Three black men identified as facing charges for gang-raping, kidnapping a white brother and sister who were cycling in Kempton Park. On trial will be: Tsepiso Molini, Jabu Molako and Joseph Mashego - from 7 to 25 October in the Palm Ridge high court, (SEE MAP) on charges of robbery, kidnapping, rape and possession of an illegal firearm. =============== Three black men charged with gang-raping, kidnapping a brother and sister while cycling in KemptonPark: on trial from 7-25 October Palm Ridge High Court: SEE MAP -- Sources: Andre Snyman and Wolfram Zwecker 3:50pm Aug 30 Eblockwatch: Three black men: Tsepiso Molini, Jabu Molako and Joseph Mashego will appear from 7 to 25 October in the Palm Ridge high court, (other side of Alberton) on charges of robbery, kidnapping, rape and possession of illegal firearm. They robbed/assaulted/raped/kidnapped the brother AND sister cyclists earlier this year while they were out cycling in the Kempton Park area. Two of the three charged males tested positive for DNA. Hopefully the two will implicate the third one. Minimum sentence for gang rape is life (25) and hopefully some extra years on top of that for kidnapping, assault robbery. The 2 other suspects that were arrested together with the 3 are awaiting trail in the Tembisa court for possession of stolen goods (the 2 bicycles among other things.) Keep the young woman and brother in your thoughts, they are going through a very difficult time. http://www.eblockwatch.co.za

Farmer Alexandar Gritte 51, seriously injured, bludgeoned: attacked at Oribi Gorge by TEN armed men, 6pm Aug202013: SAPS capt Gerald Mfeka confirmed. The farmer had a frightening experience when he was attacked at his home. He was alone at the time at his home in Camro Estates, Oribi Gorge when about ten armed men gained entr to his property at around 6pm, said the police captain. 28 August 2013 reporter: Sugan Naidoo AN Oribi Gorge farmer had a frightening experience when he was attacked and robbed at his home last Friday."Alaxandra Gritti (51) was alone at the time, at his home in Camro Estates, Oribi Gorge, when about 10 armed men gained entry to his property at about 6pm," said police spokesman Captain Gerald Mfeka."Once the men entered the house it is alleged that they started assaulting him. The men then demanded the safe keys and cash. After searching the house they found the keys to the safe, took firearms and cash," said Capt Mfeka. During the ordeal Mr Gritti had been hit several times with sticks and sustained severe head injuries. The robbers fled taking electronic appliances including laptops and cellphones, as well as passorts, firearms and cash. Mr Gritti was take to hospital by paramedics, where he received treatment. A joint search operation with farmers, Vispol (crime prevention) detectives and the SAPS K9 Unit was conducted but no arrests were made on the day. Police are searching for the 10 men. Paddock police are investigating only a house robbery case - not attempted murder. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/kzn-south-coast/kzn-south-coast-news-crime?oid=7742283&sn=Detail&pid=4196895&Farmer-attacked-at-Oribi

Awaiting SAPS confirmation: Waterval Onder farmer Garth Johnson, shot dead Aug 30 2013 inside his homestead 18h00 - Afrikaans:. Boer van Waterval Onder, Mnr Garth Johnson, is vanaand om 18H00 doodgeskiet in sy huis twitter messages from @Snappywomen @Vonaqu2:

Brighton Beach man 59, accused of owning hundreds of thousands of child-pornography images, gets R5,000 bail, case postponed to 6 Dec: ------------------- 29 August journalist Mbali Mpofu: "A BRIGHTON Beach man (59) was granted R5,000 bail by the Durban Magistrates Court, accused of possessing "hundreds of thousands of images" of child pornography. (*He may not be identified yet because he has not been asked to plead to the charges, for which he was arrested in May). One of the witnesses in the case -- a young man in his 20s -- has lived with the accused since the age of eight. The young man has been seen in some of the images under investigation. And the female whistle-blower, a neighbour who shared the man's internet links and found the pictures in their shared documents folder, has since moved away from her premises, fearing for the safety of her son. --- The case has been postponed to 6 December, pending the outcome of the forensic report. The accused has not been asked to plead as yet, which is why he may not be identified yet. The man was arrested by Brighton Beach SAP on Monday, 27 May following information received from a female neighbour with whom he shared a wireless internet connection. -- According to the police, the neighbour was perusing through the shared documents folder when she came across the pornographic images. She took screen shots and presented them to the police, which subsequently led to his arrest. The man's computer equipment was seized, pending further investigation. Police believe the total number of images stored on his computer runs into hundreds of thousands. --- The man, who has been in custody for three months, was originally denied bail by the state. An incomplete forensic report has led to the state altering its stance on the bail application. Outstanding forensic evidence will take some two months to finalise. --- After the court heard affidavits from the accused and his brother, bail was granted at R5,000 on the condition that he does not contact state witnesses; he must report to Brighton Beach SAP once a week; and he is required to surrender his travel documents. One of witnesses, a young man in his 20s, has lived with the accused since the age of eight. The young man has been seen in some of the images under investigation. The whistle-blower has since moved away from her premises, fearing for the safety of her son. The case has been postponed to 6 December, pending the outcome of the forensic report. The accused has not been asked to plead as yet, which is why he may not be identified yet. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/south-durban/south-durban-news-general?oid=7748024&sn=Detail&pid=1171615&Child-porn-accused-gets-bail-----------

Race row? in Witbank after Afrikaner CPF-members make citizens' arrest of self-admitted mountain-bike thief Mr B D Vengelsamy 29 August 2013 MIDDELBURG/WITBANK Gerhard Rheeder reports without providing any proof, that a 'race row' has erupted in the town after a rash of housebreakings had local resident fight back against the criminals in Witbank, something which, the journalist claims, also happened in nearby Middelburg. Albert Holtzhause of Hencom Autobody, a member of the local citizen-policing forum, was not yet asked to plead in the local Witbank court on charges that he had assaulted a self-admitted thief, Mr B D Vengelsamy, who had stolen a mountain-bike from his erf. The value of the mountain-bike is estimated at R4,000. The SAPS says after Mr Holtzhausen's release from overnight detention that 'several members of the CPF will have to be investigated as to their involvement in the citizens' arrest. No mention of 'racism' was contained in the police-statement. Holtzhausen said he was held in the police-cells Thursday night and granted bail of R1000 the next day. He identified the self-admitted mountain-bike thief as mr B D Vengelsamy and said he trapped him on his premises but the man fled. When Holtzhausen raised the CPF-alarm members captured the man and brought him back to Holtzhausen's house to wait for the SAPS to arrest him. The SAPS was slow to respond: they first attended another crime scene. What happened next is confusing as there are two versions of the event. Mr Vengelsamy's version is that Mr Holtzhausen had 'sicked dogs on the tied-up man; that he had 'tried to drown' Mr Vengelsamy in a swimming pool, and that he had 'beat him with planks." The SAPS claimed that upon their very late arrival after first attending to another crime-scene, "Mr Vengelsamy 'had bite and beating marks on his body and his hair was wet and full of grass'. It's not clear thus far where the charges of 'racism' were brought into this picture but the SAPS arrested both men. Mr Holtzhausen's version of events - backed up by members of the CPF who were present at the arrest - that Mr Vengelsamy had tried to flee and jumped across a wall, not knowing that the adjacent erf contained 'dangerous dogs'. "The dogs bit him and we (the members of the CPF present at the scene) brought him to safety. At no stage was he beaten or was any attempt made to drown him'. SAPS capt Eddie Hall said 'the involvement of several men in the CPF will have to be investigated because of their presence at the arrest of Mr Vengelsamy. We will have to investigate this matter thoroughly.' ------------------ http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-crime?oid=7747602&sn=Detail&pid=4979893&eMalahleni-GPF-lede-beskuldig-van-aanval-op-boef

