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next to the upturned stool he had been standing on before he kicked it from under his feet. Also on the floor was the body of a young woman. She had been stabbed to death. A bloody dagger lay beside her. Residents flocked in their dozens to crowd shack 234 to catch a glimpse of the victims of the violent death. The couple was later identified as Sijado Sibuta (25) of shack 170 and Lucha Hewu (18) of 158 Fairyland. It would seem that Lucha had spent the night in the shack of a friend and that Sibuta had slipped into the dwelling when the man left for work. An argument ensued in which Lucha seems to have fought off a possible sexual assault. Sibuta was stabbed several times, possibly before Lucha died from multiple stab wounds to her neck and chest. A love letter to Lucha was later discovered in Sibuta's pocket. |
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PROMINENTE Paarlse sakeman Louis Geldenhuys is verlede week in hegtenis geneem op bewerings van bedrog. Dit is die tweede slag wat dié bekende ontwikkelaar tref, nadat hy in Februarie vanjaar gesekwestreer is. So is maatskappye van die ander Paarlse eiendomsmagnaat, Nicky Camara, vanjaar gelikwideer. Geldenhuys (51), bestuurder van die hotel in Dutoitskloof, het verlede Donderdag in die Paarlse landdroshof verskyn op aanklagte van beweerde bedrog met borgaktes van 'n onderneming in Vredenburg. Die klaers was mede-aandeelhouers en/of direkteure van die onderneming, Willem Keuler van die Paarl en vyf ander uit Somerset-Wes, Grabouw en die Strand. Hulle beweer dat hulle onwetend borg geteken het. Soos Geldenhuys is hulle ook siviel deur Nedbank/BoE gedagvaar. Volgens Geldenhuys se regsverteenwoordiger Francois Louw van Louw-Deysel Prokureurs, is die betrokke bedrag sowat R700 000. Nadat Geldenhuys deur insp Tony Beukes van die Kaapstadse Handelsmisdaadeenheid aangekla is, het hy Donderdag op eie stoom by die Paarlse landdroshof aangemeld. Hy het onder groot belangstelling in sy vrou, eiendomsagent Tittie Geldenhuys, se luukse Jaquar opgedaag. Hy moes tot drie-uur die middag in die hofselle deurbring omdat daar eers nie 'n landdros beskikbaar was nie, en toe met borgonderhandelinge geskarrel is. Geldenhuys is uiteindelik dieselfde dag op borgtog van R50 000 vrygelaat nadat die borg betaal is. Volgens insp Beukes het Geldenhuys nie behoorlike finansiële state en jaarvergaderings gehou nie en is sy boekhouding nie volgens maatskappystandaarde gedoen nie. Dit kan lei tot klagtes onder die Maatskappywet. Volgens sy prokureur sal, afhangende van die vordering van die ondersoek, die ander direkteure, wat van die klaers insluit, gevoeg word as beskuldigdes. "Die moontlikheid van 'n klag van kwaadwillige vervolging word ook nie uitgesluit nie," sê Louw. Intussen word in Worcester 'n insolvensie-ondersoek gedoen in Geldenhuys se gesekwestreerde boedel. * Die halfvoltooide winkelsentrum met parkeergarage van Nicky Camara, op die hoek van Lady Greystraat en die Hoofstraat, is Dinsdag opgeveil. Camara, van Monte Christo Rylaan, is vroeër vanjaar gelikwideer. Die bod van R8,35 miljoen is aan 'n konsortium Paarlse sakemanne, waaronder Dennis Minitzer, toegestaan. Indien die aanbod aanvaar word, sal dit hulle tot sowat R10m uit die sak jaag om die gebou af te rond. * Prominent Paarl businessmen Louis Geldenhuys and Nicky Camara have been liquidated, while Geldenhuys is also facing charges of fraud. |
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"MBEKWENI is hell!" The pain in the woman's voice, the anguish in her eyes, cried out to me as we stood in front of the Civic Centre in Paarl, amidst a crowd of angry demonstrators. She was one of about two hundred people, some of them carrying placards, who converged on the Municipality on Thursday to protest the huge housing backlog in Mbekweni. An estimated 22 000 people (about 50% of Mbekweni residents) live in shacks in this Paarl suburb. The march was organised by the Mbekweni Social Development Forum to express residents' anger at the Town Council's lack of action to address the housing shortage in the overpopulated area. Said one woman: "I was born in Mbekweni in 1959 and I have lived in a shack for my whole life. Tell the people that Mbekweni is the devil's place. "People are crying here, people are dying here. How many more must die? How many more must land in hospitals with burn wounds? "We're tired, things must change." The residents' despair is evident on the placards: "Don't suck our blood; Deal with the beneficiaries; Stop the corruption; 20 years in shacks - we want better houses, toilets, water." Some of the slogans name councillors, accusing them of destroying the community and saying they disgust the community. One of the leaders of the demonstration, Aubrey Sikundla, presented a memorandum to a municipal official, urgently calling for immediate intervention by the Council. "We are dissatisfied by the manner in which our local authority and some of the housing officials have handled the current housing backlog and other public service delivery issues. "This has left us with no option but to call for an urgent regime change within the Drakenstein Council due to poor work performance. "We express a vote of no confidence