A prominent KwaZulu-Natal farmer and his wife were brutally killed on their farm in Normandien on Saturday night. FarmMurders
KZN police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala said Normandien SAPS were investigating charges of murder. She said the police had been alerted to the murders at about 6am.
“The people were there waiting for them - they were already in the house and had ransacked it. It didn’t look like anything else was taken except for a laptop, at this stage,” he said. Geel said he called one of the couple’s sons to the scene and neighbours who were alerted via the Farm Watch network also arrived.“They would not harm anybody. They were just peaceful people,” Geel said.
La Marque said the union was “deeply concerned” about the increase in attacks and murders on farms since lockdown regulations had eased. “We call on all relevant stakeholders and leadership to take a far more proactive stance on assisting the farming sector with the challenges that exist. We really need the top echelons of government, and especially President Cyril Ramaphosa, to take firm, decisive action. The police in our province have been very good and have prioritised farm attacks and murders, but we need much higher leadership and control,” she said.
In Cathkin Park in the Central Drakensberg, owner of The Nest Hotel, Stuart Longmore, said he had organised a rally via Winterton and Bergville to the top of Oliviershoek Pass to plead with the government to do more to curb farm murders.
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