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Original Post Date: 2008-10-31 Time: 12:00:06 Posted By: Jan
By Poloko Tau
Slain police officer Andries van Tonder’s 12-year-old son Eugene was courageous enough to say a few words about his father at his funeral.
“My father was a good person,” he said softly in Afrikaans while facing mourners who had packed the Dutch Reformed Church in Malvern, Johannesburg, on Thursday.
His uncle Willem struggled to hold back tears as he spoke of how the entire family were going to miss Van Tonder.
Uniformed police officers were there in their numbers to pay their last respects to a friend and colleague.
Van Tonder, 38, was gunned down while transporting his assailants’ friend to a police station after he had arrested him for the possession of an AK-47 in Bez Valley.
The gunmen then freed their friend, leaving Van Tonder lying dead and his colleague, a student constable, wounded.
Police Captain Jacobus van Straaten urged Van Tonder’s widow Jane not to be angry with God for her husband’s death.
“People tend to turn their backs on God when faced with death, especially cruel death. Dries was your pillar of strength, and you might be asking God how he could be so cruel by allowing something like this to happen,” said Van Straaten.
“Dries’s death may start something that may change people and the world in a much greater way than we ever thought.”
His boss at Jeppe police station, where he had worked for almost 18 years, said Van Tonder would be remembered for his commitment to fighting crime.
Since his death, Van Tonder has been praised for his dedication to his family and the police service.
His widow and daughter Andrika, 8, together with other family members, followed his coffin as it was carried out of the church to a hearse.
Draped in the South African flag with Van Tonder’s police cap on top of it, the coffin was carried by uniformed police officers through a guard of honour of more officers.
The police brass band played a hymn as the coffin was taken to the hearse. Mourners embraced each other in tears as the hearse slowly drove past the marching officers.
The emotional journey ended at Westpark cemetery, where Van Tonder was laid to rest with full police honours.