Wilmien Potgieter

Wilmien Potgieter (2008 – 2010)

Brief overview:

Wilmien (2), who had not yet celebrated her third birthday, was murdered with her parents Attie Potgieter (40), and Wilna Potgieter (36), on their farm on Wednesday 1st December 2010.

“We killed them. We will be back..’ was the message the killers left behind after the Potgieter massacre.

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
  • The five black males arrested for the massacre of the Potgieter family on Dec 1 2010, are applying for bail on Monday March 13 2010 at Lindley, FS court: they were ltr: Tshololo Tello Mischach Letala (18), Tapa Mopontola Mofokeng (23), Paulus Samson Vusimuzi Khumalo (22), Telleko Sex Seekoei (19) and Stemmer Boy Mofokeng (22). Khumalo and the two Mofokengs work on the Potgieter farm Tweefontein.
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information:

The execution-style murders on Dec 1 of Willemien Potgieter (not yet 3) and her parents on their Free State farm were racially-motivated, South Africa’s very angry deputy-agriculture minister Dr Pieter Mulder said outside the magistrate’s court during the remand-appearance of five of the six suspects yesterday (Monday).

In a rare show of unity, widely-divergent political groups stood side by side outside the courtroom to protest against the cruel massacre of the unarmed Boer family. On hand were Free State Agricultural union members, the AWB leader Steyn van Ronge, cabinet-deputy agriculture minister dr. Mulder, members of the AfriForum youth movement – and members of local ANC WOMEN’S LEAGUE – all protesting together.

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‘The ANC-songs create an atmosphere of hatred…’

A large crowd of peaceful Boer protestors had gathered outside the law court – but the authorities refused to let them inside ‘for security reasons’, reported Beeld newspaper. Mulder said ‘the people are protesting today to show their anger and frustration at the triple-murders, and to show their solidarity with the victims’ family.’ “If a white man had shot dead a black three-year-old child there would have been tens of thousands of hysterical people at this court today screaming ‘racism’. Why is there no reaction to this racist murder of a white family by the ANC?”

Potgiter Wilna and Attie massacred on Lindley FreeState farm by Sotho speakers with small child Willemien 3 “There simply are no words to describe what happened to this family. I have a two-year-old grandchild myself. We try to establish a reason – and it’s noted that the ANC has yet to condemn these murders. These murders were racially-motivated. The songs which are sung by the ANC create an atmosphere of racial hatred. Don’t they understand the meaning of those words ( Shoot the Boer and One Bullet One White Infant ) ? “ he asked.

The ‘youth’ who is suspected of killing the little girl by shooting a bullet through her head, was not in court: he’s going to be tried as a ‘’ minor ‘ because he’s 17 years old.

Dr Mulder wrote on the Face book blog of the Freedom Front plus opposition party: “I am sitting in the Lindley court, 2 metres behind the five accused of shooting dead little Willemien. They are young and know nothing about apartheid. But they are full of one-sided ANC-propaganda…’ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Pieter-Mulder/189359814770

In a rare show of unity, widely-divergent political groups stood side by side outside the courtroom to protest against the cruel massacre of the unarmed Boer family. On hand were Free State Agricultural union members, the AWB leader Steyn van Ronge, cabinet-deputy agriculture minister dr. Mulder, members of the AfriForum youth movement – and members of local ANC WOMEN’S LEAGUE – all protesting together. - in Lindley, Free State.

Links to Media articles:

• https://www.facebook.com/nagedagtenisWillemienPotgieter/
• http://archive.fo/8g76y
• http://archive.fo/166lR
• http://archive.fo/56Wkx
• https://www.afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-reality-...
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120126045502/http://www.beeld.com/Sui...
• https://archive.ph/QNlqh
• https://archive.ph/PzXgN
• https://archive.ph/YdYqH
• https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000097323452893