Die Pretoriase polisie het sewe verdagtes in hegtenis geneem in verband met ʼn vlaag motorfietsdiefstalle die afgelope tyd.
Kapt. Agnes Huma, woordvoerder van die polisie, het gesê die mans, tussen 25 en 35 jaar oud, is Dinsdag in die vroeë oggendure in Rooihuiskraal in Centurion in hegtenis geneem.
“Die mans se modus operandi was om na bewering in ʼn wit Quantum in die Rooihuiskraal-omgewing rond te ry op soek na motorfietse wat binne of buite persele parkeer is,” het Huma gesê.
“Nadat hulle ʼn spesifieke huis identifiseer het, sou hulle later in die aand terugkeer, die honde vergiftig om toegang te verkry en dan die motorfiets steel.”
Huma het gesê die polisie in samewerking met die gemeenskapspolisiëringsforum en plaaslike veiligheidsmaatskappye het ʼn gesamentlike intelligensie-gedrewe operasie geloods en die Quantum Dinsdag omstreeks 01:30 opgemerk.
“Die polisie het die voertuig voorgekeer en die sewe verdagtes is in hegtenis geneem. Toerusting om by huise in te breek en klapmusse is in hul besit gevind en beslag is daarop gelê.”
Die verdagtes moet binnekort in die hof verskyn op aanklag van die besit van huisbraak-toerusting. Die Wierdabrug-polisie ondersoek die moontlikheid of die verdagtes met ander voorvalle in die gebied verbind kan word.
Die polisie het inwoners gewaarsku om nie waardevolle besittings oop en bloot te laat nie.
A nightclub in Pretoria turned down the music on Saturday morning to reflect on the death of a rock star. About 40 fans gathered on the porch of Arcade Empire to remember Chester Bennington, singer from Linkin Park, who hanged himself on July 20 at his house in California.
Fans had damp eyes as they raised a glass, lit candles, put up posters and laid down flowers. Some wrote messages in a book and on a South African flag and spoke on an open microphone.
“This guy went to his grave with every one of my secrets,” said Stephan Swanepoel, 17, from Hartbeespoortdam. “He was just there for me. Not that my mother was not there for me. Some things I cannot say.”
Mari Buitendag from Pretoria said Bennington’s death felt similar to that of her brother two years ago: “Where do you get that strength back if you looked up to someone and they were that strong person for you? Even if it is only music?”
Johan van der Westhuizen, 30, from Pretoria said he still remembers every lyric from Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park’s first album, released in 2000.
“I realised I remembered every single word. That proved to me how important they were to us, not just Chester, but the whole band.”
The event was organised by Shaun Muthaya and Tessa Anderson, Linkin Park ambassadors in South Africa.
“Unfortunately our first meeting with the fans was through the loss of a loved one,” said Muthaya.
Memorial services for Bennington are planned for Cape Town and Durban. A South African flag and messages from fans will be sent to the band.
A support group leader from the SA Depression and Anxiety Group, Jané Combrinck, said depression “doesn’t care if you are religious, black, white, female, the most phenomenal rock star in the world. It will get you.”
She said one in three people will suffer from mental disease in their lifetime. One in 10 of these will have depression.
Hulle het geslaan om dood te slaan. Carel Kruger (43) was oortuig daarvan toe die baksteen-houe vir die soveelste keer op hom neerreën.
Selfs toe hy bebloed na twee lede van die Tshwane-metropolisie gehardloop het, een aan die baadjie gegryp en gesmeek het: “Help!” het een van die aanvallers nog ’n hou ingekry.
“Die twee metropolisiemanne het net daar gestaan. Hulle was gewapen, maar het niks gedoen nie.”
Toe vlug Kruger maar tussen die voertuie in Lavenderweg in die noorde van Pretoria in en bel ’n vriend om hulp.
Ander lede van die Tshwane-metropolisie het wel later ingegryp en twee vermeende aanvallers gevang, maar Kruger sê hy gaan klagte indien teen die twee wat volgens hom net gestaan en kyk het hoe hy veg vir sy lewe.
“Ek is kwaad. Omdat ons so moet lewe, dat ek net nog ’n slagoffer is soos duisende ander,” sê hy.
Hy het Vrydagaand net na 19:00 in Lavenderweg gery toe ’n wit taxi bane verwissel en amper reg voor hom inry.
“Ek het getoet en ligte geflikker, toe druk die taxi my bakkie van die pad af. Ek het versnel om voor hom in te kom. Toe ek terug in die pad is, het ek bane verwissel om uit sy pad te kom.”
DIE BESTUURDER VAN DIE WIT TAXI HET MY KARSLEUTEL DEUR DIE VENSTER PROBEER UITTREK. TOE EK KEER, BEGIN HULLE MY DEUR DIE VENSTER TE SLAAN.
