Connie Janneke

Connie Janneke (1947 – 2008)

Brief overview:

Connie (61) was discovered on her bed with her hands and feet tied behind her back, and a towel wrapped tightly around her neck. The perpetrator gained entry to her cottage on the smallholding by breaking a window.

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
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
  • Tumelo Shakes Monakedi (27)
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • In June 2011, Monakedi, of Refilwe a township near Cullinan, east of Pretoria, was convicted in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on charges of housebreaking and murdering Connie.

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/KlLzT
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080125043735/http://www.news24.com/Be...
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000188718871849