Ek merk dat Dave en Jottie in 'n gesprek gewikkel geraak het wat verskeie
punte aangesny het rondom straf, insluitend die vraag na geweld met geweld
beantwoord, hoe 'n misdadiger aangespreek moet word, die doodstraf, ens.
Kom ons gesels oor een onderwerp op 'n slag: Die vraag oor tronkstraf.
Is dit 'n beskaafde vorm van straf?
Teenstanders van die doodstraf sê die doodstraf is barbaars. Is tronkstraf
minder barbaars?
Die naam is jare terug na "korrektiewe dienste", maar die enigste
korrektiewe dienste is die mishandeling wat gevangenis teenoor mekaar
uitdeel. In die St. Albans gevangenis in PE is daar bv net 2 maatskaplike
werker poste vir meer as 400 vroue-gevangenis. Toe ek laas met iemand
gesels het wat daar aangehou was, was daar net 1 pos gevul. Die gevangenes
met meer karakter - meesal 1e oortreders! - stig ondersteuningsgroepe en
probeer mekaar uit die drek help opstaan.
Wat baat die samelewing daarby om mense soos 'n Adriaan Nieuwoudt, 'n Arthur
Brown, en ander intelligente (beweerde) witboordjie misdadigers vir jare
toe te sluit? Vergoed dit die mense of die samelewing wat skade gely het,
of ly die samelewing net meer skade deur die belastingslas wat dit
veroorsaak? Waarom nie dié soort mense in 'n omgewing "aanhou" waar hulle
hul breins en kreatiwiteit kan gebruik om die skade wat hulle aangerig het,
weer goed te maak nie?
Hierdie het ek vanmôre vanaf 'n vriendin wat 'n makelaar is by een van
die groot banke gekry. Ek het nog geen bevestiging daarvan gekry nie
maar as dit die waarheid sou wees, word die wêreld 'n plek om voor
bang te wees.
Dit is email wat geforward is vanuit die bank se intranet en hier is
wat sy geskryf het:
*
It is a matter of history that when Supreme Commander of the Allied
Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death
camps, he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the
German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the
camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
"Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -
because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up
and say that this never happened"
In Memorial
This week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum
because it "offended" the Muslim population which claims it never
occurred.
This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world
and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe
ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6
million Jews, 20 million Russians,10 million Christians and 1,900
Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved
and humiliated.
Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust
to be "a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the
world.
Don't just delete this.
It will take a minute to pass this along.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Vir die wat na die nuus gekyk het en gesien het dat ons slangpark gaan
verskuif. My vrou en ek was gister by die vertoning waarvan op TV
vertel is, en ek sê 'verskuif' want ons was by waar Craig Smith gehuil
en gesê het dat die slangpark, na 70 jaar, gaan toemaak. Hy en en vrou
het besluit om nie voort te gaan met die gevg nie.
Ek het dit nog nie gelees nie, sal dit netnou doen, maar hy het gister
vertel dat hy as kind daar begin werk het, en nou mede-eienaar is.
Die stadsraad wil om verskeie (elke koerant noem dit anders) redes nie
kontrak hernu nie. Na sewentig jaar. Die tweede oudste slangpark in
die land. Tweede teen slegs die van Port Elizabeth.
Gister het ek daar gesien hoe 3 klein waterskilpaaie 'n hoender afneem
by 'n sowat 2 meter krokodil. Maar hulle was drie, onthou! (Daar is
baie meer van hulle saam met hom in die poel, maar drie het hom gepak
vir die hoender. En sy (die krokodil se naam? Steve:-)
Ons was daar op uitnodiging van die bestuur, want die vertoning is
gereël vir gistermmiddag 2 uur, en vele besware is geteken, en hulle
wou natuurlik so veel as moontlik mense daar hê, maar die slangpark
sal nie veel langer daar wees nie.
Ek het gesê 'verskuif' want Graig het, toe ek hom gevra het, gesê dat
dit 'n verskuwing sal wees en nie toemak nie. Hulle moes vandag uit
wees. Met 4000 diere. Nou word daar ernstig na plek vir die diere
gesoek. Hopelik tydelik, sodat die slangpark weer sal kan voortgaan.
