Van Stadensrus farm murders were brutal ‘execution style’ slayings

Opinion by Daniel Sutherland

Van Stadensrus farm murders were brutal ‘execution style’ slayings
Van Stadensrus farm murders were brutal 'execution style' slayings

Choppie Bruwer (78) and his wife Marian (68) were shot in the head execution style whilst bound to chairs in their house on a farm in Van Stadensrus in the Free State. The attack on them happened Monday night 25 June 2018. A neighbour found them like that when people could not get hold of them. Their vehicle a silver Chevy Spark reg. no. FWZ736FS was taken along with firearms and cellphones.

It is the 18th farm attack this year in the Free State alone in which 5 people were murdered.

According to Marius Muller from AfriForum, 34 people were murdered on farms in South Africa so far this year .
Since Saturday 23 JUne 2018, 5 people were murdered on farms: Kallie Schoonraad in Rustenburg, Jeffrey Zetler in Stellenbosch, Peter Dawson in Hartbeespoort and now Choppie Bruwer and his wife Marian on Monday in Van Stadensrus.

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