Mauritz Oberholzer

Mauritz Oberholzer (1946 – 2012)

Brief overview:

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
  • A safe containing two revolvers and a rifle
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
  • 4 armed men
• Arrests
  • 2 arrested
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
  • Samuel Mabena, (28), and Bismack Dick, (27)
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
  • Zimbabwe
• Trial/Conviction
  • They were found guilty of house breaking with intent to rob, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. They were both sentenced to life for the murder and Ramaloko sentences for the other crimes add up to a collective 60 years.

Additional Biographical Information:

Samuel Mabena and two other Zimbabwean men, Paida Fish and Chris Moyo, were earlier this year sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for murdering Corrie Sanders at a lodge near Brits on September 22 2012.

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/jFECi
• http://archive.fo/KlD2l
• http://archive.fo/9YYrH
• http://archive.fo/8aB1z
• http://archive.fo/xNWqV
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121111123929/http://www.beeld.com/Sui...