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What Peter Really had to Pay in Return for ‘the house’ on Half the Property 

When Peter applied for a bond to build the parents’ cottage, the bank naturally insisted that the parents transfer the property into his name first. Charles and Zeena reluctantly agreed, but demanded that Peter add lifelong living rights on the cottage to the ‘deal’.  Peter and Anna followed the direction of the parents as if they were under their spell.  Probably, in the light of their very inhumane situation, they were really under a curse, which was placed over them by incantations, continuous brainwashing, and other forms of barefaced witchcraft they could not perceive. 

They accepted all the parents’ demands without understanding correctly what Charles and Zeena were saying and doing. 

For the next forty years, although the property had to be in Peter’s name, Anna earnestly believed, (as it was planned and as it worked practically,) this so-called “gift of the house” in exchange for the “cottage of their choice” was what is known in the Real Estate business as “Permanent House Swapping.”

As Goswap.org explains, “Trading homes is just another way of selling real estate… I’ll ‘buy’ your house, but only if you ‘buy’ mine…  A Property trade usually takes place without exchanging money…” 

In Peter and Anna’s situation, Charles and Zeena traded or sold “the house” for “the cottage” by forcing them to pay all the attorney’s costs, sales tax, registration costs, rates and tax, a 30-year bond, building insurance, etcetera. 

Although Peter had not much to say about anything, “in all fairness,” as the deceived Anna put it, she only expected the parents to pay one-third of the water and electricity bill as they were “four people” (two adults, one child, and a baby,) living on the property, and the parents were two persons.  Peter and Anna also ignorantly agreed to pay all the maintenance on the cottage as well as on the house.  (As we will see, Peter and Anna’s generosity to pay for the upkeep of the cottage was a direct contravention of the legal agreement, which the lawyers decided on, and drew up at the time.)

When Peter and Anna approached attorneys to legalize everything, they verbalized the ‘house swapping’ idea in exactly the way Charles and Zeena had explained it to them, and added the ‘complication’ of the registration of the bond.

Despite all the challenges, which the burden of this servitude presented to Peter and Anna, God had also been good to them when they blindly stepped into this satanic trap.

When the lawyers registered this ‘house trade’ as part of the title deed of the property, Peter and Anna gullibly believed the lawyers defined a virtually impossible legal process of dividing the property in two, to place the second half on Charles and Zeena’s name as the ‘right of habitatio.’  The young couple erroneously believed Peter would legally own ‘the house’ on the property, while Charles and Zeena would legally own ‘the cottage’ on the property through their right of habitatio. 

In reality, ‘lifelong living rights’ called for a binding, legal agreement, which would burden the property with a servitude.  A servitude is “a law of restriction, or obligation attached to a property that entitles somebody other than the owner to a specific use of it, such as the right to live on a specific part of it.” 

Oblivious to the implications of a servitude on the property, Peter and Anna believed, legally as well as morally, they bought “the house” from his parents fair and square and were paying for it honestly. 

Because Peter and Anna had absolutely no knowledge of legal terms and property transactions, and did not understand any of the necessary details concerning the right of habitatio, usufruct, or any other servitude, the lawyers sovereignly chose which type of right they would grant the parents in ‘exchange’ for “the house.” 

Without even one word to this effect, Charles and Zeena eagerly accepted the lawyers’ offer to the right of habatatio on the cottage, which Peter was about to build for them on the property. 

Oddly, that day in the lawyer’s office, as Charles and Zeena were about to sign the agreement with Peter and Anna present, the lawyer, without explaining any particulars, calmly said to Charles, “You are signing your life away.” 

Charles, who signed first and was already seated at the lawyer’s desk, pen and paper in hand, paused a second.  Then, without asking ‘why,’ or ‘what do you mean?’  Charles signed and Zeena followed his example. 

It seemed that Charles and Zeena knew exactly what the lawyer meant, and what they were doing. 

It was Peter and Anna who could not understand what the lawyer was saying, but they were too shy to ask. 

