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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.
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