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About Andrew Roy Main
Andrew 'Andy' Roy Main (1955 - 2008)
Brief overview:
Andrew (53), a vegetable farmer, was shot down in a hail of bullets with an AK47 machine gun on his farm Gilmore in Cramond. On 23rd September 2007,
This left his 54 employees jobless said Pietermaritzburg Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner when passing sentences to Andrew's killers. Niles-Duner said it was not realised how many people were left without support when farmers were murdered. Ordinary people suffered and the damage to the economy was immense. Main's farm stood fallow for at least six months during which time most of his former workers could not find jobs.
The workers toyi-toyed at the New Hanover Magistrate's Court when Main's killers made their first appearance.
Brief Biography:
- Other Victims/Family
- Funeral/Memorial
- The Farm/Smallholding
- The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
- 20/06/2011: "The local farming community has nothing but high praise for the sterling work being done by a group of dedicated policemen attached to Pietermaritzburg’s Organised Crime Unit under the command of Colonel Piet Scott, who lay claim to a near 100 percent success rate in solving farm murders in the KZN Midlands since 2003.
- Of the nineteen Midlands farm murder cases handled by the team dating back to the murder of Shaun Clark in Camperdown (2003), only one, arising from the murder of Philip Rudolph Buys in Weenen in September 2003, is classed as “unsolved”. The unit arrested a total of 50 culprits in connection with the eighteen “solved” cases with 24 of the killers sentenced to life imprisonment and others receiving sentences ranging from an effective 30 years imprisonment to 18 years imprisonment.
- The midlands farm murder cases that have been solved by the team include the murders of: Shaun Clark of Camperdown (2003); Johannes Willem Bruwer (Camperdown, 2003); Parvathie Surapen (Thornville, 2003); Charles Hyett Shepherd (Bergville, 2003); Nora Joyce Gevers (Wartburg, 2004); David Boyd Varty (Rietvlei, 2005); Trevor Anthony Weightman Trevor Weightman (Winterton, 2005); Jacqueline Ivy Chatterton (Boston, 2005); Ezra Arieh Podolski (Eric) (Cramond, 2006); Andrew Roy Main (Cramond, 2007); David Merwyn Green (Estcourt, 2007); Alan Rowe (Rietvlei, 2009); Erasmus Mncube Erasmus Mncube (and attack on his employers, Collin and Nola Barrett at Nottingham Road in 2009); Dr. Warwick Anthony Dorning (Mpophomeni, 2009); Lynette Ralfe (Colenso, 2010); Lorraine Karg , Hilda Linyane, Zakeue Shayi Mhlongo (Mooi River, 2010) and Radash Anandlal (Cramond, 2010)
- Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joey Jeevan, said the management of the SAPF commends Colonel Scott and the unit for their “sterling investigation and their dedication to duty”."
- 71 farm murders in Colenso, Winterton rural areas between 2001 and 2011, Since 2001 there have been 17 Farmers and around 54 staff / community members murdered on 83 farms in Winterton, Colenso and surrounding areas.
Attack Details:
- Date and time of attack
- Weapons
- Items Stolen
- Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
- Torture, Gratuitous violence
- Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.
Perpetrator details:
- Number and Descriptions
- Three black men
- Arrests
- Zamo Jali and Mxolizi Jali were arrested. The other perpetrator, Lucky Ntombela, was shot dead when resisting arrest
- Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
- Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
- Trial/Conviction
- Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner told Main's murderer, Zamo Jali (38), of Cramond, that farmer murders were a scourge, perpetrated by thugs such as he, motivated by greed and to obtain guns to commit more crimes.
- Zamo Jali and his co-perpetrator, Mxolizi Jali, were sentenced to 24 years imprisonment. Nile-Duner said they should not be considered for parole for 25 years. Jali also got 20 years' jail for aggravated robbery, and two sentences of six years each for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
Additional Biographical Information:
- Official cause of death : Unnatural
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Andrew Roy Main's Timeline
| 1954 |
February 19, 1954
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| 2007 |
September 23, 2007
Age 53
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Farm Gilmore, Pietermaritzburg, Indlovu DC, KZN, South Africa
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