against all councillors who, after ten years of democracy, have failed to deliver. "Like President Mbeki we say 'it's time to go back to work'. It is the duty of every citizen to be a whistle-blower against all corrupt elements within government structures. "These elements continue to make a mockery of the Transformation of Public Service Delivery Act, which encourages public servants to treat citizens as their customers. "We have reached a stage where we cannot allow the issue of non-compliance with government policies to continue." Among the service delivery grievances listed are the lack of social development, incomplete housing projects, the lack of communication of government policies, the lack of effective public participation in decision-making, poor quality houses, non-accountability of council and housing officials, paying rates and services fees for non-existent ("ghost") top structures and the lack of electricity and drainage. Sikundla emphasised that they wiould take the matter further: "We will refer our plight to the appropriate housing, provincial and local government portfolio committees, national housing minister, office of the Western Cape Premier, parliament and if needs be to the Office of the President. "It would be in the Drakenstein Municipality's interest not to allow a situation where we, as members of the public, embark on rolling mass action. "In the same breath, we cannot allow our government's efforts to be undermined by individuals who joined the political fraternity for self interest, as opposed to public interest. "We are prepared to declare our commitment, loyalty and dedication towards working with any progressive interim committee, for immediate reparations of all the damages incurred whilst the defunct local authority was in power." The protestors demanded a public meeting with the Mayor within seven days. Should the Municipality not comply, they threatened to "make the town ungovernable". One protester shouted: "When we come again, we come with guns!" Death threats were also levelled at the Paarl Post reporter, who was considered to be in cahoots with the Councillors. The origin for these accusations, was a report printed recently on the completion of ten houses in Silvertown. According to the protestors, the houses were not completed on the date of the ceremony and thus the report was a "scam to put Councillors in a good light". Accusations were also made that beneficiaries had to use their own building material. A representative of the Municipality said it was evident that people did not understand the principles of the People's Housing Process (PHP), which allows for beneficiaries to use their own resources. "This means that people can build bigger houses and individualise their homes." Complaints were also made that the houses didn't have toilets inside. Once again, there was an explanation: homeowners preferred to keep the existing outside toilets. |
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'n JONG MAN van Wellington is verlede week skuldig bevind aan die paddood van 'n student wat 'n jaar gelede saam met hom in 'n motorongeluk was. Hein Stofberg (21) van Murraystraat 16 is gevonnis tot 'n boete van R9000 waarvan R8000 opgeskort is vir vyf jaar of gevangenisstraf van twee jaar ses maande (waarvan die twee jaar opgeskort is vir vyf jaar). Stofberg, 'n bekende agter die stuur van vinnige motors in Wellington, is dus effektief gevonnis tot R1000 boete of ses maande gevangenisstraf op die aanklag van strafbare manslag. Oosthen van Wyk (21), 'n Matie student van Wellington, het gesterf toe Hein met sy pa se BMW in 'n vragmotor op die Wellington-Malmesburypad vasgejaag het. Die vader van die oorledene en familielede van die beskuldigde moes verlede Woensdagoggend tot 10:30 rondstaan terwyl daar 'n bandopnemer in werkende toestand gesoek is. In die hof is getuig dat die vragmotor nie die nodige waarskuwingsligte gehad het nie en dus nie padwaardig was nie, maar die landdros het bevind dat Stofberg "bedag moes wees" vir enige verkeer op die pad. Daar is dié nag nie 'n bloedmonster van Stofberg geneem nie, wat veroorsaak het dat die ondersoekdossier as "onvolledig" beskryf is tydens hofverrigtinge. Stofberg het verklaar dat hy die betrokke Vrydagaand "nie vinniger as 120 km per uur" gery het nie. * A young Wellington man has been sentenced for causing the death of the passenger in the car he crashed into a lorry. |
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ILLEGAL occupiers of 45 newly built houses in Lanquedoc Village were evicted on Tuesday following a court order obtained by Anglo American Farms on 8 October. According to Don Tooth, Managing Director of Amfarms, the illegal occupiers had had fair warning to vacate the unlawfully occupied houses. "However, they have failed to comply with the instructions of the Court Order and thus the Sheriff of the Court was required to enforce the Court Order." The Police supported the Sheriff in the execution of his duties, as the crowd became rowdy and at one stage threw stones. The illegal occuption of 45 of the more than 400 new homes built in Lanquedoc village for Amfarms employees started over the long weekend of 9 August. These houses, pending transfer to the new owners, are owned and