Wayne

This is one of the worst attacks I have ever heard of. I never had the guts to tweet it before, but I feel the world need to see whats happening. Since the attack on Attie, Wilna and their 2 year old Wilmien Potgieter the simple stone farmhouse where they lived has stood empty and crumbling, with nobody wanting to live in the home where one of South Africa's most disturbingly brutal Triple Farm Murder crimes took place. Attie Potgieter, a farm caretaker, was stabbed and hacked 151 times with a garden fork, a knife and a machete near Lindley in the Free State - the agricultural heart of the country. His wife, Wilna, and two-year-old daughter, Willemien, were both made to watch him die, before being shot in the head, execution style. All for pocket money, and possessions of relatively little value - a too-common story in South Africa's rural areas, where mostly white Afrikaner farmers feel they are being targeted in gratuitously violent attacks on their remote farms and smallholdings. They accuse police and government of failing to make these crimes a priority. Giving testimony, pathologist Dr Robert G Book said that Potgieter, 40, had 151 stab and laceration wounds when he examined the body. When asked by State prosecutor Jannie Botha on his first impressions of Potgieter's body, Book said: "The deceased "had been tortured to death.”Testifying on the autopsy done on Potgieter, Book said the injuries could have been caused by tools such as a garden fork, panga, spade or sharp knife, while other injuries could have been caused by a brick or stone. The State alleges the six attacked Potgieter outside his house with knives, a garden fork and a panga, killing him. They then attacked Wilna and the 2 year old toddler Wilmien inside the house and shot them both dead. The men, aged between 18 and 33, pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder one of robbery with aggravating circumstances and other charges relating to the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. The 6 suspects at the time, in December, 2010 massacred the young Potgieter family and the murder suspects' at their bail hearing were hailed "heroes" by their "supporters" Main-stream news media only reported about the ANC women's league demonstrators, while a video of the black demonstrators cheering the suspects as they arrived in the prison van, was put on YouTube. The six are Stemmer Mofokeng, 23, Tapa Mofokeng, 34, Paulus "Vusi" Khumalo, 23, Tshokolo Lelala, 19, Telleko Seekoei, 20, and Diphapang Motaung, 18, all from Lindley. Received long-term prison sentenced for 15 years, upwards. The sixth man, farm worker Tapa (Klaas) Mofokeng, 34, was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing the family. @afriforum released a short documentary about what happened that day. It is the most heartbreaking video i’ve ever seen.💔 youtu.be/52owrSsG6S4?si=59XB… #FarmMurders #FarmAttacks