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“Farm Murders” 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006 2005 April Pieter Swart (49) 01/04/2005 Kameelfontein, Pretoria, GP (shot execution-style) media article Catherine Ferreira (f) 11/04/2005 Pinetown, KZN (tortured to death) Frederick Esterhuizen (48) 12/04/2005 Pinetown, KZN (tortured to death) G Steenkamp (70) 12/04/2005 Bloemfontein, FS J Lourens 16/04/2005 Dundee, KZN Ulrich...
Crime in South Africa is at epidemic proportions, Many who immigrate cite crime as one of the primary reasons for leaving South Africa. IRR crime analyst Kerwin Lebone said: “South Africans live with horrific levels of violent crime. While the murder rate has fallen since 1994, at 31.9 per 100 000 people, it remains one of the highest in the world.” According to Lebone, South Africa’s murde...
“Farm Murders” 1st April 2019 - Present 25 Murders logged in this project to date April William Maluleka (61) 13/04/2019 Bela-Bela, LP (shot below the chin) external link Janus Powell "Boeta" (37) 20/04/2019 Hoopstad/Bloemhof, NW (shot dead) external link [ Male Victim ] (21) 21/04/2019 Noupoort road, Potchefstroom, NW (head wound) external link external link [ Male Victim ] (18) ...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005 2004 April Ben Keyter (79) 01/04/2005 Dresden farm, near Alldays, LP (beaten to death with a spade) media article Cornelius J.P Lourens (Dr) (78) 12/04/2004 farm near Hekpoort, Magaliesburg, GP (multiple murder) [media article] Olive May Lourens (76) 12/04/2004 farm near Hekpoort, Magaliesburg, GP (multiple murder) [media article] Johanne...
Farm Murders in South Africa are a highly politicised issue. Outside of the general concern for homicide in the country, the farm murder rate has been used by many as evidence that South Africa’s white minority is facing victimisation, oppression, and possibly genocide. During a parliamentary debate, the Freedom Front Plus and African Christian Democratic Party quoted farm murder rates of 97 an...
Unnatural death is a category used by coroners or Medical Examiners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Hence it would include events such as: accident Drug Overdose attacked by an animal killed by a mob execution homicide medical error misadventure State-sponsored mass murder
Homicide Please try to start sub projects with the actual cause of death. {note from morel : I am adding a few profiles here, until we establish how we breakdown homicide death. After that, I will move those profiles into their applicable subprojects.} related projects Assassinated (36 profiles) Family killing family Killed by a Mob Lynched Lynchings in Kentucky Killed...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007 2006 April K Fourie (72) 02/04/2006 Melmoth, KZN May J de Ville Roos (40) 06/05/2006 Brits, NW N.J Bezuidenhout (59) 07/05/2006 Excelsior, EC Lipholi 26/05/2006 Greytown, KZN Charlotte van Tonder (68) 30/05/2006 Vrede, FS (killed with sheep shears) (multiple murder) media article Jacobus van Tonder (78) 30/05/2006 Vrede, FS (...
Please add Geni profiles for our drowned ones to this project. Additional demographic data is especially appreciated as added resources. Drowning From Wikipedia Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. It is further classified by outcome into: death , ongoing health problems and no ongoing health problems . Using the term "near drowning" to refer to...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011 SAPS 2010/11 "official" figures: 71 Murders from 665 Attacks 88 Farm Murders logged in this project 2010 April Eugène Terre'Blanche (69) 03/04/2010 Ventersdorp Ernest Hoon (18) 06/04/2010 Leeufontein smallholding, Kameeldrift, GP (shot dead while studying for his exams) media article , media article Gert Pretorius (67) 13/04/201...
“Farm Murders” 1st April 2018 - 31st March 2019 There are 52 Victims remembered in this project (email don(at)diyden.net if you are able to contribute) April Heila Killian (62) 16/04/2018 Stilbaai, Garden Route, WC (shot dead) external link Des Krause (63) 17/04/2018 Summerpride 1, Nkqonkqweni, King Williams Town, EC external link Virathapusharam Govender (70) 18/04/2018 Spioe...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 58 Murders logged in this project 2007 April Susan Bristow (54) 15/04/2007 Louis Trichardt, LP (stabbed to death with a garden fork) media article May [ J Heyneke ] (38) 08/05/2007 Kameeldrift, GP Willie Potgieter (45) 12/05/2007 Marikana (shot and killed) media article [ Hans Polensky ] (52) 26/05/2007 Nigel, GP (dob 1955-08-...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013 SAPS 2012/13 "official" figures: 60 Murders from 556 Attacks TAU 2012/13 "official" figures: 61 Murders from 173 Attacks 55 Murders logged in this project 2012 April Adriaan Johannes van der Merwe "At" (68) 03/04/2012 Leeubos farm, Bloemhof (head injuries) media article media article Charlotte Sroneman (64) 08/04/2012 Far...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 1996 to 31 March 1997 1996 April R Daniels (40) 07/04/1996 Greytown, KZN Johan Gouws (84) 13/04/1996 Oranjeville, FS (suffocated) C Vorster (29) 17/04/1996 Piet Retief, MPL [ Hannah/Ester Greig ] (74) 27/04/1996 Hartzenbergfontein farm, Walkerville, GP (shot dead article link Koos Steyn 61 29/04/1996 Mount Olive, Barberton, MPL (axed to death) D.J van...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 1998 to 31 March 1999 TAU (Transvaal Agricultural Union) 1998: 104 Murders from 201 Attacks SAPS 1998/99 "official" figures: 148 Murders from 827 Attacks 89 Murders logged in this project 1998 April Muzzufar Khan (41) 03/04/1998 Blinkwater farm, Umlaas Road are near Camperdown, KZN (shot and killed) external link Hendrik Strauss (70) 04/04/1998 Palmietfont...