{"id":89179,"date":"2019-01-29T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=89179"},"modified":"2019-01-29T16:53:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:53:28","slug":"parents-not-approve-daughters-relationship-police-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/01\/29\/parents-not-approve-daughters-relationship-police-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents did not approve of daughter\u2019s relationship with police captain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryka Kleinhans (31) died on the scene. It was said that she jumped out of a moving vehicle.
\n\u201dWhy were we kept away from the scene? Why did they not let us know about her death? Why did someone have to phone us from Lydenburg on Monday to sympathize before we were even aware that she was dead? Something just does not make sense!\u201d the distraught couple told\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0on Tuesday.
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\n<\/b><\/strong>They say what they find most concerning is that Capt. Geldenhuys did not call them himself, as he had their phone number. Capt. Geldenhuys is stationed with the eMalahleni police.<\/p>\n

These were only a couple of questions that haunt Johan and Petro Bezuidenhout. They spoke to\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/strong>shortly before they were to leave for Middelburg to collect their daughter\u2019s remains.<\/p>\n

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\nMr and Mrs Bezuidenhout said that they traveled to Middelburg on Monday, shortly after learning of their daughter\u2019s death. Upon their arrival at the mortuary, they were informed that an autopsy is currently being performed and that it will take about an hour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sat at the mortuary for more than six hours to wait for the autopsy to be completed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kapt. Awie Geldenhuys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr Bezuidenhout said a police officer told them that they suspect foul play. The couple themselves say that their questions emanated from the fact that nobody informed them of their daughter\u2019s death on the night she died.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwie phoned his brother from the scene to ask him to go there. His brother lives two blocks from us. He could have taken us with him. I could have gotten the chance to see her body whilst it was still warm. Instead I had to go and identify her body among others in a mortuary. It was horrifying\u201d a broken Mr Bezuidenhout said.<\/p>\n

Mrs Bezuidenhout said that Capt. Geldenhuys, after they managed to track him down around midnight on Monday, told them that Maryka was sitting on the backseat of his car before she died. Maryka and Capt. Geldenhuys were at Loskopdam for the day and were on their way home.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cHe told us that they had an argument and she sat in the back of the vehicle. I find it highly unlikely that she would sit in the back, because like me, she easily gets carsick if she sits on the back seat,\u201d said Mrs Bezuidenhout. They are also baffled as to why she would have jumped out of the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwie told us that she was nearly run over by another car, whilst he was busy trying to get her to open her eyes.\u201d
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\nThe couple said that they have never met Capt. Geldenhuys in person and only saw their daughter and him traveling together in a car on two occasions. They were aware that their daughter and Capt. Geldenhuys were in a relationship for the past three months.\u00a0
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\nThe Bezuidehout couple said that they did not approve of the relationship. They also did not want their three year-old granddaughter to accompany Maryka whe she went to visit Capt. Geldenhuys.<\/p>\n

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Mr Bezuidenhout said that all he wants, is to know the truth about how his daughter died.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo we have to fear that the docket is going to go missing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 They were informed on Monday that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is investigating the case.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maryka was a hairdresser who worked at ‘Die Ark’ hairdressers in Lydenburg up until December.<\/p>\n

\u2022 She is survived by her parents, a brother and sister and her three year-old child.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maryka was to testify in a case against Vic Welgemoed on 8 February. He stands accused of impersonating a police officer among other charges.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0tried to call capt. Geldenhuys but he cut the call once he heard who was speaking. A WhatsApp message sent to his phone was read but not replied to.<\/p>\n

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