Robert Gardner Meek

Rob Meek (1952 - 2014)

Brief overview:

Rob (62), an Urban Designer and Architect, and top sailor, was gunned down on 1st January 2014, at their Port St John's holiday home, in front of his family. They had finished dinner and celebrating the New Year, and posing for photographs, when just before midnight three armed males wearing balaclavas ambushed them.

Rob shouted to the group that they had guns. The family all lay flat, and Rob's wife, Di (59), said she hear a gun go off. One of the perpetrators had shot Rob in the groin. They tied a tourniquet and managed to get Rob a nearby TB mission hospital, where two doctors tried to save Rob for two hours. Their two daughters also tried to resuscitate him and kept pumping him with oxygen.

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
  • A home-made shotgun.
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
  • Four suspects - Siyavuya Madikizela (18), Sifiso Major Mnyandu (20), Jongile Mcoloswane (21), and Ncebu Zobhula (20) were arrested on May 24 2014, in a village close to where the murder took place.They were charged with murder, attempted robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition.
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction
  • Judge Robert Griffiths from the Mthatha High Court, sitting in Port St Johns, sentenced Madikizela, Mnyandu, Mcologwane, and Zobhula, 23 to jail after they were convicted on charges of murder, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition. Madikizela, who pulled the trigger of the home-made firearm that killed Meek, was sentenced to 24 years for murder, while Mnyandu, Mcologwane and Zobhula were each sentenced to 22 years for the same charge, four years suspended for five years. All were sentenced to 10 years for attempted robbery and two years for possession of a firearm and ammunition. Griffiths ordered that the sentences run concurrently with the sentence for murder, which means Madikizela will effectively serve 20 years while the rest will serve 18 years. Meek’s family were present during sentencing.

Additional Biographical Information:

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.is/cMwJ1
• http://archive.is/84Q2k
• http://archive.is/1MdXt
• http://archive.is/K3Sjh
• https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20140110/281496...
• http://archive.md/fm77H
• http://archive.vn/VTN8Y

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