Raymond Papapavlou and his wife, Simoné, appeared to be a happy couple. But behind the closed doors of their modest farmhouse outside Groblersdal in Limpopo, all was not as it seemed.
With 15 recorded murders on the province’s farms in the last year alone, farmers have come together to take their safety into their own hands.
The border between Lesotho and the eastern Free State is non-existent, and it’s created a situation that Carte Blanche likens to “a daily game of Russian Roulette”.
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Elzabie Brand, 54, and her parents, Breggie, 73, and Danie, 83, were attacked on July 26, with their three bodies found over the course of the next two days.
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After a fence was erected between two Mpumalanga farms, a mysterious double murder occurred, diving the small farming town as questions have yet to be answered.
Thousands of South African farmers, their families and supporters took to the streets around the country to condemn the rise of farm murders. Here’s a quick look at what’s gone down.
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