SA farm attacks, suppression of Afrikaner rights unanimously condemned by
international minority-rights body, Brussels, Belgium
importantly, the Freedom Front Plus party was also unanimously accepted as
the 72nd member of the internationally-influential Unrepresented Nations'
and Peoples' Organisation (UNPO) to represent Afrikaner rights
internationally...
Nearly two decades ago, the late Boerestaat Party leader Robert van Tonder
's membership application of the international minority-rights body UNPO was
reluctantly turned down. The Boerestaat Party itself had formally sworn off
the use of any violence -- however affiliated organisations such as the
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging were at that time, using and advocating armed
violence to gain Afrikaner political hegemony.
However the tide of international opinion towards Afrikaners has clearly
turned this weekend, when the Freedom Front Plus party, representing
Afrikaner-rights, was unanimously accepted by UNPO's 71 members. They also
unanimously condemned the many armed attacks against Afrikaner farms and
homes, and the ANC-regime's policy of suppressing Afrikaner cultural and
language rights. http://www.unpo.org/
This is a indeed an international breakthrough for the Afrikaner minority --
which is increasingly fearful especially in the face of the current
ethnic-cleansing campaigns washing over SA townships and spreading
throughout the inner city slums of Johannesburg this weekend. Scores of
black and Asian 'foreigners' are being killed, hundreds injured and many
thousands of 'foreign blacks' are being chased out of townships by feral
South African township youths only because they look like, or sound like
'foreigners'.
Membership of UNPO also means that the entire Afrikaner-boer minority has
now been given an important international platform for the first time since
the Anglo-Boer War from which they can once again, democratically fight for
their civil, political and human rights inside South Africa.
Senior Afrikaans journalist Dr Leopold Scholtz reports that all the other
members of UNPO -- Africans and European members alike -- were also
displaying a positive and friendly attitude towards the Afrikaners who were
present at the Brussels congress this week. http://www.vryheidsfront.co.za/english/
Since 1994, some 2,961 SA farmers, -workers and their kin have already been
murdered in the many tens of thousands of armed attacks against farms and
the urban homes of Afrikaner families in ANC-ruled South Africa.
In the face of this month's full-blown ethnic-cleansing waves chasing black
and Asian 'foreigners' from South African townships, the Afrikaners'
membership of UNPO has also taken on an extra-urgent tone: as can be seen in
the organised attackers targetting their farms and homes since 1994,
Afrikaners also are under a similar siege in which many thousands of
Afrikaner families are being decimated.
Over the past month, some 17 people have died in the many very gruesome
ethnic-cleansing attacks now targetting township dwellers - this weekend, at
least two blacks were also torched in the ANC's gruesome 'traditional
necklacing method': by placing a burning tyre about a victim's neck. Today's
newspapers in South Africa are publishing many gruesome pictures and
reports, and say that township dwellers were even standing by and laughing
when one Zimbabwean man was being torched.
Over the past decade, the Afrikaner-Boer minority is similarly targetted by
such vicious armed attacks against their families at farms and in cities,
accompanied by constant streams of hate-speech from black activists and even
black artists.
UNPO has an international membership of 71 organisations (such as the
Freedom Front Plus) which represent many politically-suppressed minorities
worldwide such as the Ogoni in Nigeria, the Ughurs, Tibetans, the
Rehoboth-Basters of Namibia. It strives for political independence for all
these ethnic minorities and is an infuential platform internationally: this
particular congress was sponsored by the European Parliament's liberal
parties, the German FDP, the British Liberal-Democrats and the Dutch
liberals party VVD.
Access our Afrikaans/Dutch pages to read the entire story (in English):
Read the entire story by clicking here
Also see the page: ANC torture camps in exile in Angola - where 'necklacing'
was learned
Onlangs is 'n jongman kort voor sy troue vir 'n eenvoudige beweerde
verkeersoortreding in Pietersburg aangekeer en vir die nag saam met 'n klomp
geweldsmisdadigers vir die nag toegesluit waar hy herhaaldelik verkrag is.
Niks ongewoon in SA deesdae nie.
Gister se Rapport vertel van J Arthur Brown, die ex-Fidentia grootbaas wat
weer in hegtenis geneem is terwyl hy op reeds op borg van R1m uit is -
blykbaar is die Skerpioene vies omdat sy vrou hulle net ontglip en Australië
toe is! - en toe is Brown deur mede-gevangenis aangerand en seksueel
mishandel.