Empoverished Afrikaner widow Lena-Maria Jackson beaten: tortured with hot iron because she only had R40 30 Aug 2013 Empoverished, sixty-two year old widow Mrs Lena Maria Jackson was brutally assaulted and tortured with a hot iron because 'she only had R40 to give to her black male attackers. Mrs Jackson was attacked by a group of knifemen in her Thornville farmhouse south of Pietermaritzburg around midnight Aug 30. She was ambushed by the men when she was awakened by 'a noise' and was confronted by the knifemen. "They tied up my hands with rubber bands. They demanded money. I am a pensioner and only had R40 in cash in the house."Because this money wasn't enough for them they started stabbing me with their knives and then tortured me with a hot iron on my back. The lights were off and they did all this while shining a torch in my eyes. "I was able to turn on the lights while they screamed at me to turn them back off and not to look at their faces. They even got angry because the alarm went off when the lights were turned on. The most painful thing they did to her however was when they broken open the little box containing her late husband Ronald's ashes. 'The ashes were strewn all over the lving room floor. They didn't care and walked all over his ashes,' she wept. They turned her house opside down looking for valuables. Eventually they fled with two cheap cellphones, her shotgun and used her Hyundai bakkie as a getaway: it was found abandoned in Isipingo township. She was able to free herself from her bonds and alerted farm worker Simon Dube. "I think they burnt some drugs outside the windows to have me sleep as deeply as I did before the attack, because I cannot believe that all those things happened and I heard nothing,' claimed Dube'. SAPS lt Joey Jeevan said anyone with any information may contact the investigating officer, warrant officer Mandlenkosi Mpulo of the Thornville detective branch at telephone 033 251 0671 or 082 459 6042. She was taken to y Netcare911 to a Pietermaritzburg hospital -------------------------------- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=712869845406230&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater ---------------------- A 63-year-old farm-woman from a farm near Thornville, KZN (north of Howick) is in a critical condition at Netcare Hospital after she was 'burnt seriously' and 'assaulted with a blunt weapon', reports Netcare911 spokesman Chris Botha. "She was stabilised at the scene and taken to a Netcare hospital for further treatment'. Yet the KZN police spokesman colonel Jay Naicker merely said she was 'assaulted' - completely censoring out the horrific torture-ordeal she had endured. Chris Botha can be reached at http://www.netcare911.co.za/live/content.php?Category_ID=2263 -------------- Thornville: The SAPS in Thornville confirmed that they are seeking three black male attackers in which a 62-year-old woman was badly burnt and assaulted. She is in a critical condition in a Netcare hospital, confirmed SAPS colonel Jay Naicker. He said the woman was asleep when she heard a noise at the backdoor, went to investigate and was ambushed by three black males, who held her at knifepoint."They threatened to kill her and demanded cash.' 'The suspects assaulted her (NOTE:*THE POLICEMAN LEFT OUT THE DETAILS OF THE BURNS) and fled in the woman's car which was later found abandoned in Durban. It's not clear whether anything was even robbed from these reports. They are only investigating a case of housebreaking ----------- Chris Botha of Netcare 911 said the victim 'sustained very bad burn wounds and was assaulted". We stabilisied her at the scene and took her to a Netcare hospital'. ------------------ http://maroelamedia.co.za/blog/nuus/thornville-plaasaanval-polisie-op-soek-na-drie-verdagtes/

HERMANUS: New report: A 77-year-old man was tied up in his house for several hours before his housekeeper found him the following day. On 12 August at about 22:30, the elderly man was in his house in 3rd Avenue in Sandbaai when two men and a woman entered his bedroom. According to Constable Mbongeni Mazuthu, spokesperson for the Hermanus SAPS, the robbers tied him up with an electrical cord and demanded cash. They fled the scene with a cellphone, bank cards and R78 in cash. No weapons were used in the robbery. The housekeeper called Safe Security when there was no response to her knocking on the door the following morning at 09:00. The man sustained minor injuries and was taken to Hermanus Hospital to receive medical treatment. A 25-year-old woman was arrested in connection with this house robbery and appeared in the Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The case is being investigated by the Hermanus SAPS. http://www.hermanustimes.co.za/83602/news-details/man-tied-up-and-robbed

