Family man, businessman and cyclist Gert Vermeulen, co-founder of the bicycle NPO #BIKES4ERP was shot dead while out riding in Centurion with his friend and neighbour Jannie Goosen on Saturday morning.Gert Vermeulen — a family man, IT specialist and passionate crusader who worked hard to get bicycle donations for rural children to get to school — has been shot dead for a bicycle and wallet.
Masondo said “a case of armed robbery and murder has been opened” and police were appealing to anyone with information to call their nearest police station or Crime Stop on 08600 10111.that he immediately contacted his community WhatsApp group and phoned his wife, who was out walking with Vermeulen’s wife Ineke when the murder happened. The women both arrived on the scene along with other cyclists in the area, but Vermeulen had already died.
His business partner and co-founder Nicolai van der Merwe explained on the ERP website that he and Vermeulen had met as work colleagues, struck up a friendship and began cycling together in 2012. The website explains that for a donation of R3,000 or US$200 a bicycle is made available to a rural child who enters into a two-year study-to-own agreement through which they use the bicycle to get to school. The bike usage is monitored weekly and repairs are done by “appointed bicycles mechanic” Samuel Matheta.
That's why we can't even go for jogs anymore😭. So sorry for the loss, condolences to his family 😔
You media ara part of the problem you are also murderers you know very well this man was killed by foreigners but you call people xenophobic any chance you get
South Africa is a film, MHSRIP 🙏🏾🙏🏾😥😭
GlennfromZA Our country is FUCKED!!!!!
DrVoetsek Because we are surrounded by savages
South Africa is gone, we are now certified shithole.
Senseless killings will continue because jail is not a deterrent for these coward lowlife thugs, they eat better and sleep warmer than the poorest of poor in SA.
ugh! man 💔
Man... I have to ride past at least 5 rival gangs before I get to work... and work starts at 7 o'clock
Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. May God comfort and give them strength. Hope the killers are found asap SAPoliceService
Condolences to the family and friends, the rural community will be poorer without his dedicated work. Once again crime has stolen a good Samaritan
He is being killed when the son that stays abroad is at home and another one was expected to land Sunday.... What a coincidence.... Both his sons that stays abroad are here for his burial... Aaaaw😭😭😭😭 They must find the killer, s/he might be too close
Why you saying he was buying bicycles for children now.. bloody stratcom
Lovely country we live in…
This is sad and angering.
Remove illegal guns from the street .
Our society is a sick one. Hope they find the basted and throw away the key.
urgh
💔🤦🏾♂️💔 the society we are living in, is not safe at all. every day someone's has been taken away.
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How a kind heart lived and died for bicycles — and lost his life for oneGert Vermeulen – a family man, IT specialist and passionate crusader who worked hard to get bicycle donations for rural children to get to school – has been shot dead for a bicycle and wallet. So sad. May he rest in peace and condolences to his family So sad that life is so cheap! Condolences to his family So was it a bike jacking or did they just shoot him and say this is for the bike?.. condolences to the family his efforts will never go unnoticed, let him rest peacefully knowing he was a hero to his people
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