Farmer John Byles (81) from the Tadcaster farm near Hartswater in the Northern Cape died months after a vicious farm attack in September 2018.
On the morning of 5 September 2018, around 7am, two unknown attackers overpowered John Byles outside his house on the isolated farm. He was brutally assaulted with a shovel. The attackers struck him repeatedly in the face and head, causing severe injuries including major trauma to his skull and facial bones. He sustained critical head wounds and was left in a serious condition requiring immediate hospitalization.
Despite medical treatment, John Byles suffered ongoing complications from the severe beating and passed away several months later as a direct result of the injuries inflicted during the farm attack.
This is another example of how attackers show no mercy to age or frailty. The assault was part of a pattern of violent home invasions and farm attacks targeting White farming communities, involving gratuitous brutality.
No arrests were reported in the immediate aftermath, and the perpetrators remain at large.
Piet Steyn and his wife Elmien Steyn were brutally murdered on their Sandfontein farm in the Bonnievale area of the Western Cape on Friday, 14 December 2018.
The attackers invaded the isolated rural property and hacked the couple with sharp objects while they were in their bedroom. Piet Steyn (77) and Elmien Steyn (75) were found dead in their bed with multiple hacking wounds to their bodies. The attack involved extreme violence.
The brutal nature of the assault; repeated hacking blows on the elderly White victims in their own bed, highlights the vulnerability of older farmers living on remote properties in South Africa.
Police arrested a 33-year-old suspect shortly after the murders and was later convicted and sentenced for the double murder.
Charmaine Erasmus (43) was brutally murdered on 26 February 2019 at Woelinge Corner in the Olifantsriver Valley near Vredendal, Western Cape.
On Tuesday morning, 26 February 2019, Charmaine Erasmus was found dead inside her home following a violent house break-in. The attacker overpowered her during the invasion and slit her throat, causing fatal wounds. She sustained severe stab wounds in addition to the throat-slitting injury, with the attack showing signs of extreme brutality typical in many South African home invasions where robbery escalates into gratuitous violence.
The crime scene indicated a suspected robbery, with the attacker targeting the isolated property in the rural Olifantsriver Valley area. Charmaine Erasmus, in her early 40's, was left to die from the massive blood loss caused by the deep throat wound and multiple stab injuries.
This vicious throat-slitting murder of Charmaine Erasmus is just one more example of the ongoing vulnerability of White residents on farms and rural properties in the Western Cape, where attackers show no mercy regardless of the victim's age or gender.
Another brutal murder of a dedicated South African hero, and the system fails us again.
This is Braam Krüger, a well-known former paramedic from Pretoria who spent his life saving others. On the Thursday before Easter this year, Braam was lured to a guesthouse in Brooklyn, Pretoria, under false pretenses.
Four suspects; Zondi Ntando (36), Siphoshile Xulu (22), Mpendulo Nyembe (27), and Sphesihle Mbambo (24) checked into three rooms, paid R2,000 cash, and arranged to meet him. Braam arrived shortly after, was taken to a room, and that was the last time he was seen alive.
His body was discovered by cleaners on Good Friday, tied up on the bed. The details are sickening. These animals bound him, robbed him of his cellphone and cash, and murdered him in cold blood. They then casually left the premises pretending to buy food and never returned.
Police tracked them through phone data, e-taxi records, and witness identifications to Protea Glen in Soweto and eventually KwaZulu-Natal, where they were arrested on April 10. A fifth suspect is still on the run.
These four are not just facing this one murder and aggravated robbery charge. The investigating officer testified they are persons of interest in other serious crimes, including a kidnapping in KwaZulu-Natal where a professor was forced to pay his captors. Ntando already has a warrant out for that case, plus pending charges in Alexandra and Umlazi for firearm violations, robbery, and kidnapping from 2025, cases he skipped court on. The group seems to operate with a clear pattern of luring victims, robbing, and killing.
Yet here we are. These killers are applying for bail in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court, claiming they're unemployed but do informal work, live in KZN, have no money to flee, and plan to plead not guilty. They argue it's "in the interest of justice" to release them.
The arrogance is infuriating. A man who dedicated his career to emergency medical service, helping keep this country running, is dead, tied up and murdered, while his killers cry about fairness.
This isn't isolated. It's part of the ongoing nightmare where good, hardworking South Africans are targeted and slaughtered, and the justice system treats the perpetrators with kid gloves.
Braam Krüger's absence is already felt by his community and everyone who knew him as a hero in the field.
Peet van Es, a 55-year-old Dutch-born farmer living on Moseley Farm on the R40 near Barberton in Mpumalanga, was viciously murdered during a farm attack on Friday night, 7 April 2017 (around Easter period).
Peet was attacked in his home by a group of assailants. He pleaded with them, saying words to the effect of, “Don’t kill me, you can take anything you want.” Despite his desperate pleas, the attackers showed no mercy. Peet was brutally stabbed to death.
His wife, Aline Prins, survived the ordeal and later shared the horror of that night. The attack involved robbery, with the perpetrators targeting valuables while inflicting fatal injuries on Peet.
Peet, originally from the Netherlands, had built a life in South Africa as a hardworking farmer. His murder left his wife devastated and the local farming community in shock.
Years later, justice has still been lacking in this case, with ongoing frustration over police handling and no final resolution for the family.
This is part of the relentless wave of farm attacks targeting White farmers and their families in South Africa.
Klein Harmse, an 87-year-old man, was attacked and overpowered on his farm in Modderfontein near Parys in the Free State on 19 April 2017.
The elderly victim was assaulted during the farm attack. He sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital, where he later passed away as a result of those injuries.
Police were investigating the incident at the time, but no arrests were reported in the initial coverage. The attackers targeted this vulnerable elderly White farmer on his own property, leaving him with fatal wounds from the assault.
Klein Harmse had lived through decades on the farm, only to be brutally attacked in his old age. His death is another tragic loss in the ongoing crisis of farm attacks against White farmers and their families in South Africa.
On 5 May 2017, Joe Thompson (age not reported) was viciously attacked and murdered on his small plot in Henley on Klip, outside Alberton in Gauteng. The attack was part of a multiple murder incident where his mother-in-law was also killed.
According to details, Joe was tortured during the assault. He was stabbed an incredible 163 times in a frenzied and sadistic attack. The level of overkill points to extreme hatred and brutality.
His mother-in-law was also murdered in the same incident. She was kicked and strangled to death. The victims highlight yet another horrifying case where White families on plots and farms are targeted with savage violence.
The attack took place on their property, turning a place of safety into a scene of unimaginable horror. Joe suffered extensive stab wounds across his body from the prolonged torture, while his mother-in-law endured blunt force trauma from kicking and asphyxiation by strangulation.
These savage attacks on White South Africans living on smallholdings continue without mercy. The extreme torture and multiple stabbings show the pure evil involved. Real justice and protection for our people are desperately needed.
Nicolas Maduro, who served as President of Venezuela from 2013 until his recent capture by US forces, has been accused by multiple international bodies, human rights organisations, and governments of overseeing and directing a range of atrocities and human rights violations. These include:
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Torture and ill-Treatment
- Extrajudicial Killings and Excessive Use of Force
- Arbitrary Detentions and Political Persecution
- Narco-Terrorism and Corruption
In typical fashion, South Africa once again decides to side with the skunks of the world.
@RonaldLamola We call on the ANC mafia to stop stealing and murdering people!
We call on the United States to help the save South Africa from the ANC thugs