Annelise Greyvenstein

Annelise Greyvenstein (1957 -2010)

Brief overview:

Annelise (53), and husband Johan Greyvenstein (54) mining-contractors, lived on a smallholding 10 kilometres outside Musina, Limpopo. They were both executed in their pick-up truck, Johan Greyvenstein was shot behind his left ear. Shopping bags filled with groceries still were next to them and they had been covered up by a canvas. The decomposed bodies of the two were found locked in their car, under the railway line bridge, near Kamukos farm by a passer-by who alerted the police.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

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
• Arrests
  • Hawks spokesperson Captain Matimba Maluleke said investigations led the team to the suspect’s, home country where he was arrested and extradited to South Africa with the assistance of Interpol. During the arrest, the police recovered goods which were stolen during the farm attack and the firearm which was used to commit the crime.
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
  • Gibson Banda (38)
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Banda, employed as a farm worker at 16 Castle farm, was sentenced seven years after the murders.
  • Banda appeared several times in the Thohoyandou High Court and Pretoria High Court respectively during his trial, until he was convicted and sentenced two life sentences on 2/5/2017.
  • Count 1 Murder - life imprisonment
  • Count 2 Murder - life imprisonment
  • Count 3 Robbery with Aggravating Circumstances - 15 years imprisonment
  • Count 4 Unlawful Possession of a Firearm - 3 years imprisonment
  • Count 5 Unlawful Possession of Ammunition - 3 years imprisonment.

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• https://reviewonline.co.za/206505/musina-farm-murderer-handed-doubl...
• http://archive.is/ER94E
• http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus-Daar-was-baie-baie-bloed-2010...
• http://archive.fo/cy9Cp
• http://archive.fo/DUwPM
• http://archive.fo/wFqG7
• http://archive.fo/jamui
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000188437820898
• https://archive.is/KaTTx