Farm Attacks

Cop shot in shoot-out with fleeing Western Cape farm robbers

A Western Cape police officer sustained a gunshot wound during a shoot-out with suspected farm robbers.

Provincial police spokesperson Col Andrè Traut said police responded to a report of an armed robbery in Wellington on Thursday morning. He said a group of suspects arrived at a farmer’s residence and demanded money.

“SAPS members were alerted that a group of five suspects approached a farmer at his residence and demanded cash at around 9.50am,” said Traut.
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More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...t-out-with-fleeing-western-cape-farm-robbers/
 

Charitable elderly KZN farmer found beaten and stabbed to death in garden​

There has been an outpouring of grief over the murder of an elderly KwaZulu-Natal midlands cattle farmer who was found beaten and stabbed in his garden on Monday.

It is understood the body of Hedley Brown, 70, was found by an employee at his farm near Howick.

According to Midlands Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a team was dispatched on Monday morning to deal with a “farm attack”.

“Upon arrival it was found one person sustained fatal injuries and was found tied up outside the house in the garden. The patient was declared deceased by paramedics on the scene.
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More at: https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/...-found-beaten-and-stabbed-to-death-in-garden/
 
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Berry Farm attackers win High Court appeal to reduce sentences from 23 to 15 years​

Cape Town - Two men sentenced to 23 years in jail for a 2020 farm attack have won their appeal in the Western Cape High Court to have their sentence reduced to 15 years including time served.
Manilisi Sphuhle and Luthando Ngam, who attacked farmer Raymond O’Grady and his wife Betty on their Hillcrest Berry Farm in the Cape Winelands District in August 2020, were found guilty in February last year by a Stellenbosch magistrate.
At the time they were convicted on three separate counts: burglary with intent to rob; robbery with aggravating circumstances, and assault with intent to seriously injure.
For the first charge both received 15 years’ imprisonment, on the second charge the sentence was three years’ imprisonment, and the third charge carried a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment which together came to 33 years’ imprisonment.
However, the court ordered that 10 of the years for the third charge would run concurrently with the 15 years to be served on the first charge, effectively ensuring they served 23 years.
In their appeal, Sphuhle and Ngam argued that there was a duplication of convictions and that all the convictions should be set aside and be replaced with a conviction on a charge of housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery.

With regards to sentencing, they argued that the court should have imposed one cumulative sentence of direct imprisonment for the offences.
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More at: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/new...15-years-48a86cd3-def8-4643-9883-9aeaa10adddf
 
schumi said:

Berry Farm attackers win High Court appeal to reduce sentences from 23 to 15 years​



More at: https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/new...15-years-48a86cd3-def8-4643-9883-9aeaa10adddf
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Anomalies in Western Cape High Court nominee Daniel Thulare’s career timeline questioned

%%excerpt%% Questions have been raised about anomalies in the dates of Western Cape High Court nominee advocate Daniel Thulare’s professional trajectory in the judiciary.
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Reminds me of Lotney "Sloth" Fratelli from the Goonies.

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crocopede said:
Its the SAPS themselves. There was that documentary / carte blanche thing where the interviewed convicted farm murderer people whatever.

That dude said, the SAPS obviously has access to firearm address locations. Then contacts them to go and get the guns.
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Agreed....
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I find that hard to believe....Otherwise Juju and the crew are slacking off....?

Anyone hear of these 7 farm workers that were 'murdered' by farm owners?
 
mojoman said:
Agreed....

I find that hard to believe....Otherwise Juju and the crew are slacking off....?

Anyone hear of these 7 farm workers that were 'murdered' by farm owners?
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I haven't, but mainly because I don't follow farm specific murders, if they did happen they most probably wouldn't be reported on in the regular farm murders media houses that this thread mostly rely on because those are heavily skewed in driving a certain narrative on farm murders.

Problem with Twitter is that you are allowed to say things without providing any source, that is problematic but it's usually never a problem when people like what you are saying.
 
I also havent....
Pretty sure media and political parties would have been all over it like flies to crap if it were true...
 
Solarion said:
Considering that if a farm manager killed a farm worker, it would be hit the front pages so hard it would tear open a rift in the space time continuum, there has been nothing, nada. May need some official confirmation of that.
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The farm manager bit looks made up. I think it refers to these numbers.

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AfriForum laments low arrest and conviction rate of farm murder suspects across SA

Cape Town – Civil organisation AfriForum on Thursday released a report on farm attacks and farm murders in South Africa.

The report provides an overview of the characteristics of farm murders over the last six years from 2016 until 2021. During this time it verified 364 murders.

AfriForum’s head of policy and action, Ernst Roets, said the report highlighted the poor arrest and conviction rates of perpetrators involved in farm murders.

He said an open-source media analysis was used and the organisation examined and assessed the arrest of suspects as well as the conviction of perpetrators. “An average of 47% of known attackers during farm murders were arrested, but only 33% of the arrested perpetrators were convicted.

“This is truly shocking and shows how the criminal justice system fails victims of farm attacks.
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More at: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...cross-sa-fdb0cf71-ab1f-4a06-8192-d7ca1099834d
 
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