Police Breakthrough In Knysna Bush Case

Poor John Fourie (68). There he was, a retired businessman realising his hippy dream, living in a cottage in the Knysna bush (Rheenendal, Bibby's Hoek area). He was a keen hang-glider.

This week forestry workers found John Fourie's dead body. His skull had been bashed in so hard that parts of his brain were lying beside him.

A few hours after police visited the scene, the perpetrator returned and burned the house down using a can of petrol

Southern Cape police spokesman Malcolm Pojie had this to say of the incident. "It seems that John Fourie was the victim of a robbery." A 36-year-old black from Rheenendal has been arrested "in connection with the incident".

Perhaps we should be grateful that the police verdict was not suicide.

It was the same Cpt Pojie who once said said that the increase in reported drug- related crimes in the Southern Cape merely meant more people were being brought to book, not that more crimes were necessarily being committed.

At least that's what we think he meant.

His words were: “If the drug stats increase, that is positive because it means the police are doing their job,”...