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About Jacques Oosthuizen
Jacques Oosthuizen (1978 - 2013)
Brief overview:
Jacques (35), was stabbed five times and shot in this abdomen, in Braeside Road, Waterfall, Kloof around 20h00, on 8th April 2013, when three attackers invaded his home.
EMS transported him to Hillcrest Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries three days later. He never came out of his coma. Jacques had suffered severe internal injuries - damage to his lungs, spleen, stomach, liver, kidney and pancreas. His wife Samantha, daughter Claudia, and son Storm, were also at home during the robbery.
The robbers spent about 45 minutes in the home and then loaded stolen items including clothing, groceries, linen and a kitchen clock, into the family’s GWM bakkie and fled, which was later recovered with some of the stolen items in it in Hillcrest.
Police arrested the suspects less than 24 hours after the attack, in New Germany, near Pinetown, one of the suspects was still at large - Dumisani Mbatha. Police arrested Simphiwe Sosibo and Mvuseni Mchunu who went on trial in the Durban High Court for murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and housebreaking.
Charges against Mbatha were later withdrawn because of insufficient evidence. In a further twist - a man called Rod Bosch realised that the suspect was the same man who had been acquitted 11 years ago of murdering his brother Greg, after a confrontation in Krantzkloof Nature Reserve after a burglary incident.
The man believed to be the alleged shooter in the killing of Jacques Oosthuizen had been on early parole on a separate armed robbery matter.
To date police have arrested three people - all parolees who had been previously convicted for serious crimes - for Oosthuizen’s murder. A fourth person is still on the run. Bosch said he felt a cold shiver when he read in the Daily News that the convicted armed robber had been arrested in KwaMashu. He said the suspect was first arrested in 2002 for Greg’s murder after bragging in a taxi that he had killed a white man.
The man was acquitted of murder in the Durban High Court after pleading self defence, but convicted and sentenced to three years for possession of a stolen firearm, Bosch said. “However, a day later, he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in another armed robbery matter,” Bosch said.
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- The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
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- Torture, Gratuitous violence
- Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.
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Jacques Oosthuizen's Timeline
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1978
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| 2013 |
April 14, 2013
Age 35
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Braeside Road, Kloof, Durban Metro, KZN, 3610, South Africa
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