South Africa: Multiple Farm Attacks, Woman Beaten with Crowbar, Two Farmers Killed, and Elderly Friends Bound and Gagged, Assaulted

In the past week, brutal farm attacks have occurred in several South African provinces. On August 26th, in Vaalwater, Limpopo 53-year-old Janet Prinsloo was subjected to a 20-minute crowbar assault by two men who had gained access to her farm and had bound her hands and feet with a belt and shoelaces. The next day, on August 27th in the Western Cape, two women in their 80s were attacked on their farm by three men, who beat the women, gagged them and bound their hands and feet, before ransacking the house of valuables.