Vanoggend se Daily Dispatch vertel dat hy volgens sy regsverteenwoordiger op
"die mees verenderende wyse" agter in 'n oorvol vangwa verkrag is.
Stel jou dit voor - agter in 'n vangwa aangerand en verkrag!!!! En die
Polisie hoor en sien niks?
Brown word beskuldig dat hy miljoene verduister het, maar ek het nog altyd
verstaan dat iemand onskuldig is totdat sy skuld bewys word - dat daar te
alle tye rekening gehou moet word met die moontlikheid dat iemand dalk
werklik onskuldig kan wees. Brown weier blykbaar om soos sy eertydse
Finansiële bestuurder 'n pleitooreenkoms aan te gaan en hou vol dat hy
onskuldig is. Na meer as 'n jaar is hy nog op geen klagte verhoor en/of
skuldig bevind nie. Ek het ook nog altyd verstaan dat 'n beskuldigde /
selfs veroordeelde misdadiger regte het en een van daardie regte is die reg
op beskerming.
Verlede Sondag se Rapport het vertel dat die eertydse grootbase van Saambou
Bank onskuldig bevind is - na baie jare se hofstryd en nadat een meer as R4m
moes opdok aan regskoste - sy wildsplaas - alles moes verkoop. Nie bedrog,
diefstal of roekelose bestuur het Saambou laat val nie, maar 'n
onverantwoorde(like) koerantberig!!!.
Is 'n aangehoudene wat nog deur geen hof skuldig bevind is nie, nou nie eens
meer agter in 'n vangwa veilig nie?
Waarom word witboordjie misdadigers / of beweerde witboordjiemisdadigers
hoegenaamd saam met geweldsmisdadigers in dieselfde tronk/sel/vangwa
aangehou?
Die volgende is geneem van my gunsteling blog af
(http://southafricanhell.blogspot.com). Gaan besoek die blog gerus en sien
die skokkende fotos van die man wat aan die brand gesteek is. Begin dan
wonder of jy nie dalk die volgende ou is wat aan die brand gesteek gaan word
nie.
White South Africans older than 30 will today experience a sense of deja vu
as so-called "xenophobic" violence, the latest code word for the same old,
same old black savagery spreads from Alexandra and Diepsloot to Tokoza,
Actonville, Mayabuye, Tembisa, Kanana, Kopanong, Klipfontein View, Vusimusi,
Mashimong on the East Rand, Cleveland, Jeppe, Berea in Johannesburg and the
Zandspruit squatter camp on the West Rand.
During the White-ruled years, TNB (Typical Nigger Behaviour) was blamed on
"Apartheid", or "Police Brutality", or "The Pass Laws" or as was the case in
1976, the fallacy that the Nat government tried to force flat noses to speak
Afrikaans. Anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size has realised that
the Azanian simian's capacity for "chimping out" knows no bounds, with the
lapdog media eagerly standing by to neatly label, justify and excuse the
stone age behaviour of these wild, uncivilised jungle bunnies. A few months
ago they chimped out over supposed lack of "service delivery". What White
people see is that these unwashed savages will go on the rampage at the drop
of a hat, killing, burning, looting and destroying property as only wild
black apes can do. As with crime, "chimping out" is a "black thing" that
whiteys will never comprehend.
Nor is this a phenomenon limited to South Afica, or even continental Africa.
In the piece below, G Rockwell wrote a chilling fictional account in the
early 1960's which was inspired by American negros chimping out all over the
United States. Rockwell's scenario describes how rioting spreads across
America, with the outcome being a coup d'etat and a full-blown race war.
While the sight of slope headed coons killing one another admittedly fills
me with great joy and a edifying sense of schadenfreude, it is never far
from my mind that the current black on black troubles can quickly turn into
a full scale anti-White race war. Rampaging hordes of blacks attacking the
"Makwerekwere" (foreigners) in Alexandra can easily be incited to venture a
mere 2 km into the White residential areas of Sandton or Randburg. What or
who is to stop them - the fat, corrupt black ape cops, or the AIDS-ravaged
sick joke otherwise known as the National Defence Force? Not likely.
