Farmer Willie Clarence (59) was murdered on a farm, Slypsteenkop, between Laingsburg and Touwsrivier on March 16, 2015. His body was not found until more than 36 hours after the incident.
He lived on the farm by himself and his family were unaware of his murder until Wednesday.
His eldest daughter Elzette, told Die Burger that it is suspected that her father was killed on Monday night.
A seventeen-year old youth from the neighborhood was arrested regarding the incident.
According to Elzette the youth watched her father all day. “At one stage my father parked his bakkie at the storage shed, walked home and worked on his tractor. He went inside the homestead to fix powder-milk for the calves and went to the kraal.
The youth allegedly went inside the homestead at that stage and may have stolen a firearm. The boy shot my father in his back. It doesn’t appear as if my father had seen him.”
Nobody had suspected that anything was amiss until one of the local farmers stopped on the farm on Wednesday-morning.
“He heard my father’s dog, Leeu, barking and he went to investigate. He found my father’s body.”
Christiaan van der Vyver, vice chairman of the Laingsburg Farmers Association, said the community was shocked about the incident.
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