The De Zalze Murders

The Story Behind the Brutal Axe Attack

Julian Jansen

ISBN:

9780624082149

Epub ISBN:

9780624082156

Publisher:

Tafelberg

Date Released:

December 2017

Price (incl. VAT):

R 315.00

Format:

Soft cover, 304pp

About this book:

Could drugs, jealousy and money have driven a normal 20-year-old to wipe out nearly his whole family with an axe?

The Van Bredas from Stellenbosch were seemingly the perfect family. Wealthy, successful and popular.  They led a dream life at the luxury De Zalze golf estate.

And then, in a flash,  everything changed. The country was stunned by the news of the gruesome killings of Martin, his wife Teresa, and their 22-year-old son Rudi. The blonde teenage daughter Marli miraculously survived, but was unable to remember the events of that fatal night due to a brain injury.

Eventually the other son, Henri, who escaped the bloodbath unscathed and knew what had really happened, was charged with the three murders.

One by one, relatives and friends started talking. They painted a picture of parents who had been at their wits' end with their difficult ‘loner’ child. Henri's drug addiction had reportedly caused ‘great discord’ in the household, and he was said to have been ‘pissed off’ with his parents for supposedly favouring his brother Rudi.

Could it be that the Van Bredas' own child had been the one who wielded the axe?

RELATED BOOKS

How to Steal a Gold Mine: The Aurora Story

Dianne Hawker

The Tyranny of Growth

Malcolm Ray

Deep Collusion

Athol Williams

The Enemy Within

Mpumelelo Mkhabela

Femicide in South Africa

Nechama Brodie

Soul of a Nation

Oyama Mabandla

Met my honde

Hilda Van Dyk, Kobus Olivier

The Rise or Fall of South Africa

Frans Cronje

Freek Robinson

Freek Robinson

Moord op Pofadder

Charné Kemp

It's Not About the Bats

Adam Cruise

Not without my dogs

Hilda Van Dyk, Kobus Olivier

We Can Fix Ourselves

Mosibudi Mangena

Gangster

Carla van der Spuy

Hartstories van ons land se boere

Ivor Price, Kobus Louwrens

The Price of Mercy

Sean Davison

Nation on the Couch

Wahbie Long

Blood has a voice

Hestelle van Staden

Samurai Sword Murder

Nicole Engelbrecht

Mothers of the Nation

Lihle Ngcobozi

It's Not Inside It's On Top

Khanya Mtshali

When Love Kills

Melinda Ferguson

Stellenbosch: Murder Town

Julian Jansen

Outopsie

Hestelle van Staden

Our Poisoned Land

Jacques Pauw

Nuclear

Karyn Maughan, Kirsten Pearson

Female Fear Factory

Pumla Gqola

The Thabo Bester Story

Marecia Damons, Daniel Steyn

Capture in the Court

Dan Mafora

War Party

Greg Ardé

Black Racist Bitch

Thandiwe Ntshinga

The New Apartheid

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Moord op Stellenbosch

Julian Jansen

Rapport 30 beste Bokke

Dawie Boonzaaier

Hijackers on Board

Cynthia Stimpel

Brutal School Ties

Sam Cowen

Farm Killings in South Africa

Nechama Brodie

SIZZLERS

Nicole Engelbrecht

The Lie of 1652

Patric Mellet

Skatryk

Johan Fourie

Hunting with the Hawks

Graham Coetzer

Domestic Terror

Nechama Brodie

Killer Cop

Naledi Shange

Living While Feminist

Jen Thorpe

The ANC’s Last Decade

Ralph Mathekga

Can we be safe?

Ziyanda Stuurman

Bait

Janine Lazarus

Dirty Tobacco

Telita Snyckers

Eight Days in July

Kaveel Singh, Jeff Wicks, Qaanitah Hunter

Power and Faith

Pontsho Pilane