Fred Jorgenson

Fred Jorgenson (1949 – 2011)

Brief overview:

Mr Jorgenson (62) was murdered on his farm Louisiana No. 40: stabbed to death with four knife-wounds.

The number of attackers totalled TEN of whom SIX were arrested and charged: all were black South African males. They also badly attacked his wife Tokkie. She survived her ordeal.

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:
  • Case number is 55/2011/ Port Shepstone 3 November 2011.
• 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
  • The trial was due to start on 3 May 2012 in KwaZulu Natal.

Additional Biographical Information:

Mr Jorgenson's Norwegian Lutheran forebears settled in South Africa in an organised migration of European protestants from 1882 - who landed in then-Port Natal and were given land-parcels by the British authorities of that time - when the Boers had also been running their independent Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

Links to Media articles:

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