Wynand Roelof Cornelis du Plessis

Wynand Roelof Cornelis du Plessis (1952 - 2014)

Brief overview:

Wynand (62), was tied up and brutally beaten and tortured at his home, Pretoria Road, Benoni, by an unknown number of perpetrators, on 4th March 2014. He was found by his son Wynand Jnr. He sustained a fractured skull, bleeding and swelling of the brain, and organ damage, as well as the loss of function to his right arm. After the attack he was never able to talk again. He died in hospital three weeks later, on 25th March, due to his injuries.

Speaking of her father’s brutal attack, daughter Ida du Plessis-Pretorius said the family is completely devastated by the murder. “I can’t put words to it; the kind of people who did it tried to make him suffer and I don’t think they were just petty criminals,” she said. “When I went to see him in hospital his head was bruised and swollen to twice its size,” she said.

Benoni police spokesperson Lieut Nomsa Sekele said du Plessis was found lying unconscious on the floor and bleeding. “He was tied up with a rope; there was blood on the walls and floor in the kitchen and the house had been ransacked,” she added.

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• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

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• Torture, Gratuitous violence
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