Johannesburg - A man was shot on Tuesday as he exchanged fire with robbers at a lodge in Cullinan, Pretoria police said.
Constable Sally Skhosana said the man was shot in the stomach and chest by four armed men who were robbing the Kenyaka Lodge in Varkfontein around 01:00.
"The man resisted being searched by the robbers who were robbing all the guest houses at the lodge," said Skhosana.
Police called to the scene managed to arrest one of the robbers and the other three escaped. The injured man was taken to a nearby hospital.
The arrested man was charged with attempted murder and armed robbery and is expected to appear before the Cullinan Magistrate's Court soon.
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Not to get off topic but just wanted to alert people that for some strange reason I have been prevented from posting any further comments at the SAS blog. I was engaged in an in depth debate at this thread in response to a poster who was making a number of erroneous assertions & therefore was participating in setting the record straight to the best of my understanding concerning the topic being discussed.
When I tried to post another comment today: I was sent to an odd page which gave a ridiculous message of "posting to fast" when in fact it was more than a day since I last posted.
Considering the nature of what was being discussed I am not certain whether I am being prevented from further posting on purpose or if this is some technical problem. I just wanted to let people now that I have not voluntarily left the debate & in fact composed another in-depth response setting the record straight. Should this problem persist or not get resolved I will post my latest response on my own blog & call attention to this strange result.
Not sure why you are having posting problems on the SAS site Ron. Maybe you should e mail them.
My advice Ron, stay away from the SAS site. It has just deteriorated over the past couple of months, just leave it. Unless of course, you seriously believe in "lynching niggers" and having blacks as slaves like in the 17th century. Ain't gonna happen (and NO, I am not a liberal, I am presently sitting in the comfort of my living room, filled with the most delicious Schadenfreude seeing the latest reports of Bobby Mugarbage turns zim into a HUGE sewer whilst the world squirms in embarrasment!) Erm, yes, sorry, off topic.
Well I actually do often stay away from there because they are becoming more of a circus. But I just have to add my two cents on occasion. At ant rate it looks like they must be having site problems because they have not posted a new article since Monday & no one has posted a comment since more than a day ago. Therefore I guess the problem in technical.
I do hope they get their site up and running again as we do need as many sites as possible to spread the message.
Loggi, as Ron says, "SAS are becoming more of a circus" and with all the infighting lately, DR throws her toys out the cot but then is back scarcely a few weeks later. This one blames that one, the others are raving anti-semites (and they ALL want to hang blacks, right there, on the spot!!! What message is that to spread? The site has no credibility anymore. None whatsoever (and let me say it again I am NOT a liberal that just got lost in the blogosphere)
This thread and the newsstory it stems from seems to show that law-abiding people are at a distinct disadvantage if they do not have firearms of their own.
Ron - I saw your comment from Dec 1, what is the historical distinction between Afrikaners and Boers? And why wouldn't the Voortrekker monument be of historical value to both groups whom you are distinguishing?
Frank Talk. The Voortrekker Monument is of course of historical value to the Boer descendents but the Cape Dutch descendents are increasingly seeing it as having nothing to do with them as their ancestors were of course not involved in the Great Trek as the Voortrekkers were mainly from the Boer communities of the eastern Cape frontier who were chaffing the most under British rule due to their independent orientation.
The term Afrikaner was a political term the Cape Dutch (as they were often called) propagated -starting in 1875 when they started a language rights movement- then was later applied to all White Afrikaans speaking people [including some English speakers] after the Boers were conquered.
The Boer descendents have been under Afrikaner domination for close to 100 years now of which some of the Boers have been struggling to get out from at different times. The Boers are the descendents of those poorer folks who developed on the Cape frontiers from the nomadic trekking pastoralists & were anti Colonial & constantly trying to find freedom in Africa while the Cape Dutch developed in the south western Cape & were pro Colonial / more affluent & urbane & never quite wanted to be independent of the Colonial powers.
There are a few articles on my blog which go into some depth concerning this issue which is still relevant today as Boer Patriots like Theuns Cloete of Boervolk Radio have warned that one of the biggest obstacles the Boers face is the Afrikaans money power [which is in the hands of the Cape Dutch descendents] & their media which routinely propagates against the Boerevolk & Boer self determination.
The late Boer Patriot Robert van Tonder who started & lead the Boerestaat Party in 1986 actually left the National Party in 1961 the same year that Verwoerd turned South Africa into a nominal republic because van Tonder felt that the only way the Boers are ever going to be protected from Afrikaner (political) & English domination (economic) domination was for the Boers be living in their own republics. Where they could have self determination.
I am sorry about the double post.
No problems Ron.. That was my mistake
Excellent post
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