Farm Attacks

schumi said:
Johannesburg – Two men were on Tuesday given life sentences in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg for the murder of a Randfontein family on their farm in 2016, Gauteng police said.

The SABC reported at the time that among the deceased were a 73-year-old grandfather who was visiting his family in South Africa, the man’s 42-year-old son, and his 46-year-old fiance and her nine-year-old daughter.

The men had entered a plot in Randfontein and killed the four people, police spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubele said.

The men, who had robbed the family of their belongings, were arrested in May 2016.

The matter was transferred to the South Gauteng High Court, and the men were sentenced on Tuesday.

"They were sentenced to four life sentences each for murder and 10 years each for robbery," said Makhubele.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...ces-for-killing-family-on-their-farm-20170919
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Before the family moved to Randfontein the daughter was in the same primary school as my daughter and my son. She was a year younger than my laaitie. Very very sad.
 
Free State cops hunt suspects after farm attack

Frankfort - A 38-year old farmer was critically wounded during a robbery at his farm in the Frankfort district in the Eastern Free State in the early hours of Sunday morning, Free State police said.

The police are looking for two suspects who fled the scene of the crime in the farmer’s white double cab bakkie, Warrant Officer Loraine Earle said.

The farmer and his wife arrived home at about 1am after visiting the town. While his wife was busy in the kitchen she heard a noise outside and the farmer went outside to investigate.

"He was shot in the head and the perpetrators held the wife at gunpoint, demanding money and firearms. They forced her to open the safe and [they] fled with a firearm and the bakkie of the farmer."
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More at: https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/free-state-cops-hunt-suspects-after-farm-attack-11340431
 
Western Cape farmer blindfolded, tied up and repeatedly stabbed
2017-10-11 10:02

Cape Town - A farmer in the Koue Bokkeveld, 50km from Ceres, is in a critical condition in hospital after he was repeatedly stabbed by two suspects on Monday evening, Western Cape police said on Tuesday.

The suspects forced a bag over Wilhelm van der Merwe's head and dragged him inside a building. His hands and feet were then tied up and he was stabbed several times, Captain FC van Wyk told News24.
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...olded-tied-up-and-repeatedly-stabbed-20171011
 
supersunbird said:
RIP

As if I am not paranoid enough, I'm even more so when partying...
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I'm not actually.

I have my 9mm on me at all times on the plot when we braai, and we're normally plenty of people and we're loud. My dogs also roam amongst us once it gets dark as the kids are all indoors by then. I think being drunk also helps with not giving two farks :D
 
Pitbull said:
I'm not actually.

I have my 9mm on me at all times on the plot when we braai, and we're normally plenty of people and we're loud. My dogs also roam amongst us once it gets dark as the kids are all indoors by then. I think being drunk also helps with not giving two farks :D
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Seems you are, and by paranoid I meant prepared...
 
I saw on facebook just now there has been another farm murder in Stellenbosch (Klapmuts). 1 person died in hospital. Seems like one suspect was also injured.
 
Man shot to death on Klapmuts farm

CAPE TOWN - A man has been shot and killed on a Klapmuts farm near Stellenbosch.

Police say members were called out to the scene shortly after midnight.

An unknown number of suspects fled the scene.

Police say the man was investigating a noise in his house when he was attacked and shot by gunmen. He died in hospital.

This is the fourth attack on a farm in the Western Cape this month.

Two suspects attacked a farmer in Plettenberg Bay on Sunday morning.
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More at: http://ewn.co.za/2017/10/24/man-shot-to-death-on-klapmuts-farm
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Joubert Conradie?

The Stellenbosch community is shaken by this.
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Burre Burger, the guy behind the feeding scheme for the animals currently running all over the country added a video today where he's crying, saying he knew this guy personally. What got me straight in the feels was the last part of his video (I'll type it in English): "My wife is spoilt, she get's a cup of tea every morning in bed, and one before she goes to sleep. We're not always in the mood to do these type of things everyday. But it was a privilege to be able to give his wife her cup of tea this morning"

/in the feels!

Edit: Apologies, Burre only shared it, source seems to have been Farm manager: Chris Loubser
 
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Wees paraat en sluit aan by veilighiedsnetwerke
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Hear hear.

It would help if those landbou unies with the time and networks in place also enabled the farmers to secure their yards and residences at cost price.

Police say the man was investigating a noise in his house when he was attacked and shot by gunmen.
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supersunbird said:
Hear hear.

It would help if those landbou unies with the time and networks in place also enabled the farmers to secure their yards and residences at cost price.
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You can have a direct line open 24 hours to a Police vehicle even your neighbour. The problem is the distance. They can get in your house, kill you and grab stuff. Be gone in less than 5 minutes. It takes me about 5 minutes just to get dressed, unlock all the security gates, open the garage, drive to the gate, open the gate (not motorised) and then close it behind me again. Then have to drive 5 or so kms to get to a neighbour (using the farm in Zeerust as reference)

It will take me no less than 15 minutes to reach my neighbour. All good and well if he was alerted to them before coming into his house. Yet that is hardly ever the case. They bypass security features, alarms will sound once, you look and then they bypassed it. In Pretoria on the small holding I stay in, our one neighbour had a 25L paint can put over their outside beam. The alarm sounded. He saw nothing, deactivated and re-activated it again. It didn't sound again as there was no link created to be broken.

These farkers are smart, and case the places out very very good. I'm all for beafing up security and and all these lovely things. But it will not stop them, it hardly ever does.

One solution the people in Zeerust has come up with is to have a section of land where all the farmers build homes close to each other (similar to a block in the suburbs) And that works. But not everyone has the funds to go and build a completely separate house away from their farm and not be able to be on site for their cattle (stock theft). Unless there is a massive interference or change these things will continue to happen no matter how hard we make it for them.
 
Pitbull said:
You can have a direct line open 24 hours to a Police vehicle even your neighbour. The problem is the distance. They can get in your house, kill you and grab stuff. Be gone in less than 5 minutes. It takes me about 5 minutes just to get dressed, unlock all the security gates, open the garage, drive to the gate, open the gate (not motorised) and then close it behind me again. Then have to drive 5 or so kms to get to a neighbour (using the farm in Zeerust as reference)

It will take me no less than 15 minutes to reach my neighbour. All good and well if he was alerted to them before coming into his house. Yet that is hardly ever the case. They bypass security features, alarms will sound once, you look and then they bypassed it. In Pretoria on the small holding I stay in, our one neighbour had a 25L paint can put over their outside beam. The alarm sounded. He saw nothing, deactivated and re-activated it again. It didn't sound again as there was no link created to be broken.

These farkers are smart, and case the places out very very good. I'm all for beafing up security and and all these lovely things. But it will not stop them, it hardly ever does.

One solution the people in Zeerust has come up with is to have a section of land where all the farmers build homes close to each other (similar to a block in the suburbs) And that works. But not everyone has the funds to go and build a completely separate house away from their farm and not be able to be on site for their cattle (stock theft). Unless there is a massive interference or change these things will continue to happen no matter how hard we make it for them.
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True, they are smart, That's why one needs multiple layers.

Say my electric fence siren triggers at night. I then go put it off and on. I then listen if the dogs are barking or not, it would indicate someone at the back if they were barking. I would then go to my PC and check back on the CCTV footage to see if anything was visible triggering it. I would then go check the dogs and make sure they haven't been poisoned (from behind the closed security door).
 
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