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VENTER, Ansie, Burgersdorp farm wife killed Bloukrans farm, East London, 4 children abducted Nov 1997 - Zama Mpondwana of Dispatch Online. reported Nov 1997 in EAST LONDON: - Police assisted by angry farmers searched for two men wanted for the brutal murder of Burgersdorp farmer's wife Ansie Venter, 36, and the abduction of her four children. Mrs Ansie Venter's children were forced to watch while their mother was fatally shot in the head after she had earlier been shot in the stomach. Inspector Jackson Tiya of the Burgersdorp police said one suspects had been identified by locals after three of the children had supplied police with identikits of the killers. It is believed the men had lain in wait on Bloukrans farm for Mrs Venter, 36, and her children to return on Friday afternoon from a trip into town. Mrs Venter's husband, Hansie, was on business in Aliwal North. After shooting their mother, the men forced her children into her car. After crashing the car on a farm road, the killers separated the children, locking the two boys Johan, 14, and Gerhard, 3, in a rondavel on a neighbouring farm and fleeing with the girls Lindie, 12, and Charlotte, 11 months. The two girls were abandoned some distance further and were later found in the veld by police. Mrs Venter's body was found near the farmhouse, which had been ransacked. Police said Lindie was severely traumatised and had been examined by a police doctor. Incensed farmers vowed to avenge the slaying. "It's now a situation of kill or be killed," said Eastern Province Agricultural Union president Pieter Erasmus. Sapa reports Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen blamed the African National Congress for the death of Mrs Venter. "They have encouraged a state of hate and lawlessness, worse than anything ever experienced in the country, and are doing little to correct the situation," Gen Viljoen said. Communities had their own ideas about how to deal with crime, he said. "The police have tried one plan after the other, with little success. The ANC must admit that the crime situation in South Africa is out of control and allow communities to implement their own security measures in association with security forces." http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Robbers-gun-down-farmers-wife-20060117