The 74-year-old tuckshop owner was at his home at Holmbosch Farm in KZN when the two friends allegedly attacked and killed him.
There is something seriously wrong with SA’s criminal class: Another vicious farm murder has claimed the lives of two elderly citizens in Gauteng.
The wife of slain Stellenbosch farmer Stefan Smit has been charged along with two co-accused for his brutal murder in 2019.
Sekwetje Mahlamba, represented by legal counsel, Joseph Kgoelenya in the Bloemfontein High Court has maintained that the state’s evidence against the accused is weak and circumstantial at best.
Following a spate of farm murders reported in KZN recently, another heinous rural crime has rocked the Midlands town of Bishopstowe this week.
Sekwetje Mahlamba – accused number one in the Brendin Horner Senekal farm murder case – is still going ahead with his bail appeal.
Four men arrested in connection with a double murder during a farm attack on Friday 12 July 2019, are facing murder and theft charges.
Mpozana Khumalo, a beloved landowner in Muden, became the latest victim of a farm murder in South Africa when he was viciously assaulted last week.
Free State police reveal that suspect Sekola Matlaletsa was rearrested for a stock theft charge unrelated to Brendin Horner’s murder.
A 70-year-old man was tied up and beaten in his home on a farm in Mpumalanga on Sunday, and police are now hunting four suspects.
The two men, André Pienaar and Stephanus Johannes Fourie, are accused of inciting violence during unrest in Senekal. The farming community was up in arms over the killing of a 21-year-old farm manager
After another tragic farm murder in Free State, the FF Plus believe some of the responsibility for this killing in Hennenman lies with the EFF.
Tensions are rising in Free State after a brutal farm murder was reported in Hennenman. SAPS confirmed they made a ‘gruesome discovery’ on Friday morning.
With violent crime affecting diverse communities across the country, Cabinet has resolved to combat the scourge with urgency.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has long called for an end to farm murders in South Africa and now Helen Zille is sounding the alarm
The dust is yet to settle in Senekal, after the killing of Brendin Horner. But the discourse around farm murders and race still remains thorny.
Almost a month after the murder of 21-year-old farm manager Brendin Horner, a 66-year-old farmer in Free State has also been killed
The suspects face charges of murder and robbery and will appear in court on Monday, 26 October
Africa Check said that the claim that commercial farmers had declined from 120 000 to 38 000 since 1994 is based on erroneous data.
Sekola Matlaletsa and Sekwetje Mahlamba appeared in the Senekal Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, 20 October, but the matter was postponed
Agriculture MEC William Bulwane said that farm workers are also killed frequently by their bosses, a claim that has angered the DA.
Sekwetje Isaiah Mahlamba and Sekola Piet Matlaletsa have denied killing the 21-year-old
The DA says it’s clear that the Free State Farming Community has to fend for themselves following the release of ‘shocking’ figures.
The 33-year-old man faces charges including attempted murder and public violence
One man has already confessed to the murder of Glen and Vida Rafferty on their farm near Newcastle. Additional suspects being interviewed.