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The case against an Eastern Cape woman accused of plotting to kill her farmer husband has been postponed.
The victims, a 58-year-old man and his 61-year-old partner, were attacked while asleep in their home.
The suspects threatened and tortured the family at gunpoint, stealing electronic goods and firearms before fleeing the scene with the victims’ vehicle.
The duo borrowed R200 from the farmer and demanded more money from him: once he refused, they strangled him to death.
The alarm was raised after a neighbour became concerned after receiving a call from the victim's employer indicating that the farmer had not reported to work that day.
'The victim forced into the boot of his vehicle and transported to the Tseseng area in Qwaqwa, where he was tragically murdered. '
Gauteng police said that of the three people that were taken in for questioning, only one has been linked to the house robbery, following a farm invasion outside Johannesburg.
Items worth R250,000 were stolen from the premises.
Eight suspects have been arrested for multiple farm attacks in Sheepmoor, Mpumalanga, following months of intimidation, property damage, and disruptions to farming operations.
Police arrested two suspects in a daring house robbery in Odendaalsrus, recovering stolen items in a swift operation following a tip-off in Kutloanong.
Two farmers are accused of murder following separate incidents at a farm in Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Both the women were visiting the farm and were found to have sustained gunshot wounds.
Gregory Walsh is facing a charge of pointing a firearm at Zanele Mkhize who lives on his farm outside Richmond in the south-west of KwaZulu-Natal.
Assailants threatened the couple while demanded money and firearms, before tying the couple with shoe laces and assaulted them.
EFF leader Julius Malema explained that when he leads ‘kill the Boer’ song, he is not calling for farmers, or whites of Afrikaner descent to be shot, but the song is directed at the system of apartheid and anything that represents it.
Agriculture and Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza handed over title deeds of 61 farms to Mathulini Communal Property Association on Sunday.
OPINION: Were South Africa to reintroduce the death penalty, there is little doubt that it would be poor people-not criminal politicians-who would face the gallows as they are the visible face of crime, deployed by the invisible multiracial syndicates using them as hitmen and hijackers; they are seldom charged and, if they are, can afford the best lawyers, writes Mary de Haas.
The antecedence of urban mobility in South Africa was the promulgation of the Native Land Act. The act limited African land ownership to 7% and, later, 13% through the 1936 Native Trust Land Act.
Eastern Cape police have arrested two men following an armed robbery on a farm in Stutterheim.
Four suspects wanted in connection with the murder of a mother and her child and two suspects wanted for cash-in-transit robberies, house robberies and farm attacks, were shot and killed by police in two separate incidents over the weekend.
Police have arrested five men in connection with the murder of an Ermelo farmer, Jannie Weideman.
Police said they were on the hunt for five suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a West Coast farmer and an attack on his wife.
Frederick Benjamin Erasmus, 22, was remanded in custody until January 15, 2024 after he allegedly fired shots at three men accused of theft on the farm. One of the men broke his leg while fleeing.
An elderly couple are the latest victims of an invasion and robbery.
The DA KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson on Agriculture and Rural Development, Sithembiso Ngema, said the party’s plan was informed by the absence of any form of intervention by or solutions from the province’s ANC government and, in particular, Agriculture and Rural Development MEC Super Zuma and his department.