South Africa to criminalize 'hate' and 'hatespeech' -- August 31, 2013 A draft "Policy Framework on Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Unfair Discrimination" has been finalised by the ANC-regime that will " introduce the concept of hate crime to South African criminal law, giving effect to international legislation aimed at balancing the right to dignity with the right to free speech." This was said by Jeff Radebe, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister who emphasized particularly the 'racism' of Afrikaners towards Jews when he addressed a meeting before the Jewish Council of Deputies and the ambassador of Israel. -------------------- ENTIRE SPEECH: SPEECH: http://www.justice.gov.za/m_speeches/2013/20130825-hate-speech.html ---------------------- According to the Minister, the draft framework seeks to address ‘newly-defined hate crimes’ – including hate speech – where there is evidence of a discriminatory motive for targeting characteristics that "include but are not limited to race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation". He said that the draft policy framework "attempts to define the concept of hate speech in a way that reflects South Africa’s commitment to freedom of expression.' ------------ He did not say whether the category 'hatecrime' would now be added to the official SAPS.gov.za crime statistics, however. SA is a signatory to the Rome Convention but has thus far not complied with the requirement to detail hatecrimes in its SAPS reports. -------------- Radebe said: "Acknowledging that people are often victimised despite the presence of the law’, Radebe emphasised the importance of "ensuring that hate crime does not spin out of control and lead to anarchy". He also pointed to the need for ordinary South Africans to be "educated about the values underpinning the proposed new policy, referring in particular to an ill-conceived perception that foreigners are not entitled to the same rights as South Africans." Once the draft policy framework has been approved by Cabinet, it will be released for public comment. --------------------- http://praag.org/?p=9855 http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20130827084257459 ------------ Radebe's entire speech: Notes by Minister Jeff Radebe, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, on the occasion of the panel discussion under the theme: “Imagine a World Without Hate!” Maroela Room, Sandton Sun Hotel, 25 August 2013 present at meeting: The Programme Director; National President of the SA Jewish Board, Mr Zev Krengel; The National Director of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies, Ms Wendy Kahn The Chief Rabbi, Dr Warren Goldstein; Fellow Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers; Ambassador of the State of Israel, Mr Arthur Lenk; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Members of Parliament; Chairperson of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies; -------------------- "I would like to thank the South African Board of Deputies for inviting me to be part of the Conference today. The organizers have asked me to respond to specific questions relating to issues of the protection of the Jewish people under the Constitution, their access to human rights, crime against them and other related issues. In doing so, I am guided by the principle that human rights are indivisible and so is justice in general. In attending to the human rights that others deserve, in a way we are entrenching our own right and claim to the same principles. That is why human rights and justice is a matter that requires solidarity on both common and differential interests. -------------------- There is no doubt that humanity’s historical development across the world is littered with hatred of varying intensity, fueling in many instances blood conflicts and leaving behind a litany of injustices. For this reason it is imperative that we confront hatred as the root cause of many of the social, economic and political challenges that humanity has been seized with from time immemorial. I share your hope that in doing so we would have hit the nail on the head in as far as many of these historical conflicts are concerned and thereby help build a more humane world. Allow me to first and foremost congratulate the Board for the two among many activities that it has engaged in which locates it within the peculiarities of South Africa. Some of them never set their foot on South African soil yet their ideas or ideologies had so much impact on our country’s struggle for a just order. Firstly, the posthumous Human Rights Award to Arthur Goldreich who imparted the military skills to the uMkhonto Wesizwe was an acknowledgement of the role that many people of Jewish descent played in our struggle. As convener of the Logistics Committee of the High Command, his ability to procure materiel for the nascent military wing was a dangerous and a self- less exercise. After escaping imprisonment, Goldreich continued to champion the cause for justice in South Africa from his native country Israel. In my analysis, Goldreich deserves equal mention with those leaders such as Che Guevarra who fought for global justice against imperialism and colonialism. It was in my remembrance of the role that was played by Goldreich that many other personalities of Jewish descent also came to mind who had huge impact on South Africa’s social, economic and political evolution. Jews are found across the political spectrum and to pretend that they were only a merchant and currently a capitalist class is not supported by scientific evidence. The very antithesis of capitalist thought came from Karl Marx, a Jew. When we look for entrepreneurs in the commercial, financial and industrial sectors within the South African context, the name of Barney Barnato among others come to mind. In the dock at the1956 Treason Trial, 14 of the 22 Whites who were summarily rounded up by apartheid security and faced TRUMPED UP charges were of Jewish origins. Five of the RivoniaTrialists, Denis Goldberg, Lionel Bernstein, Bob Hepple, Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe were of Jewish descent. These are and deserve to be national heroes. The commander of the MK and later Minister of Housing was Joe Slovo. Ruth First was assassinated for the cause of the struggle for justice; Justice Albie Sachs lost his limbs because of this struggle to liberate our people. I could go on and on and the list is endless. Secondly, I would like to congratulate the Black-Jewish Entrepreneurs Network (BJEN) which has taken its first step towards sharing experiences and challenges between entrepreneurs of Jewish descent and Black entrepreneurs. The initiative will not only bring to fruition the suggestions made by the Deputy-President at the last Conference, but will also dispel the perception of Jewish insularity. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 brought about a new constitutional order in which the Constitution reigns supreme and as opposed to Parliament as it were under apartheid. The Constitution provides for a Bill of Rights which protects and entrenches certain fundamental rights, including the rights to equality, dignity and freedom of expression. The sum total of these Constitutional values inherently contradicts all forms of what may be termed hate crimes. Thus the dignity of any person is unconditional as it is accorded not on the basis of any status or social class but merely on being a human being. This discussion is thus very important as a window to look into how we can further consolidate our common efforts at building a society free from hatred as it were under apartheid and fascism. Hate Crimes as following: Although as a country, South Africa has made enormous strides, particularly in eradicating formal inequalities and establishing flourishing democratic institutions, however, hate crimes have from time to time reared their ugly heads as they have done so in many other parts around the world. It is unfortunate that in present day South Africa, we still have pockets of hate crimes by some few who refuse to embrace the changing times heralded by our Constitutional order. However, South Africa is today by far a better place than it were in 1994 and surely tomorrow holds the promise to be even better than today. Those examples in this regard that attempts to drag us back into the ugly past include the following: -- the violent (murders) targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, for example the so-called “corrective rape” and murder of lesbians and transgender men, especially in townships; -- the unprecedented wave of xenophobic attacks and violence South Africa experienced in May 2008 (blacks against blacks) resulting in the loss of more than 62 lives and damage to property, as well as displacement of (black African) migrants, and their displacement to emergency camps; and -- vandalism targeting religious institutions such as in October 2010, when several tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in Bloemfontein were defaced with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti. -- the Skierlik racially motivated killings of poor Black people by a White youth in North West Province; -- the case of the “Reitz Four” in the Free State University, Bloemfontein; ------------- Acts such as these that are motivated by social bias based on the identity (with reference to race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity) of the victim are forms of bias-motivated violence, more commonly referred to domestically and internationally as “hate crimes”. But like we did with fascism and apartheid, working together we will defeat these hate motivated crimes. SOUTH AFRICAN LAW AND THE ROME CONVENTION: South African law does not specifically recognise a category of crimes committed against the victim on the basis of his or her inherent characteristics or membership of a particular group. It neither expressly allow for the aggravating circumstances to be considered when sentence is imposed. This is so despite the fact that such hate crimes are “message” crimes that sends fear to an entire community that identifies with the victim. As such, hate crimes, particularly when they do not meet an adequate response from the State, violate fundamental principles of equality and non-discrimination and can lead to social unrest. The State must thus be in the forefront to combat hate crime but its legal instruments can only succeed working in unison with broader society. "Hate Speech":"A related issue in the human rights sector, internationally and nationally, has been how best to address the phenomenon of incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence, or what may broadly be referred to as “hate speech”. Debate over this burning question has been fuelled by recent controversy surrounding what actually constitutes “hate speech” =============== "Allow me to locate the relevance of the Jew in South Africa today by reference to their humiliation in the past. I am doing so not to open old wounds, but to be true to the concept of forgiving but not forgetting the history we come from. In the period during and immediately after the Second World War, anti-Semitic sentiments were routinely supported by the government of the day. The Government that came to power in 1948 consisted of some of the most rabid anti-Semitic politicians this country had ever produced. Unburdened by the confines of principle, Nazi supporting organizations such as the Ossewa Brandwag, the New Order and the Greyshirts mushroomed even when the blood of the Jews had not dried in the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dachau and Auschwitz, to name but a few. Both the Quota Act of 1930 and the Aliens Act of1937 were aimed at the exclusion of the Jews from immigrating to South Africa or prohibiting them from ascending to certain reserved professional positions in the civil service. These Acts were enacted at the time that the Jews in Europe were desperately looking for destinations to emigrate to as a consequence of their persecution in Europe. The Hoggenheimer-Jew dominated pro-Afrikaner cartooning circles in the early 1940s caricatured a gluttonous Jew who was intent in maximizing profits at all costs. He is recognizable in a black dinner jacket, a pinstriped pair of trousers, an obese fellow whose body was encased in a waist coat with a gold chain. He is gouging himself at a table laden with food, and sipping expensive wine and puffing an inextinguishable cigar. Bonzaaier, the cartoonist, exploited the sentiment of commercial and industrial competitors that Jews represented foreign capital. This scapegoating was textbook repetition of Nazi anti-Semitism. Even though the causes of the failures of the Weimar Republic were known to have been resident in the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, it became easier for Hitler and his Nazis to find a scapegoat for the misfortunes of the post- First World War Germany in the Jews. All these were wrong and the Constitutional democracy that was crafted after 1994 was aimed at eliminating the resurgence of these biases against all South Africans including the South Africans of Jewish descent. The topic of hatred resonates with the subtheme of this session of the 47th Conference: the end of hatred. My additions of the falsehoods about the Jews in general is based on the received and observed reduction of the people of Jewish descent as self-centred, forgetful of their history, conspiring and skeptical of criticism, hoarders of wealth etc. These falsehoods are not my creation. In its article, "The International Jew: The World’s Problem", The Ford International Weekly of May 22, 1920 raises these issues in some countries more sharply. It states: -- “In Russia he [the Jew] is charged with being the source of Bolshevism, an accusation which is serious or not according to the circle in which it is made… In Germany he is charged with being the cause of the Empire’s collapse…. In England he is charged with being the real world ruler.... In America it is pointed out to what extent the elder Jews of wealth and the younger Jews of ambition swarmed through the war organizations – principally those departments which dealt with the commercial and industrial business of war. -- I wish to deal with the issue of euphemisms as pretext to hide the true intentions as it affected people of Jewish descent: The 1920 text that I quoted at the beginning of my talk referred to the International Jew as the World’s “Problem.” The invocation of the word “problem” invites calls for a solution. The “Final Solution” which was used as a euphemism by the Nazis to exterminate Jewish citizens could not have found a better berthing ground than the need to solve the so-called “Problem.” -- The euphemism of the slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” was used as a justification for the labour camps. Its South African equivalent was the creation of the myth (amongst many other myths) that Black people are generally lazy, and thus not worth of the freedom that would accrue from hard labour. Both of these exhortations were later proven to be false, and aimed at nothing but to hide the real intentions of the words behind them. -- The (nazi) film “The Eternal Jew” which was released in 1940 under the pretext of “revealing the truth about Jews,” laid the foundation for the extermination of the Jews. It displayed blatant Nazi paranoia against the Jews, and proved that the so-called “realities” can be distorted to serve genocidal tendencies. -- Underpinning these euphemisms are further euphemisms which further alert us to the need for solutions. Thus the issue of the Jews as well as that of Blacks became a Question. Once a nationality is referred to as a question as in the Jewish “Question” or the Bantu “Question” the vultures of racial bigotry hover above. These are examples that show hate crimes manifest itself in subtle forms and in various disguises before it becomes fully blown gross violation of human rights. DRAFT POLICY FRAMEWORK: In seeking to move away from South Africa’s past history of racism and racial discrimination, it is now necessary to examine the State’s response to hate crime, hate speech, and unfair discrimination in a manner that complies with the Constitution and which will advance the transformational promise of South Africa’s new Constitutional order. In other words are we doing enough to combat hate crimes so that we avoid repeat of the crimes of apartheid, holocaust and other historical genocides? -- Given the South African context of 350 years of systematic and structural racism from colonialism through to apartheid, which caused immense damage and devastated the lives of generations of Black people, resolutely confronting racist hate speech and other forms of intolerance is a priority of our government. -- In this context, the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development, conscious of the need to balance peoples’ rights to dignity with the freedom of expression and obligation to give effect to the relevant international law, has just finalised a draft Policy Framework on Combating Hate Crimes, Hate Speech and Unfair Discrimination (Policy Framework). The Policy Framework is a result of intense research into the development of legislation that will: -- introduce the concept of hate crime to South African criminal law; -- refine the concept of hate speech in a way that reflects South Africa’s commitment to high standards of free expression at the same time as combatting hate speech,; -- make hate speech a crime; -- possibly, make other forms of unfair discrimination a crime; and -- the development of measures to combat hate crime, hate speech and unfair discrimination. The Policy Framework seeks to introduce a further category of newly-defined hate crimes in instances where the conduct would otherwise constitute an offence recognised at common law or by statute, and where there is evidence of a discriminatory motive on the basis of characteristics such as race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation and the like. Latest progress on the Policy Framework The Policy Framework has already gone through the Justice Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cluster departments to elicit comments and inputs. The Department is now in the process of finalising a Cabinet Memorandum with the aim to approach Cabinet, through my Ministry, for approval of the Policy Framework and for approval to commence with public participation process. Gender based violence Some of the sexual crimes committed against women are based on their gender. Of particular note is the continued senseless rape and murder of young women under the pretext of what has been defined as so called “corrective rape” of lesbians. Our Constitutional democracy guarantees freedom of choice and the dignity of all across race and gender. I must point out that rape or murder of lesbians and gays is not limited to South Africa as we recently got news of the murder of a young man in Jamaica on the basis that he was gay. The Lesbian and Gay movement is universal, highlighting the global extent of the challenge. Some women in Egypt had to dress up as men to avoid being raped even as they participated in the on-going protests against Egyptian leadership. What this clearly indicate, as it happened under Hitler and as it happened in our townships, is that social, economic and political challenges often get vented against those deemed inferior or hated for one or other reasons. The Jews became the scape goat of the sufferings of Germans following their defeat in the First World War. Similarly the unemployment levels in townships are inextricably linked to their hatred of Pakistanis. This is not to justify hatred but merely to unravel the underlying motive forces that shape the emergence and perpetuation of hatred. We have in earnest started with work to enact relevant legislative instruments that would make it punishable by law to commit acts of hatred against lesbians and gays. Conclusion Allow me to again welcome this discussion as important contribution to our evolving jurisprudence. Before any law can come into being, there must be a philosophical tenet to it, that gives rise to universal acclamation. There is no doubt that many crimes committed against communities on the basis of race, nationality, religion, gender and geographical location are indeed inspired by unqualified hatred of those given peoples. Apartheid was in a way a hate crime, when white people embarked on the ambitions of Afrikaner nationalism based on racial supremacy. Similarly in 1994, as the entire world was gazed on the unfolding miraculous transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, over 800 000 people were killed in genocide within a space of less than a year in the Great Lakes region in the Hutu – Tutsi conflict. I know that as Jews, you have indeed suffered a lot under Hitler and Mussolini’s fascism during the Second World War in what became the holocaust. In doing so, we must be guided by former President Mandela’s assertion at the dock during the Rivonia Trial that he fought against both white and black domination, and made that his life mission for which he hoped to live but for which if necessary was also prepared to die. We therefore ask both South African Jews and all other communities in South Africa and beyond to consider it their mission to fight against the domination of the one group by any other. What I am certain about is that the eradication of hate crimes must be linked to enacting a just order socially, economically and politically. The courts can only come in as final arbiter on the resolution of conflict where there is basic framework consistent with a society free from hate crimes. In other words, once we have succeeded with enacting relevant legislation, we must also go about educating our people about the values of the law because in many instances people are victimised in spite of the presence of the law. This is because hate crimes can lead to anarchy, as we have seen with Pakistanis becoming victims in some townships, when thugs utilise the ill-advised excuse that since these are foreigners they therefore have less rights in our country. As I have indicated, many South African Jews who were prominent personalities such as the late Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson have immensely contributed to our jurisprudence. I take it that these debates are part of that contribution towards a better South Africa hence I must thank you for organising them as through dialogue we must continue to reach out to each other as a nation united in its diversity. We will succeed if we follow up our grand imagination of a world without hatred by the relevant logical steps through laws, frameworks and programmes to combat hatred and promote human solidarity. ----------------------- http://www.justice.gov.za/m_speeches/2013/20130825-hate-speech.html

