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Repeat ‘I love black people’ robbers tell Afrikaner farmer

A wheelchair-bound farmer and his family were assaulted and robbed by blacks on their farm in Mpumalanga, Beeld reported on Tuesday.

“They forced my father to repeat ‘I love black people’,” 70-year-old Johan Lange’s daughter Monique was quoted as saying.

Five armed men jumped over a fence, attacked Lange, from Kiepersol, threw him out of his wheelchair and assaulted him on his farm on Saturday around 10pm.

Monique Lange, 34, her husband Bernhard Bekker, 36, and their 13-month-old son were visiting him at the time.

The attackers stole five hunting rifles and ammunition from a safe, as well as a laptop computer, cellphones, money, and bank cards.

Bekker was assaulted and bound, and the baby was tied to Monique. She managed to free herself and call for help.

The men fled in Bekker’s bakkie, which police found abandoned about 30km away at the Mkhulu sports field on Sunday.

No arrests had been made.

Black farmer’s shooting case postponed

guns_ak47sA farm owner accused of attempted murder after he allegedly shot and wounded a teenager has appeared in the Ladybrand Magistrate’s Court, Free State police said on Wednesday.

The case against Motlalentoa Alfred Makoae, 53, was postponed on Tuesday to December 9, Sergeant Martin Xuma said.

Makoae, currently out on R1500 bail, owns a farm that borders Lesotho.

He was arrested on November 6. He allegedly saw five youths, aged between 13 and 15 hunting on the farm with sticks and dogs on October 28.

Xuma said the farm owner shouted at the boys to leave his property and they ran away. While chasing the boys away the man allegedly fired three shots in their direction. A 15-year-old was struck in the back.

The teenager and Makoae are both from Lesotho. – Sapa

White farmer in Fochville arrested for shooting two black ‘tenants’

Handgun_.45 semi-autoA Fochville farmer was arrested on Monday after he allegedly shot and killed two tenants and wounded a third in the presence of police, Beeld reported.

Armed with a shotgun, he opened fire on the men after they allegedly began stoning him and his workers.

According to the commander of the Fochville police station, Lt-Col Hennie Maass, the farmer will face two murder charges and one of attempted murder.

“Accompanied by a group of his workers, he went to speak to a man who allegedly caused some damage at one of his pubs over the weekend,” said Maass.

“One of his employees assaulted the man with a stick and [the farmer] then fired five shots. The men he shot were tenants on the farm.”

Police who were on the scene with him and his workers had been summoned at his request, Maass said.

The previous weekend, in an unrelated incident, a man was found murdered on the land, and on the Sunday, there were protests on his property.

Maass said about 2000 people, mostly miners, were tenants on his land. – Sapa