There are a few angles one needs to consider when analysing the present
turmoil. Already, some are calling this the "ANC's 1976 Soweto Riots".
Others are blaming the Zulus for fomenting the anti-foreigner violence,
darkly hinting that this thing might have much to do with the two supposed
centres of power occupied by Mbeggi & Zuma respectively. Interestingly,
calls are being made to bring next year's general elections forward, a move
which will eminently suit Zuma as his trial dates are mysteriously being
postponed and party apparatchiks are hinting that special dispensation will
be decreed to grant a sitting president immunity from criminal prosecution.
Recent statements made by the pro-Zuma camp, consisting largely of the trade
unions, the SA Communist Party and the loony left fringe, make clear their
displeasure at the "black on black" violence, and are calling for "black
anger" to be re-channelled to "legitimate enemy" targets, such as "the
capitalists" (code for Whites). Strange & seemingly irrelevant statements
are being made, like the one where a group called the Anarchist Communist
Front pointed out this weekend that there are more illegal immigrants now in
Azania than there are Whites, but that "Africans must unite against
colonialist settler forces" and "not mobilise against their African brothers
& sisters." ANC Regime ministers are hinting darkly at a "Third Force" being
at work in the so-called xenophobic violence and some are implying that the
Zuma camp is employing "struggle tactics" in order to seize power from the
Tarboy gang. Even that opportunistic murdering criminal bitch Winnie Mandela
is in on the act - like a hyena drawn by the stench of rotting carrion she
recently high-tailed it to Alex to milk the situation for its worth.
Whatever the case may be, and at the risk of sounding alarmist, the fact is
that these are extremely dangerous times for White people. The crazed black
hordes can easily be incited to target Whites instead of the "makwerekwere"
and we need to be ready for such an eventuality. We need to be armed and
vigilant, and we need to realise that if the pinkfoot hordes decide to
invade White areas in the fashion they are rampaging in black townships, it
is war! Are you ready for war, White man?
Riaan, sal jy omgee om die antie wat die konsentrasiekampwagte so
bewonder het dat sy hul taal as haar eie aanvaar het, te vra of sy
kans sien om haar uit te spreek (in Afrikaans verkieslik) ten opsigte
van dit wat ek hieronder geplak het, en my stelling dat ek dit as niks
ander as 'apartheid' beskou.
Haven or hell?
18 May 2008, 12:04
Related Articles
* Scores flee as Gauteng attacks spread
* Six arrested for xenophobic attacks
* Five die in Joburg xenophobic violence
* Foreigners in Cape fear they'll be next
By Chris Makhaye
On a bustling street in downtown Durban, an argument over a piece of
paper attracts photographer Sandile Ndlovu.
"Makwerekwere awahambe (foreigners must go)," a woman shouts,
insulting Thomas Mtambara and his wife, Remita.
The piece of paper is a receipt for goods confiscated from the couple
and another hawker, minutes earlier, by Metro Police.
Why the confiscated goods have all been listed on the same receipt has
disturbed the Mtambaras - a couple who had to flee from the Democratic
Republic of Congo 10 years ago.
"Let them take it, only God knows," responds Remita, resigned to the
loss of leather boots, jackets and second-hand clothing they sell from
a stall near Durban's Catholic cathedral.
The tense scene is a far cry from the lifestyle which the highly
educated couple enjoyed in the DRC capital, Kinshasa.
Ironically, Mtambara could be helping to develop young whiz kids in
South Africa. He has a masters degree in maths and physics and taught
these subjects for 17 years before taking a job as senior statistician
for the Mobutu government-controlled Immigration Department.
He had to flee in 2003 after escaping from a cell in Kinshasa. He had
been jailed by the first Kabila government which imprisoned - and
killed - many senior Mobutu government civil servants. His wife and
son later joined him in South Africa.
Mtambara has since converted his qualifications from French to English
with the South African Qualification Authority (Saqa), but to no
avail.
Despite shortages of qualified teachers for maths and science in South
Africa, Mtambara has not been able to get a post here. The department
of education turned down all his applications.
This week, as has happened before, the Mtambaras were nearly attacked
in the dispute over confiscated goods. Again Mtambara backed down and
parted with merchandise, lest the arguments turn ugly.
