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April’s litany of farm attacks in South Africa includes four murders: A 54 year-old man shot to death, a mother and her adult son beaten to death with blunt instruments, and a 78 year-old wheelchair bound man strangled to death. He was in a wheelchair because of a previous attack 20 years ago.
A 78-year-old farmer fatally shot one of two attackers in Bishopstowe, outside of Pietermaritzburg, in the kwaZulu Natal province.
Reports say the farmer was attacked while working on a vehicle. When one of the attackers attempted to stab the farmer during a scuffle, the elderly man managed to fire the shot that ended one of the attacker’s life.
Five due in court over farm murder
By Zainul Dawood
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DURBAN - FIVE people will appear in the Howick Magistrateâs Court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Howick farmer, Trevor Murphy.
They were arrested in Pietermaritzburg on Monday morning. Murphy, 50, was at his residence on Wendover Farm in Karkloof when three men attacked him and stabbed him multiple times on Friday morning.
They robbed him of his cellphone, firearm, TV, groceries and laptops before they fled the scene in his Ford Ranger bakkie. Murphy died in hospital.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said Howick SAPS detectives, Pietermaritzburg Public Order Police Unit and security officers from Magma security, followed up on information that Murphyâs vehicle was spotted in the Pietermaritzburg CBD.
SAPS swoop on gang implicated in Karkloof farm attack
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DURBAN - Police have arrested five men in connection with the murder of Karkloof farmer Trevor Murphy.
Provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker said officers spotted Murphy s vehicle, which had been taken during the robbery in the Pietermaritzburg Central area. Howick detectives as well as the Pietermaritzburg Public Order Police Unit and security officers from Magma security followed up on information that Murphy’s vehicle was seen in the area. They proceeded to the location provided and found the white Ford Ranger. Three men were seated in the vehicle, he said.
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