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British woman Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn were woken at 2am by three men breaking into a window of their remote farm in Dullstroom, a small town in the northeast of South Africa, about 240km from the nearest capital city. The couple, who had lived in the area for 20 years, were tied up, stabbed, and tortured with a blowtorch for several hours. The masked men stuffed a plastic bag down Mrs Howarth’s throat, and attempted to strangle her husband with a bag around his neck. The couple were bundled into their own truck, still in their pyjamas, and driven to a roadside where they were shot. Mrs Howarth, 64, a former pharmaceutical company executive, was shot twice in the head. Mr Lynn, 66, was shot in the neck. Miraculously he survived, and managed to flag down a passer-by early on Sunday morning. Mrs Howarth, who police said was “unrecognisable” from her injuries, had multiple skull fractures, gunshot wounds and “horrific” burns to her breasts. “Sue was discovered amongst some trees, lying in a ditch,” writes Jana Boshoff, reporter for the local Middelburg Observer newspaper. “Her rescuers managed to find her by following her groans of pain and then noticing drag marks from the road into the field. “Her head was covered with a towel. Her eyes were swollen shut. She was partially clothed with just scraps of her shirt remaining. Her breasts and upper body was bloody. The plastic bag, shoved down her throat, took some effort to remove because her jaw was clamped down tightly. “How she managed to breathe with the bag in her throat remains a mystery. One of her rescuers later recalled how Sue was unresponsive except for the constant groaning. Whilst the man ran back to the road to see if an ambulance has not arrived yet, she managed to curl one of her arms around her breasts in a last attempt to protect herself.” She was rushed to hospital and placed on life support, but died two days later. Last year Meshack Yika, 28, and Themba Yika, 38, from Bergendal farm, near Belfast in South Africa, were both sentenced to 37 years in prison. While our government deny farm murders is a problem, and politicians incite violence by chanting k*ll the boer, I will keep posting what’s going on here, and share mr. Robert Lynn’s horrific heartbroken story. https://t.co/FqfDG42yjV

I will keep posting what happend, and still happens every week on our farms in South Africa until something is done about it - Mookgopong - Attackers slashed 72 yr old Charles Botha’s Achilles tendons, mutilated him and left him 2km from his farmhouse in the bushes to keep him from interfering with their murder rampage. Then, they murdered his wife. "They killed my parents like animals..." said a heartbroken Callie Botha on Thursday after his parents had been found murdered on this Limpopo farm. Farmers in the Naboomspruit area were shocked and angered by the cruelty with which 72-year-old Charles Botha was killed. The farmer's body was found on Wednesday about two kilometres from Kaalvallei farm. Superintendent Malesela Ledwaba of Waterberg police said that, apart from Botha's Achilles tendons being slashed, he also had been stabbed several times with a sharp object, as there were wounds to his legs, back and head. "Police are looking for a farm worker who has disappeared since the murder. They suspected there might have been more than one attacker. The bloody body of Botha's wife, Joey, 71, was found in the main bedroom of the farmhouse. The couple's son, Deon, found his mother's body under a duvet. Her face had been crushed with a brick. Johan Botha, one of the couple's four sons, said his mom had been "very badly hurt". "It seemed as if she had tried to stop the attacker with a pillow, but in vain." Nothing was taken from the house. A firearm on Botha's bedside table was untouched, as was his bakkie. A shocked Marie Helm, area manager for Transvaal Agricultural Union, SA-North, said on Thursday afternoon: "The murder is frightening. "We don't know what else to do to get the government to listen to us and stop the farm murders. "There's no way these murders are related to burglary or theft," she said. Deon and Callie Botha saw their parents for the last time alive on Tuesday. They tried to phone them on Wednesday, but got no answer at the farmhouse. Deon and a neighbour, Koos Fouche, went to the house on Wednesday afternoon. The house was locked. The couple's cars were parked outside and the electricity had been cut. Deon broke a window to get inside, and found his mother's bloody body. This happened in 2006. Since then there have been more than 8000 ( YES 8 Thousand) more attacks on farmers. #FarmMurders #FarmAttacks https://t.co/5ylBAP9r6o