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Mandela's passing and the looming threat of a race war against South Africa's whites.
As a widow mourns the latest murdered Afrikaner farmer, a chilling dispatch from a nation holding its breath.
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- Roelof du Plessis, 46 shot on his farm outside Pretoria by gang of black intruders
- Fears rise that killings are part of a systematic bid to drive white people out of South Africa
- President Jacob Zuma known to sing 'struggle song' about killing white Afrikaners
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 The horror started just before midnight on Wednesday this week. After listening to the latest television news about the health of Nelson Mandela, a South African family living not far from the former President’s hospital unit turned in for the night. But Roelof and Laura du Plessis, a married couple with four children who live on a heavily fortified farm outside Pretoria, did not have a peaceful night’s rest. In fact they were about to become the latest victims of what white pressure groups in this troubled nation say is nothing less than a savage war against them. Hearing noises outside their home, Mr du Plessis, 46, got out of bed and ran outside. To his horror, he found his 19-year-old son being held with a gun to his head by a gang of five armed black attackers. Father and son were ordered to lie on the ground. The invaders did not ask for money or the keys to the expensive vehicles in the drive. They were there only to terrorise and kill. Hearing voices outside, Laura, 44, came out of her bedroom to investigate — and her torch illuminated an awful scene as the gang pointed guns at her husband. Her son managed to get up and sprint off into the darkness when the men were confused by the flashlight. But Du Plessis was not so lucky. The intruders opened fire at once, shooting him six times through the throat, lungs and abdomen. As he writhed on the ground in agony, the men ran off into the night leaving empty bullet cartridges littering the yard. In the darkness, Laura attempted heart massage on her husband, who could still talk despite his appalling injuries, but to no avail. - (Black-on-white)
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Last month alone there were 25 murders of white landowners, and more than 100 attacks, while Afrikaner protest groups claim that more than 4,000 have been killed since Mandela came to power — twice as many as the number of policemen who have died. It is not just the death toll, but the extreme violence that is often brought to bear, that causes the greatest fear in the white community. Documented cases of farm killings make for gruesome reading, with children murdered along with their parents, one family suffocated with plastic bags and countless brutal rapes of elderly women and young children. These horrors have prompted Genocide Watch — a respected American organisation which monitors violence around the world — to claim that the murders of ‘Afrikaner farmers and other whites is organised by racist communists determined to drive whites out of South Africa, nationalise farms and mines, and bring on all the horrors of a communist state’.
‘You don’t attack farms and rape 80-year-old women with broken bottles and kill their husbands for a mobile phone. People say it’s not genocide — but it is.’
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Charges filed in Belleville black-on-white 'mistaken identity' murder case
 A 36-year-old man was charged Monday with first-degree murder in connection with the weekend shooting death of a Belleville man, who police said was not the intended target. Dashon P. Hinkle, was charged with first-degree murder. Hinkle is accused of shooting John D. Fath Sr., 53, at 11 p.m. Saturday at Fath's home. Fath was shot as he opened his front door. Police said Fath was not the intended target. "Dashon Hinkle is associated with the victim's son, and that's the reason he was at the victim's house, to pay him (the son) a visit." The victim's son, John D. Fath Jr., has a long court record including convictions for retail theft, criminal trespass to a residence, theft, resisting arrest, obstructing justice, drug charges and several traffic and misdemeanor convictions. Hinkle also has a lengthy record including convictions for battery, aggravated assault, aggravated battery of a child, criminal trespass, criminal damage to property, weapons convictions and several traffic and misdemeanor charges and convictions. - (Black-on-white) |
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Murder trial in case of White woman raped and murdered by black and left in burning car - Last Modified: Sunday, March 3, 2013
 Nearly five years after the body of Valerie Ann Burns was found in the trunk of her burning car Carl Henry Alston is going on trial for her killing. The convicted felon faces the death penalty in the kidnapping, rape and killing of Burns, a 49-year-old mother of two from Leland who was last seen alive July 29, 2008, in Wilmington. Firefighters found Burns' remains in the trunk of her car July 30, 2008, off Goodland Road near Leland, some 10 miles from Burns' Bluff Drive home where she lived alone. An autopsy revealed she died from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of the smoke generated by the fire. On Sept. 4, 2008, he was arrested and charged with her murder. N.C. Department of Correction records indicate he was released from prison June 22, 2008, just a little more than four weeks before Burns' death. He was serving time for possession of drugs. Alston also has served time in prison or received probation for charges that include assault on a female, vehicle burglary, larceny, possessing stolen goods, driving while license revoked, selling schedule II drugs and receiving stolen goods. - (Black-on-white) (missed this one - ed.) |
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