Farmer Bertus Moolman 68 denies shooting dead anyone with shotgun-pellets: "The SAPS were also shooting at the community'. Beeld Satuerday 31 Aug 2013 FOCHVILLE. The farmer who was charged with shooting dead two black illegal mineworkers and injuring a third man during violent rioting on his farm when he and his workers were put under a rain of stones by the rioters -- said in a statement to the court during his approved bail application for R18,000, that ' he would be very surprised if any of my shotgun pellets killed anyone. The SAPS were also firing shots at the community'. Moolman's legal counsel read his statement in court, as follows: "I fired six shots with my shotgun - which was loaded with small-gauge pellets. Three shots were fired into the ground in front of me, and two shots were fired up into the air"."I would be very surprised if anyone was shot dead by my firearm.' The statement continued that the SAPS members on the scene fired shots directly into the 'community'. Moolman was granted bail of R15,000 by magistrate Sam Muedi - provided he did not return to his farm and that he hand in his passport. He has to appear again in the same court on November 29. He has been renting out land mainly to mineworkers who erect their own shanties on the land. SAPS captain Eric Mashaba, the investigating officer, told the court that 'the SAPS asked Moolman at the scene while he fired the five shots because the situation was under control'. Eyewitnesses told Mashaba that 'Moolman fired shots at the community." The SAPS - according to the investigating officer - told the court that the SAPS had been called by 'community members who told them that Mr Moolman and of his workers had allegedly assaulted a man in one of the shebeens he runs. The statements from residents was that 'SAPS members saw a man bleeding and begging for help' inside the shebeen when they looked in. Investigating officer Mashaba said 'the man couldn't stand on his own two feet'. "A group of people were massing outside the shebeen and some of the women 'screamed with joy' when the man was carried out by the police.' Mashaba said 'a member of the community threw a stone and the police told the people not to throw stones and no more stones were thrown'. Apparently at this stage Moolman 'fired several shots with his shotgun, said Mashaba. He said during cross-examination by defence-counsel that 'they only found shotgun-shells at the scene'. It's not known if the two dead men and the injured man 's injuries were examined for remains of bird-shot or other bullet fragments by the SAPS forensic department. This would be crucial to determine whether they had been shot by birdshot or by police-bullets. --------- TRANSLATED FROM AFRIKAANS REPORT ON: http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-08-31-boer-s-hy-het-donshael-gebruik ========= PREVIOUS REPORTS: Afrikaner farmer Bertus Moolman allegedly shoots dead two black men in Fochville; injures a third: witnessed by a police contingent, the Afrikaner allegedly allegedly fired five shots into a rioting, stone-throwing crowd who were threatening him and his workers, said SAPS: ---------------- Monday 26 Aug 2013 - In an stone-throwing altercation between socalled 'tenants' and Afrikaner farmer Bertus Moolman on a farm next to the Bank Road outside Fochville, at the Carletonville mining region) he allegedly fired shots with a shotgun, shooting dead two black men and injuring a third who were throwing stones at Moolman and his workers. It is believed that the violent altercation took place over purported damage one of his victims had allegedly done to one of Mr Moolman's shebeens and spaza-shops. The police said Mr Moolman owns 'several spaza shops and shebeens' and rents out space to about 2,000 black squatters on his farm - mostly mineworkers. SAPS lt.col Hennie Maass of the Fochville SAPS confirmed that Mr Moolman will be charged with two murders and attempted murder. The shots were fired after Mr Moolman went to talk to a man together with his worker. One of the workers had allegedly assaulted one man with a stock and in response, a group of 'tenants' started throwing stones at them. "Moolman allegedly fired five shots at the men who are tenants on his farm,' said lt-col Maass. This was witnessed by a contingent of SAPS-members who had been called to the farm by Mr Moolman, he said.There had already been unrelatedunrest at the farm the previous weekend when a black man was murdered by an unknown person and people became 'riotous' and packed a stone-barrier on the road on Sunday, said the police officer. One of Moolman's shebeens (pub) was also damaged on that day. Moolman told Beeld newspaper that he was forced to shoot in self-defence. "Some of the tenants became riotous when we went to talk to the man who, we'd been told, had damaged the shebeen,' he said. "The crowd threw us with stones and if I hadn't shot, we would all have died.' He said he carried a 9mm pistol and his shotgun with him. Beeld questioned Louis Nel, a Fochville resident who informed the Afrikaans daily newspaper that Mr Moolman had been renting out land for housing mineworkers for the past twenty years. "They raise their own structures. It creates a lot of problems for the community, as the miners then sublet the land again to others,' said Mr Nel. They have even built 'an informal electrical substation from stones, making 'several connections to the Eskom power cables'. Beeld also quoted one of Mr Moolman's tenants as saying that there had been several rapes and thefts in the area. "We are holding a protest march about this, we are sick and tired of it,' she said. Eighty-year-old farmer Danie Oberholzer's erf borders Moolman's land. "I don't feel safe and I am feeling so hopeless because I cannot afford to move as my land isn't worth anything, it's such a mess,' he told Beeld. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-08-26-huurders-geskiet-boer-vas

