About Erasmus Mncube
Erasmus Mncube ( - 2009)
Brief overview:
Erasmus was shot dead on September 16th 2009 at the Barrett"s smallholding, God's Grave Farm in Nottingham Road, KZN. He sustained a gunshot wound to the head. The robbers opened the farm safe and took two firearms, cash and credit cards, as well as cellphones.
Two of his employers, Collin and Nola Barrett, were assaulted, but survived the attack.
The state, at the time, alleged the assailants were helped by the Barrett’s gardener, Erasmus Mncube, but that he was shot dead by one of the gang in anger when the robbers did not find money. Nola and Collin Barrett told Judge Leona Theron and two assessors they last saw Mncube alive when he was dragged past the bathroom where they had been put, bound hand and foot with shoe laces, by the assailants.
Brief Biography:
- Other Victims/Family
- Funeral/Memorial
- The Farm/Smallholding
- God's Grave Farm
- 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 Graham 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
- Arrests
- Three people were arrested for the murder of a farm worker in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, police said. Inspector Joey Jeevan said the men were arrested on Saturday and Sunday after intensive investigations by the Organised Crime Unit. During the arrests, a 9mm firearm was confiscated, which police believe may have been the murder weapon, as well as cellular phones and foreign currency that was stolen during the attack," said Jeevan.
- Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
- Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
- Trial/Conviction
- The trio aged between 27 and 30 are due to appear in the Howick Magistrate's Court.
- Mnqobi Zondi (26) and Gcina Mthalane (27), of Elandskop, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
- The third accused in the trial, Zakhele Ntamo (30) pleaded guilty before another judge to robbery with aggravating circumstances and possession of a firearm and ammunition arising from the attack on the Barretts. Ntamo will be sentenced on Monday.
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Erasmus Mncube's Timeline
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September 16, 2009
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God's Grave Farm, Nottingham Road, Indlovu DC, KZN, South Africa
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