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KFC-voorval: Drie in hof

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Drie mans van Pretoria wat daarvan beskuldig word dat hulle ʼn egpaar in Montana aangerand het, het Vrydag in die landdroshof in Pretoria-Noord verskyn.

Landdros Motlhoki Rapulana het na die mans se aansoek om borgtog geluister en gesê sy het tyd nodig om die bewyse te bestudeer, voordat sy haar besluit op 30 Augustus bekend sal maak.

Staatsaanklaer Ronnie Sibanda voer aan die mans moet nie vrygelaat word nie, aangesien hul veiligheid nie gewaarborg is nie en ʼn gevoel van vrede in die gemeenskap ondermyn kan word. “Die aansoek om borgtog moet ook in die belang van die publiek wees, aangesien die voorval in die publieke arena plaasgevind het.”

Stephan Nel (39), Joshua Scholtz (21) en Dicky Junior van Rooyen (21) staan tereg op aanklagte van poging tot moord, aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer en die rig van ʼn vuurwapen. Hul een medebeskuldigde, Marius Harding (23), het sy aansoek om borgtog laat vaar en nog ʼn beskuldigde, Ockert Muller (20), se aansoek om borgtog is reeds goedgekeur.

Die mans word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle Jacob Sono en sy vrou Dudu op 2 Augustus by die KFC-deurrybaan in Montana, Pretoria, aangerand het. Video’s van die voorval is wyd op sosiale media versprei.

Konst. William Tladi, ʼn ondersoekbeampte in die saak, het vroeër tydens die aansoek om borgtog getuig en het aan die hof gesê Sono kon aan ʼn hartaanval gesterf het. Hy het gesê Sono se mond en ore het gebloei nadat hy by die kitskosrestaurant aangeval is. Hy was die tweede getuie om die borgtogaansoek van die mans teen te staan.

Tladi het aan die hof gesê beskuldigde nommer een, Stephan Nel, het by die toneel aangekom toe die bakleiery begin het, en hy het ʼn vuurwapen op Sono gerig voor hy hom saam met sy medebeskuldigdes geslaan het. “Dit is hoekom ek die borgtog teenstaan. ʼn Persoon kan sterf as jy hom teen die kop slaan.”

Adv. Francois Kriel, vir Schultz, voer aan Sono is vir ʼn knop op sy kop behandel en ʼn gebarste membraan in sy oor wat binne ʼn paar dae genees het. Hy hou vol die beserings was nie ernstig of lewensgevaarlik nie.

Tladi het aan die hof gesê die aanvallers het nie net die egpaar fisies aangeval nie, maar ook rassistiese uitlatings gemaak.

Daar is egter geen aanklagte wat met rassisme en crimen injuria verband hou op die klagstaat nie.

Nel se prokureur, Nols Nolte, het aan die hof gesê Tladi is nie vertroud met die besonderhede van die saak nie, en hy het net opdrag gekry om hof toe te kom en die borgtogaansoek teen te staan. Nolte wou weet waarom daar geen klag van crimen injuria is nie, indien Dudu Sono beledig is, aldus die polisie se weergawe.

Tladi het gesê hy het nie die klaers se verklarings geneem of die klagtes geformuleer nie. Hy het gesê hy het die dossier ontvang om ondersoek in te stel.

Seun vas oor bedrog van R93 miljoen, pa in hof oor korrupsie

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Tseko Mojalefa Rabotho (29) het Vrydag in die gespesialiseerde handelsmisdaadhof in Pretoria verskyn op aanklag van korrupsie.

Rabotho is op 17 Augustus deur die Valke in hegtenis geneem op aanklag van bedrog, korrupsie en geldwassery ten waarde van R93 miljoen, het lt.kol. Robert Netshiunda, woordvoerder van die Valke, gesê. Hy het aanvanklik op 21 Augustus in die hof verskyn waar dit aan die lig gekom het dat hy ʼn aantal bates, insluitend twee luukse eiendom en 19 motors, bekom het, wat nooit gefinansier is nie.

“Net voor Rabotho Donderdag vir sy aansoek om borgtog in die hof sou verskyn, wou sy pa, Jackie Nicholas Rabhoto (57) die ondersoekbeampte by die Valke se kantoor in Pretoria glo met R52 000 kontant omkoop,” het Netshiunda verduidelik. “Hy is dadelik in hegtenis geneem. Hy het ʼn verdere R48 000 kontant in sy besit gehad.”

Jackie het Vrydag in die hof verskyn op aanklag van korrupsie.

Die twee mans moet weer op 31 Augustus in die hof verskyn.

Pretoria Commuters get some relief as Taxis expected to operate normally

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Tshwane commuters can expect some relief as taxis are expected to operate normally this morning.

