“If America stood for anything real, we would yank every troop out of Iraq and Afghanistan and quickly send them to S.A. (With a few thousand left for the Mexican border).” — Craig Bodeker
Local SAPS reservist, charge-office clerk Mrs Amelia Henning was raped and stabbed to death in Hospitaal Park, Bloemfontein. Nothing was robbed. This is her distraught ex-husband Frans. Her naked body was discovered by two Afrikaans pupils of the Dr Böhmer school nearby, Dwane Tebrugge, 17 and Alex Smith, 14. The two youths were walking in Pasteur Drive at around 7.30am when they made the terrifying discovery. Mrs Henning was last seen at 19:30 on Nov 22 2010 when she left her home on foot in Fowler Street, Hospitaal Park, said apartment-building owner’s son Coenie Beukes.
“She had fetched meat from our freezer to have a braai somewhere,’ he said. She didn’t have a car. Her ex-husband Frans’ second wife Marisa said it was the most difficult day of her life: she had to inform Amelia’s daughters Megan-Lee, 17, and Franschesc, 10, of their mother’s death. Frans was out of town at the time.
I had to tell them their mommy was dead, she wept. “I am sure she didn’t go without a fight. She must have fought like a lion.’ Col. Mrs Thandiwe Qhobosheane said she ‘could not describe in words what she felt about Mrs Henning’s murder. “She was one of a kind and her death is a massive loss for the SAPS,’ she said.