Although the Mtambaras have a street trading licence, Remita keeps it
with her and she was not at their stall when Metro Police conducted a
spot check this week.
"We face discrimination most of the time - from the police, fellow
hawkers, immigration officials... anybody. Giving away these clothes
and jackets is nothing new," said Remetsi.
"Yes, it's very difficult but one has to learn to adapt," said
Mtambara.
Their experiences are shared by thousands of African immigrants trying
to carve a niche for themselves in South Africa. And with the wave of
violence directed at foreign nationals in Gauteng this week, many,
like the Mtambaras, fear that even the most basic of arguments can
easily lead to violence against them.
In Durban's Albert Park - long a crime-ridden area, even in the 1980s
and 1990s - tension between locals and foreigners was palpable this
week.
"We are really scared," said one Tanzanian youngster.
"Everyone has been telling us about what happened in Pretoria and
Alexandra. But what can you do? Sometimes you have to sacrifice
yourself to achieve your dream."
Two months ago, residents held a meeting, voicing anger at hundreds of
mainly Tanzanian foreigners living in the Albert Park area. The
foreigners were accused of robbery, housebreaking, hijacking, making a
noise and dealing in stolen goods.
Letter
Demands were made for the "immediate removal" of foreigners, with
residents threatening to take the law into their own hands.
These tensions prompted Pierre Matate, co-ordinator of the
KwaZulu-Natal Refugee Council, to write a letter to eThekwini Mayor
Obed Mlaba and others, warning that innocent people could soon become
victims of indiscriminate mob violence.
Matate, also from the DRC, condemned a recent incident involving four
Tanzanians who had stabbed a local, and said the refugee council
representing foreigners and refugees in the area would support "any
efforts to combat this criminality".
He also said in the letter that Durban had become a home to many
migrants and foreigners, and that it was unfair to target foreigners
as the source of crime in the area.
He said those committing crime must be charged in courts of law, and
that this would require the collaboration of South Africans and
foreign residents.
But, instead, divisions were emerging that would only suit criminals.
"The tension is growing and it is our responsibility as leaders to
start strategising so that this situation does not get out of
control," he said.
"We run the risk of innocent people becoming victims."
That letter had been submitted four months ago, but little had been
done so far, said Matate. Instead, many refugees and foreigners
continued to be treated as outcasts, not just by ordinary residents
but also by authorities.
This could only worsen the situation, warned Matate in another letter
to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Office of the KwaZulu-Natal
Premier, the minister of justice, the presidency and others.
He said in Albert Park many of the foreigners had trekked down Africa
as youngsters - or even boarded ships as stowaways - to escape poverty
in Tanzania.
"But as economic migrants they also have human rights that must be
protected," said Matate.
Some migrants said they were denied basic services such as health
care. Eric Mutawu, a 22-year-old from Tanzania, said he had gone to
Addington Hospital after a persistent stomach ache.
"They asked me for R20 to open a file and I didn't have it. I asked
them to at least give me Panado or other pain killers and they
refused," he said.
Other African foreigners living in Durban said although they had legal
permits to live in South Africa, they often found themselves at the
receiving end of xenophobia, as well as discrimination from home
affairs, police and other officials.
They said African foreigners were not treated the same way as their
white and Asian counterparts who were welcomed with open arms when
arriving in South Africa.
Emilinia Matore said that she left her job as a teacher in Zimbabwe
and fled to South Africa last year following reprisals against
teachers from the ruling Zanu-PF party.
She tried in vain to get a job in Gauteng. In February she came to
Durban and landed a packing job in a supermarket.
Lesson
"My fellow workers jeer at me and say I came to take away their jobs.
They say employers prefer to hire us foreigners because we are
prepared to work for next to nothing," she said.
"It is very difficult for us because we fled repression in our home
countries, only to find worse treatment by our brothers and sisters
here.
"I never thought I would have to flee Zimbabwe, but it happened. This
should be a lesson to South Africans."
Other Zimbabweans interviewed this week said the prejudice they had
experienced was not confined to poor people battling to make ends
meet, but even came from educated black South Africans.
A Zimbabwean masters student, who asked not be named, said he and his
peers were often treated as outcasts by black fellow students and
lecturers.
"Some ask why we are not studying and working in our own countries."
