Johannes van den Bosch

Johannes van den Bosch (1946 - 2009)

Brief overview:

Johannes (63), was bludgeoned to death at the milk shed at 4am where he’d gone as usual to milk his 30 cows. He always milked his 30-odd Fresian dairy cows himself and only had one employee to help him around the agricultural smallholding.

His wife Jacobi van den Bosch (60), who was inside the homestead, was first hit over the head, and then stabbed repeatedly while she was unconscious, police said. Both Dutch immigrants died on the scene.

Police described the crime scene as ‘extremely bloody’.

The police said the only items missing were two cellphones and a pocket knife belonging to Mr Van den Bosch – and said they could not establish a motive, because ‘a considerable amount of cash, weapons and expensive jewellery’ were left behind in the homestead, untouched.

One of their sons, who lives in a farm house next to his parents’ on the same smallholding where he farms with breadfruit trees, cattle feed and pigs, discovered their bodies on Good Friday.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
  • The couple had twelve children – three children live in The Netherlands with 3 grandchildren, and 24 grandchildren live in South Africa in the greater Pretoria/Randburg/Krugersdorp region
• Funeral/Memorial:
  • The funeral service took place on Friday April 17 from 11am at the Gereformeerde Kerk at Wapadrand. The burial at the Pretoria North cemetery.
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack:
  • 04h00, Friday, April 10 2009.
• Weapons:
  • Knife, heavy blunt object.
• Items Stolen: Two cellphones and a pocket knife.
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
  • Police Spokesman Johannes Jaftha
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions: Four males
• Arrests:
  • Four men who were taken in for questioning a day after the murder, but could not be linked to the murders and were released. Police spokesman Johannes Jaftha said these men were arrested for questioning about an another, unrelated attempted murder charge and were found with a knife in their possession ‘which could have been linked to the Vd Bosch murders’. However after questioning, police said the men were released.
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Akhona Inocent Gini (25), stands up two charges of murder and a charge of aggravated robbery. Gini, who used to be employed by Johan van den Bosch and his wife, Cobi, on their smallholding in Mooiplaats, was arrested at his home in a squatter camp outside Witbank.
  • One of the couple's two mobile phones that were stolen, led the police went to Gini's house. This mobile phone was found in his possession. Gini then made a confession.
  • Magistrate Petro Engelbrecht has his case adjourned for a week for further investigation and so he can get legal help

Additional Biographical Information:

Johannes van den Berg and his wife Jacobi (Cobi) were a Dutch dairy farmering couple who arrived in South Africa in 1982 from Oukoop, in the Netherlands. They had then worked at Noordhoekin Brabant province before emigrating to South Africa to farm.

Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.ph/Hk8yj
• https://archive.ph/09HLu
• https://archive.ph/6m0OX
• https://www.yumpu.com/nl/document/read/4451339/laai-af-die-lys-van-...
• http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/04/2009-04-09-van-de...
• http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/04/murdered-dutch-fa...
• https://archive.ph/6Hvmp

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• Reference: Online Familieberichten - Dutch Death Notices - SmartCopy: Jul 16 2019, 15:39:07 UTC