Anna felt insulted but did not voice her thoughts, thinking the lawyer implied she and Peter would oppress his parents somehow.  Anna could not tell the lawyer what terrible people Peter’s parents really are.  She thought the lawyer, being such a wise man, would discern the truth of the situation, as she and Peter were open and honest about everything, and even paid the bill to settle all of this legally.  Anna believed all of this proved they had absolutely no intention of oppressing or robbing the parents in any way. 

She wondered why the lawyer did not warn her and Peter, “It could be very unwise and expensive to buy ‘the house’ for the price of the cottage, seeing that you are binding yourself to the parents for the rest of your lives.”  It might have seemed like a bargain to outsiders, but knowing Charles and Zeena, placed all of this in a different light.  Sadly, the lawyer did not know the extent of this appalling situation, into which Peter’s parents had been forcing them for years.  

As far as Peter and Anna were concerned, this was a legal property trade, which the parents insisted on without Peter and Anna ever asking for any of it.  They hoped it would bring some relief from Charles and Zeena’s callous coercion. 

They were wrong.  This strange property deal was definitely not a “gift.”  It was the survival strategy of desperate parents, who were sinking financially through Charles’ massive drinking problem.  

NON-STOP BOASTING WAS EMOTIONAL MURDER ON THEIR CHILDREN — (EMOTIONAL INFANTICIDE)

Despite the clear truth of the situation, Charles and Zeena insistently began to repeat the story to everyone they knew and met, telling everyone “they gave the house to Peter.”  Completely unashamed, they even kept on repeating the story to Peter and Anna’s face, to all of the couple’s friends, and to Anna’s family.  Doggedly, they said absolutely nothing about the fact that Peter was “paying” them with the cottage and its upkeep. 

Amazingly, not even Peter and Anna realized it at first, but it was a blatant lie that his parents ‘gave’ Peter ‘the house.’ 

“The house” was definitely not a “gift.”  If it had truly been a gift, the house would have come with the full use and ownership of the whole property.  The real gift of a “house” and logically, the whole property it stands on, would have come without any kind of servitude or moral obligations to the parents.

A true gift would have come without Peter’s 30-year bond to pay for ‘the parents’ cottage.’  Peter was also saddled with all the responsibilities of both dwellings and the property, as well as with his parents’ lifelong living rights. 

In addition, the parents were living virtually without expenses, as Peter verbally agreed! 

More importantly, if it had really been a gift, loving parents would never have humiliated Peter and his wife by boasting ceaselessly, without cause, and falsely. 

 

Years later, the Awful Truth of this Deadly Deception Began to Dawn on Anna 

‘Buying’ “the house” in a transfer, and with Charles and Zeena full-time on their backs, raised Peter and Anna’s monthly expenses by at least a hundred percent.  For the first time in their married life, Peter and Anna had to choose between paying and poverty.  Yet, proudly, Anna never told a soul about the tight spot, into which his parents’ “gift of the house” had crammed them.  She was working at her own career at home and the money she earned, filled most of the gaps. 

If the parents did not interfere, Peter and Anna would have owned their own property and home for much less than this bad package.  Many years later, the deceived Anna finally began to grasp the fact, (Peter supposedly never thought much about anything,) that the parents’ “generous” offer came at a time when Zeena’s husband, who could not hold down a job anymore, was depleting his wife’s finances through his decimating drinking problem. 

Truth of the matter was, these ‘do-gooders,’ who called themselves “parents,” were remorseless users and common swindlers.  They planned to turn the victimized Peter and Anna into their lifelong slaves to gain financial and emotional security for themselves.

The parents’ so-called “gift” was in fact a clever plot to secure psychopathic control over Peter and his family, as well as to use Peter to provide for them in their old age, in case Charles Manson swallowed every penny and “the house” especially, down his thirsty throat; leaving him and Zeena destitute. 

The so-called “gift of the house” had nothing to do with their alleged love for Peter. 

The story of “the house” was crucial to a deceitful plan, which they executed coldheartedly and very meticulously. 

