Four people have been arrested for the murder of Cramond farmer Bill Theron (85) on December 12.
Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele said the suspects are aged between 32 and 38.
They are due to appear before the New Hanover Magistrates Court on Monday.
Theron sustained multiple injuries to his head in the attack on the farm. His elderly wife Christine found his body lying near the farm gate. The suspects fled the scene after the attack. Nothing was taken from the house.
Mbele said a case of murder was opened for investigation by Cramond SAPS. The docket was allocated to the Provincial Organised Crime who took over the investigation.
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Three family members were butchered to death with what is believed to be a bushknife in yet another farm attack at a sugar cane farm at Bishopstowe near Pietermaritzburg on Monday.
The three family members included a 58-year-old man, a 60-year-old woman and an 84-year-old man.
Sources at the scene said one man’s body was found lying dead in what looked like a tool shed, while the other two family members’ bodies were found inside the house.
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The source said they were not sure if anything was stolen by the assailants as yet but they suspect that money was taken as the farm workers were due to be paid on Tuesday morning. The fridge in the kitchen was also ransacked.
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The KwaZulu-Natal countryside has been rocked by yet another farm attack in which an elderly smallholder, Bill Theron (85), was gunned down at his home near Albert Falls Dam, in Crammond, on Saturday.
This comes hot on the heels of the murder of 80-year-old Mponzana Khumalo, who was shot in the chest while checking on the family’s cattle in Nkomba, near Muden, recently. While Khumalo was robbed of his cellphone and money then left tied to a tree, there was nothing taken from Theron.
A source who knew Theron said the retired farmer and his wife, Christine, used to farm eggs but had sold the property three to four years ago but still lived there. Christine was unharmed during the attack.