Well-known farmer in the district of Welkom was killed while another man was nearly beaten to death and a woman and children severely traumatized in a farm attack between Welkom and Kroonstad.
The farmer’s son is furious because his father died on his way to hospital. “They robbed him, why didn’t they just knocked him out? Why shot him?” Asked the farmer’s son Hendrik Jansen van Rensburg after his father Willie Jansen van Rensburg, 69, was fatally wounded on October 27, 2014 and died on his way to hospital. Hendrik is furious about the things going on in South Africa and with no end in sight.
Hendrik, his wife and 4 children lived with Willie temporary on his farm Nuwejaarsbosch, after Willie lost his wife 6 months ago.
Willie went at about 20:15 to unleash the dogs and check on the dairy, when the suspects overpowered him. ”We heard grandpa scream and the next moment three suspects entered the house,” the 12yr old granddaughter said.
When Willie’s 18yr old granddaughter tried to help her grandfather they pushed her away and dragged her to the house, holding onto her hair. “They asked for R300 000, and said they’ll kill all of us if they don’t get the keys to the safe, while aiming grandpa’s revolver at my mom,” the 12 year old said. The mother and kids didn’t know where the keys were.
Willie was dragged from the dairy to an outside room. Willies daughter in law, the children and Wolf Myburgh, 73, a mechanic living nearby in a caravan were locked in an outside room.
Myburgh was hit so hard with a steel pipe in his face that he lost consciousness. The room’s door was tied shut with ropes. The woman and one of the daughters succeeded in escaping by removing a window frame.
The farm workers helped loading the heavily wounded Willie in a vehicle and an ambulance met them halfway on the road. But Willie passed away on the way to the hospital.
Hendrik requested that his wife and kids names are withheld.
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