This plan had everything to do with them, their own selfish interests, their sick mind games, and their criminal control over Peter, Anna, and their two innocent grandchildren. 

LIFE IN “THE HOUSE” AFTER ‘BLISS’ IN THE COUNTRY     

Hardly a week after Peter and Anna vacated their lovely home in the country to move into “the house,” Zeena’s drunken husband kicked her out the cottage as well.  ‘Inevitably,’ she moved back into “the house” with Peter and his family.  Life in the open space of the country, with Zeena constantly moving in with them when Charles kicked her out, was bad.  However, now Peter and Anna and their young family found themselves crammed together on a small property in a small house; right within reach of a crazed alcoholic; a situation far worse than they could ever have anticipated. 

As it was the month December; Peter and his mother were both on leave from work.  His mother had selfishly invaded their home again; absorbing every aspect of their lives.  Peter and Anna had booked a holiday bungalow in advance, but now they were laden with his mother once again.  They thought the only ‘reasonable’ thing to do, was to take her on holiday with them.  As usual, when they allegedly ‘offended’ the touchy, aggressive Charles Manson, he refused to speak to any of them for weeks at a time, so they left him in the cottage without telling him about the holiday. 

Zeena squeezed herself into the holiday bungalow with them.  Peter and Anna paid for everything.  His mother had every ice cream, every mango, and every meal with them.  She never granted them a minute of privacy, and never took out one sent to buy her grandchildren a water sucker. 

Surprisingly, when they returned from holiday, they found Charles Manson sober and clean, waiting for them.  Supposedly, he was a changed person.  To be left alone on the property had apparently done him the world of good! 

Peter and Anna rejoiced.  They naively believed Manson would overlook such a great ‘offense’ as to leave him to himself in his drunken state without telling him where they went and when they would return! 

Their joy was short lived. 

A few weeks later, Charles Manson was back on the booze again.

The “house swapping” deal was a complete disaster. 

It was an escalating misery that presented Peter and Anna with countless, complicated problems. 

Naively, Anna never researched the facts of the habatatio-agreement to ensure themselves of their legal rights; something Peter would never have done.  They simply accepted Charles and Zeena’s blueprint, which the parents stamped on them repeatedly. “They must be eternally grateful for the ‘gift of the house.’”  Consequently, Charles and Zeena, as the merciless wardens of the gullible captives in “the house,” were deceiving Peter, Anna, and the two boys to submissively endure their torturous oppression for the rest of their natural lives.  

 

Among other things, Charles and Zeena forced Peter to park his vehicle in the open on the little front lawn.  Their suggestion to “give Peter the house” really meant “the house” only, while Zeena and Charles had the spacious cottage of their own design, the single garage on the property, the carport, and the much larger back yard.  It triggered horrendous arguments when the couple left a vehicle in the driveway for even a short while, causing discomfort to the parents by having visitors parking inside he property. 

When Peter was at home over weekends, his vehicle had to stand on the front lawn and the children had nowhere to play. 

From the beginning, the children were only allowed to play on the little front lawn, as both the grandparents found their childhood games extremely noisy and disturbing.  When they played ball and touched a wall in the process, Charles shouted they “dirtied the place!”  When they took a quick, defying turn across the back lawn on their bicycles, Manson’s frenzied screams could raise the dead.  Amongst many other things, Charles took out the grape vine in front of the cottage because the kids nibbled on ‘his’ grapes. 

Neither Peter nor Anna knew, but according to the habitatio servitude, his parents’ spiteful abuse of the property outside the cottage, and their criminal control of the children’s movements especially, was an illegal infringement of the young family’s property rights. 

Anna, who began to search for the truth about their situation later on, did not know it at the time, but the high court of South Africa determined that habitatio exists as follows, “Habitatio benefits the holders for their lifetime to live in the [agreed upon] dwelling on the property….”  This practically implies, they had the legal right to live inside the agreed upon cottage only.  They did not have any say over a single square meter of the property’s ground or the surrounding buildings.  However, without agreeing on the matter with Peter and Anna, and in complete violation of their habitatio right, Zeena and her husband simply ‘kept’ the single garage and carport that existed on the property at the time, as well as exclusive use of more than half the property. 

