Eight more farm murders and a Boer child beaten to death -- but no "media outcry" yet

MAY 31, 2001 -- Another eight white South Africans -- six Boers, one of German and one of Greek descent -- have been murdered in armed attacks on farm homesteads by groups of young black men the previous week. However, these murders of white owners of South African farms have gone virtually unnoticed by the main-stream media -- as has last week's terrifying death of an Afrikaner schoolboy of Parys in the Free State, beaten to death by a gang of young black men with metal pipes while the unarmed child was selling sheep at the roadside.

Censorbugbear journalists are puzzled by this near-total silence from the South African mainstream news media about these racist murders -- especially when compared to the earlier "media outcry" and the ANC-created court "riots" from the totally unexplained death of a heavily-armed young black poacher found dead in a Pietersburg farm dam two weeks ago. A group of Afrikaner rugby players of the Northerns Rugby team has been arrested for this mysterious death, and although not even charged, have remained in jail without getting a legal bail application hearing -- which is an infringement of their constitutional rights.

Meanwhile, police have yet to arrest anyone for last week's five farm murders -- in fact, police even allowed one group of suspected murderers -- those returning from the torture-death of 70-year old farmer Gustav Gullas in Magaliesburg -- to flee from their roadblock on foot.

Killed on four farms this past week were: 75-year-old Mrs. Griet van der Westhuizen of the farm Smaldeel in Parys; Mr Gawie van der Merwe [55] of the farm Syfertfontein at Hartebeesfontei and his friend Dorethea van der Merwe [48] of Potchefstroom, who was suffocated by her killers. In Natal, Mr. Wilfred Ullerman [78] and his wife and Mr Gustav Gullas, 70, of the farm Kosterfontein in Magaliesburg. None of these armed black men have been arrested. Police claim they are still looking for them.
Last Saturday's murder of Mr Gullas -- already the survivor of an earlier armed attack at his farm -- had been particularly ferocious: his four armed black attackers had tied him up with a belt and then methodically kicked him to death. Moreover, police had even trapped these armed killers at a roadblock in Hercules near Pretoria shortly afterwards -- but somehow let them get away.

And in the Ermelo district, farmer's wife Mrs Cecile Venter said they had asked police to investigate the fact that a group of four young black men was planning to kill them. Mrs Venter told Radio Pretoria this week that police had recently arrested a young black worker on the farm, who had been caught in the act poaching sheep -- but the worker was charged in court and granted bail and now continues to live on the farm without their permission -- even though he had been caught stealing from them and no longer does any work for them, the worker still demands his pay and free housing and other amenities. Mrs Venter's housekeeper made a statement to police that this man is now plotting to kill the Venters, and that three young black strangers visited him only recently.