31/03/2025
Farm murders in south africa .... We shall never forget. Rest in peace https://www.facebook.com/share/1BvhVhjrRU/
*This Post About Double Farm Murder Is NOT Suitable for the Sensitive Reader*
CASE HISTORY PART 3 - It should not be forgotten the brutality of Farm Murders in South Africa. This incident was reported in March, 2009.
The blood from Alice was used to write the words "Kill the Boer" on the walls.
This horrifying incident is described in the book titled "Kill the Boer" written by Ernst Roets.
Mother and Daughter Savagely Murdered.
They were tortured, mutilated for hours. Annandale, Free State.
Tortured farm woman Miss Helen Lotter’s cervix and uterus were completely missing: her sexual organs had been extensively mutilated internally and externally…testimony by coroner : -
2010-06-03 Tom de Wet VIRGINIA. – The gruesome cruelties suffered by the murdered Miss Helen Lotter, 57, and her mother Alice became very clear when coroner Dr Horst Bumba’s report to the Welkom High Court showed that Helen Lotter’s cervix and uterus were ‘missing’ and that her death was caused by ‘sharp trauma and injuries to her lower body’ incurred during the attack against the two Afrikaner women in their Allenridge, Free State farm house on March 6 2010.
Dr Horst Bumba’s report also described that all her front teeth were bashed out and that her entire body was ‘covered in bruises, chafing and stabbing wounds. Her sexual parts were mutilated extensively also internally. Dr Bomba was unable to find the unmarried Afrikaans woman’s uterus or cervix (womb). He described these extreme injuries as 'having been caused by very clear pe*******on with a sharp object’. Due to the extreme injuries, Dr Bumba was unable to determine whether she had been r***d.
Another report by medical examiner Dr Wilhelm van Heusden of the mother Alice, 76, concluded that the old farm woman had died due to ‘asphyxiation after breathing in blood from penetrating stabbing wounds in her neck and throat’.
Gardener ‘s claim that he was forced to sign a confession rejected by the Bench:
A ‘trial-within-a-trial’ was also held by Judge S.P.B. Hancke, assisted by two assessors, to determine the admissibility of a conflicting signed and sworn confession by the one of the two accused b men who are on trial for murdering the women; their gardener, Joseph Hlongwane (22) and Joseph Khumalo (21). Judge Hancke examined all the statements submitted to the court by Hlongwane, including his claims that he had been ‘threatened, forced and dictated’ by the police to submit his confession.
However the Bench ruled that Hlongwane had submitted the signed confession ‘from his own free will’ and that he himself had moreover, provided detailed descriptions of the way in which the attack on the Lotter women had been carried out, including what he’d taken away from their homestead.” The Bench ruled the gardener’s confession legally-admissable after examining all the statements by Wesselsbron magistrate J A Smith, SAPS captain Francois Laux; warrant-officer James Mahlatsi, the investigating officer, and Captain André Niemann.
“I’d stabbed her twice in the neck because she owed me money…’
Hlongwane claimed in his confession, ruled admissible by the Bench, that he had ‘stabbed Mrs Alice Lotter twice with a pair of scissors in the neck because she owed me money”, after she had refused to pay him. Before the murders he’d gotten himself drunk at a local shebeen with his comrade Joseph Khumalo, they had returned to the farm and he had gone inside the farm house to argue with Mrs Lotter. He had submitted this statement to magistrate Smith in Wesselsbron three days after the double-murder.
However this also contradicts the old woman’s dying statement to Captain Koos Venter, the police officer who had found the mortally-wounded mother and daughter. Her “death-bed confession’ was that the gardener had broken into their homestead by crashing through a window and that he had ‘hurt “ both women after the mother had spotted ‘a group of men standing outside at their bakkie ( a small truck) and had warned them to go away or she’d phone the police’. Mrs Lotter told Captain Venter and an attending paramedic that she had recognized their gardener when he was climbing through the window. (The forensic evidence before the court earlier was that the window was broken into from the outside).
According to the South African Police Service Captain(SAPS) he described the incidents to be as follows - “Cruelest crime scene he had seen in 31 years of police work…’ testifies SAPS captain Koos Venter at Welkom High Court murder trial of the 2 black suspects accused of torturing to death Alice and Helen Lotter in March 6 2009…
Just before she died, the mortally-wounded Alice had told investigating SAPS captain Koos Venter according to his testimony this week, that the women were tortured by their gardener, Joseph (Hlongwane, 22) – and had pointed the policeman to the worker’s personal details which she kept inside her passport. Hlongwane was also directly linked to the murders of the two frail women by fingerprints lifted from the crime-scene by forensic experts, the court heard.
The mother’s last words to the Afrikaner policeman were “Thank the Lord that you care for us and that we can hide with you…’’ Alice Lotter died shortly after her arrival at hospital, her daughter Helen died several days later.
Both women were ‘extensively mutilated’. This testimony was delivered by Capt Venter at the High Court trial before judge S P B Hancke in Welkom, Free State of the Lotter woman’s gardener Joseph Hlongwane, 22 and his co-accused Joseph Khumalo, 21. They deny all the charges – three murders, one house-breakin with the intend to commit robbery; and aggravated robbery. They deny all the charges. The name of the third-murder victim was not mentioned in this news report in Volksblad.
The Afrikaner policeman, who has 31 years of experience, testified that the scene of women’s torture-murders was among ‘the cruelest crimes he had ever witnessed in his career.’ The two Free State Boer women’ murders on March 6 2009 – Helen Lotter’s breasts were also partially cut off and broken bottle-shards were inserted in her va**na and a**s as part of the extensive torture she and her mother Alice had endured -- caused deep anger among the Afrikaner / Boer community. Information submitted by police members to the news media shortly after the murder also was that the words ‘Kill the Boer’ had been daubed in the women’s blood on the farmhouse walls.
Local farmers protested at the trial - "These are crimes against humanity'
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