Not knowing they could have protested the parents’ expanding abuse in court, Anna made a standing appointment with her parents to take the children to their farm every Saturday morning while Peter was supposedly at work. 

She visited with her parents until Peter called in the afternoon to say he was on his way home. 

Anna literally had to flee from her home to grant the children some freedom from Charles and Zeena’s domination. 

Zeena, however, accused Anna of “keeping the children away” from them to spend all their time with her parents, while she and Charles hardly ever saw them.  Zeena conveniently forgot that they strolled in and out Anna’s home whenever it suited them, and the children visited them in the cottage as it suited Zeena. 

 

PETER AND ANNA STARTED THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND ANNA TALKED CHARLES INTO REHABILITATION 

In all of this rising chaos, Peter decided to leave his job and start his own business.  Anna supported him fully and promised to help him with everything “to reach his full potential.”  They began to build the business together from scratch with only raw tenacity and incredibly hard work.  Anna assisted him wholeheartedly by doing all the office work, books, etcetera.  Additionally, she nearly single-handedly raised the boys, did all the home making and gardening on their portion of the property, as well as studying while working at a career of her own.  Her life became a disciplined battle field with sparse rewards. 

They struggled financially, but she refused to let anyone, including his neighboring parents, know.  Instead, she cut everything to a bare minimum, and gave as much as she could from what she could earn from her career to support them.   As far as she could perceive, they both tried their best to keep head above water under the parents’ tyranny while Peter was hardly at home anymore. 

Pressured from all sides, Anna realized that their huge responsibilities towards his selfish parents were, in fact, completely unnecessary, and benefitted them in no way.  Two years after they started the business the boys, in the virtual absence of their father, were getting used to seeing Charles drunk while suffering under his temper tantrums.  That bothered Anna greatly.  She then initiated an open conversation with Charles, explaining what bad example he set to the children, and pleaded with him to stop that destructive lifestyle, which has been severely affecting them all. 

To her great surprise, Charles agreed.  He slowly began to take control of his problem again, but had to look for a new job every now and again, with periods of unemployment in between.  Most of the time, he was lounging around the house while Peter and his mother were at work, and Anna was inundated with her own responsibilities.  Charles made it his hobby to harass the children; regularly verbally bullying the boys.  When they told Anna about this, it provoked her to anger.  Asking Charles Manson to let the boys be boys was useless; he simply had to control their every move. 

 

Completely in character with alcoholism, Charles’ ‘rehabilitation’ did not last long before the liquor bottle appeared again.  Ever so often, Charles’ drunken interference with the boys erupted in an intense argument between him and Anna.  Despite Anna’s defiance, every new day brought another reason for Charles to make war on the children and on her. Bringing up two lively boys in a small house with a nine by twelve meter garden without encroaching on the grandparent’s ‘portion,’ tested Anna’s self-control to the limit.  By this time, her patience with her mad in-laws was withering away.  

She made a huge effort to ignore Charles’ harassment, but when he scolded the boys, she remembered the tongue-murder he had been committing on Peter since he was a baby.  She knew she could not allow him to do the same to her sons. 

Once, she waited for Zeena to return from work, approached them, and asked, “Please, if the children are naughty, tell Peter or me.  We are the parents.  We will deal with them accordingly.  Do not call them names and chase them away.  This is their home now.  Living together like this was entirely your idea.  The children were used to lots of space to play, now they have only the little front yard - or would you prefer they rather play in the busy street?” 

“Speak to Peter!”  Manson  mimicked and snorted sarcastically.  “You sit on his head anyway, you witch.  What will that lame sack of flesh do to control you?” 

