People of a remote area of South Africa were well-known for visiting the white-owned farm as a place to store discarded food. However, two black women always returned after several weeks of crossing the border. The farm’s landlord and two of his employees are accused of fatally shooting the two women before dumping them in a palanquin where they claim they discovered the bodies partially rotting and partially eaten.
The incident in Limpopo Province, north of Johannesburg, has ignited debate over some of South Africa’s most violent issues: race, gender-based violence and the continuous tensions over land between business farmers, who are often light, and their black neighbours- which have often resulted in bloodshed. A prosecutor on Wednesday delayed a parole hearing until Nov. 6 for the producer and the two staff, who are still in prison.
The patients, Maria Makgatho, 44, and Locadia Ndlovu, 35, trespassed on the land in search of food in mid-Aug after a vehicle from a cheese company dumped expiring products it, according to prosecution.
The plantation owner, Zachariah Johannes Olivier, and the land officer, Andrian Rudolph De Wet, 19, both pale, had planned to take any trespassers who came onto the house, prosecutors said.
A 45-year-old dark employee at the plantation, William Musora, is accused of helping to dump the body of the two people.
Black people have held rallies outside the court, and officials are issuing unhappy statements. For some, it speaks to the broader concern of South Africa’s lingering disparities in property rights. During segregation, many black people were forced from their area, and now most significant business farms remain under white rights. In remote areas, some black South Africans continue to live in poverty and rely on scavenging for food on fields. Many white farmers claim that they have been the target of intruders ‘ persistent problems, which makes some of them anxious about anyone who poses a threat at the same time. Some extremists have adopted bizarre language and proclaimed a” white genocide” as a response to those problems.
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