to the smell of smoke at about 22:00 on Saturday night. She saw the wall and the curtain in her room were in flames.

The attackers had poured diesel on the house before setting it on fire.

Mre. De Wet struggled to waken her two children Cornelia, 11, and Joey, 2 who had apparently been rendered unconscious by the smoke before finding the doors had been wired shut.

Initially attempts to contact local police were unsuccessful as they did not answer the phone.

Full story

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Hat Tip: Jennifer and ABC

Family survive farm attack

A farmer from Syferbult outside Ventersdorp was shot in the leg on Sunday morning and repeatedly stabbed with a knife during a farm attack in an area close to where Eugene Terre'Blanche, leader of the AWB, was murdered only 16 days earlier

Karel Griessel, 49, had opened the door to throw a bone to one of his dogs when three men overpowered him and one shot him in the leg.

His two daughters, aged 12 and 17, hid in the house, one calling their mother, Mr. Griessel's ex-wife, who hurried to the farm armed and together with her foreman and a retired police officer.

The attackers were still present when they arrived, but fled when shots were exchanged

Karel Griessel was taken by helicopter to the Netcare Milpark hospital in Johannesburg, where he's in a serious but stable condition.

No arrests have yet been made

Full report

From Dina

“Die white man! Viva Malema!”

"Die white man! Viva Malema!”

Shouted 4 armed robbers whilst attacking a white family during a farm attack East of Pretoria at the weekend.

39 year old Capt. Leon Johan Koekemoer, his wife, Annelie (37), and their 3 children together with their lodger were the victims of a terrifying home invasion when intruders broke in through a window in the lounge after forcing open the burglar bars.

The intruders fled when the family fought back shooting one of the number dead

The attack which the police are investigating as attempted murder, follows a well publicised incident where ANC youth leader Julius Malema, defied a court order and sang the ANC battle song “kill the Boer”
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Oddly enough news stories relating to this attack on both Bleed and News 24 seem to have vanished, however, Censor Bugbear has a full version of the original news story, together wuth evidence of additional calls for genocide against the Boers, which can read by clicking here

From Dina

The legion of white victims

Elderly couple survive Farm attack

An 85-year-old grandfather from Soutpansdrift in the North-West fought with his bare hands with three armed intruders to protect his life partner, even after they shot and stabbed him.

Dawie Meintjes and his life partner, Maria de Beer, 81, were attacked at 01:00 on Monday morning in their farm outside Brits.

De Beer was struck by shrapnel from the bullet on three places on her right leg, Mr. Meintje was shot in the hand and also stabbed in the arm

Full report

Thankfully Dawier and Maria survived their ordeal, and for once it has not been necessary for me to update the tragic figure at the top right hand of this blog.

Elderly woman dies in grisly attack

However, in another incident police are investigating the murder of 80 year old Helina Kotze after her body was found with her wrists and knees tied up at her home in Potchefstroom on Tuesday.

Ms. Kotze's throat had been slit and her wrists and knees were tied up with kitchen napkins and sellotape.

New report

As Ms. Kotze was not a member of the farming community I can not legitimately include her murder amongst the farm killings, she is another of the many urban whites who are raped and murdered in South Africa each year, but of whom no accurate count is available.

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Reports supplied by Dina

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Comment: People often write to me and ask why whites stay in South Africa given the increasing violence being perpetrated against them. However, as with the cases above, a significant number of the victims are elderly people in their 70's and 80's, frail vulnerable people in their twilight years who have known no other home and have no remaining contacts outside South Africa. Most are no longer in a position to start a new life in a foreign land.

Also, at least 10% of the white South African population, some 450,000 people, now live in dire poverty as a direct result of black favouring affirmative action which has deprived them of their jobs and their homes. These whites struggle to feed their children on a daily basis, not only is the price of the air fair out of the country beyond their means, but no Western country would take them in.

Thanks to TVJ for sending me to a link to this item in Business Report regarding the growing number of white squatter camps in South Africa.

Meanwhile that remarkable lady Adriana Stuijt who runs the Censor Bugbear blog continues to report on the plight of whites in South Africa, including those now living in poverty. Here are links two of her recent postings on this subject:

• “Racist to feed poor whites” – ANC officials…

• Afrikaner squatter camp without any water

I highly recommend Adriana Stuijt's two blogs Censor Bugbear Reports and Afrikana Genocide Archives for the prolific and well researched reporting of news which the Western media actively seeks to hide.

Farmer escapes death when assailant's gun explodes

Betty Hasler, 78, was expecting to spend a relaxing hour in front of her television on Sunday evening, but instead found herself being dragged from her bed at gunpoint and tied up alongside family members.

She also watched from the floor as her husband Willy, 64, was hit over the head with a heavy meat hook and wounded when a gun held by one of the robbers "exploded".

