South African Farm Murders - Part 2

Women raped tortured or killed on their farms on their farms. Bloemfontein - A 58-year-old woman was brutally attacked on her farm in Oatsdale near Harrismith in the Free State after she told two robbers she had no cash on her property.

The woman was stabbed, burnt and raped by her attackers on Sunday, said Sergeant Mmako Mophiring.

She had just arrived at her home in the afternoon when she found the two men on her property. They forced her into the house where they demanded money.

"When she said she had no money, they stabbed her in the leg and on her shoulder. They then also put an iron on her chest. She sustained severe burn wounds," said Mophiring.

The woman was then taken to a room at the back of her house where the two men took turns raping her. She was tied up with a cloth in the room while the pair ransacked the house

Potgieter family murder on their farm.

Wilma and Attie Potgieter

Willemien Potgieter two years old killed by niggers

Since the attack on Attie Potgieter and his family, the simple stone farmhouse where they lived has stood empty and crumbling; with nobody wanting to live in the home where one of South Africa's most disturbingly brutal crimes took place.

Mr. Potgieter, a farm caretaker, was stabbed and hacked 151 times with a garden fork, a knife and a machete near Lindley in the Free State - the agricultural heart of the country.

His wife, Wilna, and two-year-old daughter, Willemien, were both made to watch him die, before being shot in the head, execution style.

All for pocket money, and possessions of relatively little value – a too-common story in South Africa's rural areas, where mostly white Afrikaner farmers feel they are being targeted in gratuitously violent attacks on their remote farms and smallholdings. They accuse police and government of failing to make these crimes a priority. Also, as the horrifying murders continue, they are growing increasingly angry.

"If you kill a rhinoceros in South Africa, you get more time in jail then if you kill a person," said Susan Nortje, 26, Mrs. Potgieter's younger sister. "I don't think people understand. We must show people what is actually happening.

Three black attackers break into the family’s home on their smallholding. The three black attackers gang-rape the mother, Geraldine (42), then shoot her dead. They then attack the husband, Tony (53), as he arrives home, with a golf club before shooting him in the head. Their 12-year-old son Amano’s feet and hands are tied and then the attackers take the take to fill the bathtub with boiling water and drown him in it. While leaving, they cut open the family dog’s stomach with a machete. Fortunately, the daughter, Gabriela, was not home.

During the court proceedings, the three black men in question laughed repeatedly, literally smiling at the victim’s family, as they basked in the gruesome details of the crime presented they perpetrated

MAY 29

Cornelia de Wet survives the fifth attack on Carolina farm

 Valiant Boer woman Cornelia de Wet was attacked five times: shot several times, targeted in a gun fight; her house torched with the family locked inside - yet police refuses to investigate…

May 20, 2010 – Carolina, Mpumalanga. Boer woman Cornelia de Wet was shot in the leg from a long distance away while working on her farm Kwaggasfontein outside Carolina – only a month after her wooden homestead was torched with her and children Cornelia, 11, two-year-old Joey asleep inside on April 17, reports Buks Viljoen

This is the fifth time that the De Wet family has been targeted on their farm.

Mpumalanga land is in hot demand: the government has been handing out thousands of coal-mining licenses in the province to inexperienced “private mining operators’ who proceed to destroy valuable farmland in short order and are ruthless about acquiring ever more land.

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Police refuse to investigate: ‘she doesn’t know the names of the persons who injured her…’

Mrs de Wet, 32, was working in one of the camps at about 12:30 on May 19, 2010, on the farm when she heard a shot go off. She felt a burning pain in her leg and saw that her right calf was bleeding. Her brother, Jan de Wet jnr, said they suspect she was wounded by a bullet, which was shot from far away. Cornelia was released from the provincial hospital in Carolina after being treated.

According to her brother, this is the fifth time since the fire on April 17 that criminals have targeted the farm. She and her daughters, Cornelia, 11, and 2-year-old Joey, were sleeping in the wooden house on the night she was woken by the smell of smoke. She then discovered that she was unable to open the door because “someone had secured the latch from the outside with a piece of wire.”

When she put her arm through a window to try to open the door from the outside, shots were fired at her to stop her and her family from fleeing. She then used a CB radio to call her parents, Jan snr and Nelie de Wet, who live in the farmstead about 50m from her house -- but when they rushed to her aid, the attackers opened fire on them as well.

A gunfight lasting nearly two hours then broke out while the house kept burning – and then more helpers arrived at the farm and chased the black attackers off. Jan jnr said since the fire there have also been several break-ins at the storerooms on the farm, and the vehicles on the farm were also recently vandalized. "Someone wants to force us off our family farm, but we don't know who. Our farm is the only one in the whole area which isn't the subject of a land claim.”

According to him, the police are refusing to investigate – and indeed this was confirmed by the police and for the most inane of reasons: SAPS spokesman Isaac Aphane confirmed that they were “aware of the incidents” – however, he added: “We did go to the farm, but we didn't register a complaint since she doesn't know the name of the person who injured her...