Die volgende oomblik het die wit taxi verbygejaag en ’n blou taxi, wat in daardie stadium agter die witte was, reg langs Kruger in.
“Die blou taxi het my ook na die skouer van die pad gedwing, ek het probeer wegkom, maar die blou taxi het my bakkie van agter gestamp.”
Die bakkie se elektronika, het Kruger verduidelik, sny outomaties uit as dit deur ’n sekere impak getref word.
“My bakkie het gestol, die wit taxi het dwarsoor die pad voor my ingetrek en die bloue het reg agter my gestop.
“Drie of vier mans het uit die taxi’s gespring.
“Die bestuurder van die wit taxi het my karsleutel deur die venster probeer uittrek. Toe ek keer, begin hulle my deur die venster te slaan.
“Ek het in die gestoei besef hulle gaan my net hier in my bakkie doodmaak, ek moet wegkom. Met die uitklim het die eerste baksteen my links teen my kop getref.
“Dit was toe asof hulle beurte gemaak het om met die bakstene los te trek. Ek het probeer keer, probeer staande bly.”
Tussen die houe deur het Kruger het twee metropolisielede op die middelmannetjie sien staan.
“Ek het soontoe gehardloop. Terwyl ek met die metropolisielede praat, het een aanvaller my sommer weer met ’n baksteen van agter geslaan. Ek het tussen die twee metrolede geval, besef ek gaan nie hulp kry nie, en tussen die karre ingehardloop”.
Die een aanvaller is agter hom aan, steeds slanende met die baksteen.
“Ek wou net wegkom. Ek het by van die voertuie in die pad probeer hulp kry, maar almal het hul deure gesluit”.
Kruger het verder gevlug, sy foon beetgekry en ’n vriend gebel om hulp.
Die vriend was in ’n rekordtyd daar.
’n Ent verder in die pad was ander metropolisielede.
Húlle het twee van die verdagtes gevang. Kruger weet nie of hulle toevallig daar was en of iemand hulle ontbied het nie.
Kruger wil, as lid van Solidariteit en AfriForum, hulle nader vir regsadvies oor optrede teen die twee metrolede wat nie gehelp het nie.
“Ek is nie wraaksugtig nie. Maar wat as dit met ’n vrou of ’n kleiner man gebeur het? Hulle sou dood gewees het. En dit was tog duidelik wié die slagoffer was!”
* Danny Mahlangu en Modiso Dooka het intussen in die hof verskyn en staan tereg op aanklag van aanranding met die opset om ernstig te beseer.
Hulle is op borgtog van R600 elk vrygelaat en moet weer op 23 Augustus in die hof wees.
** Die Tshwane-metropolisie kon nie vir kommentaar bereik word nie.
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Gauteng MEC for Community Safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane on Monday met the family of Pretoria businessman Omar Carrim, who went missing after leaving his Home Hyper City shop in the CBD on Thursday last week.
Nkosi-Malobane, with Tshwane West South African Police Services (SAPS) Cluster Commander Maj-Gen Daniel Mtombeni, assured the Carrim family that no stone is being left un-turned in the extensive search for the 76-year-old father of five.
Carrim’s car, a Mercedes-Benz E300, which he was driving at the time, was found torched extensively near the Hennops Road (R511) outside Atteridgeville on Friday.
Anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee, who is also spokesperson for the distraught family, said no ransom demand has been made.
“We appeal to the public to come forward with any information. Someone, somewhere, somehow knows something. Omar’s car was found torched. It appears we are dealing with a dangerous syndicate,” said Abramjee.
“The family appeals to the abductors to release Omar unharmed. He is on chronic medication and he has a heart condition.”
Abramjee said the family’s appeal has also been conveyed to Police Minister Fikile Mbalula.
Carrim left his business premise along Pretorius Street in the city centre before 6pm on August 3, heading home. His family became anxious when he did not arrive. He was wearing a navy blue jersey and grey trousers.
For the Pretoria police, Mthombeni also appealed for information which would lead to a breakthrough in the case. He urged community members, with any information, to contact any nearest police station or to call Crime Line.
’n Uiterste verwaarloosde spoorlyn wat aan die weste van Pretoria geleë is, het gedurende die week ’n nuwe baadjie gekry. Die spoorlyn wat oor ’n groot gebied in die weste strek was vir ’n geruime tyd ’n groot probleem vir die plaaslike gemeenskap.
Volgens DA-raadslid Elma Nel was die spoorlyn ’n reuse probleem in haar wyk. Sy vertel dat vir die eerste keer was daar goeie samewerking vanaf beide Transnet en die publiek. Nel spreek haar dankbaarheid uit teenoor almal wat ’n handjie bygesit het met die opruimings werk en loof die betrokke partye vir hul bereidwilligheid om te help. Nel beklemtoon dat sy alreeds van die begin van die jaar haar bemoei het met die skoonmaak van die spoorlyn.
