{"id":9917,"date":"2013-09-02T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:16:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:16:54","slug":"elderly-mpuma-farmer-killed-in-latest-farm-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9917","title":{"rendered":"Elderly Mpuma farmer killed in latest farm attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9918\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watervalboven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9918\" alt=\"Waterval Boven\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/watervalboven.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterval Boven<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"BodyP1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">An elderly man has been shot dead on his farm in Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga, provincial police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[Around] 6pm on Friday, Mr Garth Johnson, 67, was fatally wounded in his home on &#8230; his farm,&#8221; Colonel Leonard Hlathi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man&#8217;s 70-year-old wife was at home at the time and heard gunshots, but did not see her husband&#8217;s attacker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hlathi said the man died on the scene and nothing was stolen from the house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one had been arrested by 8am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beeld newspaper reported on Monday that another farmer in the area alleged that Johnson could have been killed because of a dispute with the new owners of a farm he lost through a land claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, Johnson had a heated meeting with the new owners last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johnson was reportedly unhappy that squatters had moved onto the farm he had lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hlathi said police would not narrow their investigation based on this claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We won&#8217;t be drawn into those allegations. We are [viewing] this issue as an lone incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, if the allegation was true, this would emerge in the police investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He appealed to anyone with information about the murder to contact the police. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly man has been shot dead on his farm in Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga, provincial police said on Monday. &#8220;[Around] 6pm on Friday, Mr Garth Johnson, 67, was fatally wounded in his home on &#8230; his farm,&#8221; Colonel Leonard Hlathi said. 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