A farm attack took place on Wednesday 20 July 2022, at 23:50, on a farm outside Westonaria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Jaco Taute, who is also the chairman of the national stock theft prevention forum and a member of the safety committee of TLU SA, was shot. This is two weeks after his son, Adriaan (20) was shot on the same farm.
Jaco Taute was shot by an unknown number of attackers when he went to investigate suspects that he had seen on his security cameras.
Fortunately he was only wounded in the hand and survived the attack.
The alarm was raised causing the attackers to flee. Al role players responded but there were no arrests.
Taute was taken to a hospital in Randfontein for treatment.
On Friday 8 July 2022, Mr. Taute’s son Adriaan (20) was alone on the farm as Mr. Taute, his wife and 16 year old daughter were away for the weekend.
Whilst Adriaan was driving through the open gate around 07:40 a shot was fired through the window of the bakkie which hit Adriaan in the arm.
Adriaan was admitted to hospital.
The police are investigating the incident but no arrest have been made.
Information supplied by Oorgrens veiligheid
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