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Sunday, 10 May 2009
African witchdoctor charged with muti-murders of 2white farmers
Accused murderer of Jan van Wyk, 82 and Basie Venter,65, Viljoenskroon, Free State April 1 2009 tells police he
’
s a
‘
traditional doctor
’
:
On April 1 2009, two elderly white South African farmers were found murdered in SouthAfrica
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two of many. Forensic experts established that their genitals had been cut offwhile the victims were still alive. Strong suspicions that
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witchcraft
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was involved wereconfirmed this week when Moeketsi Mokoena, 25, a Lesotho citizen arrested at one of thevictims
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Viljoenskroon,Free State farms, claimed he was a
‘
traditional doctor
’
.
AIDS epidemic fuels demand for
‘
AIDS-curing
’
body parts:
While some 300
‘
muti
’
(
traditional medicine
) related killings are reported during an average year in South Africa,see whites usually aren
’
t targeted for such African witchcraft rituals. And what makes this case doubly unusual, is that a self-
claimed witchdoctor is actually being charged in any court of law. Witchdoctors are so feared throughout Africa that they
are hardly ever questioned, arrested nor charged for initiating or funding such crimes. They are increasing rapidly: withAIDS devastating the South African ruling elite, muti-killings to harvest body parts, sold for giant profits, have soared asthe increasingly desperate demand for
‘
AIDS-cures
’
are reaching new heights.
l
The Institute for Democracy in South Africareported that in the last eight years,nearly halfof South Africa
’
s localelected councils have died before reaching the age of 50
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the result of the AIDS plague that has infected (atleast) 5.4 million people in the country.
“
If you look at the statistics, MPs have been dying relatively young anddying in large numbers. These trends are not dissimilar from the general population,
”
said Kondwani Chirambo,the lead author of a new study commissioned by the Institute.seeChirambo also reported that 2.6 millionregistered South African voters have died from AIDS since 1999.It
’
s the live-harvesting of the farmers
’
body parts which has so deeply affected the Afrikaans-speaking farmingcommunity in South Africa when they heard of the gruesome suffering of these two farmers, Jan van Wyk, 82 , (a retiredpolice inspector) and Basie Venter, 65, of Viljoenskroon near Kroonstad, in the maize-
growing Free State province.
More than 3,050 white farm dwellers murdered since 1994
More than 3,050white farm dwellers have already been murderedin South Africa since 1994, with many cruelmutilations, gang-rapes and hangings recorded in thislong list of horrors
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but very few of these had been forensically
linked to witchcraft-related crimes until this incident.Mokoena was handed over to the Kroonstad police on April 1 after he was discovered by local farmer Johan Engelbrechtand other volunteers of the Free State Agriculture's rural safety unit. When spotting them, the arrested man had allegedlybeen sweeping the porch. He had run inside the homestead and threatened the citizens
’
farm-security detail withgardening shears. They were able to apprehend him, however, reported South African journalists Tom de Wet andMarisa Phillips of Beeld newspaper.see The security team then found Van Wyk's mutilated body was found in the dining room of the house. One of the suspectedmurder weapons and beads covered in blood were also found buried in the fields next to a lion camp on Venter
’
shomestead.
According to the forensic evidence contained in the Bloemfontein court docket, Van Wyk, a retired policeman who only
alone stayed on his farm over the weekends, was allegedly lured outside where he was bashed over the head with ashovel, dragged inside the homestead while still alive --
and then his genitals were mutilated. This is a clear indication
that this was a 'murder to harvest body parts for
‘
traditional medicine
’
, as this is inevitably done while the victims are stillalive.Engelbrecht said he and the security-unit had been with police, investigating the muti-murder of another neighbouring
farmer, Basie Venter, 65, just a few hours before when another farmer had stopped him on the road and warned him
that he
‘
suspected trouble
’
on the Van Wyk farm next door, too.
“
Van Wyk wasn
’
t on his stoep as he usually did early inthe morning, reading his Bible,
”
Engelbrecht was quoted as saying.There seems little doubt that the same man was also involved in the murder of Basie Venter. Venter's widow Mary, 68,had witnessed the attack against her husband around 21:15 from the outside, through a window in the house. Venterwas attacked with an iron rod, police said.Free State police spokesman Maselela Langa said Mokoena
’
s case, scheduled for a first hearing at the localViljoenskroon magistrate
’
s court, was postponed to Friday, when the psychiatric report would be examined and the
psychiatrist was scheduled to appear for testimony.
see
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2512907,00.html The brutal
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muti-related murders
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of the two old farmers at Vierfontein were condemned by the Free State AgriculturalUnion. Its president Louw Steytler said these were
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cowardly and gross acts.
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He also urged the country
’
s rapidly-shrinking number of commercial farmers to get involved in Free State Agriculture's rural safety plan.see
MUTI-MURDERS
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A CRUEL AFRICAN PHENOMENON:
Genocide Watch reports on Boer Genocide
REPORT DEATHS OF AFRIKANERS ONhttp://www.projek2010.co.za/Projek2010/aanvallys.aspxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S71bichSw&feature=relatedhttp://www.genocidewatch.org/images/SAfrica2002Over1000BoerFarmersinSouthAfricaHaveBeenMurderedSince1991.pdfGenocide fears well-founded: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/05/fears-of-boer-genocide-well-founded.htmlFarm murder death list latest:http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/05/farm-murder-death-list-1987-may-28-2010.html
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