Farm Attack thwarted by Bloemfontein police: tipped off about murder-plot against Afrikaner businessman Jaco van der Walt, 39, and his family: 4 arrests
Farm attack thwarted by Bloemfontein police: discovered murder-plot against businessman Jaco van der Walt 39
-- former worker from Botshabelo - who allegedly the instigated murder-plot against businessman Jaco van der Walt, 39 with 3 other men, was also arrested:
Bloemfontein businessman Jaco van der Walt, 39, and family attacked on their weekend-farm 10km outside town: 'They came to murder us', he said.
10 May 2016 Several hours before the attack, the four black gunmen were arrested on Tuesday, 10 May at 16h00, armed with a firearm, machetes, ropes and with balaclavas in their possession. A former worker of the farm-attack was the 'masterbrain behind the attack'.
Van der Walt told Maroela Media, the online publication of the civil rights group Afriforum, that his farm is not located in the Jagersfontein district as was claimed in the earlier police report. It is located some 10km outside Bloemfontein and our family uses it as a peaceful retreat where they live with
their two children while he works in town, running his business.
'We don't farm there at all, we just live there for the peace and quiet..' he told the publication. "Ironically I was always under the impression that a farm attack 'would never happen to me because I did not run a fullscale farming operation with a large group of workers who move in and out from the farm. Little did I know...
One of the four suspects and his wife lived for three years on the farm and worked for the family.
The 33-year-old man helped Van der Walt with the general maintenance on the farm and his wife worked as a maid for Mrs van der Walt - the maid's mother had in turn also worked for the Van der Walt family until her retirement.
"We totally trusted this family. We paid for their son's school-fees, we helped the man in buying a car, and we were always good to them. I trusted them completely.
He walked in and out of our house to fetch cleaning materials or to fix things. Our dogs knew him and were at ease with him. You would never think he was capable of such a thing.
It apparently even bothered him when one of the animals on the farm was injured. I am telling you now: never trust anyone.'
Van der Walt said his business suffered a financial setback earlier in the year after he lost a major client and was forced to lay off a large number of people.
He also reduced his own salary - meaning that he could not afford to keep the couple as workers any more.
"We followed all the legal procedures, including paying them four months' worth of salaries, seeing to it that they could apply for Unemployment Insurance and so on.
He didn't seem angered, but his wife was. I suspect she was the inciter.'
The worker and his wife left the Van der walt farm at the end of April and moved to a house in Botshabelo which Mr Van der Walt had built earlier for the maid's mother so that she could retire there.
After their move to Botshabelo, the Van der walt family didn't hear from the family again.
Van der Walt said that he, his daughter and wife were at the homestead on Tuesday-afternoon when a large number of police cars suddenly drove into their erf, armed members of the tactical reaction unit and the Falcons who jumped out and warned the family to go inside the house because the police had surrounded a store about 20metres away.
The police told them that there was 'an ongoing farm attack'. The family could hear stun-grenades going off in the store and then the police arrested three black suspect and the Van der Walt family's trusted previous worker.
"It was only at that point that I was told that all four men had been sitting inside that store since Monday-morning and were very likely watching us the entire time. Their plan was to strike on Tuesday-night. The former worker undoubtedly was there to come and kill me.
He convinced the three others to work with him by telling them that there was a safe full of cash and valuable solar-panels at the house. The other three men were totally unknown to me.;
"Do you know what it feels like to stand there and be shown the firearm, fully loaded, knowing that it was meant for you. I stood right in front of them and looked into their eyes. I simply could not believe it'.
The family was not injured and Van der Walt was deeply grateful for that - but they were badly traumatised and now fear for their safety. The family has now made arrangements for added security measures and the members also are more alert than before to possible dangers'.
One of the police officers told me how very pleased they were that they could arrest the four suspects 'before they could do anything, that usually the police don't get many chances to capture them and usually just come across blood-baths.'
The four suspects - who were not identified by name - appeared on remand in the Bloemfontein magistrate's court. They are expected to appear again on Friday to apply for bail, when their names can be published'.
http://maroelamedia.co.za/nuus/sa-nuus/plaasaanval-gefnuik-hy-het-gekom-om-my-dood-te-maak/
Boer goat farming in South Africa:
South Africa is the acknowledged cradle of Boer Goats throughout the world
The Boer Goat, as a South African land race, has been phenomenally successful as a registered small stock breed. Thanks to dedicated producers here in its home country who have rigorously applied selective breeding practices over almost a century, the Boer Goat is now found in almost every country across the world. It is here in South Africa where the very best genetics in the world are sourced and where breed standards are determined.
On 14 June 2014, it was reported that livestock farmers were 'Under serious pressure as stock prices languish in the doldrums.
The impact of the longest strike in the South Africa’s mining history is significant on the economy as a whole. The recently booming town of Rustenburg – centre of the country’s platinum industry – has become a virtual ghost town overnight as an estimated ZAR6 billion worth of wages and salaries have been forfeited by striking miners. Many of these miners support families back home. The lack of funds being remitted to rural families has dealt the buying power of South Africa a sensitive blow.
With many sub-contracting businesses shutting down or significantly reducing services to the mines, even more people are finding themselves between a rock and a hard place as they struggle to make ends meet with no income. Churches are providing food and other assistance to affected parties while excluding strikers from aid.
The knock-on affect of the strike and associated economic woes caused by an incompetent government, are pushing South Africa to the brink of a serious recession. The exchange rate has turned against the country and input costs for farmers are spiraling out of control. Lower producer prices, ever increasing input costs, a draconian tax burden imposed by a government under pressure to supply socialistic services to ever increasing masses by a diminishing tax payer base, crumbling infrastructure and waning services do not bode well for the economy as a whole.
Farmers, being price takers, are under serious threat as they battle to deal with threats to private ownership of their farms on top of their economic woes."
https://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/4382
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