Welkom - The mystery around the white security guard who was shot and injured when he was ambushed at a mine near Welkom by illegal mineworkers may have been cleared up. A former Welkom resident wrote: : "I believe the man on the picture is Charl van Rensburg. He worked for Chubb Security in Welkom when I moved away there five years ago. The people at Bedelia Furniture know him: he worked as a door-guard for them: Tel no 0573523838. --- The SAPS in Welkom also confirmed that they are investigating the shooting of Mr Van Rensburg on August 29, 2013, which was survived by the security guard. ------------------- The original photo is from the facebook page of 'Goudveld Skinder en Nuusblad' https://www.facebook.com/goudveld.ennuusblad?fref=ts ---------------- SAPS Welkom Phone: 057-3916000 Fax: 057-3916084 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=712615862098295&set=a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416&type=1&theater ------------------- Chubb Electronic Security Welkom 0861 057 911 Address: 44 Bok St, City Centre, Welkom, 9459, South Africa City of Free State ,Post Office box: 2022, Welkom, 9460

White South Africans' historical monuments being destroyed by contractors: Reservoir Hill, Ladysmith; ------------------------------ Ladysmith historical sites tour guide Vince Horne has laid charges against the contractor which has destroyed two historical sites and the world famous battlefield, and dumping tons of rubble on others. He says he is flabbergasted by the town council allowing the destruction of sites that could generate millions of Rands in tourism: He says that while tourist volumes are expected to rise, the Ladysmith municipality allows contractors to destroy the historical monuments on Reservoir Hill. 29 August 2013 While the United Nations top tourism body predicts that tourists visiting Africa will triple by 2030, our very own municipality is turning a blind eye to the destruction of vast numbers of Anglo-Boer War sites. These are not being destroyed by vandals, but by contractors building multi-million-rand houses for Ladysmith’s rich on Reservoir Hill. As the UN body is holding its 20th general assembly in the resort area at Victoria Falls on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border, council is allowing contractors to plunder our town’s historical and tourism resources. The UN World Tourism Organisation says that current tourist arrivals on the continent stands at 52 million per year, far below its true potential. "The destruction of the gun emplacement, sangars and walls of fortifications on Reservoir Hill was addressed in a meeting with Amafa in 2011 when council first started developing the sites." In a written agreement, council indicated that they would protect the existing structures; something they have since failed to do. Amafa was established as a statutory body in terms of the KZN Heritage Act of 1997, replaced by the KZN Heritage Act of 2008, to look after historical sites. Their permission is required to make changes to any building older than 60 years old. Vince Horne has laid charges against the contractor for destroying at least two sites and dumping tons of rubble on top of others. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/ladysmith/ladysmith-mobile-news?oid=7746655&sn=Mobile-Detail&pid=4980293&Contractors-destroy-historical-monuments