controlled by Amfarms in conjunction with the Lanquedoc Housing Association. The houses are the culmination of a project to provide long term independent tenure rights for past and present employees of Amfarms who resided on its various farms in the Groot Drakenstein area. The development has taken place in partnership with the Department of Land Affairs and the Boland District Municipality and has involved a substantial financial investment by all the parties running into tens of millions of rands. "What had been a positive, orderly and uplifting long-term security of land tenure has been substantially disrupted by the unlawful actions of the persons in question," said Tooth. "None of these persons were members of the Lanquedoc Housing Association and therefore enjoyed no right or consent to occupy the houses, but they nonetheless did so forcibly and unlawfully." Tooth denied allegations of corruption by the evictees, who said they paid to be allocated the houses. According to the Sheriff, all the furniture will be kept in storage until retrieved by the evictees. |
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ROBBERS who pushed their way into a liquor outlet in Paarl on Saturday, might be the same men who attacked two shoppers in the centre of town last week. The manager of Picardi Rebel in Lady Grey Street was letting late customers out of his off-sales at 14:05 when a stranger insisted on being allowed in to purchase a beer. When the manager refused, the tall, well-built man was joined by another man, even taller, but slender, in a blue overall. He pushed the manager, who fell on the floor. He was punched on the head while his accomplice aimed a firearm at the remaining five customers in the shop. The customers and assistants were rounded up and locked into different storerooms. A third robber, with a cream-coloured knitted cap, walked into the store and helped to take the loot of liquor and cash. Victims Once outside the men pointed the firearm at a motorist and demanded his car. The robber reversed, crashed into the vehicle behind him and stalled. They then fled on foot.* Police believe the same men might be responsible for the armed robbery of an 18-year-old pedestrian on Friday. The youth was crossing an open lot from Lower Lady Grey Street to the taxi-rank when three men pushed him face-first against a wall. A gun was held to his head while they frisked him and robbed him of his cellphone, cash and groceries. * Armed men fitting the description approached a shopper as he was carrying his purchases along Castle Street on Saturday morning. He was surrounded, searched and robbed of R4000. Const Daneen Smith (807-4066) is investigating. |
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'n TIENER wat sy pa glo aanrand en dan keer op keer in die sorg van sy moeder vrygelaat word, het die inwoners van die Greenfields buurt in Paarl-Oos raad-op. Die seun (16) is glo die leier van 'n bende van vier wat inwoners met messe aanval en beroof. Die ander seuns is 13 en 14 jaar oud. "Hy het al moord gepleeg," sê 'n inwoner, "en elke keer kom hy skotvry omdat hy te jonk is om tronk toe te gaan." Die inwoner vertel dat hy verlede week die jeugdige met twee splinternuwe fietse in die buurt gesien het. "Dit was beslis gesteel, want die seun het 'n BMX waarmee hy altyd rondry. Ons het die polisie laat kom, maar teen die tyd dat hulle opgedaag het, was hy alweer weg." Die man vertel dat die buurtwag die jeugdige al meer as tien keer na die Paarl-Oos polisiestasie geneem het. "Hy is elke keer skaars 'n uur daar, dan loop hy weer hier tussen ons rond. Die antwoord is elke keer, hy is te jonk, die maatskaplike werkers sal oorneem, en hy bly in die sorg van sy moeder. "Maar sy ma beskerm hom. Sy rand self die lede van die buurtwag aan. Die ma kom vir hom op selfs al steek hy sy pa onder die bloed. "Hulle neem ons buurt op horings, en ons is magteloos." * A teenage boy gang has been creating havoc in the community of Greenfields, without being apprehended. |
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BOERE van plase grensend aan 'n Bergrivierplaas by Wellington, waar die naweek 'n Rave-party gehou is, kla steen en been oor die onophoudelike musiek wat kliphard gedreun het. Polisie wat Saterdagmiddag motors en partytjiegangers buite die plaashekke ingewag het, het op vier soorte dwelms beslag gelê. Vyf arrestasies is gemaak. Altesaam 58 LSD plakkers wat teen R80 elk verkoop word (klein seëltjies met of 'n sterretjie motief of dié van Bart Simpson), is in 'n motor gevind. Beslag is gelê op dagga, in banksakkies en versteek in opgerolde broekspype en blikkies, asook Ecstasy tablette. 'n Tiener van Oudtshoorn en 'n 48-jarige man van Kaapstad is in die polisieselle aangehou terwyl nog twee ander verdagtes skulderkenningsboetes betaal het vir die besit van verbode middels. Die telefoon by die polisiestasie het die naweek onophoudelik gelui met klagtes van die deurnagmusiek wat eers Sondag om 17:00 stil geword het. Honderde mense, van tieners tot middeljariges, het op die plaas Modesta toegesak en op 'n oop veld, in 'n bos en langs 'n dam gekuier. * An all-night Rave party kept residets of Wellington farms awake at the weekend. |
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