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 1997 to 31 March 1998 TAU (Transvaal Agricultural Union) 1997/98: 153 Murders SAPS 1997/98 "official" figures: 153 Murders from 490 Attacks 107 Murders logged in this project 1997 April W.J.J Kok (86) 06/04/1997 Vanderbijlpark, GP Andries .M Vermaas “Dries” (49) 06/04/1997 Greylingstad, MPL (shot) John Henry Denner (71) 06/04/1997 Lizumpi, Klerksdorp, NW...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 SAPS 2015/16 "official" figures: 58 Murders from 519 Attacks TAU 2015/16 "official" figures: 70 Murders from 344 Attacks 57 Murders logged in this project 2015 April Bossie Badenhorst (64) 02/04/2015 Farm Doelgerig, Modimolle (Nylstroom) LP (beaten to death with a metal pipe) external link [ Male Victim ] 06/05/2015 Cullina...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 SAPS 2014/15 "official" figures: 60 Murders from 497 Attacks TAU 2014/15 "official" figures: 68 Murders from 300 Attacks 50 Murders logged in this project 2014 April Danie Dercksen (44) 26/04/2014 Losloperfontein, Geluk AH, Brits, NW (shot in the chest and died at the scene) external link May Andrew Monakane (39) 05/...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 SAPS 2009/10 "no official" figures released 92 Murders logged in this project 2009 April Jan van Wyk (82) 01/04/2009 Vierfontein, Viljoenskroon (slaughtered by witchdoctor for 'muti') media article , media article [ R Eckerhardt ] (f) (35) 02/04/2009 Port Elizabeth Jacobi van den Bosch (f) (60) 10/04/2009 Mooiplaas, Pretoria, GP (multi...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 TAU 2017/18 "official" figures: 70 Murders from 418 Attacks SAPS 2017/18 "official" figures: 62 Murders from 561 Attacks The South African Police Service, during their press briefing, released updated figures for the number of recorded farm murders (though not attacks) for 2017/18. The SAPS presentation stated that there were, in fact, 62...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 SAPS 2016/17 "official" figures: 74 Murders from 638 Attacks TAU 2016/17 "official" figures: 78 Murders from 406 Attacks According to the police’s crime statistics, the figures for farm attacks and murders increased drastically for the 2016/2017 year under report. Farm murders increased with 27,5% and farm attacks with 22,9% 50 Mu...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009 TAU (Transvaal Agricultural Union) 2008: 79 Murders from 184 attacks 91 Murders logged in this project 2008 April Phillip Engelbrecht "Flip" (59) 02/04/2008 Geluksvlei farm, Vrede (shot in the chest) (multiple murder) media article [ Male Victim ] (40's) 02/04/2008 Geluksvlei farm, Vrede (shot from behind) (multiple murder) media arti...
“Farm Murders” 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 SAPS 2013/14 "official" figures: 58 Murders from 492 Attacks TAU 2013/14 "official" figures: 61 Murders from 242 Attacks 57 Murders logged in this project 2013 April Gert van Wyk (40) 01/04/2013 (died 63 days after an attack on 28/01/2013) (multiple murder) Bapsfontein, GP media article Paul Schulze (56) 02/04/2013 Heia S...
From America's Top Killing Machine For the better part of a century, the machine most likely to kill an American has been the automobile. Car crashes killed 33,561 people in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Firearms killed 32,251 people in the United States in 2011, the most recent year for which the Cen...
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and as the auxiliary lethal mechanism in hangings in the event the neck does not break. Strangling does not have to be fatal; limited or interrupted strangling is practised in erotic asphyxia, in...
Family killing family Do you have ancestors who have killed each other? This could be on purpose or by accident. I have found several of these tragedies in my own tree. notes A familicide is a type of murder or murder-suicide in which at least one spouse and one or more children are killed, or in which a parent or parents and possibly other relatives such as siblings and grandparents are ...
Indian Massacres Cultural clashes between European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years, from isolated incidents to large scale, organized wars. If the casualty was a civilian, of any background, our goal is to capture their death in a project on this list of “Indian Massacres.” So please add profiles to the massacre projects listed below; those projects are also found in...
A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others. Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing generally moves perpendicular to and directly into the victim's body, rather than being drawn across i...
Shot at Dawn - World War One 306 British Army and Commonwealth soldiers executed after courts-martial for desertion and other capital offences during World War I. They received no medal, are never mentioned in memorial services and their grieving families received no pension Of the ±200,000 men who had a court-martial during the First World War, 20,000 were found guilty of offences carrying...
This is an "umbrella" project. Please do not add profiles; please do start related projects, and index them below. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton Power kills; absolute power kills absolutely.-- powerkills website Mass murder by a state From Wikipedia Mass murder may also be defined as the intentional and indiscriminate murder of a large nu...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bełżec, Poland. Gesher Galicia - Belzec Belzec Extermination Center Established November 1, 1941, Belzec extermination center consisted of two camps divided into three parts: administration section, barracks and storage for plundered goods, and extermination section. Initially, there were three gas chambers using ca...