Message from "Staan Saam Rustenburg: August 30 2013 : Our prayers for Mrs Miems Robberts of Ellisras. A group of black males 'came to visit them' on her sister's farm near Mooinooi. Mrs Robberts, her husband, her sister and her sister's husband were all attacked and burnt with boiling cooking oil. The SAPS is on their heels. ------------ https://www.facebook.com/groups/318749681564252/ ----------- http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/randfontein-westonaria/randfontein-westonaria-news-crime

Sept 2 2013 case in Stellenbosch magistrate's court: Two Cape-coloured males were arraigned in Stellenbosch, WC magistrate's court for the murder of German-born Jochen Rädel, 59, Aug 18 2013.Being charges with his murder are Morné Martin 20 and Ashwill Pietersen 27 said the SAPS. Their case was remanded for bail application to 2 September 2013. Both live in Devon Valley. ------- The murder is possibly drug-related said local residents: Also see: 'Drug-crazed gangs hold Western Cape communities hostage: pic story attached) http://www.worcesterstandard.com/77289/news-details/bendes-hou-dorp-gyselaar ------------- Die Burger Afrikaans daily writes that there had been breakin at the building site a day before the murder: and he was changing the locks of the house and also fetching a BBQ when he was attacked. Martin and Pietersen were questioned two days later and charged with the murder the following Thursday. Mr Rädel is survived by his wife Christiana, his son Kai and two sisters. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-24-twee-verdagtes-in-rdel-moord-vlugtig-voor --------------------- STELLENBOSCH. – The facial wounds and horrific injuries to his head were so terrible that they 'cannot be described with words,' said a family friend after the murder of investment-advisor Jochen Rädel, 59, bludgeoned at the building site of his new home on the farm Chimanimani in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch on August 18 2013. "I 've never seen anything like it: his face bruised and swollen. I could almost not look at it, said family friend Gerit Schaafsma. The Rädel family were renting a townhouse on the farm Le Verger next to Chmanimani while they were building their new house next door. SAPS capt Frederick van Wyk confirmed that two people were questioned at the site. Rädel was found Sunday afternoon by his sun Kai, 22, an honours-student in logistics at the University of Stellenbosch. Don Maxwell chairman of the Devon Valley farm association, said 'the people being questioned are serial-criminals who live in the region. "Devon valley has an extremely effective security system,' he reportedly said, expressing shock over the gruesome daytime murder of Mr Rädel. Seymour Pritchard, eienaar of the Clos Malvern vinyard, commented that 'the attackers are occasional tik users (a drug which causes a high level of aggression). There are breakins here but not those kind of attacks. Drugs are a problem in this area and should be addressed, he urged. http://www.dieburger.com/nuus/2013-08-21-sy-wonde-was-te-erg-vir-woorde ==================== SA investments Jochen Rädel 59, dies after pick-axe attack at a farm in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch where he was inspecting the building-site for his new family-home: --------------------------- August 19 2013 By Elbé van Heerden -- STELLENBOSCH - Devon Valley resident Jochen Rädel 59, an engineer who used to work at Siemens Telecommunications, and who had been at the building site of his new family home on a farm adjacent to the Le Verger hotel on a farm in the Devon Valley, Stellenbosch was critically injured at 14h00 when he was attacked by a person with a pick-axe. He was declared dead ('brain-dead') on Monday August 19 2013. His son discovered his badly injured dad when he went to investigate why his father had not returned on Sunday. The murdered man and his wife Christiane also lost their daughter Stefanie, 18 on 11 May 2007 in a car accident in Johannesburg, reported Eikestad Nuus. http://www.eikestadnuus.co.za/80656/news-details/brekende-nuus-man-breindood-ná-plaasaanval ----------------------------------- Jochen Rädel testified that his daughter's culpible homicide death in a car crash was 'pure murder' ------------------------------------ October 27 2009 By Nontobeko Mtshali -- "This is not culpable homicide; this is cold-blooded murder." Jochen Radel did not mince his words as he testified during the first day of the inquest into the death of his 18-year-old daughter Stefanie at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday. Stefanie died on May 19, 2007, eight days after a car crash in which her parents, Jochen and Christiane, were injured. Jochen said the car they collided with was travelling too fast. The accident happened at the intersection of Dorset and Chester streets minutes away from the Radels' Parktown North home. "Anyone who drives a car through suburbs at that speed has no conscience," said Jochen, referring to the driver of the other car, Mark Smith. "Besides causing a horrendous accident, he still had the audacity to sue my wife for his car damage, which amounts to R170,000."Smith's legal representative, Aad Den Hartog, said that according to Smith, Christiane did not stop at the stop street as she should have.Despite not remembering what had happened during the accident, Christiane said she always stopped at that intersection.Two independent experts, enlisted by the Radels, estimated that the BMW was doing between 100 and 120km/h in a 60km/h zone. Mark Lottering, a Joburg metro traffic officer who attended the accident scene, said the BMW came to a standstill 25 metres from the point of impact. The Radels' car was struck from the right-hand side and landed 18.8m from the intersection.Lottering said the Radels' Chevrolet had "collided with a car that had right of way".The Radels' legal representative, Barry Roux, asked Lottering if the BMW had been speeding, as indicated by the cars' sideways movements.Speed was a contributing factor," said Lottering. http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/car-smash-was-cold-blooded-murder-1.462786 Owner, Jochen Radel & Associates Jochen Radel & Associates cc previous Siemens Telecommunications Education Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jochen-raedel/10/466/3b8

Biker Horst Jaeger, 27 dies in hit-and-run homicide: motorist in red Royota Etios saw the injured white man beneath his car- and drove another 100m with him - then backed up over him. -------------------------- 2013-08-31 Rapport newspaper writes that biker Horst Jäger, dad of a ten-month-old daughter, was overtaking a car driven by a woman when he struck it and was thrown off his motorbike. He was riding with two other biker-friends on the N4 in the direction of Pretoria between the turnoffs of Solomon Mahlangu and Simon Vermooten road. They looked on in horror at what happened next: When he fell to the roadway and got up, reportedly 'groaning and still alive', he was hit by a motorist in a red Toyota Etios, he fell again and then got stuck beneath that motorist's car. "The driver in the red Toyoto Etios got out, saw the biker stuck beneath his car, got back in and dragged Jäger another 100 metres,' eyewitnesses told Rapport newspaper . They did not say whether the driver was a male or female, nor provide any other physical description of the motorist. The 'culpible homicide' traffic-murder occurred at 23h00 on Friday 16 August. The father of the murdered man told Rapport newspaper: "The motorist got out, saw my injured son was stuck beneath his car, got back into his car, dragged him 100 metres - then stopped again, pulled pieces from his car in an attempt to get my son lose from his car, then got back inside and BACKED UP over him. Then the driver took off at high speed in his car and hasn't been found yet. His heartbroken dad Horst Jäger senior 55, said: "All I can say to that motorist is, do the right thing, how can you live with yourself". Mr Jäger was in New Orleans in the USA at the time his son was murdered - touring through the USA by bile. While Rapport visited the Jäger family and Jolene Venter, 26, his fiancee and mother of their ten-month-old daughter, the mother Elsa burst into tears and ran to the bathroom. The dad told Rapport that his son was with a group of three friends, all bikers, enroute home after they had been watching rugby at a pub. "Horst was riding third (last) man and tried to pass a motorist in the left lane when he struck the woman's car". "He got hurt and fell off onto the pavement and then his friends saw him get back up again. He was still alive.' Then the red Toyoto ran him down dragged him 100 meters and backed up over the biker. This was clearly no 'traffic accident' but in the SA statistics this will not be entered as a 'murder' but as a 'culpible homicide'. pThe young biker's friends tried to run after the red Toyoto in attempt to wave him down and get him to stop 'but they could not get close enough to the car. ' 'When they saw the driver back up over their injured friend and chasing off they ran to their bikes to try and pursue the motorist but he 'disappeared without a trace. Said Ms Venter: "I wonder if the motorist is happy with the fact that he has destroyed our entire family. It's so unfair, Nia will never know her dad'. The family and friends of the Jägers have launched a chain-email to all the car-repair shops in Gauteng, asking them to keep a lookout for a damaged car.The SAPS says they are only investigang 'culpible homicide'. The investigating officer is w/o Mmei ­Semono of the SAPS branch in Silverton telephones: 012 845 4047 of 073 503 3751 --------------- http://www.rapport.co.za/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Kar-tref-sleep-jong-pa-dood-20130831

