Devastation After Chris Hani Massacre
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Gesoute joernalis System is failing ‘Big Brother’ is watching verruil Rosestad vir us, says mother of in Universitas Ridge Eikestad murder victim BLADSY 3 PAGE 2 PAGE 9 THURSDAYTHURSDAY 27 JULY 2017 NEWS YOU CAN USE FREE Devastation after Chris Hani massacre JERETHA OOSTHUIZEN gang members how are responsible. “Two [email protected] weeks ago, the windows of the house were broken and they tried killing some of the A family of Chris Hani Informal Settlement family members, but did not succeed. If is devastated after a family member was a member of one gang does not like you The heartbroken wife, Anna Mohau, and her brother, Joseph shot dead. Four people were shot dead because you belong to another gang, he Mohau Buti. PHOTOS: PIERCE VAN HEERDEN and another three injured after a shooting will enter your home and shoot anyone he incident occurred on 25 August 2017 at likes, whether he knows you or not. They about 23:30. do not even ask questions, they just shoot,” Two men, suspected to be gang members, said Maphiri. entered the family residence and started The alleged killers fl ed the scene in a fi ring shots at the people in the house. Piet white Toyota Tazz. Two of the victims who Seholopa Jomo and Lebohang Mariphi were were killed are unknown, while the other two of the four male victims that were two victims, a man and a woman, are still killed in the shooting. Kleinbooi Mohau recovering at Pelonomi Hospital. Sebego survived the incident. Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant- Maramang Johannes Thipe said he was General Lebeoana Tsumane, said he has caught between the door and the wall appointed a high level team of investigators when the unknown men kicked open the led by Major-General Jones Qhobosheane. door to enter their house. “I was behind “I would like to request the community the door and just heard shots being fi red. not to panic as this is an isolated incident They shot at everyone in the house” said that will be investigated thoroughly. The Thipe. offi cers we have deployed who deal with Anna Mohau was asleep in bed and due sensational crimes in hot spot areas around to only seven bullets in the magazine, an Mangaung, including gangs, are still in the eighth shot could not be fi red at her. Her area to monitor the situation,” he added. in-laws blame her for the shooting, saying The police have requested that anyone Family members of the deceased, Piet that they suspect she had organised it. with information that could lead to the Seholopa Jomo are from the left, back: Mohau was too traumatised to even talk to identifi cation of the suspects should Moramang Johannes Thipe, Anna Mohau and the media. contact Detective-Colonel Nthako Joseph Mohau Buti. In front: Kleinbooi Mohau Jeffrey Maphiri said that he suspects it was Mkhaulesi at 082-527-7504. Sebegoand the daughter of Anna Mohau The deceased, Piet Seholopa Jomo OR Tambo road 2 COMMUNITY NEWS • GEMEENSKAPSNUUS www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za • [email protected] • 27 July 2017 ‘The system is failing crime victims’ SEITHATI SEMENOKANE Like Bloemfontein Courant Whatsapp 082 370 12 68 [email protected] Michelle Peterson, the mother of Kay-leen Peterson (24) who was found killed in her fl at in Virginia in March this year, said the system is failing the families of victims of crime. She said the manner in which the police and courts have been treating 18 her family is piling on to the pain they are already going through after losing their daughter. “I didn’t want to talk to the media at fi rst because she (Kay-leen) was a very private child and this is a very personal matter. A local newspaper wrote on her murder and published gruesome photos of her, and I still haven’t looked at that article. Even when planning her funeral I decided the theme would be fl owers and butterfl ies, to symbolise the peaceful person she was,” said Peterson. Last week Wednesday, while driving back Kay-leen Peterson (24), who was a Grade 1 from dropping her son off in Johannesburg teacher at one of the primary schools in Virginia, to visit family, she was overcome by the was found at her apartment by a family friend and thought that if she could just see the man neighbours. being accused of killing her daughter, she would be able to focus on the well-being court because they had allowed her to see of her other children. him. So they are more concerned about She fi rst called the investigating offi cer on the offender’s rights,” she explained. the case, Inspector Janse van Rensburg, to A social worker then approached her and tell him she was on her way the Virginia said she could not fi nd any record of the Magistrate’s Court to fi nd out what was accused offender, William Dukana (32), on happening with the court case. the system. She wanted to see the accused offender, Dukana was arrested and charged for but according to her while he was in the murder of Kay-Leen Peterson. He custody, nobody could touch him. appeared at the Virginia Magistrate’s “I waited at the gate for three hours and Court on 27 March 2017. Additional they told me that I could not see the charges were added to his case docket, offender because it’s against the rules, and which include house robbery, theft of a the offender fi rst had to ask to see me motor vehicle and rape. He was on parole before I could see him. The supervisor for another case of house robbery at said that the offender also has parents, and the time of his arrest for the Peterson what if the parents make a case against the murder. During ongoing investigations he was also linked to another sexual assault case Meloding near Virginia, where he was charged for a sexual assault case on 26 March 2017. Peterson says the family has not been kept up to date on the court proceedings, and had she not travelled all the way to Virginia herself, they would not have known that Dukana’s next appearance will be at the Welkom Regional Court on 31 July 2017 (preliminary). Peterson says she just wants to look him in the face, and maybe then she can carry on with her life. 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Bloemfontein. 9301. are hereby reserved in terms of the Copyright Act. This publication is registered as a newspaper. Verifi ed Distribution: 20000 copies per week. 27 July 2017 • [email protected] • www.bloemfonteincourant.co.za COMMUNITY NEWS • GEMEENSKAPSNUUS 3 Food festival tickets to Media-ghoeroe verruil sell like hot cakes JERETHA OOSTHUIZEN Rosestad vir Eikestad [email protected] Tickets for the Central 25 August is “Fusion Fiesta – JERETHA OOSTHUIZEN University of Technology’s Eat to the beat”. Guests will [email protected] (CUT) food and wine festival be entertained by local artist, went on sale yesterday, and the Jacobus Silwer. “Misdaadverslaggewing het my so 2000 is sy Taiwan toe om te gaan In vandag se tyd moet ‘n joernalis organisers are expecting them The Fiesta del Vino, which will afgestomp dat ek ‘n hamburger kon skoolhou. 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