Eunice du Plessis

Eunice du Plessis (1941 - 1999)

Brief overview:

Eunice (57), wife of farmer, Jacobus Johannes du Plessis (62), were both shot, execution style, on their farm Brooklands, in Kinkelbos, Eastern Cape on 26th 1999.

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
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information:

Extract, and details of the attack from the Committee of Inquiry into farm attacks Report, released June 2003. (Page 101)

"Du Plessis: 1999-12-26 Johannes du Plessis (aged 62) and his wife Eunice (58) lived on the farm Brooklands, Kinkelbos, near Port Elizabeth. The morning of Friday, 26 November 1999, at about 11:00 Mr. du Plessis and his grandson, Armand (9), were busy at an outside building washing a pick-up truck when they were confronted by two unknown males. One of the men produced a firearm and shot Du Plessis in the head before proceeding to the house. The domestic worker, Phumia Synthia Yozo (34), grabbed the grandson, Armand, and went to hide in a nearby bush.

Eunice du Plessis, who was busy in the kitchen at the time, fled to the main bedroom but she was followed by the attackers and shot once in the head. The suspects took a television set out of the bedroom. Once outside they found Yozo and Armand in the bushes. They forced them onto the truck and drove off with them. Approximately one kilometer from the farmhouse they instructed Yozo and Armand to climb off and they drove further in the direction of the national road. Yozo and Armand walked to the farmhouse from where they summoned the police. The bakkie was later recovered in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth. No one has been arrested for the crimes and no further progress has been made with the investigation.

Comments: The case is noteworthy for the cold-blooded and unnecessary killing of the Du Plessis couple. It is doubtful whether the attackers were concerned that they might be identified, since they allowed the employee Synthia Yozo and the grandson to go free. There is nevertheless no indication that there was any motive other than robbery. It is one of the relatively few cases in the Eastern Cape where the culprits have never been found."

• ID Number : 4208260051086
• Official cause of death : Unnatural causes

Links to Media articles:

• https://africacheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Final-Report-Com...
• https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/read/4451339/laai-af-die-lys-van-...
• https://archive.is/KaTTx
• https://graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=666232