{"id":58408,"date":"2016-06-30T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=58408"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:31:03","slug":"rally-champion-olympic-star-latest-genocide-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/rally-champion-olympic-star-latest-genocide-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally Champ and Olympic Star Latest Genocide Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_header\">\n<div class=\"article_details\">\n<h2 class=\"bold\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58409\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"Jan Hettema\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Former SA Rally Champ &amp; Olympic Star Latest Genocide Victim<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shot Dead Without Mercy While His Wife Was Tied up and Badly assaulted By Black Genocide Warriors<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h6>.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col300 right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"clr_left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-58410\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema001.jpg?w=278\" alt=\"Jan Hettema001\" width=\"165\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema001.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema001-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema001-948x1024.jpg 948w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/jan-hettema001-768x829.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>Johannesburg &#8211; Former South African cyclist and rally driver Jan Hettema was murdered on his smallholding in Tweedrag near Boschkop on Wednesday morning.\u00a0Police spokesperson Captain Marissa van der Merwe confirmed the incident.\u00a0According to Van der Merwe, the attack happened around 08:00 when two armed gunmen overpowered Hettema, 83, his wife Elsa and a worker at their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJan was shot dead at point-blank range in the face while his wife was tied up and assaulted while the worker was shoved into a cupboard.\u201d The suspects stole a laptop, cellphones and jewellery. \u00a0Hettema&#8217;s wife survived the incident.\u00a0The suspects fled the scene and police are currently searching for them.<\/p>\n<p>Hettema won the South African Rally Championship five times. He also competed in cycling at the 1956 Olympics held in Melbourne in Australia, where he ended in fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; News24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former SA Rally Champ &amp; Olympic Star Latest Genocide Victim Shot Dead Without Mercy While His Wife Was Tied up and Badly assaulted By Black Genocide Warriors . Johannesburg &#8211; Former South African cyclist and rally driver Jan Hettema was murdered on his smallholding in Tweedrag near Boschkop on Wednesday morning.\u00a0Police spokesperson Captain Marissa van der Merwe confirmed the incident.\u00a0According to Van der Merwe, the attack happened around 08:00 when two armed gunmen overpowered Hettema, 83, his wife Elsa and a worker at their home. \u201cJan was shot dead at<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/rally-champion-olympic-star-latest-genocide-victim\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73691,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58408\/revisions\/73691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}