Jacqueline Ivy Chatterton

Jacqueline Chatterton (1959 - 2005)

Brief overview:

Jacqueline (46), was stabbed to death in her home in Boston Smallholdings, KZN, on 31st October 2005. Judge Tshabalala described her murder as "the most savage and brutal killing one can think of".

He said an aggravating feature of the case was its racial connotation and that farm killings gave South Africa a bad name. "When I was in New Zealand I saw a television clip showing farm killings in the Richmond area. White people in New Zealand think that the people in South Africa are brutal people who kill farmers. "This is bad for the country and the economy. The farmers are there to produce the food we eat and rear cattle for meat... if they are killed this brings down the economy."

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
  • Boston Farm, Mantshonga
• 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 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”."
    • http://archive.fo/oos7b
  • 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
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Judge President Vuka Tshabalala sentenced the second of her killers Thuthukani Miya (22) of Donnybrook, to life imprisonment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
  • Tshabalala said Miya's accomplice - David Ndlovu, who was jailed for life after pleading guilty in another trial last week - was "lucky" not to have been killed by those who arrested him in Chatterton's house immediately after the stabbing.
  • Chatterton's husband, James, who had given emotional testimony earlier in the trial describing his fruitless race to get his severely injured wife to hospital, did not attend the sentencing. Her parents and sister had also felt unable to attend the trial.

Additional Biographical Information:

• Official cause of death : multiple stab wounds

Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.is/oF02r
• https://archive.is/brUqS
• https://web.archive.org/web/20111016112123/http://www.iol.co.za/new...
• http://archive.fo/bcTe0
• http://archive.fo/FMy6z
• http://archive.fo/f9eHd
• http://archive.fo/W4Bqn
• http://archive.fo/cABjn
• http://archive.fo/oFKCc
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000188248638821
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 22 2022, 16:45:30 UTC