Volgens ’n inwoner, net bekend as Sarel, is hy verheug oor die skoonmaaksessie. Sarel vertel dat hy die afgelope 36 jaar in die gebied woon. Hy skryf die oorsaak toe aan onwettige storting wat gereeld plaasvind. Sarel vertel skertsend dat hy enkele dae te vore onwettige storters by die spoorlyn op heterdaad betrap het. Hy het self foto’s van die skuldige partye geneem en vir DA-raadslid Elma Nel aangestuur.
Nel beweer dat die betrokke spoorlyn is ’n groot probleem in die wyk omrede onwettige stortings daar plaasvind en self dwelmmiddels versprei word. Sy het egter langtermyn planne om die gebied meer vriendelik te maak deur ’n speelterrein vir kinders en fietsry-en draf roetes in te rig.
Die skoonmaaksessie by die spoorlyn het reeds Maandagoggend in volle gang begin en teen Woensdag was die betrokke partye goed op dreef.
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Na bykans drie dekades lig pedofiel Gert van Rooyen se seun vir die eerste keer die sluier oor wat hy beweer op die dag van Gert en sy houvrou Joey Haarhoff se dood gebeur het.
“Daar was nooit ‘n selfmoordpakt tussen my pa en Joey nie,” sê Gerhard in ’n video-opname wat op Facebook geplaas is.
Gerhard het ook nadoodse foto’s van sy pa en Joey op Facebook gelaai.
Hy het kenners uitgedaag om te bepaal dat die paartjie wel selfmoord gepleeg het.
Van Rooyen en Haarhoff het na bewering tienermeisies tussen 1988 en 1990 in Pretoria ontvoer.
In Januarie 1990 is die 16-jarige Joan Booysen ontvoer. Sy kon egter kort daarna uit die paartjie se huis in Pretoria ontsnap waarna sy die polisie op hul spoor gesit het.
Van Rooyen en Haarhoff het dae later op die vlug geslaan toe hulle die polisie voor hul huis in Capital Park gewaar het.
Hulle het in ‘n motor tot by die Apiesrivierbrug gejaag waar Van Rooyen glo eers Haarhoff en toe homself doodgeskiet het.
Gerhard sê: “Almal het maar hulle eie bedenkinge daaroor. Sommige spreek dit uit en ander kyk net, lees en maak hulle eie afleidings.”
Die selfmoord is nie al wat Gerhard in die opname bespreek nie.
“Soos ek reeds in 2004 gepoog het om voor die direkteur van openbare vervolging (DOV) dit te doen voordat die minister van minister van veiligheid en sekuriteit die saak onbepaald te laat uitstel,” vertel hy verder.
“My versoek was baie eenvoudig – verklaar my pa skuldig of onskuldig.
Niemand wou daardie roete volg nie wat baie vreemd is.”
Gerhard sê dat hy ook versoek het dat die saak teen sy pa nie laat vaar moet word nie, maar weer ondersoek moet word.
“Niemand het daardie roete gevolg nie. Al wanneer daar ondersoek ingestel word is wanneer daar iets in die media gesê word of as ’n sangoma of siener iets gesien het,” sê hy op die opname.
“So deur die jare is derduisende mannekrag en miljoene rande gemors op hierdie baie, baie hartseer en sensitiewe ondersoek wat nie net die kinders se familie se lewens raak nie, maar ook ons familie s’n.”
Gerhard sê dit blyk asof niemand meer aan die saak wil werk nie.
“Polisie offisiere het bedank, daar is nie meer ’n spesiale eenheid of ’n kinderbeskerming-eenheid in die polisie nie. My vraag bly staan: wie ondersoek nou eintlik hierdie saak,” sê hy.
“Is daar nie ’n eenheid wat met die ondersoek moet aangaan nie. Eintlik moet die saak ondersoek word. Die dossier het weggeraak asook die doodsondersoek van my pa en Joey. Die leêrs van die hofsaak is ook vermis – alles raak eenvoudig net weg.”
Gerhard vra dat die saak weer herondersoek word.
“Die probleem is net: Jy kan nie die saak in Suid-Afrika ondersoek nie. Die publiek en polisie het eending voor die oë – Gert van Rooyen. Hulle kyk heeltyd in hom vas,” vertel hy in sy opname.
“Kyk buite die boks. Julle weet nou hy is betrokke of nie betrokke, kom ons soek die kinders. Solank as wat dit aangaan solank sal die saak onopgelos bly.”
Hy stel voor dat buitelandse ondersoekers ingeroep word om te help.
“Maar hierdie speurders moet voorberei om nie in my pa vas te kyk nie, maar om vir die kinders te soek,” sê hy.
“Dis tyd dat die saak oopgevlek word en die regte mense verantwoordlikheid neem vir wat gebeur het.”
Deur: Pretoria Moot Rekord
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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.
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