Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 598 other subscribers-
Recent Posts
Categories
- A Thousand Thanks (811)
- Apartment living (1,053)
- Audio (7)
- Banting (62)
- Being a Tourist in Cape Town (81)
- Braces (46)
- Building a house on a mountainside (419)
- Cape Town Drought (45)
- Cruising (79)
- Day to Day Blogs (4,457)
- Echo Photos (226)
- Games Helga plays! (10)
- Helga's random thoughts (82)
- Hiking in Kalk Bay (7)
- Home renovations (7)
- Italy (22)
- Living on Fish Hoek mountainside (814)
- Marriage (86)
- Mountain Hikes in Cape Town (25)
- Prose (12)
- Recipes (48)
- Uncategorized (83)
Tag Archives: Henri van Breda
Henri is Finally Arrested
Last night it poured with rain in Cape Town. The Stellenbosch holding cell would have been cold and unfamiliar to Henri. Lying there, staring at the ceiling, pondering his future, I doubt he had much sleep. When the dreadful murders … Continue reading
One Year Later – van Breda Murders Still Unsolved
Today’s 26th January 2016. The events that took place at De Zalze residential golf estate just outside Stellenbosch one year ago today remain a mystery. It was on the morning of 27th January 2015 that Cape Town awoke to the … Continue reading
You Magazine Article on the van Breda Murders
It’s almost 7 months since the deaths of three members of the van Breda family. It was a vicious attack by an axe-wielding intruder who brutally & systematically overwhelmed Rudi van Breda, followed by Rudi’s father, Martin and his mother Teresa. … Continue reading
van Breda Murders Latest
It was with quite a lot of shock that I googled the latest on the van Breda murders to find a story released in the press yesterday to say that there was not enough evidence to make an arrest and … Continue reading
Henri & Marli Reunited
It’s a very short story across all media outlets. A brief report stating that the siblings had seen each other for the first time since the murders on the night of the 26th/27th January 2015. All that family spokesman Ben Rootman … Continue reading
Marli is Back at School
I opened News 24 this morning to see this happy news. The report doesn’t say whether she still has a police presence at her side, something reports said she had for quite some time after she left hospital and rehab. … Continue reading
4 Months Since the van Breda Murders
Four months ago today Capetonians woke to the shocking news that a Stellenbosch family, living in a prestigious gated golfing community had been viciously attacked in what appeared to be an overnight home invasion. Three of the five family members … Continue reading
Marli van Breda Out & About
The South African You Magazine dated 21st May 2015 covered Marli van Breda first shopping and then heading for her school to watch her boyfriend play rugby. She went with her boyfriends, mother, simply referred to as Christelle. The two … Continue reading
Posted in Day to Day Blogs
Tagged Henri van Breda, Latest news van Breda murders, Marli van Breda, You Magazine
1 Comment
The Bizarre van Breda Murder Case
What is going on with the van Breda murder case is so strange and pretty much unprecedented in South Africa. The questions are piling up as no arrests are made, one survivor is named a key witness and has police … Continue reading
The Latest On Marli van Breda
Every now and again there’s a flurry of news regarding the remaining van Breda family members and then something else makes front page news which overrides it. There have not yet been any arrests in the multiple family murder that … Continue reading
Posted in Day to Day Blogs
Tagged Henri van Breda, Latest news van Breda murders, Marli van Breda, Rudi van Breda
2 Comments
Closing in on a Murderer – van Breda Murders – An Arrest Soon?
Three months ago, on 26th January 2015, most people reading this had not heard of the van Breda family who lived across two continents. South African by birth and Afrikaans by culture, they had spent several years in Australia by … Continue reading
News About Marli van Breda
It’s a week shy of three months since the dreadful slaying of three of the van Breda family in Stellenbosch. People across the city and the world are still waiting to hear of an arrest. To date there has been … Continue reading
You Magazine Stalking Henri
Like a broken record, I write again about the van Breda murders. While there is no news of any consequence (ie no arrests have yet been made), it has come to pass than in order to find out any information … Continue reading
No Latest News in the van Breda Murders
One of the most common online searches that brings people to this blog is ‘van Breda murders – latest news.’ Unfortunately, they are not getting anything new here. Almost daily, I too run a search to see if there has … Continue reading
Two Months Later & Still No Arrests in the Van Breda Murders
Two months have passed since the horrific murders of Martin, Teresa and Rudi van Breda in their exclusive golf estate home just outside Stellenbosch. Usually what happens after someone has been murdered is the police start looking for who did … Continue reading
Posted in Day to Day Blogs
Tagged Henri van Breda, Latest news van Breda murders, Marli van Breda
5 Comments