Two Blacks Shot Dead In Farm Attack

Two Blacks Shot Dead In Farm Attack

Walkerville, Vereeniging. The supermarket chain who buys the dairy-products from 26-year-old dairy foreman Eon Viljoen has much to answer for. Their failure to pay the farm for its products has caused a chain of horrific events in which two former farm workers – angered because they did not get their Christmas bonuses in time – beat farm-owner Marie Weilbach, 79 into a braindead-coma with a steel-pipe. The two workers then were killed in turn when they waited for her grandson Villjoen in ambush and tried to kill him with a shotgun and a steelpipe. Two dairy-farm workers – Mkhlushwa Khoza and Mbongiseni Hornsby – beat 79-year-old farm-owner Mrs Marie Weilbach into a braindead coma while the retired Boer dairy-farmer was watching a religious TV-programme. Both her hands were crushed from trying to ward off the blows. She’s on life-support in a Gauteng hospital – declared braindead.

Earlier this year the young Mr Viljoen had taken over management of the family-farm from his frail grandmother – its ownership dates from 1903 (from the era when the British colonial military forces attacked the independent Boer Republics). Viljoen said that from the outset as its foreman, the farm had struggled to get paid for their dairy-products from their buyers. Eon Viljoen worried about the Christmas bonuses, so two weeks ago their six workers were called together and told by Viljoen that that he would not be able to pay their annual Christmas bonuses before Christmas – but also promised that they would still get the bonuses immediately after the farm got paid by the buyers in the city. They had always received their wages on time; the problem was with the bonuses. “One of the workers at the meeting then reacted very angrily, demanding his money immediately, said Viljoen. “He told me ‘you are not wearing a bullet-proof vest, and I am going to shoot you’.”

Viljoen said he then hurriedly borrowed money from a friend, called the workers together again and paid them their bonuses. However – he also fired the worker who had threatened to kill them and told the assembled workers that if this man had carried out his threat and Viljoen ‘ was no longer there to run the farm, they would all have been out of a job’. He said a second worker then decided to quit his job as well. Then these two disgruntled workers started a campaign of terror against the remai ...

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