Archive 1953: The muti-murder and cannibalising of Irish nun Elsie Quinlan in South Africa 1952 in 'impromptu protest action by ANC members". -------------------------------- November 10 1952. Dr Elsie Quinlan and another nun found themselves in a violent Black protest which the police were trying to diffuse. Mike Smith wrote: "At that stage Dr. Elsie Quinlan, (Sister Mary Aidan) a 37-year-old Irish-Dominican nun from Cork who also was a medical doctor, had set off in her tiny black English car to take baskets of food to her black patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. The medical doctor had been in South Africa for 14 years working amongst blacks; trying to curb the enormous black-infant death rate in the Eastern Cape. (In 1952 almost every second black baby died.)Soon she found herself in the township were blacks were rioting while policemen were attempting to control the volatile situation. Dr Elsie Quinlan’s prime objective was to carry out her Christian Ministry but found herself amongst a sea of ill disciplined Black people who had no interest in the Christian Mission. Smith Writes: “Upon seeing Dr. Quinlan, a young black woman called out, “Here is a white woman, let’s kill her”. Shouting obscenities, they stopped her car smashed her windscreen in with a knobkerrie and struck at the driver. The Roman Catholic nun folded her hands in prayer. She was pelted with bricks, beaten with sticks, stabbed with a kitchen knife and then set alight. What happened next is just too horrific for words. The crowd opened up for a young woman brandishing a breadknife. Someone asked, “How can you finish a lady who helped us so much?” The knife was passed to a youth who cut flesh from the charred body.“I am eating the meat, because I want to get tough, said a young woman. Another began to eat the flesh for fear of being called “a spy”. While a young man was sharpening a knife against a sickle, a newcomer to the crowd was told, “We are eating the body of a nun.” One woman took some “meat” to show her child what human flesh looked like; others took the flesh home where they ground it into a fine powder to make medicine (known as Muti). By nightfall nine people have been killed and several church buildings of the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches including training colleges built for blacks were burnt down.” So much for Africa and the ANC who used trash like this to bring their communist utopia to South Africa. Did you know that since coming to power in 1994 over three hundred thousand people have been murdered in a communist bloodbath under the watchful eye of the ANC? Now remember some people will say ”well that was then”, as if her life and the way she died meant nothing! But the same kind of behaviours are being carried out against minorities even though the ANC has been in power for nearly twenty years. Twenty years seems to be a magical mark for rulers in Southern Africa (eg. Mugabwe) where these pontificating rulers subject minorities human rights violations. Remember everyone in the International community expects the same level of morality that the ANC demanded from everyone else. hence the war in Bosnia in recent times. Still no help by the international community here because they KNOW this is the way blacks behave in Arica. In any event I hope the ANC will produce a monument in 2012 that is fitting to her work and memory. Rest in peace Dr Elsie Quinlan. http://www.toursouthafricanow.blogspot.nl/ ------------- The Africans also spoke of threats against any African going to work today. All seven members of the local executive of the African National Coingress have been arrested. The SA minister of Justice Mr C R Swart is expected to visit Kimberley to study the situation. Proclamations were ready in Kimberley yesterday prohibiting for a week all gatherings of more than 20people in the district. The ban applies also to white people. The damage in Saturday's riots is estimated at several thousand pounds. Police reinforcements have arrived at Port Elizabeth, where a one-day strike by non-Europeans has been called for today. The strike was called by the African National Congress in protest against the curfew and ban on non-religious meetings imposed after the death of FOUR Europeans and SEVEN Africans in the Port Elizabeth riots three weeks ago. Mr Swart has promised that a state of emergency will be declared there if the situation gets out of hand and that the army would then take over." The Mercury (Hobard, Tasmania) Tuesday 11 November 1952, page 2. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/27120485

Three black men identified as facing charges for gang-raping, kidnapping a white brother and sister who were cycling in Kempton Park. On trial will be: Tsepiso Molini, Jabu Molako and Joseph Mashego - from 7 to 25 October in the Palm Ridge high court, (SEE MAP) on charges of robbery, kidnapping, rape and possession of an illegal firearm. =============== Three black men charged with gang-raping, kidnapping a brother and sister while cycling in KemptonPark: on trial from 7-25 October Palm Ridge High Court: SEE MAP -- Sources: Andre Snyman and Wolfram Zwecker 3:50pm Aug 30 Eblockwatch: Three black men: Tsepiso Molini, Jabu Molako and Joseph Mashego will appear from 7 to 25 October in the Palm Ridge high court, (other side of Alberton) on charges of robbery, kidnapping, rape and possession of illegal firearm. They robbed/assaulted/raped/kidnapped the brother AND sister cyclists earlier this year while they were out cycling in the Kempton Park area. Two of the three charged males tested positive for DNA. Hopefully the two will implicate the third one. Minimum sentence for gang rape is life (25) and hopefully some extra years on top of that for kidnapping, assault robbery. The 2 other suspects that were arrested together with the 3 are awaiting trail in the Tembisa court for possession of stolen goods (the 2 bicycles among other things.) Keep the young woman and brother in your thoughts, they are going through a very difficult time. http://www.eblockwatch.co.za

Farmer Alexandar Gritte 51, seriously injured, bludgeoned: attacked at Oribi Gorge by TEN armed men, 6pm Aug202013: SAPS capt Gerald Mfeka confirmed. The farmer had a frightening experience when he was attacked at his home. He was alone at the time at his home in Camro Estates, Oribi Gorge when about ten armed men gained entr to his property at around 6pm, said the police captain. 28 August 2013 reporter: Sugan Naidoo AN Oribi Gorge farmer had a frightening experience when he was attacked and robbed at his home last Friday."Alaxandra Gritti (51) was alone at the time, at his home in Camro Estates, Oribi Gorge, when about 10 armed men gained entry to his property at about 6pm," said police spokesman Captain Gerald Mfeka."Once the men entered the house it is alleged that they started assaulting him. The men then demanded the safe keys and cash. After searching the house they found the keys to the safe, took firearms and cash," said Capt Mfeka. During the ordeal Mr Gritti had been hit several times with sticks and sustained severe head injuries. The robbers fled taking electronic appliances including laptops and cellphones, as well as passorts, firearms and cash. Mr Gritti was take to hospital by paramedics, where he received treatment. A joint search operation with farmers, Vispol (crime prevention) detectives and the SAPS K9 Unit was conducted but no arrests were made on the day. Police are searching for the 10 men. Paddock police are investigating only a house robbery case - not attempted murder. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/kzn-south-coast/kzn-south-coast-news-crime?oid=7742283&sn=Detail&pid=4196895&Farmer-attacked-at-Oribi

