Court hears Cullinan robbery ordeal

Locked in a cupboard while her house was burning down, an elderly Cullinan woman told her attacker her last wish was to go to heaven, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Monday. 10 September 2012 | Sapa PRETORIA - The evidence was given in a statement by one of the men accused of murdering 64-year-old Piet van den Berg and attempting to murder his wife Madelein on their smallholding near Cullinan in July 2009. Judge Vivian Tlhapi earlier ruled that the accused Mphanyana Given Kanyane's statement to a magistrate was admissible as evidence, even though he claimed it had not been made voluntarily. Kanyane, Mduduzi Sbusiso Hlengethwa and Wonder Mbongezini Makwakwa have pleaded not guilty to charges including robbing the couple of a cellphone and other goods, and maliciously damaging their property. Van den Berg was shot dead when robbers invaded his home. His wife was tied up and locked in a cupboard and left for dead when the robbers set the house alight. Kanyane said in his statement he and Makwakwa had decided to rob the Van den Bergs because they wanted money to go to Johannesburg. After abandoning their initial attempt, they met Hlengethwa who told them he had a fishing knife and was a "professional robber". They returned to house, where they waited for the elderly man to come out, then pounced on him, demanding money and firearms. He gave them a firearm and pointed out the safe. According to Kanyane, Hlengethwa was holding the firearm while he was looking at the safe. He heard a sound as if Van den Berg was trying to escape, followed by a shot. He took the firearm from Hlengethwa, who told him Van den Berg had untied himself. Kanyane then demanded the safe keys from his wife. Inside, they found old currency, papers, another firearm, ammunition, and jewellery which they loaded into a bag. Hlengethwa put Madelein Van den Berg into a wardrobe. He dressed in her husband's clothes, took a cigarette and started lighting papers in the house. "I went to the wardrobe where the lady was and told her, her house was on fire. I asked her what her last words were. She told me she wants to go to heaven. I took the bag and firearms and ran out," he said. Van den Berg pointed out the three accused as the men who had attacked her and her husband of 40 years that day. She had tried to drag her husband's body out of the house after freeing herself, but he was too heavy for her. A neighbour managed to get his body from the house before it burnt to the ground. The trial continues. The Citizen - Comments by Sonny - Yes, its only in Africa where the children get killed for a cellular phone. The old and frail get murdered in their homes where they are supposed to be safe. The callous criminals feel nothing for the authorities, peoples lives and property. High walls and electric fences don't mean 'Protection' but rather FEAR! - THE FOLLOWING IS A 13 DAY HORROR SHOW -bloodiest-13-days The past 13 days has witnessed the bloodiest killings of Boers in South Africa, by black assailants. Yes, Boers, because according to the perspectives of black terrorists, all whites are Boers, demons, and a legitimate target for a killing, to purge the South African nation, of the white tribe. Yes, despite your political affiliations or liking, even members of the DA was stoned when they protested against the Cosatu march, earlier this year. All whites are deemed ‘colonialists’ by the ever-ready socioparasites of Africa. This perception, formed after being bombarded by 80 + years of communist propaganda, makes it psychologically easier to act as willing executioners and judges of whites during this massacre. This communist propaganda started in 1928, when the world’s controlling body of communism, the KOMINTERN decided that South Africa should have a black communist government. Bill Andrews, the chairman of the SACP at the time, returned to South Africa, and immediately set about measures to ultimately achieve that goal. Yes there is a Boer genocide. In this is included all the English, and victims of other white nationalities as well. In South Africa, all white targets are viewed as Boers. The revolutionary songs of the terrorists in Southern Africa, only sing about the successful killing of the ‘Amabunhu’, the Boers. In other words, -whites. But apart from that, after the concentration camps at Auchswitz, where the Jews were slaughtered, the world’s definition of a genocid was changed by a Polish lawyer with the surname of Lemke. In 1947, the United Nations adopted a new set of definitions of a genocide. A body count was since