2004 SA Urban Terrorism death toll updated 2004 -
Urban terrorist attack deaths since 2003
(revised regularly also due to new information such as new court case evidence)
The "farm-attack" style terrorism targeting peaceful, urban South African families must stop.
This organised terrorism by large, heavily-armed youth gangs attacking homeowners in urban areas is increasingly creating an economic crisis.
See:
In spite of holding down good jobs, at least one-million of the best-educated South Africans have already left the country since 1994 because they fear for the lives of their families.
And many tens of thousands of South Africans can no longer get employment because of the disinvestments from abroad and the social instability these vicious urban terrorists are causing.
Some South Africans are even seeking asylum abroad because of the state's failure to protect them from this urban terrorism targeting their families:
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| Date | Victim | Victim's name | description of "farm-attack-style"
death or victim of "traditional
healer" or just plain senseless
murders | | | | | | 20040829 | 29-30 | unknown | Sapa reports that a Kwa-Zulu grandmother has been found murdered with her two children. | | 20040829 | 28 | Ndlovu, Bhembesi | 6, buried: victim of "traditional healer", was found beheaded - but coroners found that he had been tortured first: his left limbs and genitals had been carved off. | | 20040829 | 27 | unknown | victim of "traditional healer", Young boy's muti-lated body found in Mitchell's Plain, behind the swimming pool in Silversands Road, Westridge | | 20040828 | 26 | unknown | victim of "traditional healer", The mutilated body of a young woman was found in a veld just outside Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. She had one of her ears cut off and had a deep slit to her throat. | | 20040802 | 25 | Wright, Eldau-Rico | 17, a young Afrikaans teen-gymnast stabbed to death for a cellphone he didn't possess while helping a friend find her missing dog in a Vanderbijlpark park | | 20040731 | 24 | Geldenhuys, Jacobus | 38, Brits electrician, shot dead execution style outside Sunnyside hospital whilst visiting his wife. Murdered by the same executioners as Rawstorne family | | 20040731 | 23 | Rawstorne, Hester | Grandmother to Kayla, Shot execution style and thrown from vehicle | | 20040731 | 22 | Drennen, Janine | Mother to Kayla, Raped and shot several times with two guns until she fell dead to the ground | | 20040731 | 21 | Rawstorne, Kayla | Triple murder, Kekana found guilty -
Baby, 1 year old, shot execution style, once to the head once to the chest | | 20040726 | 20 | Matthews, Leigh | 21, kidnapped, ransom paid, but still brutally murdered, body found near the Walkerville Manor area, south of Johannesburg | | 20040720 | 19 | Nash, Julian | 19, shot in head as he fled from burglars | | 20040720 | 18 | Kok van der Merwe, Wilhelm | 54, tortured, garrotted, Pasadena Flats, Livingstone Bldvd, Vanderbijlpark | | 20040719 | 17 | Nagel, Calla | 72, Herschelle St, Vanderbijlpark, shot, nothing robbed |
20040718 |
16 |
Olifant, Dereck | Griqua-Afrikaner family suicide/murder: three dead, apparently killed his girlfriend and their baby before shooting himself with a 9mm pistol
26, |
20040718 |
15 | Johannes, Shaunelene | 23, shot with 9mm pistol | | 20040718 | 14 | Johannes, baby | 5 month old baby, shot with 9mm pistol | | 20040717 | 13 | Smit, Rita | 72, Lisztstreet, Vanderbijlpark - found with cut throat | | 20040701 | 11-12 | Surajbally, Jerry (40)
Surajbally,
Ranvier (14) | VEREENIGING. - A well-known Asian businessman and owner of J & R Motor Spares in Vereeniging and his died in hospital after being shot by "armed robbers" in the family's house in Brandmuller Drive, Three Rivers Proper |
20040624 |
10 |
Chinese Clothing Shop Owner | executed in Mpumalanga's crime-ridden KaNyamazane township - nothing stolen - He was shot in the forehead and dumped at a rubbish dump |
20040602 |
9 |
van Rooyen,Linda | Four Afrikaners slaughtered in Albertville, JHB - nothing missing: Three women were shot dead in their home. incl an unnamed man:
in her late 30s | | 20040602 | 8 | Lamb, Rosanne | in her 20's | | 20040602 | 7 | Jeffrey, Cindy | 21 | | 20040602 | 6 | unnamed man | 58, who lived in a granny flat at the house was also killed | | 20040303 | 5 | Unknown woman | tortured and tied to a tree stump in Hennops River near Centurion, Pretoria, decomposed body found | | 20040303 | 4 | Unknown woman | found dead behind Langehoven High School, Capital Park, Pretoria, discovered in a kneeling | | 20040301 | 3 | van Schoor, Beverly | 48, strangled and stabbed in her home in Grahamstown. | | 20040229 | 2
| Snyman, Ian | 54, owner of Cobb-Inn at the Wild Coast, tortured and executed by five armed attackers | | 20030322 | 1 | Boshoff, Elizabeth | 75, the Grange, KZN: ganged raped and slowly strangled until dead |
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