The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has condemned the gruesome killing of two women at a farm in Limpopo, characterising the incident as racially motivated.
Two Limpopo farmers Zachariah Johannes Olivier, 60, Andrian Rudolph de Wet, 19, appeared in court last week, on Friday, for killing the two women and feeding pigs with their bodies.
45-year-old Maria Makgato (South African) and 35-year-old Zimbabwean national Locadia Ndlovhu were allegedly shot and killed by the farmers, on 17 August 2024, at Onvervaght farm in Sebayeng outside Polokwane.
“White racists continue to believe in their small minds that black lives do not matter. The EFF will never tolerate this conduct and we will do everything in our power to uproot it. We cannot have a situation where certain sections of society think that they are more superior than others and that they have the right to life than others,” the EFF said in a statement on Monday.
The bodies of the two women were found in a state of decomposition a few days later. Another man, 47-year-old Mabutho Ncube, who was with the victims, was also shot and wounded. However, he managed to escape.
The victims were reportedly trying to collect leftovers from the farm’s dumping side when the accused shot them. Police confirmed that they found their decomposing bodies in a pigsty.
The EFF called for the immediate closure of the farm “to allow proper investigation to unfold without any hindrance.”
The suspects remain in custody and will appear again in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court on the 30th of August.
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