then, by no means the only measure with which it was decided whether a genocide was being committed or not. Forcing conditions of living upon a target group, or particular culture group, which makes it difficult or even impossible to survive, is a genocide on its own. In that regard, all affirmative actions, and laws qualify as a full –blown genocide on its own, whether it is contained in our constitution or not. The constitution only legitimizes a genocide in this regard. It is still against the Statutes of Rome, and a crime according to the UN’s Convention on the Crime and Punishment of Genocide. The fact that Affirmative Action and BEE is contained in the ‘Constitution’ is therefore nothing but the legalizing of terrorism against the white population. And THAT is exactly the instruction that Lenin gave to Commissar Ivanovich; – to formulate terror as widely as possible, and then to legalize it as a principle. The ANC legalized terror. That’s all. There is a wider world out there in the international community and laws, that describe affirmative action as a genocide. So, my dear brothers and sisters, that are all fellow Boers, so defined by the enemy’s actions against us; today we bleed. Today I received a list of our fellow whites’ that were tortured, maimed and massacred in the past 13 days in South Africa. May God be with them and may they rest in peace. My condolences go out to each and every family member. Our fallen brothers and sisters are: *WARBURTON/ LOTHAIR: Tony Mason aangeval. Ernstig aangerand. *KLERKSDORP/ HARTBEESFONTEIN: Hendrien Johnstone De Lange doodgeskiet tydens ‘n plaasaanval. *JANSENVILLE: Owen Charles, ‘n Sewentigjarige boer van die Jansenville-omgewing is dood en sy vrou ernstig beseer in ‘n plaasaanval. *AMANZIMTOTI: Lucas Holtzhausen in ‘n koma met breinskade na barbaarse aa nval deur drie swartes in Umbilo straat. *POTCHEFSTROOM: PLAASAANVAL: Oom Jurie Barnard (82) en tannie Anna (80) aangeval, aangerand en met warm strykyster gebrand. *RHODESFIELD,KEMPTONPARK: Karen Goosen (44) veg om haar lewe na sinnelose, barbaarse aanval deur twee swartes: *SABIE: Mavis Koekemoer van Lewis gister oorval en in pikdonker stoorkamer toegesluit. *RICHMOND: MAN DOODGESKIET: Man vermoor in Richmond KZN. geskiet en bakkie gevat het op n plaas net buite Richmond gebly. *SMITHFIELD: BOER AANGEVAL: Johan Neethling (56), ‘n boer van Smithfield, is gisteraand beseer toe hy glo vier mans in n verdagte Toyota Corolla met ‘n Noord-Kaapse registrasienommer op ‘n grondpad in die omgewing van sy plaas voorgekeer het. *ODENDAALSRUS: Anet Knoetze (64) met mes doodgesteek in haar huis. *BRONKHORSTSPRUIT: My kleinboet is aangerand deur ‘n klomp van sy Mosambiekse werkers. Hulle het hom met stompe geslaan en beide sy bene gebreek, sowel as sy arm. Hy het inwendige en kopbeserings opgedoen en is tans bewusteloos in ‘n hospital. *CLOCOLAN: Oom Kempen Hugo oorlede na aanval. *LINKSFIELD: Erhard Enslin, 27, is laas Vrydag is in Linksfield vermoor gevind. *WITBANK: 73-jarige tannie vertel van haar vyf ure van hel terwyl sy verkrag en aangerand word. *WITBANK: Plaasaanval: Elmarie Faber (54) aangerand tydens aanval: Die merke om me. Elmarie Faber se gewrigte, is ‘n onaangename herinnering aan die oggend toe sy deur gewapende mans by haar plaashuis oorval en vasgebind is. *SUNWOODPARK: ‘n Afgetrede, welaf man deur 3 swartes aangeval. Hul het hom doodgesteek met messe nege uur die oggend in sy huis, selfoon en skootrekenaar gesteel. *AMANZIMTOTI: Malcolm Murray aangeval deur gewapendes by burgersentrum: “Amanzimtoti man was attacked and brutally beaten with a gun at the civic centre” *LADYBRAND: Allen Rodgers, `n Amerikaanse plaasbestuurder in die Ladybrand distrik, is per ambulans met kap wonde en snye na die MediClinic in Bloemfontein gejaag nadat hy vroegaand op die plaas Geluk met kapmesse aangeval is. Rodgers (61) is deur drie mans aangeval en het kap wonde aan sy kop, snye aan sy hande en kneusings opgedoen. Hy is ingewag nadat hulle eers sy vriendin, Mandy, oorval en vasgebind het. *HARTBEESFONTEIN: Ronel van Eyk (46) is by haar plaashek doodgeskiet minute nadat sy haar seun Freddie (9) by die skool afgelaai het. Die rowers het haar oorval toe sy uit haar Toyota Condor klim om die plaashek oop te maak. Die rowers het Van Eyk verskeie kere geskiet, onder meer in die gesig. Jurie Fourie, eienaar van die buurplaas, het vertel hy was besig met ontbyt in sy dorpshuis toe sy selfoon 08:00 lui. Dit was Ronel, sy het net geroggel. Ek het teruggebel toe die selfoon afgaan. Ronel het opgetel en weer net geroggel. Fourie en `n vriend, Sarel van Biljon, het