A woman was killed in broad daylight in Lynnwood Manor on Tuesday after she stumbled on a gang of armed men ransacking her house.
Cathy Odendaal was apparently tortured, sexually assaulted and then murdered by the four-man gang who have been terrorising the suburb.
But in an unusual mobilisation of forces on Tuesday night, members of the community, along with a group of construction workers from Mamelodi, rallied together to hunt down the alleged culprits.
Two men who were found in possession of an unlicensed handgun and jewellery belonging to Odendaal were arrested – one of them, who was wearing a Springbok jersey, was seriously hurt after being subdued by the workers.
The men broke into the Farnham Street home while Odendaal’s domestic worker Francia Majadibodu was taking a shower.
Odendaal was out shopping at the time.
The attack comes less than 72 hours after a gang of robbers shot and critically injured the three-year-old daughter of Musa Ebrahim’s domestic worker in an attack on his home – also in Farnham Street.
Odendaal is believed to have been attacked by her killers, who were armed with an assortment of weapons, including a screwdriver, when she surprised them as they were ransacking her home.
The men are believed to have tortured her before sexually assaulting her.
Neighbours and police said it seemed as if the attackers were fleeing through the garden when Odendaal, who had been left for dead, managed to raise the alarm.
This apparently prompted her attackers to return.
It seems they then killed Odendaal. Police at the scene could not say whether she had been shot or stabbed.
Majadibodu discovered Odendaal’s body lying sprawled in a outside room near the kitchen.
Screaming for help, she stopped a passing Lynnwood Ridge Community Policing Forum member who raised the alarm.
Residents drove through Lynnwood Manor looking for the suspects. One of the alleged attackers was caught climbing over another Farnham Street house garden wall while the second was caught when the construction workers spotted him trying to rob another woman at a bus stop.
Construction worker Vusi Sithole, who was driving with his brother Johannes and neighbour Colbert Novela, said that as they drove towards Mamelodi they spotted a man holding a woman around the throat. He was wearing a Springbok jersey.
“As we stopped he screamed at us to ‘voertsek’ and then ran off.”
Chasing after him, the three escaped with their lives after the man, who had hidden behind a clump of bushes in Cedar Street, leapt at their truck, pushed a gun into the driving compartment and opened fire.
Novela had a spade with him and managed to push the spade against the gun, deflecting the bullet.
The three men pushing the man from the truck and attacked him with the spade and a rock, overpowering him before stopping a passing police patrol.
Vusi Sithole said that when the man attacked them and began shooting he thought he was going to die.
“If it had not been for Colbert we would be dead,” he said.
Sithole burst into tears on hearing of Odendaal’s murder.
“If only we could have done something to save her. I wish we could have caught the man before he killed that lady,” he said.
Police spokesperson Inspector Paul Ramaloko confirmed that Odendaal had apparently been tortured before being murdered
He said that police were also investigating whether Odendaal had been raped or sexually assaulted.
“Two men have been arrested and charged with murder, armed robbery and possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. They will appear in court soon,” he said.
He appealed to anyone who had information on the whereabouts of the other two suspects to contact Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
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The source link is not valid. Although I found a link here: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/woman-killed-at-home-in-broad-daylight-1.375211
The news is trying to play this off as a rare thing. It is not. Since Blacks gained control of South Africa, they have murdered almost 80,000 Africaners.
http://www.wix.com/ajkraad/genocide-museum
They have stolen the farmers’ lands and now the Negros cannot feed themselves. They have a woeful lack of jobs (BECAUSE THEY ARE LAZY AND TOTALLY UNTRUSTWORTHY AND THE NETWORK OF GOV. WORKERS MUST HAVE PROVEN THEIR LOYALTY TO THE RULING DICTATOR Mbeki.
So now poverty is skyrocketing, they are killing AND EATING their own. The New Zealand tourist warning highly recommends that you leave you White children at home as they are considered especially vulnerable. Apparently the remains of White children are used in potions and such; considered especially potent.
The leaders oppress their own. Their own terrorize the Whites. They are destroying YET ANOTHER CITY ONLY THIS TIME IT IS AN ENTIRE NATION.
This is what awaits the US.
And yes Mbeki is a f’ing communist boon!
Mbeki was born in the Transkei region on June 18, 1942. His parents were teachers and members of the South African Communist Party, one of the leading anti-apartheid forces in South Africa. His father, Govan, was arrested with Mandela in 1964 for their political work.
This is the news you never hear about in the West. It is deliberately censored by the same Bolshevik jews who censor news in SA. The unbridled murder, rape and pillage of the apes is beyond the pale and our patience as a White people must end for those Beasts of The Field.
I hope I never meet an IGNORANT CREATURE who was in favor of black rule in SA. I fear I might shot them or perhaps hatchet them up into little pieces as my way of saying, “thanks”.
To the LIEberal, a.k.a. COMMUNIST BOLSHEVIKS this is nothing new. Killing White people IS THEIR AIM. Those creatures of hell have been murdering White people for a very long time.
It is time we MURDERED THEM WITHOUT MERCY, STARTING WITH THE DEMON CAPITAL OF ALL GANG BANGERS – “ITS-A-REAL-LIE” otherwise known as Palestine.