Pretoria – Ina Bonnette was the “narcissistic supply” to “Modimolle monster” Johan Kotze, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday.

Jan van Rooyen, for one of Kotze’s co-accused Andries Sithole, asked clinical psychologist Tertia Spangenberg why Kotze did not react more drastically when he found three men attacking her – according to his testimony.

She said when Kotze saw Bonnette with another man on New Year’s Eve 2011 his “narcissistic supply” was cut off. He had idolised her prior to that day.

“The night of the 31st he lost Ina Bonnette as his narcissistic supply.”

Spangenberg explained that a narcissist, which she found Kotze was, would surround himself with people feeding this narcissism. Bonnette was this source for Kotze.

This was why, after Kotze saw her with someone else, he did not act more drastically when he saw his three co-accused attacking his  then wife on January 3, 2012, she said..

According to Kotze’s testimony, he found the men in a spare bedroom with Bonnette and he asked them not to hurt her.

Van Rooyen asked if a narcissist would not be more likely to revert to violence.

“I wouldn’t definitely say it would go over to violence,” Spangenberg said.

Kotze is accused of orchestrating the gang-rape of Bonnette and of murdering his stepson Conrad, 19, in his rented home in Modimolle on January 3, 2012.

At the time Bonnette was still married to Kotze, but lived in her own flat.

Kotze’s co-accused, Sithole, Pieta Mohlane, and Frans Mphaka are  accused of kidnapping, assaulting, repeatedly raping, and attempting to murder Bonnette that day.

Earlier on Tuesday the State questioned Spangenberg’s report on Kotze, according to which his actions were irrational.

Prosecutor Retha Meintjes put it to Spangenberg that Kotze’s actions – giving orders to his co-accused, walking to a closet to get tools to mutilate Bonnette’s genitals, pulling the trigger, and reloading the gun – appeared to be rational.

“These are complex actions,” Meintjes said.

Spangenberg agreed, based on the State’s version of events.

“Given the State’s evidence it may be rational.”

She added, however, that to actually give these orders was not rational.

In her report, Spangenberg found Kotze was not accountable for his actions.

“I am of the opinion that Mr Kotze was not accountable for the alleged actions of which he stands accused,” she said last week.

“It is my opinion that the combination of Mr Kotze’s narcissistic personality disorder, superimposed on traumatic psychological injuries, combined with an unmanaged, long-standing, major depression and untreated and unresolved acute stress disorder, resulted in a state of psychological dissociation during his alleged criminal acts.” – Sapa

Durban – The brutal murder of an uMlazi woman, whose throat had been been slit and torso cut open, has spurred the provincial government to assign a special team to work with police and the community to tackle the scourge of rape and abuse in the township.

The body of Sithembile Sibiya, 29, was found in the veld  on Sunday near Isidingo Combined Primary School in J Section, less than a kilometre away from her home in H Section.

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Johannesburg – A game using toilet paper and matchsticks indicated who should be sacrificed in an apparent satanic ritual killing, a Johannesburg court heard on Tuesday.

This was the testimony of Lester Moody, 19, who is serving a prison sentence under a plea bargain reached after he confessed to being part of the killing in October 2011.

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Durban – A man accused of murdering Durban businessman Nhlanhla Gasa pleaded guilty in the Durban Regional Court on Tuesday.

Mbulelo Arthur Nhlauzana, 25, pleaded guilty to charges of murder, robbery, and malicious damage to property.

He was arrested in Groutville, on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, on April 13.

Gasa’s body was found floating in the Tugela River four weeks ago. He had sustained multiple wounds. Police found his burnt-out Jaguar near his body.

Officers then went to his home in Umhlanga, where they found blood stains, but no indication that valuables had been taken.

Police said the 63-year-old was attacked at his house and then taken to the river.

He is the father of South African television personality Noni Gasa. – Sapa

By Obakeng Maje
Mahikeng-Police in Mahikeng arrested two police members of the Tactical Response Team (TRT) aged 29 and 33 respectively.
“It is alleged that on Monday at about 20:00, members entered the tuck-shops owned by Bangladesh Nationals” Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said.
They allegedly told them that they are from Potchefstroom and doing a random check for illicit cigarettes” police said.
In the first incident,they searched and found five boxes of illicit cigarettes which contain twenty (packets of) cigarettes each.
They then demanded R1000, 00 from the owner of the tuck shop. “He allegedly told them that he does not have money and they searched the place and found R400. The owner called his friend to assist him with R600, 00” Ngubane said.
According to information received, upon arrival his friend took the registration numbers of the police vehicle before entering the friend’s house.
“He also informed them that he does not have the money they demanded” he adds.
They then took R400 and left.
The victim’s friend phoned the police in Mooifontein who immediately searched the area but couldn’t find the suspects. They phoned Mahikeng police who did roadblocks on all roads entering Mahikeng.
“It is alleged that after the suspects left the first tuckshop, they went to another one belonging to another Bangladesh National and demanded money” said police.
They allegedly told him that they are from Potchefstroom and searching for illicit cigarettes. They found two boxes of cigarettes that contained twenty (packets of) cigarettes each. They took R200 and boxes of cigarettes they found at the shop.
It is alleged that after all these robberies they drove to Mahikeng where they were arrested said police.
They will appear on Wednesday at Itsoseng Magistrate’s Court on charges of corruption and common robbery.
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Rustenburg – Protesting Marikana mineworkers threatened the police and told them to move their barbed wire and Nyala vehicles hours before police shot at them, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Tuesday.

