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26 Julie 2018 Prys: R5,80 Webblad: www.potchefstroomherald.co.za Heroic mother protects family against armed robbers The police with one of the suspects who were arrested. Bekende Volkies onnie se eerstes verlaat pronk Potch Bl.10 Bl.28 GRAND OPENING NUWE EIENAARSKAP Kom kuier by ons opening 1 Augustus om 18:00 te Tel: 018 294 8184 Retiefstraat 44, Potchefstroom Louis: 083 881 9669 RSVP teen 30 Julie Epos: [email protected] 2 www.potchefstroomherald.co.za Potchefstroom Herald 26 Julie 2018 Man dies after mob justice attack Selogile Leshage crowd of people with the badly injured transport the critical man to Potchef- justice take its course. They should man, Edward Kleinhans. He was un- stroom Hospital. He died in the inten- apprehend the suspects without har- An angry mob beat a man (36) to a conscious and bleeding from his nose sive care unit as a result of his exten- ming them and call the police to enact pulp in Marikana-Promosa because and mouth. He was naked and had sive injuries,’ she said. the arrests,’ she stated. they believed he was a burglar. He pas- bruises on his body,’ said Trom. Trom has condemned this incident Trom says there has been a spate sed away in hospital last Wednesday. She added that there were stolen and says the police are investigating a of mob justice attacks in the last four According to Sgt Kelebogile Trom, items that were allegedly found in his murder case. months where community members the Ikageng spokesperson, the police shack next to the unconscious man. She issued a stern warning to com- have assaulted burglary suspects bad- received a call at about 13:30 that the They belonged to a 25-year-old woman munity members who take the law in- ly before calling the police. community was assaulting a person who had reported a burglary the day to their own hands. ‘Crime affects all of us but we must they suspected of housebreaking. before. ‘Mob justice is a criminal offence not let anger cloud our judgement by ‘On their arrival, they found a ‘They called for an ambulance to and the community must rather let assaulting people,’ she warned. Marianke Saayman stroom ry. Hulle het die voertuig voorgekeer en gesien dat die bakkie ‘n Man wat na bewering ‘n bakkie by ‘n pas deur die Klerksdorp-polisie as ge- winkelsentrum in Klerksdorp gesteel steel aangemeld is. 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Gedruk deur 0114843612/8, faks 0114843619, of [email protected]. www.potchefstroomherald.co.za Paarl Coldset (Edms) Bpk, 83 Heidelberglaan, City Deep. 26 Julie 2018 Potchefstroom Herald www.potchefstroomherald.co.za 3 ‘Shoot me but you will not burn my kids!’ Marianke Saayman hing was all right, I kept quiet and just kept giving her the wrong password, ‘You will not burn my kids; you can ra- then I cut the phone.’ ther shoot me today but you will not When Mooirivier Beskerming called burn my kids!’ again to find out if everything was okay, These were the desperate cries of she said no. One of the armed men hit a mother who would sacrifice herself to her so hard that she landed against the protect her husband and children from kitchen stove. He wanted to know why at least four armed robbers who inva- she had said no. She said the woman ded their home in Lupine Street on Fri- had asked her if there were thieves in day morning. her home. When this brave woman woke up on Two of the men took her upstairs an ordinary school day to prepare bre- again, asking for the safe but she insis- akfast for her family, she wasn’t pre- ted that there was no safe. They pared for what was about to happen to attacked her, hit her, tried to stab her her or her family. with a fork and threw her against the ‘I switched off the alarm and when cupboard before dragging her back to I was done with breakfast I called the the kitchen. kids to come downstairs.’ ‘One of them threatened to burn my Her husband was praying in the li- husband and kids if I didn’t give them ving room while she was having break- the money. Then he switched the kettle fast with her children in the dining on and I couldn’t take it anymore.’ room. After her son (12) had finished She told her husband and children eating, he went outside to the garage to to stay behind the fridge while the ket- fetch tuck shop money from his mo- tle was boiling. ther’s car. But, when he opened the ga- ‘As he took the kettle and went up to rage door, three armed men jumped at them, I grabbed him and pinned him him, covered his mouth, held guns to Police vehicles closed the roads against the kitchen door and said: ‘you his head and brought him back into the where they suspected the sus- will not burn my kids, you can rather house.