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Eldercide: Elderly Homicide Victims

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Profiles

  • Robert Stoltz (1947 - 2025)
    Robert Stoltz (1947 – 2025) Brief overview: Robert (78), who lived alone on Stoffkraal Farm, Harteles, in the Roossenekal area, was found murdered on Thursday 1st May 2025. It appears he had been repea...
  • Fran Carter (1955 - 2020)
    Fran Carter (1955 – 2020) Brief overview: Fran (65), was murdered in her home in Marina da Gama, Cape Town on 17th October 2020. She had sustained knife wounds to her head and back, and found on the ki...
  • David Netshilaphala (1963 - 2025)
    David Netshilaphala (1963 – 2025) Brief overview: David (62), a farmer from Xikundu in Limpopo, was reported missing on 29th February 2025. He went to his cattle kraal on February 27th to make sure eve...
  • Jack Melvin (1939 - 2007)
    Jack Melvin (1939 – 2007) Brief overview: Jack (67), a pensioner living in Pietermaritzburg, was found stabbed and strangled to death at his home on Wednesday 7th March 2007. He was found in the lounge...
  • Mike Black (1958 - 2025)
    Mike Black (1958 – 2025) Brief overview: Mike (67), was shot dead at his home in Hendrik Street, Oberholzer, Carletonville just before 15:00 on 12th March 2025. "According to the police in Carletonvi...

Eldercide is defined as homicide in the age group ≥ 60 years.

Eldercide, the death of a person aged >60 years due to intentional injuries inflicted by another person, is an understudied public health and social problem.

The global average Eldercide rate is 4.5/100 000. Some countries have a far higher rate, for example South Africa's rate is 25.2/100 000 for people aged >60 years, compared with SA homicide rates of 56.7 per 100 000 for young adults aged 15 - 29 years and 58.7 per 100 000 for adults aged 30 - 44 years.


Aim and Scope

This project is intended to record as many victims of Eldercide as possible, and link them to our Geni tree. This project may end up as a Master Project Index, but in the interim all countries can be added here.

How to Participate

Add the names of victims with their age and date of death (Or PM/email Donovan Penaluna: donno(at)axxess.co.za). If the person is on Geni please add the link to their profile, and make this a bold entry. If the person is not on Geni but has an external source, add a link to an external source but do not make the link bold. This will help us to see who still needs to be added/found on Geni.

South Africa