The body of Pote (Andries) Venter (56), a farm foreman of the farm Helderwater outside Welkom, has been found in a ditch close to the Phumlani graveyard outside Thabong, Welkom in the Free State on Saturday 5 September, 2020.
Venter fetched farm workers daily in Thabong as part of his duties. On Friday morning, 4 September 2020, at around 06:40 he stopped outside the house of a farm worker in Thabong who did not immediately come out because he was allegedly still brushing his teeth.
According to an eye witness, a shot was fired at Venter and a black man climbed into Venter’s white Mitsubishi Colt bakkie and forced him to drive away at gun point.
Venter’s bakkie was then followed by another vehicle. Venter was missing for the whole of Friday. A passerby found his body on Saturday morning 5 September 2020.
Venter’s white Mitsubishi Colt bakkie reg number FKH713FS is still missing.
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