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Mom killed on daughter's 21st
02/08/2007 09:13 - (SA)
Amanda Roestoff , Beeld
Roodepoort - The former owner of Posh Paws dog salon in Weltevredenpark was killed with an axe on the day her daughter turned 21.
Ilze Broers, 52, was apparently murdered by her lover, Kobus van Rensburg, 55, the owner of Proplist property agency in Krugersdorp.
Janse van Rensburg applied for bail in the regional court on Wednesday after he had been arrested in connection with the murder of Broers on July 22.
Janse van Rensburg was "a possessive man" who allowed Broers snr only two hours a week with her daughters, testified superintendent Piet Byleveld on Wednesday.
Broers was terrified
Broers snr would have moved from Janse van Rensburg's house in Highjump Street to a cottage at the house of one of her daughters on the day she was murdered. The decision was taken three months earlier, but Broers snr was "terrified" and didn't know how Janse van Rensburg would react, testified Byleveld.
Broers snr, a divorced mother of three children, would also have attended the 21st birthday party of her daughter Liesl, 21, on that day. She should have been at the party at 11:00, but never turned up.
A family friend visited the locked-up house, opened the garage door and noticed that Broers snr's Bantam bakkie was still there.
They kept phoning Janse van Rensburg to find our where their mother was, but he didn't answer his phones. He later said he was with his mother in an old age home in Roodepoort.
Liesl and her sister, Carla, 24, went to his house.
They were concerned because the arguments between her mother and Janse van Rensburg sometimes got out of hand.
Carla found her mother's body locked in her bakkie about 200m from the house in Jukskei Street after 19:00.
In the house, newspapers were found in the entrance and lounge.
Clearly identifiable blood marks were found next to and under the bed in the main bedroom.
A note in Broers's handwriting against a wooden cupboard in the study made the daughters and Byleveld suspicious.
The note was directed to Broers's broker and family - "in case something happened to her".
The police confiscated Janse van Rensburg's shoes, an axe in the garage and "hidden" car keys.
"A lot of money" was also found in the house after Broers had sold the Posh Paws dog salon in the Ridge Terrace centre.
She apparently wanted to invest the money in Janse van Rensburg's business which was described as "shaky".
"The deceased was a rich woman," testified Byleveld.
Janse van Rensburg was arrested on the same night.
Forensic specialists found drops of blood in the kitchen and large pools of blood "which one couldn't miss", but which had been cleaned up, next to the bed in the main bedroom.
Janse van Rensburg was apparently in contact with two men at the Hillfox centre on the day of the murder. Byleveld said during testimony that police were looking for more suspects.
The case was postponed for the verdict until August 7.
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