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The body of the 23-year-old law student was discovered on Thursday morning.Image: 123RF/Paul Fleet

Four ‘farm robbers’ killed in crash after shoot-out in the North West

An inquest docket has been opened into the death of four alleged house robbers who crashed into a tree during a shoot-out with farmers in the North West. Six men driving a white Toyota Raider entered a farm in Biesiesvlei on Friday…

Glen and Vida Rafferty were shot dead at the entrance to their farm in August.Image: supplied

Man arrested for KZN double farm murder

A 29-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of a KwaZulu-Natal couple at a farm in Normandien, near Newcastle. Glen Rafferty and his wife Vida were shot dead on the front porch of their farmhouse at the end of last month. Their dog…

Odwa Jim Ntlangani, 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of farmer Jason Harold Winrow.Image: Supplied

Man who murdered, robbed EC farmer sentenced to life

A man who returned to the scene of a crime to kill a farmer whose cattle he had stolen months earlier was sentenced to life imprisonment in the East London high court. Odwa Jim Ntlangani, 36, was convicted for the murder of farmer Jason…

The Watson family’s planned wind farm near Uitenhage has been put on hold by acting environmental affairs minister Lindiwe Zulu.Image: www_slon_pics via Pixabay

Watson family wind farm project blown out the water – for now

The controversial decision to grant environmental authorisation for the Watson family’s massive wind farm project on the summit of the Groot Winterhoek mountains near Uitenhage has been overturned – at least temporarily. On Monday, acting…

Farm murders in SA – 62 deaths recorded

A total of 62 farm murders were reported in the past financial year in South Africa‚ according to the latest crime statistics released in Parliament on Tuesday. The dead included farm owners and farm workers. Police said they had recorded…

July26, 2018. Eastern Cape farmer Tebogo Mongoato at the harbour where 8000 TONS of maize from Black Eastern Cape farmers including 800 tons of his own maize is being shipped to VietnamPicture: JACKIE CLAUSEN

Just give us the land and we’ll prove you wrong‚ say Eastern Cape farmers

If you think land redistribution will result in fallow farms and a ruined agriculture sector‚ think again – just give us the land and we’ll show you what we can do. This is the message from a group of black farmers in the Eastern Cape‚…