Yet despite the ANC ‘gangster-State’ ‘s cynical exhortations for smallholders to ‘help police fight crime’; when smallholders shoot armed attackers in self-defence, it’s the crime-victims who are arrested and charged with criminal assault, attempted murder and murder... This happens frequently: for instance on September 20, 2010, two Afrikaner men on a Kameeldrift/Uitzicht smallholding which had been attacked, were arrested for defending their families. They were moreover, denied bail and told they would be charged with ‘murder’ .
We fear for our lives. Last night another three men were on our erf,’ said a fearful, weeping Mrs Eliza Olivier (right) at the Pretoria magistrate’s court after hearing that her family would be left alone to fend for themselves – after her husband Fredrick Chrisjan Olivier, 46, was denied bail together with his brother Koos Petrus Olivier, 43. One of the men had fired a shot in self-defence through their window and killed a Zimbabwean man who was trying to break in, and then left the body on the side of the road. Their attorney J D Nel said the families would be left undefended in one of the highest crime region in the country.
However black magistrate Bheki Ntshingila wouldn’t hear of bail: instead he postponed the case to the following week so that the state ‘could get more statements from another Zimbabwean man who has since gone missing’. The lawyer said this man, part of an armed attack-gang, would be ‘impossible to trace’. Even so, the two Afrikaner brothers were forced to spend four days in a police-jail while their families were left undefended… http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Africa/nuus/ons-lewe-in-vrees.20100923. After all that, the case then was simply dropped.
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