The video highlights the tragic killing of Bill Voller, a farmer from Tzaneen who was shot in the neck at point-blank range after being stabbed 20 times by five men. Voller was leaving his house to attend to his farming duties when he was confronted by five armed men. The suspects took him back to the house and assaulted him and his wife, Vera (58) and tied her up. After ransacking the house, they took Voller outside, the suspects stabbed him all over his body, including his legs, and shot him. Vera heard the shot and managed to free herself. When she got outside, her husband was already dead, laying next to his vehicle.
One of the suspects wrote a letter regarding the farm killing and delves into the fascinating insight into the psychology of black-African males:
Westerners often aren’t aware of such beliefs. We genuinely believe that by helping poor people uplift themselves we help their communities thrive – and that’s also to our mutual advantage of course: happy neighbors give safer environments for everybody.
Helping your neighbors
It’s the basis of altruistic behavior: helping unhappy neighbors thrive, also makes your own communities safer. Apparently not in the case of poor Mr. Voller. He negotiated a deal with the local municipality and with public sponsors to get water reticulation pipes laid on to two townships in Tzaneen in 1999: these killers, therefore, believed that he must have had at least ‘R5million to R10million..’ that he must be a very rich man.’ As it turned out, Mr. Voller had no money in his homestead. He did have a large supply of legal guns which were robbed: and the gang then didn’t know what to do with: back then with a more alert police force, they couldn’t flog them as easily as they can today. So in the end, Mr. Baloyi apparently turned State’s evidence in exchange for the R50,000 reward offered by the police, from the information I can gather.
Page 1: On the 28th November 1999, I, Freddy Baloyi, was at my workplace at Germiston, the name of the company that I was working for is May-Day Towing, lower Main Reef Road Number 56. Then came Ishamael Mushwana and his younger brother Vincent Mushwana. When they arrived, after exchanging greetings Ishmael introduced Vincent to me and told that he was his younger brother and was coming from Tzaneen.
He’s a tsotsi, he’s rich: he’s been breaking into the Boers’ houses…
‘He’s a tsotsi (a criminal) as you can see how he’s wearing. Even though you are working you cannot work with him. It is long he’s been breaking into the Boers houses, hence you see he’s expensively dressed’. I then nodded with my head. Then from there, Vincent started talking on his own saying there’s a very rich white man near where he’s staying, therefore, there was a job.
This white man has millions of Rands: he is very rich as you can see for yourself: he made it possible for local villages to get tap water…
‘He further said that white man might be having about R10million Rands and not less than R5million Rands. So you Freddy must come with us to rob him so that you can be able to drive your own BMW vehicle just like Ismael. He further said that since I was a Security Guard I am able to use a gun I started asking some questions from Ishmael about whether he knows this rich white man and he confirmed knowing him and that he was very rich. This was further confirmed by the fact that he’d made it possible for the local villagers to get tap water referring to Hallicy (sp?) and Hovheni villages… If we can just go there you can see with your own eyes…’
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