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Afrikaans farm-owner Mrs Reinetha Venter stabbed ten times, held hostage for an hour with daughter Rene: car torched: police takes TWO HOURS to show up...Sunday February 12 2012

2012-02-15 AS reported by Beeld Hilda Fourie: Farm-owner Mrs Reinetha Venter, 59, -- sister of Villieria Pretoria SAPS-commander colonel Gawie Alberts -- was brutally attacked with her daughter Rene, 27, and held hostage for an hour. Mrs Venter's bleeding hands were tied behind her back by the 'very aggressive four black attackers', and her burnt-out car was found near her homestead. The two women were seperated by the 'very aggressive' black male leader of the armed gang.

Yet when the Modjadjiskloof SAPS were called, it not only took them two hours to show up - but the injured, traumatised Afrikaans women also had to then still convince the unbelieving black cops that they hadn't just merely had a "breakin" - but that they had been attacked and had to defend themselves.

Mrs Venter said the cops even wanted to know why she was stabbed, implying that she should not have tried to defend herself with a small knife she always carries with her...

"The cops while questioning me, were constantly were telling me it was 'just a break-in' and I kept telling them it was a farm attack.'

"Police seemed to blame me for being attacked..."

They asked 'why I was stabbed in my hands' and 'whether I wanted to use my knife against a burglar'... as if the police wanted to blame me for being attacked."

"If I had had a gun I would have shot them', she said.

She and her daughter live alone on the farm, about 30km from Duiwelskloof, now renamed to 'Modjadjis-kloof'

She was forced to place her legally registered firearms in 'a secured place' after her husband's death two years ago - and left them there also because she was overseas for most of 2011.

The women 's ordeal started on Sunday: when they were watching TV at 20:45.

They heard two loud bangs - and then a four-member gang of armed black males had broken their way into their homestead.

The two Afrikaans women then were forced at gunpoint to go and sit on the couch.

"I carry a little knife with me at all times and pulled it out. One of those men saw it and stabbed my hands full of holes in his frenzy to get it away from me,' she said.

Their hands and feet were tied behind their backs. Her worried daughter was constantly asking her if her mom was alright because she was bleeding from her hands.

"This irritated the group's leader, who was very aggressive, ' said the mother.

Her daughter then was locked up in the bathroom and Mrs Venter was carried to her bedroom.

"Whenever the leader, who was very aggressive, was away, the other three men asked me if I was OK,' said Mrs Venter.

They ransacked the place, but in the end they only took the women's cellphones, some electronics and jewellery-bling - leaving many other valuables behind. The four then fled in Mrs Venter's car - which was found abandoned, torched near the homestead - it was not 'stolen'.

Her daughter managed to free herself and her mom and phoned the neighbours.

The neighbours started calling the Modjadjis-kloof SAPS but there was no reply. Eventually they got hold of the Soekmekaar SAPS who in turn alerted their colleagues at Modjadjis-kloof.

"They arrived after about two hours. The police took four formal statements from Mrs Venter - 'and I had to repeat everything ten times,' she said.

SAPS spokeswoman lt.col Ronel Otto confirmed that the vehicle was found torched on Monday near the farmstead.
"The SAPS will investigate the complaints about the Modjadjis-kloof SAPS seriously and investigate,' she also said.

COMMENT:
It will be interesting to see whether the SAPS marks this on its annual crime-records for Modjadjiskloof as a mere 'breakin' in their annual police statistics at http://www.saps.gov.za -- or whether they will mark this as 'attempted murder' and 'robbery under aggravated circumstances' as well.

It will also be interesting to see whether any of these obstructionist-police officers will even be reprimanded for not doing their jobs - for instance not answering the telephones while a farm-attack was going on. Will they be asked whether they knew about it - and not answering the phones for that reason?

Nobody has as yet been arrested because the police showed up for too late.
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Plaasvrou-tien-keer-gesteek-20120215