Well-known Middelburg car-guard Hannetjie Ellis, nicknamed "Aunt Speedy the Carguard' dies from hit-and-run accident: red Audi speeds away. (*It's not known if the SAPS is investigating this as a culpible homicide nor whether an inquest into her hit-and-run death will be held, nor whether the driver of the Audi has been arrested.)
On CCTV video it can be clearly seen how the frail Afrikaner woman pays for a can of petrol and walks away - it would be the last can of petrol she'd ever buy. Minutes later she was run dwn by an Audi in Walter Sisulu Street and died of her injuries a day later.
The fuel-pump attendants at Shell H&S were shocked when they heard of her homicide. "I remember her counting out her cvhange for the petrol, said Joseph Komane, supervisor.
Shortly thereafter they saw the ambulance go past but didn't know it was ' for the friendly lady'. She frequently stopped there after she finished her daily stint at the nearby corner of Tambo Street.
It can be seen on the video that she purchased the petrol just before 2h pm and walks away. Within minutes she was run down across Pick 'n Pay.
daleen@mobserver.co.za
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uYSoDF7UyM
http://www.looklocal.co.za/looklocal/content/en/middelburg/middelburg-news-general?oid=8106359&sn=Detail&pid=4979902&VIDEO--Haar-laaste-kannetjie-petrol
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30 Jan 2014 Daleen Naudé writes that impoverished Afrikaner resident Mrs Hannetjie Ellis died in hospital on Sunday after she was struck by a speeding red Audi 'full of people'. Her son Koos confirmed that she was taken to the Middelburg Hospital with broken ribs and a cut on her arm. She was discharged on Saturday and died the next day. Her other son Coenie said his mother was taken to their other brother Johan's farm along the Loskopdam Road - where she died.
Mrs Ellis was locally known as 'Aunt Speedy the Carguard' because of the rapid way in which she was always walking around the car-park.
Most Middelburg motorists knew her - also because of a 2012 story about the dramatic way in which she and her long-lost daughter, Santie Olckers, were reunited after 19 years of seperation: Santie had been taken away from her by a welfare agency when her only daughter was only six years old.
The Middelburg Observer said 'Aunt Speedy' frequently popped in at their office to tell stories. She is survived by her children Louwtjie, Coenie, Koos, Johan and Santie.
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