Joshua Mbonigaba, an economics graduate from the University of Butare
in Rwanda, his wife, Solange, and their 6-year- old son, came to South
Africa to flee the effects of their country's civil war.
Solange, also a graduate in economics, worked at a leading bank when
they left their country. But when they came to Durban the couple could
only find jobs as car guards, which they did for the next six years.
Joshua was recently hired as a lecturer in economics at UKZN's
Westville campus. His job is now on the line since his refugee status
has not been renewed after he reapplied more than six months ago.
"His contract states clearly that he will be employed only if his
papers are in order," said Solange.
"We live in uncertain times."
* This article was originally published on page 15 of The Sunday
Tribune on May 18, 2008
Al die kak van die klomp swartes in die lokasies gaan oor etnisiteit. Dit
kon alles vermy gewees het indien De Klerk ons nie uitverkoop het op jou
koerant se aandrang nie.
Maar ek lag lekker, want nou het ons swart geweld op ander swartes!
So, broer Ferdi, wat dink jy daar van?
Onthou jy toe julle gele en piele vleg het, was ons in die weermag en moes
almal selfs die swartes beskerm!
Nou-ja, daar het julle die ou NNP en kortbroek se uit verkopery saam met die
hol-naaier: FW De Klerk.
Hy's mos destyds van Marike geskei, : Because she wouldn't do Greek" Ha...Ha
...Ha!
Schalk Burger se suster 'weier om 'n slagoffer te bly'
May 15 2008 08:59:51:840PM - (SA)
Sarietha Engelbrecht
Kaapstad. - Sy weier om 'n slagoffer te bly. Dáárom het 'n moedige me.
René Burger (20) haar gister vrywillig geïdentifiseer as die vrou,
waaroor daar wyd berig is, wat verlede week 'n verkragting oorleef
het.
Burger, suster van die Springbok-rugbyspeler Schalk Burger, het in 'n
verklaring bevestig sy is die student wat verlede week in 'n
parkeerterrein by die Tygerberg-hospitaal deur drie mans oorval,
ontvoer en verkrag is.
"Die oomblik wat jy besluit om nie toe te laat dat iets soos hierdie
jou waardigheid en selfwaardering, jou vertroue in ander, jou hoop in
die toekoms en jou toegewydheid tot die land wat jy liefhet vernietig
nie, hou jy op om 'n slagoffer te wees," het sy in die verklaring
gesê.
Burger het 'n verklaring uitgereik deur 'n familievriend, me. Elna
Boesak, vrou van die kerkleier dr. Allan Boesak.
"Om die slagoffer van 'n gewelddadige ontvoering en verkragting te
wees, is een van die mees traumatiese ervarings wat enige vrou kan
oorkom.
"Jy het egter 'n keuse oor hoe jy op hierdie werklikheid reageer."
Volgens adv. Dup de Bruyn, ook 'n vriend, het me. Burger na vore gekom
om 'n einde te maak aan bespiegelings.
"Sy is nie skaam oor wat gebeur het nie. Sy baklei terug en wil vir
mense wys hulle moenie moed opgee nie."
Volgens Boesak het sy haar hulp aangebied en het die familie haar
gevra om as woordvoerder op te tree.
Sy het gesê sy het geweldig baie respek vir me. Burger en haar
familie.
"Hulle lewer 'n ongelooflike bydrae tot die bewusmaking en
de-stigmatisering van hierdie kwessie. Dit het baie waagmoed en
dapperheid van haar geverg om na vore te tree.
"Sy is 'n buitengewone jong vrou. Ek het nog min mense teëgekom wat so
sterk en doelgerig is. René het 'n baie dapper ding gedoen deur na
vore te kom. Sy gaan nie toelaat dat hierdie ding haar definieer nie."
Volgens 'n vriendin wat saam met haar in Paarl Gimnasium op skool was,
is me. Burger 'n baie saggeaarde mens. "Ons was baie geskok om hiervan
uit te vind. René is 'n lieflike mens. Ek kan nie glo so iets het met
só 'n goeie mens gebeur nie."
Die polisie ondersoek klagte van kaping en verkragting. 'n Identikit
van een van die aanvallers is ook uitgereik, maar niemand is nog in
hegtenis geneem nie.
