Pieter Johannes Pieterse

Pieter Pieterse (1936 - 2002)

Brief overview:

Pieter (65), an award-winning South African author and playwright, was stabbed a total of 28 times at his holiday home at Butterfly Road, in Marloth Park, Mpumalanga, on 17th March 2002. The perpetrators had tied his arms behind his back, with nylon rope, and rendered him completely helpless. His wife Jenny found his decomposing body a few days later.

"Superintendent Izak van Zyl said the results of a post-mortem showed that Pieterse sustained multiple stab wounds to the heart, head and lungs. The wounds were inflicted by a sharp object."

"Mrs Pieterse arrived at the couple's home around noon after visiting her family over the past week. She found the decomposed body of her husband outside their house near a swimming pool," Captain Amelia Smith said.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
  • Pieter's memorial service was held in Pretoria North on the morning of Monday April 1st. 2002
• The Street/Suburb
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
  • The perpetrators stole a firearm, television set, video recorder, and a cellphone.
• 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
  • At the end of August 2003, three of the accused - Ndukwana Makamo, Philemon Malinga and Kenneth Mhlongo, were convicted by Judge Johan Els, at the Graskop High Court, and will spend at least 40 years behind bars before they can apply for parole.

Additional Biographical Information:

Pieter Pieterse, the prolific Afrikaans author as well as radio and television script writer is dead at 66.
He was apparently murdered at his home in Marloth Park, Komatipoort.

Pieterse grew up on a farm in the broiling Bushveld near Messina.

He published his first short story at the age of 20 in 1956.

After that he published more than 30 novels. Fourteen were translated into English and one into French.

His publisher, Human & Rousseau, said he was one of the few South African authors to make a living off his writing with more than 500 000 copies of his work in circulation. His short stories are contained in a further half-a-million compilations also still in the public domain.

Before settling at Marloth Park, a rural housing development where lions and other game freely move between homesteads, Pieterse and his wife, Jenny, spent at least 25 years meandering around southern Africa in their caravan, nicknamed the Spookhuis (ghost house).

Sojourns included the Lowveld - where they finally settled - Dasseneiland, Mozambique, the Kavango, the Skeleton Coast and the Cape West Coast.

While in the Caprivi with the Spookhuis, the couple became part of the Mafwe tribe.

Jenny found his decomposed body near the caravan on Thursday afternoon.

His arms were tied behind his back with a length of nylon rope.

An overturned table and a lap-top computer, still said to be switched on, lay nearby.

It appeared to police he may have been working when overwhelmed by unidentified attackers.

Several household items and a cellphone were stolen, detectives said.

Pieterse was also famous on television - both behind and in front of the cameras.

Other than his appearances, often with the late Tolla van der Merwe, on Maak 'n Las, he presented a number of nature and cooking programmes.

Behind the cameras he wrote the script for Elmo de Witt's "Kom tot rus" (1977) and "Mooimeisiesfontein" (1978).

A more recent script was for Zack du Plessis' "Bosveldhotel, die moevie" (1985), the sequel to a long-running television series of the same name.

Another television series that bore his name was the thriller, "Roep van die visarend" in 1981.

He also wrote a number of scripts for radio and published columns and occasional articles in a slew of magazines and newspapers over a 30-year period.

His last published book was "Om 'n kierie te keer" in 1997.

Pieterse won numerous awards for his work in print and on TV.

• From: https://archive.ph/pO670

Links to Media articles:

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• http://archive.is/7AMKA
• http://archive.vn/HlY8G
• http://archive.fo/y6hqT
• http://archive.is/kIa1C
• http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Pieter-Pieterse-vermoor-2002...
• https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Pieterse Bekende TV-persoonlikheid: bobaas-storieverteller en kosmaker. Vermoor in Marlothpark naby Komatipoort.
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000194748385830

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