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eventREF E-0013503Revised

24 July 2001

Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers

Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez were convicted by Judge Faan Hancke for murder on two soldiers, Michael Leisanyane and Gilmore van Wyk, in an apparent rightwing-inspired ammunition theft at Tempe, Bloemfontein, in June 1998. Du Preez's younger brother Petrus was acquitted after the state failed to prove that he had envisaged the soldiers' death. Leisanyane and Van Wyk were transporting ammunition in an army truck from De Burg to Ladybrand when they were ambushed.

How we know this

  1. 01News24,(2001), 'Two guilty of Tempe murder', From News24,07 July [Online], Available at www.news24.com [Accessed: 23 november 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013503

South African History Online (2011) 'Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013503 (Accessed: 31 October 2026).

South African History Online, Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013503, (accessed 31 October 2026).

"Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013503. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Swanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013503.

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