The protesters asked: “What is this wire doing here? It must be removed and we are not going to ask again,” Major General Charl Annandale told the commission.

He headed the police special tactical operations team during the unrest in Marikana in August.

Annandale said the police deployed the barbed wire as a defence method.

Barrier

“The intention was to create a physical and… psychological barrier to show that this is a no-go area. It is a method that’s been used to successfully protect assets. Traditionally, people move away from it when they see it.”

Annandale said negotiators used loud hailers to try and tell the protesters why the barbed wire was there. The police then heeded the protesters’ call and moved their vehicles and barbed wire further back.

He said the police could not be allowed to mingle with the protesters, as this would cause confusion if the need to use stun grenades on the crowd arose.

Annandale was delivering his evidence-in-chief at the hearings, chaired by retired judge Ian Farlam, at the Rustenburg Civic Centre.

The commission is investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 44 people – 34 of whom the police shot dead, during wage-related unrest at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana in August.

Annandale said union leaders told the police protesters would lay down their weapons at 09:00 on the morning of 16 August.

He said police realised this might not happen when the protesters took their weapons with them to a hill near the mine that morning.

“They could have left their weapons at home,” he said.

The commission continues.

Johannesburg – A woman accused of killing another woman appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court after being arrested almost eight years after the crime, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.

Noluvuyo Sogayise, 32, who appeared in court on Monday, allegedly stabbed Busisa Ntwanambi to death at the Yako informal settlement on Christmas Day in 2005, said Captain Jackson Manatha.

Her arrest came after the “eagle-eyed investigating officer” recognised her in a photograph published in the Daily Sun earlier this month.

She appeared in the newspaper because she gave birth at the Philippi East police station, outside Cape Town, where policewomen helped her.

“The detective warrant officer quickly remembered the identity of his suspect and he contacted his counterparts in Cape Town, who arrested the suspect and kept her in custody for the murder,” Manatha said.

Sogayise would remain behind bars until her next court appearance on May 5. – Sapa

Pretoria – The State on Tuesday questioned the report of a clinical psychologist which states that the actions of the so-called “Modimolle monster” were irrational.

Prosecutor Retha Meintjes cross-examined clinical psychologist Tertia Spangenberg in the Pretoria High Court regarding her report on Johan Kotze.

Meintjes put it to Spangenberg that Kotze’s alleged actions – giving orders to his co-accused, walking to a closet to collect tools to mutilate Ina Bonnette’s genitals, pulling the trigger, and reloading the gun – appeared to be rational.

“These are complex actions,” Meintjes said.

Spangenberg agreed, based on the State’s version of events.

“Given the State’s evidence it may be rational.”

She added, however, that to actually give these orders was not rational.

Kotze is accused of orchestrating the gang-rape of Bonnette and of murdering his stepson Conrad, 19, in his rented home in Modimolle on January 3, 2012. At the time Bonnette was still married to Kotze, but lived in her own flat.

Kotze’s co-accused – Andries Sithole, Pieta Mohlane and Frans Mphaka – are accused of kidnapping, assaulting, repeatedly raping, and attempting to murder Bonnette that day.

In her report, Spangenberg found Kotze was not accountable for his actions.

“I am of the opinion that Mr Kotze was not accountable for the alleged actions of which he stands accused,” she said last week.

“It is my opinion that the combination of Mr Kotze’s narcissistic personality disorder, superimposed on traumatic psychological injuries, combined with an unmanaged, long-standing, major depression and untreated and unresolved acute stress disorder, resulted in a state of psychological dissociation during his alleged criminal acts.” – Sapa

Durban – Kwaito star Mkhonzeni “Professor” Langa was ordered to pay a fine of R3 000 or serve one month in prison – half of whichever option he chose, to be suspended for three years – when he appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

The musician contravened the SAPS Act by wearing a police uniform without the permission of the national or provisional commissioners, when he attended the Metro FM Music Awards at Durban’s ICC in February. Langa pleaded guilty to the charges.

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Johannesburg – As the sun rose over the Elias Motsoaledi informal settlement on Monday, one resident lay dead, and a KFC outlet lay in ruins.

The settlement in Soweto has seen violence and vandalism for the past week as community members protest against the lack of service delivery.

The demonstrations began last week when the KFC was stoned and traffic lights smashed. Since then, there has been nightly vandalism, and protesters have burnt several minibuses, blockaded roads with litter, and dug holes around Motsoaledi to prevent police vehicles from entering.

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