Catharina Wilhelmina Jacoba Venter

Wilma Venter (1956 - 2007)

Brief overview:

Wilma (51), was shot in her face as she tried to flee, during the July 25 2007 attack by an armed gang against the Dealz family store in the Claremont Park shopping centre, Shoppers were gunned down indiscriminately by the gang. They killed customer Mrs Wilma Venter execution style and then gunned down staffer Petrus Jansen van Rensburg, and also injured the owner’s wife Paulah Oosthuizen, cashier Annetta Koen, Patricia Klaasen and customer Jacquelene Maritz…

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Street/Suburb
• 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
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Witness Charl Pretorius, whose father-in-law owns the Dealz Family Store in the Claremont Park shopping centre testified in the North Gauteng High Court in the May 4 2010 trial of three of the attackers that it was accused Jose George Khoza, 27, of Atteridgeville who shot Wilma Venter in the face. The three defendants include Khoza, Zweli Siyabonga Mkhize, 26, and Musa Gumede, 20 – who have all pleaded not guilty to murdering the two and attempting to murder the 4 injured women. They pleaded not guilty to robbery with aggravating circumstances, attempted robbery and the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Their defence counsel claims that witness Pretorius mistook the identity of Khoza.
  • Pretorius testified that he was keeping a watchful eye over the supermarket outside that evening as it had been robbed before. When he saw two suspicious men with cellphones outside, he went inside to tell his father-in-law about it. He had just entered when one of the men - whom he identified as Khoza - pushed him from behind, pointed a pistol at his face and screamed for him to lie down. He asked Khoza what he was doing, but Khoza again threatened him with the firearm, at which point he kneeled down. Pretorius said an elderly lady with long black hair tried to get away, but Khoza shot her in the head without saying a word. "And then the others just started to shoot. Khoza was also shooting. Everyone was screaming. It happened so fast," Pretorius testified." I saw how they shot someone else from behind... People who had been shot were lying on the floor. There was an enormous amount of blood on the floor."

Additional Biographical Information:

Identity Number: 5601090032087
Cause of Death: UNNATURAL CAUSES DR1311/07

Links to Media articles:

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20120114090540/http://www.news24.com/So...
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000193948713825
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000193948438870