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The South African TV Programme Carte Blanche aired this on Sunday 17th .
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WE ARE THANKFUL FOR BEING ALIVE BUT WILL THEY MURDER YOU
On the Wednesday the 30th of May my family and I were held up by a group of
gunmen in our home in Johannesburg. We were assaulted, tied-up and my wife
was raped. We were subjected to threats of execution for a period of 3
hours while they emptied our home of it's entire contents as efficiently as
a removal company. The contents can be replaced but will our lives ever be
normal again?
DOES MY WIFE HAVE A DEATH SENTENCE HANGING OVER HER HEAD?
Does anyone care?
You should care as the next family may be yours. We are not looking for
sympathy, we want to stand up and say no more. Read this and help me to
bring it to the attention of someone who cares. You may just prevent
another young child from being raped and a family from being murdered.
I will show you in point form how sick our society has become.
1. We untie ourselves and run to find a phone (lines are cut) no -joy
2. We wake both neighbors. One replies that he will phone police and never
confirms. no-joy
3. The second, a prominent sports person of a premier soccer team refuses
to lend a cell-phone and slams his window shut.
4. Police arrive 35 minutes later after I connect the wires to my home
phone.
5. I need assistance for my wife and no medical centre locally is prepared
to assist without an official police statement.
6. Police say to calm down as it will be done in due course(4 hours later
we have half of the HIV medicine.)
7. A prominent talk radio station cannot help as they do not have any body
present to tell us where to go for treatment.
8. After sunrise we find our own guardian angel in the form of journalist
Charlene Smith, herself a rape survivor. The only joy.
9. Now I start to fight for my rights.
10. It is now 10 days since the incident and we have never been contacted
by anyone from the police system.
11. I managed to out-wit the officer in charge of the case to my house, who
says they lost our file.
12. I gave him inside info on the criminal's whereabouts. Cell phone
tracking. This was ignored.
13. I have given him a name suspected in the case and it is ignored.
14. More info at hand but the whole East-Rand murder and robbery unit
refuse to take my call or return left messages.
15. I find out that the missing vehicle and weapon from my home was
reported missing 7 days later.
16. You are our only hope of preventing some young family being raped or
murdered.
My family is not more special than yours but we are human beings and are
prepared to stand up and say no more. If you help me apprehend these
animals you are saving the destruction of a family like mine. WE ALSO
THOUGHT IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN TO US.
CASE NO: 452/05/2001 EAST-RAND MURDER AND ROBBERY UNIT
I need you as the South African public to apply pressure wherever possible.
Circulate this wherever possible. Thank-you and may God help us all.
Kind Regards
Dean Blom