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Farm attacks continue

Elderly and frail farmer murdered

68-year-old Robert Hunter was killed on his smallholding in Mullerstuine near Barrage in the early hours of Friday March 7th.Mr Hunter, who suffered from Parkinson's Disease and joint and bone illnesses, was found by his son shortly before 5am.

The son, Freddy Hunter, who lives in another house on the same property, woke up to find three men attempting to steal his father's car. They fled after he fired several warning shots. He then called a security company and together they entered his father's house.

Robert Hunter was found with a large wound in his chest caused by a sharp object.

Next to the father's car they found a hunting rifle and shotgun. Several bags of groceries were later discovered in a neighbouring field.

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Farmer shot in bed

A week later a second farmer narrowly escaped death when he was shot through his bedroom window while sleeping on his farm near Potchefstroom,

The 46 year old man was attacked with a shotgun around midnight on Saturday March 13

Police did not know the motive of the shooting, nor how many attackers there were. A police spokesman said "They (the attackers) did not break into the house and nothing was stolen."

News source

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Hat Tip: Dina and Denise

And yet more farm killings

One mother's son

An elderly Bethal woman Hannetjie Venter, 79 had to walk 4km to get help after robbers killed her son on Sunday.

Mrs Venter was confronted by intruders and attempted to call to her son who was working elsewhere on the farm but was prevented from doing so when one man put his hand over her mouth.

Fanie Venter, who always carried a firearm, was caught unawares and shot in the head.

When his mother got to him, one of the men said her son was just sleeping. But there was blood everywhere and the heartbroken woman could see that her son was dead.

The robbers then held a gun to her head and forced her to unlock the safe. They stole a shotgun and money together with both of the Venter's cell phones

As Hannetjie can not drive and she and their dog walked for help, however, by then the attackers were long gone

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Elderly farmer shot dead

Intruders attacked an elderly couple on their farm in Limpopo on Thursday night, killing a 70- year-old man.

Koos van Staden and his 66-year-old wife, Henriette, were sleeping in their farm house on Glenco sugar estate in the Hoedspruit district when they were attacked.

According to a police Spokesman, the couple were in bed at about 21:30 when intruder fired a shot through an open window into the Van Stadens' bedroom. Mr van Staden was shot in the neck and died on the scene..

The victim's wife managed to shoot at the attackers and they fled without taking anything.

The number of suspects involved is not known and neither is the motive for the attack.

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Third farmer escapes with his life after three shots failed

A further farmer escaped with his life when an assailant's gun misfired three times. Jan van der Westhuizen, 59, a dairy farmer, said he thanks God that all three attempted shots, fired at him by an intruder failed. Full story

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Thanks to Dina and Johann for reporting these latest killings in what has been a very violent few days

Farm Couple attacked

Translated from Afrikaans by Dina

Hartswater - The agricultural community in Vaalharts district is shocked after the cruel attack last weekend on an elderly couple at their farm house, in the area of Magogong.

Seven attackers overwhelmed Mr Charles Engelbrecht (73) and his wife, Violet (71), owners of property nr 2K11 in Mago­gong, on Sunday around 21:00.

Mr Engelbrecht was severely injured by the attackers, while his wife was tied up and held hostage in the house for several hours.

Mr Engelbrecht was later taken to the Jane Keyser clinic in the nearest town with a cracked rib, a broken nose and serious injuries and bruising to his body & face.

Engelbrecht, who cultivates pecan nuts, grapes & citrus fruit, said he had found four dead cats on his property.

"It was strange that the Labrador dog refused to eat as well. It seems they were poisoned"

Englbrecht explained "My small dog started barking. I took a large flash light / torch to investigate. Suddenly a man attacked me. There were more men behind him. They forced me to the ground and started beating me. All were wearing balaclavas."

Engelbrecht managed two blows with the flash light before the attackers overwhelmed him. He was then beaten with hammers, pliers and farming tools (reference is made to a steel, hook shaped tool, used in cultivating lucerne)

and lost consciousness.

Two of the attackers guarded the unconscious man while the others headed for the house where Mrs Engelbrecht says the attackers overwhelmed her in the TV room. She was ordered to open the safe.

"They were very frustrated to find little money in the safe. They took me to the bedroom, convinced that there would be money."

"They said they would rape me, and one of them has AIDS"

"I decided that they could go fly a kite. I said I am 70 years old and won't live much longer anyway"

Mrs Engelbrecht says she was consistently calm, and spoke calmly to the robbers.

They pulled her around with a lusernhak (steel, hook shaped tool, used in cultivating lucerne).

"I gave them the credit cards and PIN numbers. They subsequently tied me to a chair in the TV room."

Later when she realised the robbers were gone, she crawled to the front door to lock it. She also locked the bedroom door and held down the alarm.

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