The Soutpansberg community has been left in shock after another cruel farm attack in which the 80 year old Tannie Joekie Nortje and her 62 year old son Johan (Kiewiet) were seriously injured. The attack took place on Monday 27 May 2019, around 10:30 on the family’s farm Nooitgedacht near the old Kommando shooting range, a short distance from the Tshikota township.
Tannie Joekie’s other son Dippies told Zoutpansberger that five men arrived on the farm and pretended that they want to buy pigs. When Johan and a farm worker walked to the pigs, they were overpowered and tied up.
In the house the attackers demanded money from Tannie Joekie. She could not give them anything and they ransacked the whole house.
Tannie Joekie and Johan were both seriously assaulted before they fled, with only Tannie Joekie’s handbag, a little cash and an air gun.
Johan was transferred to the Medi Clinic in Polokwane with bleeding on the brain. Tannie Joekie sustained serious cut and hack wounds from a panga. She was transferred to the Medi Clinic in Tzaneen. Tannie Joekie’s hands are in a bad state with an artery, muscles and sinews chopped off.
The SAPS and local farm watch structures were on the scene following up leads. There have been no arrests yet.
Read about more farm attacks here
Read the original article in Afrikaans by Andries van Zyl on Zoutpansberger
The incident was tweeted by Ian Cameron
South Africa Today – South Africa News
#FarmAttack 27/05/19: Louis Trichardt, Limpopo. 1 male and 1 female victim attacked by 5 attackers armed with machetes. They were then tied up with wire. Female victim badly injured after being hacked on hand and male beaten over head with metal pipe. Some cash and a phone stolen pic.twitter.com/v61VJud786
— Ian Cameron (@IanCameron23) May 28, 2019
