{"id":9687,"date":"2013-08-27T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T07:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2013-08-27T07:29:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T07:29:56","slug":"white-farmer-in-fochville-arrested-for-shooting-two-black-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9687","title":{"rendered":"White farmer in Fochville arrested for shooting two black &#8216;tenants&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Handgun_.45-semi-auto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9036\" alt=\"Handgun_.45 semi-auto\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Handgun_.45-semi-auto-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Handgun_.45-semi-auto-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Handgun_.45-semi-auto.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Armed with a shotgun, he opened fire on the men after they allegedly began stoning him and his workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; said Maass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police who were on the scene with him and his workers had been summoned at his request, Maass said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maass said about 2000 people, mostly miners, were tenants on his land. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;White farmer in Fochville arrested for shooting two black &#8216;tenants&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,5551,1449,40,5552],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-farmer","tag-fochville","tag-murder","tag-tenants"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Handgun_.45-semi-auto.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9688,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/9688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}