2009-11-04
Johannesburg – A farmer was killed and two other people seriously injured in separate farm attacks in Baltimore near Lephalale in Limpopo, the Transvaal Agricultural Union’s northern branch (TAU SA north) said on Wednesday.
This was indicative of the escalation of crimes targeted at farmers in the area, according to union chairperson Japie Spanio.
“Mr Izak and Mrs Mariaan Jansen van Vuuren of the farm Clanwilliam were attacked while going home after church on Sunday. Mr Jansen van Vuuren is badly injured and will have to undergo extensive plastic surgery to his face,” said Spanio.
He said the attacks follows a similar one on October 24 in which Pieter Botha of Mokolo Safaris was also badly injured.
Botha was attacked just three days after another farmer, 65-year-old Jan Potgieter was killed at his farm.
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