Trial of two suspects . Women were killed by glass shards stabbed into their vaginas; left to bleed to death, one woman’s breasts were cut off while she was alive; both also had stabbing wounds and they were half-torched. Forensic experts also established that their blood was used to write an anti-Afrikaner hate-speech slogan on the wall of their home.

Lotter mother and daughter’s March 2009 torture death reenacted at Odensdaalsrust law court, Free State –

• Trial of two suspects . Women were killed by glass shards stabbed into  their vaginas; left to bleed to death, one woman’s breasts were cut off while she was alive; both also had stabbing wounds and they were half-torched. Forensic experts also established that their blood was used to write an anti-Afrikaner hate-speech slogan on the wall of their home.

April 16 2009 -  FREE STATE, South Africa. About 100 Boer protestors staged a gruesome re-enactment at the Odendaalsrust magistrate’s court  of the way in which two Afrikaner Free State women, Alice Lotter, 77, and her daughter  Helen, 57, were tortured to death at their home in Allenridge near Welkom in the Free State recently. Two of the men arrested and being charged for allegedly carrying out these gruesome acts applied for bail on April 17. Their bail application was however moved to May 18 and they were ordered to remain in local police custody. There also was another ‘anti-crime demonstration’ by the local mayor and the African National Congress members – with the  usual toyi-toyiing and loud ANC-freedom song chanting — but against en entirely another case, in which four men, including two white farmers, were arrested for allegedly murdering a local man who had, claimed the ANC demonstrators, ‘stolen maize on a local farm’, was killed and then ‘dumped next to the road’.

Lotter women bled to death from glass shards stabbed into their vaginas:

The intense anger of the Afrikaner-Boer community was shown in the gruesome re-enactment staged outside the court by about 100 demonstrators, in which they used large stuffed dolls to demonstrate how the Lotter mother and daughter were killed: According to forensic evidence, these women were tortured by the murderers’ allegedly inserting broken glass bottles into their vaginas; one had her breasts sliced off; both had numerous stab wounds and their bodies had been found partially torched, according to investigating police’s formal statements. They also established that the material used to write an anti-Afrikaner hate-speech slogan on the walls, had been the blood of the mother and daughter.

The organisers of this protest –  the Brandwag of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s Christen Boerevolk organisation, and the Boerevolk Freedom Foundation, headed by Edwin Leemans — had arranged caravan sites, tents and rooms at farms to house the demonstrators the night before — so that the protestors could be present at the court house at opening time at 8am.

HUGE POLICE PRESENCE

They staged a peaceful vigil. The organisers said the huge police contingent to stop them from entering the law court, was ‘truly amazing: ‘where were the police when these women were being tortured…’ one asked .

However also present at the court room was the local ANC, headed by the town’s mayor Mrs Mathabo Leeto, also held an ‘anti-crime’ demonstration outside the law court  — but against a completely different case in connection with the alleged murder of a local man, Daniel Mothhanke, found dead next to a road.

While the Afrikaners were demonstrating against the bail application of the two men charged with the gruesome torture-murder of the Lotter women, the ANC group demonstrated against the bail applications for four arrested men in connection with the Mothhanke murder. http://jv.news24.com/Die_Volksblad/Nuus/0,,5-83_2503376,00.html

Lotter bail application postponed to May 18

Inside the courtroom, the two men accused of stabbing the Lotter women with broken bottles in their vaginas, and then letting them bleed to death, Thapelo Hlongwane (21) and Joseph Khumalo (19) were ordered to remain in custody and the bail application was postponed to 18 May.

Daniel Mothhanke case postponed to May 25

The ANC demonstrators claimed that Monthhanke was  ‘beaten to death after stealing maize’on an accused farmer’s farm and ‘then dumped on the side of the road’.The ANC, headed by the local mayor Mz Mathabo Leeto, was demonstrating against the bail applications of the four men,  farm-owner Barend Jacobus Nel (29), workers Lazarus Leboko (29), Andries Moholo (37) and Gideon Johannes van Zyl (29). They also were ordered to remain in custody until their bail application on 25 May.

Picture: These show the two singing choruses, the ANC demonstrators in the background, and the Boers on the foreground to the right. They clearly weren’t very pleased with each other:  The mayor Mrs Leeto who headed the ANC-demonstration, threw her weight around, claiming that the Afrikaners’ demonstration was ‘illegal’ whereas the ANC-demonstrators ‘had obtained permission.’  She also ordered the local police to ‘do their jobs’ and deal with these illegal demonstrators. The two groups were then trying to outdo each other by singing ANC-freedom chants on the one side, while the Boers were loudly singing the National Anthem on the other side. There was no violence. When the mayor tried to hold a speech in which she said the Afrikaners’ demonstration was ‘illegal’, and that they should ‘’cross the colour line and join the ANC ‘in their demonstration against crime in general’, this speech was drowned out when the Boers started singing the national anthem again, reportedly very loudly according to Beeld newspaper. The two Boers groups — the Brandwag of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s Christen Boerevolk organisation, and the Boerevolk Freedom Foundation, headed by Edwin Leemans –   then moved away  from the ANC demonstrators and held their re-enactment of the Lotter’s women’s gruesome murder near the law court. They then strung up large dolls on gallows, with signs saying “the gallows for the torture-murderers’.