On Wednesday, operators blocked several roads causing massive delays while protesting to the Tshwane House to submit a memorandum to Mayor Solly Msimanga.

Among the issues raised by the drivers is that traffic contravention tickets be scrapped.

Taxis in the Tshwane area are expected to function without any hiccups at least for the next two weeks.

The Democratic Taxi Workers Union of South Africa (Detwusa)’s Themba Maseko says the government is responsible for providing taxi infrastructure, including pick-ups and drop offs.

He says drivers should not be fined for government’s failure.

“Our demands are the scrapping of the traffic fines because those fines block our PDPs and driver’s licenses and we can’t drive passengers without our PDPs.”

Maseko says the fines amount to hundreds of thousands of rands which prevent some drivers from renewing their public drivers’ licenses.

Detwusa has given the metro 14 days to respond to their queries or face yet another strike action.

‘Sekuriteitsbreuk’ by Mededingingskommissie in Pretoria

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Die Mededingingskommissie het Saterdag gesê daar was ʼn “sekuriteitsbreuk” by sy kantoor in Pretoria vroeër die week.

Sipho Ngwema, woordvoerder van die kommissie, het gesê twee skootrekenaars is Dinsdag by die afdeling gesteel wat verantwoordelik is vir ondersoeke na kartelgedrag.

“Die voorval is by die polisie aangemeld en die saak is deur die Valke oorgeneem vir verdere ondersoek,” het Ngwema gesê.

Hy het gesê die kommissie het die nodige voorsorgmaatreëls getref om veiligheid en sekuriteit op te skerp.

Inwoner van Pretoria voor haar verloofde geskiet wyl hy video neem

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Carine van Staden (28), ʼn inwoner van Pretoria, is Donderdag voor haar verloofde glo deur ʼn weermaglid in die noorde van die stad geskiet.

Carine se pa, Johan van Staden (53), het Saterdag aan Maroela Media gesê sy dogter en haar verloofde, Johan Harmse (29), was omstreeks 18:00 van Daspoort op sy BMW-motorfiets op pad na vriende in Montana toe ʼn amptelike weermagvoertuig hulle naby Wonderboom Junction ligtelik getref het.

“Die voertuig, ʼn wit Audi, het weermagnommerplate gehad en ons het intussen vasgestel die jong man wat dit bestuur het, is glo ʼn drywer vir een van die generaals,” het Van Staden gesê.

“Die man het die motorfiets se voetrus getref waarop Carine se voete was en die man het toe net weggejaag,” het hy gesê.

Harmse het ʼn draagbare videokamera aan sy valhelm gehad, dit aangeskakel en die voertuig agterna gesit.

“Die verkeerslig by die hoek van Lavenderweg en Braam Pretoriusstraat was rooi en die man moes stilhou. Carine het afgeklim en hom genader om te hoor hoekom hy weggery het. Hy het bloot net sy deur oopgemaak en ’n pistool reguit in haar bors gedruk en haar ten aanskoue van haar verloofde en ander motoriste geskiet.”

Die man het daarna glo ook sy vuurwapen op Harmse, wat nog op sy motorfiets was, gerig voordat die verkeerslig groen geslaan en hy weggery het. Harmse se video van die voorval is aan die polisie as bewys oorhandig.

Carine is na die George Mukhari-hospitaal gehaas waar sy tans aansterk. “Die koeël het haar hart skrams gemis. Dit is deur haar linkerlong en agter haar rug uit. Haar long het platgeval, maar verder is geen ander organe beskadig nie. Sy is gelukkig ʼn sterk mens en is by haar positiewe. Sy is stabiel en dit gaan goed met haar onder die omstandighede.”

Harmse en Van Staden is ná haar opname na die Sinoville-polisiestasie om die voorval aan te meld. Dit was sowat ʼn uur en ʼn half ná die voorval. Die weermaglid was toe reeds daar en het, aldus Van Staden, aangevoer hy het gedink Carine wou hom kaap. Hy het nooit amptelik ʼn klag aanhangig gemaak nie.

Ao. Johan van Dyk, polisiewoordvoerder, het Saterdag aan Maroela Media bevestig aanvanklik is ʼn klag van die afvuur van ʼn vuurwapen in ʼn openbare gebied en roekelose en nalatige bestuur teen die man aanhangig gemaak voordat hy op waarskuwing vrygelaat is.

“Ons kan bevestig dat die saak intussen na ʼn poging tot moord verander is. Die polisie is besig met verdere ondersoek en is besig om almal se verklarings af te neem, waarna die dossier na die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag verwys sal word om oor verdere stappe te besluit,” het Van Dyk gesê.

Dit is nie duidelik hoe lank dié prosedures gaan duur nie. Die weermaglid is nog nie in hegtenis geneem nie.

