Farm attack De Wildt - reported by Rina Bester on 20 January 2015 AND by Beeld.com on 22 January 2015 with interviews with neighbours and witnesses: "Afrikaner smallholder couple Annetjie and Johannes 'Hannes' van der Merwe 74, attacked by 3 black 'youths'. The black criminals now have four more guns and ammonition after torturing the elderly homesteader with a scalding-hot iron to get the key to their gun-safe... The attackers also bludgeoned him with an axe -- but he still managed to walk 1km to get help from his neighbours on his badly burnt legs
UPDATE ON MARCH 20 2015 FROM PARLIAMENT DEBATE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:
#SouthAfrica debates Human Rights in Parliament: Pieter Mulder MP: Why are journalists scared to tell the truth about the tortures of white farmers by blacks?
http://vfplus.org.za/toesprake/menseregtedagdebat-in-parlement
2015-03-19 -- Dr Pieter Mulder, MP, Freedom Front Plus:
"Yesterday, the Honourable deputy president said that all of us, as leaders, "need to act against the cancer of racism."
I agree one hundred percent with him. Leaders must set an example. But let me give an example to show what a complicated country South Africa is.
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Recently an old couple was attacked by three young men on their smallholding near De Wildt.
Mr. Motswaledi Moloto is 80 and his wife, Constance Moloto is 74. The attackers were three young white men.
The young white men attacked Mrs. Moloto with an axe and made racist remarks.
When Mr. Moloto refused to give the keys of his vehicle to the young men, they took an iron and burnt his legs with it.
The neighbours, who later took him to hospital, described how the skin fell off his legs as a result of all his wounds on his legs.
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Is this ordinary crime or is it racism? About this one finds different opinions. I would describe it as "white racism"-- due to the cruelty of the crime and the racist comments.
The attack did take place earlier this year, with one difference.
You did not read about it in the media. The newspapers and television largely ignored it. Why?
Because the attack was not perpetrated on Mr. Moloto, but on the old couple Hannes and Annetjie van der Merwe from De Wildt.
They are white and the attackers were black.
--- If it had been three young white men who had attacked a black old couple, it would have brought South Africa to a standstill;
-- every talk radio programme would have discussed racism for hours, the human rights commission would immediately have started an investigation and
-- politicians would angrily have issued media statements about it.
Why these double standards? Is it political correctness? Are journalists scared to tell the truth?
Of course it is not white farmers alone who are being killed.
-- Elisa Mokoenat and Augustine Khonjana, two farmworkers, were strangled during a farm attack and shot in the stomach.
-- Last year in the Free State a black commercial farmer was shot dead by attackers and his wife was kicked and shot.
Statistics show that in South Africa many more black people - (there are 51million black people and 3,4million white people in SA) are murdered than white.
The world’s average for murders are 7 in 100 000 of the population.
The South African average is 31; For police officers it is 54 and for farmers and farmworkers it is 133.
Clearly it’s a crisis.
Section 12 of the Constitution reads:
Everyone has the right to freedom and security of the person, which includes the right
c. to be free from all forms of violence from either public or private sources;
d. not to be tortured in any way; and
e. not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman or degrading way.
When cash-in-transit heists were a crisis, the minister of police made it a priority crime.
Within two years the problem was largely solved. Why can this also not be done with farm murders?
Dr Pieter Mulder: Contact numbers: 083 419 5403 / 082 674 6670
http://vfplus.org.za/toesprake/menseregtedagdebat-in-parlement
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UPDATES:
Update: Three blacks arrested for the De Wildt-attack on elderly Afrikaner couple Hannes and Annetjie van der Merwe
released by magistrate 5 february 2015: "Fingerprints different than those at the torture-scene'
Report by Hanti Otto, Thursday 5 february 2015 Beeld:
This is why the three suspects in Van der Merwe farm-attack at De Wildt were released: ENuus video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6AAaztvbgY#t=25
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/02/05/De_Wildtaanval_3_daarom_vry_z/
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/02/03/Drie_vry_wat_glo_egpaar_martel_n/
Update: It was reported on 19 February 2015 that the pistol which was stolen during a farm-attack at De Wildt during which 4 firearms were stolen from the gun-safe
of Hannes and Annetjie van der Merwe, was used in an armed robbery this past weekend - very likely by the three men who had extensively tortured Mr Van der Merwe
with a hot iron and had bashed him over the head with an axe to get him to hand over the safe key.
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/02/19/Drie_roof_skiet_glo_met_gebuite_pistool/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9lZ-QzWzk
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The amazing survival feat of 74-year-old De Wildt smallholder Hannes van der Merwe.
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Rina Bester wrote: 20 Jan 2015: Today I had to hold my 74-year-old neighbour Annatjie van der Merwe in my arms and weep with her. And I am still weeping. 'Oom' (uncle) Hannes van der Merwe was attacked at around 09h30am on their De Wildt smallholding and smashed with an axe over his skull. He was forced into the homestead at gunpoint and tied up with aunt Annatjie in the bedroom. She tried to alert the community with the help-radio but was bashed over the head and the radio was ripped out and thrown to smithereens against the wall. The house was plundered and uncle Hannes was tortured on his upper legs with a burning iron: the skin is hanging down. They got four firearms ammo. These two old people who are like a mom and dad to me were cruelly assaulted. They are destroyed. Can these people have a soul when they do something like this? The car's tyres were slashed so that when uncle Hannes managed to get lose he had to struggle for a kilometre for our house to find help. Come on De Wildt, come on South Africa... how long must we think 'this will not happen to me'. Everybody lives in fear everywhere you move, you always have to look across your shoulder, be alert, be aware. My heart is broken for all the victims. My heart is sore for uncle Hannes and aunt Annatjie and their children - and for our beautiful country which is going under.
Afrikaans:
Mag hierdie geshare en 'n 1000 maal weer geshare word. As hierdie van my 'n rassis maak, dan is ek trots daarop om een te wees.
Ek moes vandag my 74-jarige buurvrou in my arms vat en saam met haar huil. Ek huil nou nog. Oom Hannes van der Merwe van De Wildt is vanoggend omstreeks 09.30 buite deur 3 swart jeugdiges oorval en met 'n byl oor die kop geslaan. Hy is in die huis ingedwing met 'n vuurwapen teen sy kop waar hy en tannie Annatjie in die slaapkamer vasgebind is.
Sy het nog probeer om op die roepradio om hulp te roep maar is oor die kop geslaan en die radio is uit die muur geruk en stukkend gegooi. Die huis is geplunder en om die kluis se sleutels te kry is oom Hannes op altwee bo-bene met 'n strykyster gebrand dat die velle af is. Vier vuurwapens is onder andere gebuit asook ammunisie.
Hierdie twee oumense wat soos 'n ma en pa vir my is, is wreedaardig aangerand, hulle is verniel. Is dit 'n mens met 'n siel wat so iets beplan en uitvoer?
Hulle voertuig se bande is stukkend gesteek en nadat oom Hannes daarin kon slaag om los te kom, moes hy 'n kilometer ver aanstrompel na ons huis toe om hulp te ontbied.
Kom De Wildt, kom Suid-Afrika .....hoe lank moet ons maar dink "dit sal nie met my gebeur nie"? Mens leef letterlik in vrees orals waar jy beweeg, jy moet altyd oor jou skouer loer, bedag wees, probeer paraat wees .....genoeg is lankal genoeg, my hart is seer vir almal wat slagoffers is, my hart is seer vir oom Hannes en tannie Annatjie en hulle kinders, vir ons mooi land wat ten gronde gaan
first report on Boere Krisis Aksie facebook.com page.
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