Emotions ran high after an incident that claimed seven lives. The families of the 7 people who were brutally murdered at Lismore Farm near Kestell, in the Free State, are still shocked by the incident.
The lifeless bodies of 6 women aged between 22- 53, and a 17-year-old boy were found with gunshot wounds in the farm owners house.
Two firearms, a shotgun and a pellet gun, believed to have been stolen from the farm house, were recovered. Radebe explains, “After we burial, the following week we will see the suspects roaming around in the streets. You will understand how we feel. If we as a family don’t want to open the case, society will act as if we the family are suspects.”
Smit says, “I don’t know where to go from here. I’m staying with my son at the moment and my daughter is on the other side of the mountain and the other one is in Bethlehem, she was working at the clinic there. My other daughter is staying over the hill here.”“We are very sad, she was like a family to us, now we don’t know what to do, but we would love to be here until the funeral.” says Radebe.
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