• Lucky escape
Susan Baker miraculously escaped injury or even death when a car ploughed into her vehicle’s door on Third Street on Friday night.
Baker bought her dinner from Steers in Park Avenue and was about to get into her car when she heard a car driving up the street at a high speed.
Baker was standing between the car and the open door which was pressed against her body.
A pale blue Volkswagen Beetle with four young people in it ploughed into her door. Miraculously, Baker was not injured but is taking sedatives to calm her nerves.
The door was destroyed and a new one had to be purchased at a local scrap dealer.
“I could have been killed, I can only thank God,” said Baker.
Steers personnel kindly tied the car door shut so that Baker could drive back home.
Also read: Delving into the past
• Smit murders reinvestigated
New light seems to have been shed on the Robert Smith murders which shook the town in the late ’70s.
This week confirmation was received from the office of director Bushie Engelbrecht, who leads the police’s old task force, may have been involved in the gruesome murders.
Smit, a National Party candidate and his wife, Jeanne-Cora, were shot and stabbed in their home in Wezda Street, Selection Park, on November 2, 1977.
Much has since been said about what is still a mysterious, unsolved murder case.
If the red graffiti letters of ‘Rau Tem’ sprayed inside the house are clues to the Smits’ murderers as suspected by the police investigation team, then this docket may finally be closed after more than 20 years.
• Bank clerk pleads guilty to theft and fraud
A bank clerk has pleaded guilty to fraud and theft amounting to more than R150 000.
Antonien van Loggerenberg (38) who lives in Paul Krugersoord, appeared in the Springs Regional Court on Wednesday after her case was transferred from the Springs District Court.
She has admitted her guilt on the two accounts of fraud and two of theft. Magistrate F Roets postponed the case to July 11 for sentencing.
Also read: Delving into the past
Van Loggerenberg has been found guilty of falsely creating two fictitious and unauthorised bank accounts in the names of people who had never applied for them, with overdraft facilities of R48 000 and R90 000 respectively.
These offences occurred between 1995 and 1997.
In addition to fraud, she is charged with theft in that she exceeded the limits on the phony overdraft faculties by R4 105 and R13 815 respectively.
All these crimes were committed to the financial detriment of Standard Bank while she was employed there.
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