Lynette Marlene Oosthuizen

Lynette Oosthuizen (1944 – 2007)

Brief overview:

Lynette (63), who lived alone on a Boston, KwaZulu-Natal farm, was strangled to death by two attackers, on 23rd August 2007. She was made to hand over her money, a gun, jewellery, her bakkie keys and other items. After killing her they put her body into her truck, drove to Bulwer and threw her body over a cliff.

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:
• 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
  • Deputy Judge Phillip Levinsohn sentenced the killers, Khetani Nzimande (26), and Sibusiso Sokhela (32), to life imprisonment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

Additional Biographical Information:

• Official cause of death : severe head injury
• Lynette married Johann Herman on 25/07/1974

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/4gPnw
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000194588268839
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000194588278835