Johan Willem Odendaal

Willem Odendaal (1947 - 1989)

Brief overview:

Willem (42), from the Ixopo, Richmond area, and his wife J Jones (recorded as 'J'), were murdered in September 1989.

Extract from the Human Rights Violation Hearings - 25/10/1996 in Durban - Marie Odendaal Magwaza

"My name is Marie Odendaal Magwaza, I am a South African citizen, born on the 4th of April 1951. And I married a fellow South African, Humphrey Pagado Pax Magwaza in March 1990. We have three children: Delane, who is 15, he is my husband's first child; Maboya is 10; and Nsikilelo is 6. My parents were Johan Frederick Odendaal, born in 1913 and Dorothy Lorraine Odendaal, and they are cousins, born in 1920. My parents married in 1945, across a social divide between Afrikaans and English speaking white South Africans. And my father was a policeman in the South African Police Force and my mother a teacher. My father also served several terms as an elder of the Dutch Reformed Church in Richmond, so we grew up in a home where we spoke mostly Afrikaans, although us children went to school in the English medium of the Richmond Primary School. I am the third of four children. I have two older brothers: Willem, who was murdered in 1989; and Pieter; and a younger sister, Francis."

"Four months later, on July 7th, 1990, my parents were murdered on their farm at Hella Hella. I was visiting Pax' family in Lamontville when I received a phone call from my landlady. I can remember very clearly that that was a lovely sunny winter's day, and in the morning I had thought it was a beautiful day, I wish I could visit my parents on the farm, but I knew that I couldn't do that, especially not being pregnant. And I remember we talked about my parents in the car going down to Durban. So, the next day a friend drove me to the farm and I saw the bloodstains in the road and on the farm house floor where my parents had been battered to death. I also saw my sister and my second brother, Piet, for the first time since Willem's funeral."

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

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• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

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• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

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Links to Media articles:

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• https://archive.is/9ury0
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Aug 13 2020, 10:49:10 UTC
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