Oorgelaat aan barbare'
May 15 2008 08:40:17:147PM - (SA)
Hilda Fourie
Die bekroonde skrywer André P. Brink het gister uitgevaar oor die land
se misdaadkrisis nadat sy susterskind die naweek deur rowers
doodgeskiet is.
"Dit is onaanvaarbaar dat Suid-Afrika oorgelaat is aan die genade van
barbare," het hy onder meer gesê.
Mnr. Adriaan Steenberg (45), seun van die ontslape skrywer Elsabé
Steenberg (Brink se suster), is Saterdagoggend in sy slaapkamer voor
sy vrou, Leonie (41), in die gesig geskiet.
Hulle woon op 'n kleinhoewe in Leeufontein in die noordooste van
Pretoria. Die egpaar se drie jong kinders, wat onderskeidelik 11, 9 en
8 jaar oud is, het in die huis geslaap toe hul pa geskiet is.
"Ons moet teen alle hoop bly hoop dat iemand beheer sal kry, want dit
blyk dat die regering nie meer die land kan regeer nie," het Brink
gister per telefoon uit die Wes-Kaap gesê.
Mev. Steenberg het gister vertel dat hulle verlede Vrydagaand haar
skoonpa, prof. Dawie Steenberg (68), 'n Alzheimer-lyer, in Centurion
gaan haal het om by hulle te kuier.
Hulle het Saterdagoggend omstreeks 02:30 gaan slaap.
"Ek weet nie hoe laat dit was nie, maar my man het opgespring en gesê
daar is iemand in die huis," het Steenberg gesê. Die verdagtes het
deur 'n venster in die eetkamer toegang tot die huis gekry.
"Adriaan het gesê ek moet langs die bed op die vloer lê. Hy het ook
langs die bed gaan lê.
"Ons het voetstappe op die trap gehoor en my skoonpa wat 'Help, help'
skree. Adriaan het opgestaan om die paniekknoppie te druk.
"Hy was nog half regop toe skiet hulle hom in die wangbeen. Ek het die
vlam gesien en toe val Adriaan."
Terwyl die verdagtes aan Steenberg gesê het: "Ons gaan jou doodmaak,
ons gaan jou doodmaak", het hulle haar met 'n vuurwapen gedreig en
beveel om die alarm af te skakel.
Daarna het hulle haar na prof. Steenberg se kamer geneem waar hulle
haar hande vasgebind en haar skoonpa uitgetrek en sy hande ook
vasgebind het.
Prof. Steenberg het net sy hemp aangehad.
"Een was saam met ons in die kamer en nog twee buite. My skoonpa het
op sy rug gerol en die deur met sy voete toegestamp om hulle uit te
hou.
"Hy het hulle ook met sy kierie geslaan," het Steenberg gesê.
"Hy het opgehou nadat hulle gedreig het dat hulle hom sal doodmaak."
Steenberg het aan die boewe gesê hulle moet vat wat hulle wil hê en
gaan. Sy wou net by haar man kom om hom te help. Toe hulle haar uit
haar skoonpa se kamer neem, het een van die rowers buite die kamer met
'n vuurwapen teen haar negejarige dogtertjie se kop gestaan.
"Sy wou huil, maar ek het haar gekalmeer en na haar oupa geneem."
Die skurke het Steenberg deur die huis geneem en geld, selfone en 'n
skootrekenaar gesteel. In 'n stadium het hulle haar alleen in die
kamer by haar man gelos.
"Ek het sy pols gevoel, maar daar was niks nie. Ek wou net iets vir
Adriaan probeer doen, maar ek kon nie."
Steenberg het nog skote buite gehoor, wat glo deur 'n
veiligheidsmaatskappy afgevuur is, en die rowers het daarna op die
vlug geslaan.
"Dit was onnodig om hom te skiet," het Steenberg gesê. "Hy het geglo
hy was goed vir almal en dat niemand ons sal seermaak nie."
Beeld het verneem dat ses verdagtes wat twee dae later in Mamelodi in
verband met sowat 18 moorde en verkragtings in die
Kameeldrift-omgewing in hegtenis geneem is, met Steenberg se moord
verbind kan word.
'n Huldigingsdiens sal Maandagmiddag om 12:00 vanuit die NG kerk
Kameeldrif gehou word.
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