We’ll deal with criminals ourselves, threaten Faerie Glen residents

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Pretoria – Residents of Faerie Glen in Pretoria East have threatened to take matters into their own hands to deal with an increase in crime in the area if police did not intervene.

They said the community was being held hostage by criminals after a surge in housebreakings and muggings over the past few months.

Reports of crime from the suburb and nearby Faerie Glen Nature Reserve have emerged, with the first crime inside the reserve taking place two weeks ago after a 10-year record of safety and security.

A woman was attacked while running on the trail in the reserve and all her gear, including shoes, cellphone, hydration backpack and sunglasses were taken.

Warnings began going up on social media, where trail runners were asked to be cautious and not to run on their own, as criminals, often wielding knives and wearing balaclavas, were on the prowl.

The criminals are said to gain entry into the nature reserve through Atterbury Bridge and using the Manitoba Bridge to gain access to the rest of the nature reserve and into the homes along its periphery.

20/07/2017. Manitoba bridge inside the Faerie Glen Nature Reserve which criminals use to gain accessto houses on the perifery.
Picture: Bongani Shilulbanen

Homes hit are those located on the eastern side and last week residents said they were fed up with what they perceived as a lack of police action.

“We are going to be using maximum force to protect ourselves from these thugs.”

“Extreme situations require extreme measures,” said a resident who lives opposite the nature reserve in Glenwood Street.

He said on two occasions he had spotted burglars in his yard.

“They have stolen my hose pipe and rake,” he said.

Kefentse Mompei who lives adjacent to the reserve, said criminals were now becoming arrogant and doing as they pleased. Her clothes were stolen off her washing line, she said.

She said Faerie Glen Nature Reserve opposite her residential complex provided a hiding place for criminals.

“What is sad is that a resident will end up shooting and killing the perpetrators and they will be jailed for protecting their family,” said Mompei.

Community members said they were fed up and wanted a public meeting with police as soon as possible to discuss the setting-up of foot patrols.

Other residents said despite a police station being close to their homes they no longer felt safe.

Resident Maralise Louw said they wanted to call on all men in the community to come out and assist people going to work to protect them from being attacked.

“And also for men to go to the gates of the schools to make sure children going to school do so safely,” she said.

The chairperson of the Friends of the Faerie Glen Nature Reserve, Louise Kritzinger, said the fences along January Masilela, Glenwood and Manitoba roads needed maintenance.

The opening under the Atterbury Bridge which criminals use to gain access to Faerie Glen Nature Reserve. Picture: Bongani Shilulbanen

 

She said the makeshift fence, made of thin wooden poles, under the Atterbury Bridge needed to be reinforced properly if it was to keep criminals out.

A bushy area situated close to the Atterbury Bridge is where the criminals lived, the Pretoria News was told.

“We are going to suggest that the metro police remove the vagrants,” Kritzinger said.

The reserve was fenced off over a period of about five years from 2002, said Kritzinger.

Residents attributed the increase in crime in the area to development on the northern side of the reserve, adjacent to Lynnwood Road.

They said builders and job seekers had flooded into the area, leading to squatting on the mountain.

According to Kritzinger, after those developments were finished some people continued to live in the bushes, but they were removed from the reserve by mounted police patrols in 2006 and 2007.

Councillor Ernst Botha from Ward 44 said he had been in constant contact with Lieutenant Colonel Kervin Solomon of Garsfontein police, requesting intervention.

A meeting had yet to be set up, he said.

“As you may have become aware, Faerie Glen Nature Reserve has recently become a hot spot for criminal elements; myself and Councillor Pieter van Heerden from Ward 46, adjacent to Ward 44, have collectively been in discussions with various stakeholders to try to curb crime in the area,” said Botha.

They have also taken it up with the top structures within the city, including the departments of Community Safety, Emergency Services and the chairperson of Community Safety.

The city and police had not responded on the soaring crime rate by late on Sunday afternoon.

BY SAKHILE NDLAZI: Pretoria News/IOL

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Protesting Pretoria West residents clash with cops – still unclear what the protest was about

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Protesting Pretoria West residents clash with cops - still unclear what the protest was about

Pretoria – Close to a thousand protesting residents of Gomora informal settlement in Pretoria West have battled with police since the early hours of July 13, 2017 on Thursday morning.

Police fired hails of rubber bullets, dozens of tear gas canisters, and stun grenades in a bid to keep the hostile protesters at bay.
Protesters returned fire with slingshots and threw stones at police Nyalas and members of the Public Order Policing on the ground. They also chased after journalists, pelting them with stones.

It was still unclear what the protest was about, but they called for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Paul Mashatile to address their issues.

