In 2019, 132 cases of stock theft were opened.
Two men believed to be behind a spate of stock theft incidents in Stutterheim have been killed in an apparent mob justice attack in the farming town, with one of the men found burnt, police have said.
Provincial police spokesperson Captain Khaya Tonjeni said the incident took place at noon at Kubusi Township. “Police apprehended the one male suspect, but later learnt that two suspects who ran away were chased and assaulted by the public. The bodies of the two men, aged 28 and 30 years, were found by police at Mngxuma, near Kubusi, at Stutterheim.”He said two cases of murder have been opened and were currently under investigation. He said no arrests have been made.
Ntshinga said: “We understand your frustrations at the rise of stock theft and, as the police management, we don’t take stock theft lightly as it includes theft of livelihoods to people who are subsistence and commercial farmers.
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