{"id":9123,"date":"2012-09-27T23:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2012-09-27T23:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:11:55","slug":"top-south-african-athlete-shot-in-farm-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/top-south-african-athlete-shot-in-farm-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Top South African Athlete Shot In Farm Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/karenharmsemaritzfix01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9124\" title=\"KarenHarmseMaritzfix01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/karenharmsemaritzfix01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/karenharmsemaritzfix01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/karenharmsemaritzfix01-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Pretoria &#8211; Former hurdles champion Karen Harmse\u00a0(formerly Wilkinson) has survived after being shot by robbers during a farm attack in Rustenburg. \u201cEverything happened so quickly\u2026 I see it happening over and over again in my mind,\u201d Harmse, 46, told Beeld.<br \/>\nHarmse was the South Africa and Africa champion in the 100m hurdles in the 1990s and represented SA at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.She was the second South African sporting legend to become a victim of crime over the weekend after former boxing heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders was shot dead on Saturday evening at a restaurant in Brits.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9125\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9125\" title=\"547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n.jpg 403w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/547983_10151237091262813_1603698802_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">11 Dogs previouly\u00a0poisoned a common thing for these genocide murderers to do before going in for the kill<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHarmse\u2019s partner, Nols de Wet, said they had feared a farm attack was coming after the family dogs were poisoned last week.<br \/>\nHarmse was attacked and shot at when she got out of her car at the farmhouse at about 20:00 on Friday night.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen [one of the robbers]\u00a0forced me to\u00a0lie down in the house, I felt my shoulder wouldn\u2019t move.<br \/>\nOnly once I felt the bullet hole and saw the blood did I realise I had been shot.\u201d<br \/>\nThe gang of about five robbers made the rest of the family lie down while they took cellphones, computers, wallets and cars. Harmse needed stitches to her head and the injured bone, muscles and tendons in her shoulder.<br \/>\nPolice are as usual just investigating a case of armed robbery and housebreaking,\u00a0no one wants to admit\u00a0that genocide is taking place against white farmers in South Africa.<br \/>\nFortunately in this case the farmers were spared.\u00a0Even in the most evil of people there sometimes is a moment\u00a0when they\u00a0show compassion. In today&#8217;s genocide climate that is a miracle we are thankful for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretoria &#8211; Former hurdles champion Karen Harmse\u00a0(formerly Wilkinson) has survived after being shot by robbers during a farm attack in Rustenburg. \u201cEverything happened so quickly\u2026 I see it happening over and over again in my mind,\u201d Harmse, 46, told Beeld. Harmse was the South Africa and Africa champion in the 100m hurdles in the 1990s and represented SA at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.She was the second South African sporting legend to become a victim of crime over the weekend after former boxing heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders was shot dead<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/27\/top-south-african-athlete-shot-in-farm-attack\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9124,"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\/9123"}],"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=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}