“We are going to kill you guys,” a protester shouted.

Several roads were blocked with burning tyres and stones.

A police contact said that more than 1 000 protesters had caused “complete chaos” since the early hours of Thursday morning.

‘We are fed up’

Residents from Gomora have demanded that Mashatile address their issues of service delivery.

One resident who did not want to be named, said they were promised basic services such as electricity, tarred roads, water and sanitation.

“We are fed up and want the MEC who promised us service delivery,” said one resident.

Another said they have had many community meetings to find a way to get government to address their needs.

Police spokesperson Constable Tumisang Moloto said several roads were blocked and four cars and a truck were torched by protesting residents.

Source: News 24
Author: Alex Mitchley

Neighbourhood watch makes Garsfontein safer – Get involved in your neigbhourhood

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Neighbourhood watch makes Garsfontein safer - Get involved in your neigbhourhood

If people do not get involved, Garscom can’t be sustainable. Pretoria east is the “wild wild west no more” following the efforts of Garscom, Chubb and the police.

Vice chairperson of neighbourhood watch, Garscom, Herklaas Meyer attributed the decline in crime in the area to proactive action.

He said the area north of Solomon Mahlangu Drive, west of Woodlands and south of Atterbury Road was now patrolled regularly by Garscom, Chubb and the police.

“A proactive 24/7 action makes criminals uncomfortable,” said Meyer.
Garsfontein Police spokesperson, Captain Ilze Jones confirmed that crime was now under control in this area.

Meyer said Garscom’s aim going into the next year would be to get more people involved.

“We want a larger community involvement to be established.

We have appointed two women who goes from street to street arranging street meetings to get people involved. Every street also has a Whatsapp group.

Existing community projects will go ahead. These projects include patrols, Christmas market and Garden Friends, to get people to share garden secrets and achievements.

We hope to have more people involved in these projects going forward.

If people does not get involved, Garscom can’t be sustainable.”

Garscom has 10 night patrol teams and one day patrol team.

An annual Garscom meeting was held last Monday at the Bethel Chapel in Garsfontein.

“It was a very successful meeting. We received positive feedback about the year that was and about the Garscom project as well as security.”

This is when your home is most likely to be broken into in South Africa

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Home robbery and housebreaking are among the most frightening and dangerous crimes to experience. It is frightening because it violates our private space and the one place that we think of as our sanctuary.

According to the latest report released by Statistics South Africa, Exploring the extent of and circumstances surrounding housebreaking/burglary and home robbery, the general crime rate in terms of the proportion of households that experience crime has been declining during the last five years.

This reality, however, has not quelled the growing perception that crime is on the increase in South Africa, the stats body said.

Over 50% of all crimes experienced by households in South Africa in 2015/16 were housebreaking. Home robbery (11.9%) was the second most common type of crime experienced by South African households.

Whites had the highest rates of victimisation compared to other groups both in 2011 and 2015/16.

However, whites experienced the sharpest decline of household related crimes during the five years, from 17% to 12% of households.

“Home robbery” is regarded as a violent crime because people are at home when it takes place, as compared to “housebreaking” (burglary), which occurs when the family is away from home. Home robbery fuels fear in communities, because it puts people at risk of personal injury and emotional trauma in their homes, where they should feel safest.

Housebreaking and home robbery peaked during the months of March and June in both 2014/15 and 2015/16.

The months during which these crimes were least likely to occur were January, May and November. As found in previous Victims of Crime Surveys, night-time is still the most preferred time for crime incidents, StatsSA said.
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Knowing the low and high periods of the year for crime activity and times of the day when crime is likely to happen may be useful in planning security strategies for households, and
for planning deployment of resources on the part of the police, StatsSA said.

Respondents who experienced housebreaking and those who experienced home robbery were asked about the time that the crime took place–whether it was in the morning, afternoon or at night.

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The option “Don’t know” was also given to the respondents in case they did not know the time when the crime incident happened.
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Electrical equipment were the most targeted items during both housebreakings and home robberies. Jewellery, money and cellphones were the second most common items stolen after electrical equipment during both housebreakings and home robberies.

According to the report, the rate of reporting home robberies to the police was significantly higher than that of housebreaking; possibly because home robbery tends to be accompanied with violence.

However, the rates for the arrest of the alleged offenders in housebreakings
and home robberies are not significantly different –both stand at just over 18%.

The conviction rate among those arrested was 14.3% for housebreaking and 22% for home robbery. Among those arrested for housebreaking, the case was still on going in 9.2% of the cases for housebreaking and 14.8% of the cases for home robbery.

An arrest is made in only one out of every five reported cases of housebreaking or home robbery. Only one in five people arrested for housebreaking was convicted, and one in three people arrested for home robbery was convicted.