hulle na die plaas gehaas. Daar het hulle Van Eyk nog lewend by die plaashek aangetref. Hulle het `n dokter, die polisie en ambulans ontbied. Van Eyk het kort voordat sy beswyk het, beduie daar was drie moordenaars. *OOS – TVL.: `n Boer wat `n hofinterdik bekom het, dat `n sekere pad nie gebruik mag word nie, op swartes afgekom wat die hofbevel geïgnoreer het. Hy het gestop om met hulle hieroor te praat, waarna jeugdiges [ongeveer 10 tussen die ouderdom van 15 – 21] op hom afgestorm, op die grond neer gegooi, en hom in die gesig met klippe begin slaan het! Net voor die boer uit sy bakkie geklim het om met hulle te praat het hy vir van sy werkers per radio laat weet van die situasie. Dit het egter sy lewe gered, want op die oomblik toe hulle sy keel met `n mes wou sny het hulp gearriveer. Volgens gerugte was die swart polisie wat opgedaag het absoluut antagonisties teenoor die bebloede boer en het eerder met die jeugdiges gestaan en gesels? *ESTON KZN: Aug 9 2012 – Morné Vorster writes: “my good friend Robbie Anderson’s body was found next to the road in Eston KZN. Murdered. He was shot for what? Because he lives on a farm and works hard, who knows. He ran the sawmill in Richmond for his father Malcolm Anderson, the owner of the Minerva Private Game Reserve and Museum in Byrne. Robbie lived on a farm just outside Eston. Absolutely shocked that such a good person has to be murdered in such a gruesome manner. ” *KEMPTON PARK: August 9 2012 Karen Joost’s face beaten to a pulp: nose torn off by two black males: Stephen Barnard writes: Karen Jooste 44 is fighting for her life in ICU at the moment. She was viciously attacked on her porch while waiting for her lift to work yesterday morning around 7am in Rhodesfield, Kempton Park. *BLOEMFONTEIN: Aug 3 2012 – Volksblad journalist Andre Damons writes that Afrikaner toolmaker Johannes Ludewikus Wiesner, 45, was found bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his department. *HURLYVALE: The Edenvale SAPS confirmed that a woman was beaten to death in her home in Hurlyvale yesterday. “The woman, in her 20s, was attacked with a hammer and died at the scene due to her injuries. Her husband was also stabbed. He was taken to hospital,” Lt Col Roberts said. *BUTTERWORTH: ’n Priester van Butterworth se twee kinders het hul pa se lyk in ‘n plas bloed gevind, het die Oos-Kaapse polisie gesê. Hy sê die 46-jarige priester van die gebied se Anglikaanse kerk, het veelvuldige wonde gehad. Die polisie vermoed ‘n skerp voorwerp is gebruik om die man dood te steek. Die motief is nog onbekend, aangesien sy besittings nog in die huis was. *KROONSTAD: – ’n Voormalige landdros van die dorp moes ure van hel hier saam met verskeie inbrekers in haar huis deurbring terwyl sy deur een van hulle aangehou, herhaaldelik aangerand en gewurg is terwyl die ander haar huis gestroop het. Jolene Tredoux (46) is deur haar aanvallers in die huis toegesluit toe hulle daar weg is. Erg beseer en geskok moes sy ’n vensterruit breek en na buite om hulp roep. Bure het haar te hulp gesnel. *EDENVALE: ʼn Bejaarde vrou van Edenvale is Donderdag dood nadat rowers haar met ʼn stomp voorwerp oor die kop geslaan het. *Wesrand Muldersdrift: ’n Gr. 8-leerling aan die Hoërskool Monument in Krugersdorp is dood en haar pa en suster gewond toe die gesin op hul hoewe in Muldersdrift aangeval is. Alyssa Botha (13) is in die maag geskiet en haar suster, Megan (17), ’n gr. 11-leerling aan dieselfde skool, is in die bene gewond. Hul pa, Anton, is in die maag geskiet. Sy een nier en ’n deel van sy lewer en dikderm moes verwyder word. *Oos-Tvl Ermelo: Annemarie Burke Van Ermelo is net voor 8 vanoggend in haar huis verkrag en toe vermoor! Haar keel is met ‘n mes afgesny!!! We are in dire straits as whites in this country. This is 30 white victims, all considered Boers, in the past 13 days. The genocide of Boers (whites) is continuing unabated, and escalating to almost three whites per day. Remember, this is only the number of victims we are able to source in the media and from the account of relatives. Due to the official policy of keeping this genocide a secret, the actual number is much higher. And that excludes the number of whites that commit suicide due to the intolerable conditions of living that affirmative action forces upon their culture. The number of suicides is estimated to be twice as much as the actual murders of whites, by professionals working in die medical and trauma fields. We bleed, we die, and we are being forced into a corner from which is virtually impossible to escape. Our options and our time is running out….. Author not recorded