 

As soon as Anna turned her back to go to the shops, go to university classes, fetch the children from school, took the children to the farm on Saturdays, etcetera, Charles would sneak into her house to use her telephone.  As with the house in years gone by, he refused to install a telephone in the cottage.  People told Anna they knew Charles was calling from inside her house, as they heard her wall clock chime while talking to him.  Anna realized Zeena had not given them the spare keys to the house or any of the spare keys to the built in cupboards when they moved in, but Zeena swore she gave them everything.  Anna pleaded with Peter to change the locks, but he was ‘too busy.’  The next time she had an argument with Charles, she accused him of invading her home and privacy to use her telephone, and he slyly cut the telephone wire from the outside.  Without a sane explanation, Anna had to stand embarrassed before the people from the telephone company when they came to fix Charles’ sabotage.  She was furious but had to keep calm and remain quiet, as she had no proof that he had actually done it. 

Anna also became aware that someone had been in the house each time she went out, upsetting an ornament here or something else there.  Manson was rambling through her home and all her and Peter’s belongings, violating their privacy and the most intimate aspects of their life.  She suspected he was searching for money, or something he could sell to support his addiction, which started again.  Anna told Peter, but apparently, he did not believe her.  Maybe he thought it was unimportant.  Or, as was his usual manner, he was just not interested in anything going on at home. 

What did not enter Anna’s mind at that stage, was that Manson was not simply fumbling through their private affairs and possessions in search of something to support his graving for control.  He was constantly monitoring the growth of her and Peter’s young business, their finances, and all their other private affairs. 

What she could never suspect, was that mainly, Charles was searching for the title deed to the property. 

The title deed also defined the registered servitude attached to the property - as if he did not know a title deed would only be transferred to the owner once the bond was paid in full.  In fact, Manson was searching for Peter’s copy of the servitude, which described his parents’ living rights.  Many years later Anna began to look for the copy of Manson and Zeena’s habitatio rights.  The parents, and Peter and Anna, received copies from the lawyer’s office at the time of the bond registration, but Peter and Anna’s copy was taken from among their many private papers. 

Indeed, Charles Manson had not forgotten about the time they took Zeena on holiday with them when he again chucked her out of the cottage.  Charles was premeditating revenge; biding the right moment to set his plan in action to utterly annihilate Peter and Anna.  This time, he was planning something extremely sinister. 

THE RISE OF A NEW CHARLES MANSON     

In the meantime, Peter and Anna’s business flourished.  She could  save the money she was earning from her career; building a nest for a rainy day.  She also maintained her work in the business and Peter continued his prolonged absence and disinterest in her, the boys, and their home.  He explained it away by focusing her attention on the fact that he had to organize and oversee all the work in the business.  She understood that he was a busy man and that this type of lifestyle became their actual ‘normal.’  She tried everything in her power to make Peter happy and praised his “hard work” in public and in private whenever she could.  On the other hand, he never gave her any recognition for her fidelity and support, but she became ‘used’ to him treating her that way and did not expect much from him. 

No matter their differences and difficulties, it became tradition that Anna would not bake a single cake or bread, make a grand meal or dessert, cook jam or canned pickles, or fill her cake tins with homemade cookies and rusks, (as she did continually,) without giving a batch to her in-laws, or inviting them to their share her handiwork.  Peter never hired a video as he occasionally did, (it was long before the days of DSTV,) made a barbeque and invited Anna’s parents, or other family members and friends, without including his parents.  As in the days before Peter and Anna bought “the house,” his parents shared in nearly every aspect of their lives, only to a much greater degree than before.  Peter and Anna could not even take a Sunday afternoon nap without waking to his parents’ movement in the lounge or on the front veranda; impatiently waiting for them to get up. 

Still, neither Peter nor Anna placed boundaries on their marriage, lives, or home. After many vicious fights to ward off Manson’s spitefulness and demonic control over the movement and play of the children, which caused much greater disorder and chaos in their home than when they lived in the country, Anna again sought Peter’s protection and help. 

Naturally, Peter went about his business as if he were born without ears.  Totally submerged in all her responsibilities and oppressed by their evil, Anna still did not realize that she had married into a narcissist clan.  She was fully set on making her marriage to Peter work. 

 

 

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