Waterval Boven farmer Garth Johnstone 67, shot dead in his house: nothing robbed: Beeld writes this could have been a 'revenge attack' after the farmer had complained of illegal squatters on adjacent farm to new owner: http://www.beeld.com Sept 2 2013 ---------- 31 August 2013 WATERVAL BOVEN - 'n 67-jarige boer van die omgewing is gisteraand in sy huis doodgeskiet. Dit is nie bekend hoeveel mense by die aanval betrokke was nie, maar hulle is daar weg sonder om iets te vat. Kol. Leonard Hlathi, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gese dat mnr. Garth Johnstone (67) van die plaas Ensimini naby die deur van sy sitkamer geskiet is."Sy 70-jarige vrou was elders in die huis en het net skote hoor klap," het Hlathi gese.Sy het op haar gewonde man afgekom.Hlathi kon nie se waar hy getref was nie. Hulp is ontbied maar Johnstone is op die toneel dood verklaar.Enige iemand met inligting word versoek om konst. Aubrey Khoza te skakel op 076-171-1643. --------- http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/lowveld/lowveld-mobile-news?oid=7751286&sn=Mobile-Detail&pid=4732825&Boer-in-huis-vermoor ---- BEELD claims he may have been murdered in 'revenge attack' after farm sale dispute: -- Boer sterf in sy vrou se arms deel 6 twiet 1 E-pos kommentaar Riata Nel Maandag 02 September 2013 ’n 67-jarige boer van Waterval-Boven is Vrydagaand in die arms van sy vrou dood kort nadat hy in sy plaashuis geskiet is. Garth Johnson het omstreeks 18:00 by die huis op sy plaas, Ntsinini, ingestap toe hy by die kombuisdeur geskiet is. Na verneem word, is twee 9 mm- pistooldoppies buite die huis gekry. Sy vrou was elders in die huis en het na die kombuis gehardloop, waar sy haar man in ’n plas bloed gekry het. Sy het by hom gehurk en hom vasgehou, waar hy dood is. Kol. Leonard Hlathi, provinsiale polisiewoordvoerder, het gistermiddag gesê die moordenaars het niks gesteel nie. Die polisie ondersoek die moontlikheid dat dit ’n wraakaanval was. Volgens ’n boer van die omgewing was Johnson verlede week in ’n vergadering met die nuwe eienaars van ’n plaas wat hy in ’n grondeis verloor het. ’n Warm gesprek het gevolg, waarna Johnson gedreig is. Johnson het glo gekla oor die mense wat op die stuk grond plak. Enigiemand met inligting word versoek om konst. Aubrey Khoza te bel by 076 171 1643. http://www.beeld.com

Brighton Beach man 59, accused of owning hundreds of thousands of child-pornography images, gets R5,000 bail, case postponed to 6 Dec: ------------------- 29 August journalist Mbali Mpofu: "A BRIGHTON Beach man (59) was granted R5,000 bail by the Durban Magistrates Court, accused of possessing "hundreds of thousands of images" of child pornography. (*He may not be identified yet because he has not been asked to plead to the charges, for which he was arrested in May). One of the witnesses in the case -- a young man in his 20s -- has lived with the accused since the age of eight. The young man has been seen in some of the images under investigation. And the female whistle-blower, a neighbour who shared the man's internet links and found the pictures in their shared documents folder, has since moved away from her premises, fearing for the safety of her son. --- The case has been postponed to 6 December, pending the outcome of the forensic report. The accused has not been asked to plead as yet, which is why he may not be identified yet. The man was arrested by Brighton Beach SAP on Monday, 27 May following information received from a female neighbour with whom he shared a wireless internet connection. -- According to the police, the neighbour was perusing through the shared documents folder when she came across the pornographic images. She took screen shots and presented them to the police, which subsequently led to his arrest. The man's computer equipment was seized, pending further investigation. Police believe the total number of images stored on his computer runs into hundreds of thousands. --- The man, who has been in custody for three months, was originally denied bail by the state. An incomplete forensic report has led to the state altering its stance on the bail application. Outstanding forensic evidence will take some two months to finalise. --- After the court heard affidavits from the accused and his brother, bail was granted at R5,000 on the condition that he does not contact state witnesses; he must report to Brighton Beach SAP once a week; and he is required to surrender his travel documents. One of witnesses, a young man in his 20s, has lived with the accused since the age of eight. The young man has been seen in some of the images under investigation. The whistle-blower has since moved away from her premises, fearing for the safety of her son. The case has been postponed to 6 December, pending the outcome of the forensic report. The accused has not been asked to plead as yet, which is why he may not be identified yet. http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/south-durban/south-durban-news-general?oid=7748024&sn=Detail&pid=1171615&Child-porn-accused-gets-bail-----------

Race row? in Witbank after Afrikaner CPF-members make citizens' arrest of self-admitted mountain-bike thief Mr B D Vengelsamy 29 August 2013 MIDDELBURG/WITBANK Gerhard Rheeder reports without providing any proof, that a 'race row' has erupted in the town after a rash of housebreakings had local resident fight back against the criminals in Witbank, something which, the journalist claims, also happened in nearby Middelburg. Albert Holtzhause of Hencom Autobody, a member of the local citizen-policing forum, was not yet asked to plead in the local Witbank court on charges that he had assaulted a self-admitted thief, Mr B D Vengelsamy, who had stolen a mountain-bike from his erf. The value of the mountain-bike is estimated at R4,000. The SAPS says after Mr Holtzhausen's release from overnight detention that 'several members of the CPF will have to be investigated as to their involvement in the citizens' arrest. No mention of 'racism' was contained in the police-statement. Holtzhausen said he was held in the police-cells Thursday night and granted bail of R1000 the next day. He identified the self-admitted mountain-bike thief as mr B D Vengelsamy and said he trapped him on his premises but the man fled. When Holtzhausen raised the CPF-alarm members captured the man and brought him back to Holtzhausen's house to wait for the SAPS to arrest him. The SAPS was slow to respond: they first attended another crime scene. What happened next is confusing as there are two versions of the event. Mr Vengelsamy's version is that Mr Holtzhausen had 'sicked dogs on the tied-up man; that he had 'tried to drown' Mr Vengelsamy in a swimming pool, and that he had 'beat him with planks." The SAPS claimed that upon their very late arrival after first attending to another crime-scene, "Mr Vengelsamy 'had bite and beating marks on his body and his hair was wet and full of grass'. It's not clear thus far where the charges of 'racism' were brought into this picture but the SAPS arrested both men. Mr Holtzhausen's version of events - backed up by members of the CPF who were present at the arrest - that Mr Vengelsamy had tried to flee and jumped across a wall, not knowing that the adjacent erf contained 'dangerous dogs'. "The dogs bit him and we (the members of the CPF present at the scene) brought him to safety. At no stage was he beaten or was any attempt made to drown him'. SAPS capt Eddie Hall said 'the involvement of several men in the CPF will have to be investigated because of their presence at the arrest of Mr Vengelsamy. We will have to investigate this matter thoroughly.' ------------------ http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-crime?oid=7747602&sn=Detail&pid=4979893&eMalahleni-GPF-lede-beskuldig-van-aanval-op-boef