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'The worst day of our lives'
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| September 28 2009 at 07:41AM |
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Submit your comment By Jacques Breytenbach At about 2.30am on Saturday, Schonken's eldest daughter, Sonija Smit, who lives with her husband Thinus in a house on the same plot as her parents, received a call from her father, telling her there were robbers in their house. Thinus went to investigate. But the robbers had already fled with Schonken's cellphone, leaving Thinus with the grim task of assessing the 56-year-old Lars's injuries. When Thinus found Lars, he was bleeding profusely from a deep head wound and asking where his wife Isabel was. Thinus found 55-year-old Schonken lying dead on the floor of the guest toilet, near the front door of the house, shot through the chest. "My first priority was to get Lars to the hospital as fast as I could," Thinus said, adding that after he notified the police, he put his injured father-in-law into his car and drove to Wilgers Hospital. Rumsey, who also lives in a cottage on the property, said there was an attempted break-in two weeks ago. She said that on Saturday the whole family had been caught off guard. "I did not hear a thing throughout the whole incident - not a gunshot, or a dog barking, or anyone screaming. I only woke up just before Sonija phoned me. It was the strangest thing," Rumsey said. Lars was beaten badly with what seems to have been a wooden object with some sort of metal tip. At some stage during the attack, Lars regained consciousness, opened the safe and shot at one of the robbers. It has not been confirmed yet if the robber was injured but a source close to the investigation said Lars had hit and injured one of them. Rumsey said it appears as if Schonken had fallen asleep in front of the television and was woken by a gunshot. She added that despite electric fences and motion detection alarms on the property, the robbers managed to gain entry into the house. "These guys knew exactly what they were doing. They have been watching our movements on the plot for a while now," she said. Rumsey said her sister was a "very" strong character. "It is a great loss to the family. The family is trying to be strong through this difficult time. » View article on a single page |
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Showing page 1 of 7 comment pages, 67 total comments
43 Weeks ago Adriana Stuijt wrote :
There is no difference in 'modus operandus' to the horrific massacres carried out under the 'guidance' of Nelson Mandela and indeed of Robert Mugabe during their so-called liberation struggle, and the armed attacks targetting mostly Afrikaner families in the countryside and suburbs of South Africa today. NONE. censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com
43 Weeks ago Ant K wrote :
Hey people, while this is very disturbing to read, don't lose the perspective - there were another 19 similar murders on the same day, and another 20 the day before and another 20 the day after, and 20 the following day and so on, for this is our New South Africa, a legacy of 20 murders every day, or 20 thousand per year
43 Weeks ago l3jorn wrote :
Bloody sick animals! You will all rot in hell!
43 Weeks ago D.Anonymous wrote :
Bring back the death penalty. Whether you are Black , white , yellow , green or blue, if you kill somebody then you don't deserve to live.
43 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
Africa as a continent, belongs to the africans.. if the white man had never gone there, the way of life would have been as the white man found it when he first arrived.. mud huts, cattle, and a savage dictator killing raping and pillaging.. What has changed.. look around you..What has happened to the cities that were so meticoulsly cared for.. what about schooling, health and the fantastic police farce.. Am i a bitter racist.. No !! I have had first hand experience with the so called liberated.. and they dont care about their own people.. History is steeped in blood as man's greed has got the better of him.. White and black.. Africa will always be Africa.. Life means nothing.. Get out while you can.. I loved Africa and all its people..I never exploited anyone.. I wont be part of its decay, anarchy and death..Viva Anarchy Nepotism Corruption WHAT THE ANC REALLY STANDS FOR..VIVA.. K.M.A.
43 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
The death penalty seems like a solution, but logically - do you actually want to give the government the power over life and death while corruption is the norm ......?
43 Weeks ago Mfundisi wrote :
Everybody cries "Death penalty - Death penalty"
Jesus Christ is the answer my brothas/sistas.
Jesus Christ is the answer my brothas/sistas.
43 Weeks ago Gatvol-Culture...!!! wrote :
Send this to Zuma & Mthetwa & the UN, in New York.
Savages & Barbarians....!
Savages & Barbarians....!
43 Weeks ago Musikwudd wrote :
THE DEATH PENALTY IS AS STUPID AS IT IS UNSCIENTIFIC AND INEFFECTIVE:
Every criminal thinks and feels" I dont get cought" -especially not by the "brother"-cops !
Madiba is an old man, and all that is happening was correctly predicted by the reactionary,repressive bures - who did let the countries waggon roll downhill blindly for decades !
Racism swings into counterracism -
if I am not adjucated I will grab whatever I can by all means I have ( mostly guns - which I am surely not adjucated at too ) -
a starving post-feudalistic society will have super-rich Mugabes or Malemas living in lash Santon homes, all on top of many million relativly poor, frustrated people.
We all will have to live through this.
The learning process of the new ruling class, which is mainly busy to enrich itself, is very very slow.
For years to come we will see the priority of luxory vehicles for MPs and top fat cats over ordinary police vehicles or ambulances.
There seems to be nothing that can be done about it.
We will have to wait until the insight arises broad and wide, that a modern country like South Africa cannot be run by gardenboys, goat sheppards and housewifes.
This situation might be the existence' s punishment for the grave mistakes of the past.
Every criminal thinks and feels" I dont get cought" -especially not by the "brother"-cops !
Madiba is an old man, and all that is happening was correctly predicted by the reactionary,repressive bures - who did let the countries waggon roll downhill blindly for decades !
Racism swings into counterracism -
if I am not adjucated I will grab whatever I can by all means I have ( mostly guns - which I am surely not adjucated at too ) -
a starving post-feudalistic society will have super-rich Mugabes or Malemas living in lash Santon homes, all on top of many million relativly poor, frustrated people.
We all will have to live through this.
The learning process of the new ruling class, which is mainly busy to enrich itself, is very very slow.
For years to come we will see the priority of luxory vehicles for MPs and top fat cats over ordinary police vehicles or ambulances.
There seems to be nothing that can be done about it.
We will have to wait until the insight arises broad and wide, that a modern country like South Africa cannot be run by gardenboys, goat sheppards and housewifes.
This situation might be the existence' s punishment for the grave mistakes of the past.
43 Weeks ago Anonymous wrote :
My Uhuru understanding of what i have read and learnt and prepared for!!! i see you gave a basic overview of the meaning and song It is the African Black unity, and 2) black self-determination/political, social and economic independence from White society. Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of black nationalism.[1]Black nationalism (BN) advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of black national identity, as opposed to multiculturalism. There are different black nationalist philosophies but the principles of all black nationalist ideologies http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_nationalism&oldid=309508622
if only we knew this then when it was all handed over to the new regime it is truley sad and we need to stand up against black or white was this the struggle for freedom?was this the standards that was set?
if only we knew this then when it was all handed over to the new regime it is truley sad and we need to stand up against black or white was this the struggle for freedom?was this the standards that was set?
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