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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Sat Apr 2 01:12:40 2011
edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d So this is the great legacy of terrorists like Nelson Mandela. The leadership's gotten only worse and worse through Thabo Mbeki and the worst yet, Jacob Zuma. The rape rate went from 5,100 per year in 1994 to an unacceptable 43,000 per year under the "free" regime. Doesn't excuse the random murders, but this kind of stuff happens in response to regimes with no justice.
Daily Telegraph
Former South African rugby player 'went on axe-murdering rampage'By Dan Newling in Cape Town | 5:02PM BST 30 Mar 2011A South African former rugby player has been accused of killing "at least" three people in an axe-murdering rampage in a revenge attack for the gang rape of his daughter, who contracted HIV as a result.
South African police said that one of the man's victims had been decapitated. Others were assaulted, but managed to escape.
The 34-year-old's identity is being withheld from publication to prevent his daughter from being identified.
However, it is understood that the girl was attacked after a break in at the family's home in Durban.
A gang of four burglars abducted the teenager then raped her in a nearby wooded area. She subsequently was diagnosed with HIV.
Over a period of at least four evenings last week, the former Blue Bulls player is said to have stalked one of the impoverished townships near his home where he is said to have launched the attacks, apparently at random, at black men returning home from work.
He allegedly told a group of witnesses that he would "kill 100 men if (he) could".
A police source said: "He didn't seem to make any effort to try and conceal himself. He was just driving around the townships in a car, then he would get out and attack someone. It was almost like he wanted to wipe out all the men from one particular area of the township."
A 37-year-old man who escaped one attack said he had been walking home at about 10.45pm last week when he noticed a silver car trailing him.
"He drove slowly past me, before pulling up", the man said, "He then jumped out of the car with an orange bag. I thought it was a gun. He said: 'Did you know we would ever meet? Why did you rape my daughter and give her HIV? You destroyed her future.' I was puzzled. I told him I didn't know what he was talking about, but he lunged at me with the axe, aiming at my torso. I ducked and ran away as quickly as I could."
The survivor said he was chased for a few feet before his attacker retreated back to his car.
Less than an hour later, the axeman allegedly attacked 46-year-old security guard Ndodo Hlongwa as he returned home from work. Police found Hlongwa's headless body was with a box of KFC fried chicken that he had bought for his family. His head was discovered around two miles away.
Prior to the player's arrest in the early hours of Wednesday, police had appealed for information about a "well-dressed and well-built" man who had been attacking men "at random" as they walked home from work.
Speaking last weekend, Lieutenant Colonel Anton Booysen, said: "Witnesses to the attacks said they thought the guy was hacking at a dog or an animal of sorts, but then realized it was a human being. The people who saw him said he appeared relaxed and confident. During one instance someone shouted at him, 'What the ---- are you doing?' He then apparently stopped and casually walked away, and it didn't seem that he was disturbed at being caught."
Yesterday, South African police spokesman Vincent Mdunge said that detectives arrested the man at 1.30am on Wednesday.
Police are still investigating whether the man acted alone.
The player is due to appear in Durban Magistrates' Court on Thursday where he will be charged with "three counts of murder with aggravating circumstances and one of attempted murder".
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