10 years.
Ten long years since pure evil walked onto that smallholding in Rodora, Randfontein, and wiped out an entire family in one night of pure, calculated savagery.
Kayla Meyer was only 9 years old. A bright-eyed little girl who should have been worried about school, friends, and Disney movies. Instead, attackers found her grandfather making her a sandwich. The half-buttered bread was still sitting on the counter when the bodies were discovered.
They murdered the old man with a crowbar right there on her bed. Blood soaked her Frozen pillow.
Then they turned on Kayla.
They tied that child up with wire or cord. Then they beat her to death with a spade or shovel. Her body was dumped in a storeroom or shed like discarded rubbish. Her mother Marietjie was bludgeoned to death with a shovel in the unfinished house nearby. Her father Kenny was also slaughtered.
Four lives erased in one orgy of racial hatred and pure sadism.
Today that little girl would be 19.
She would be a young woman. She would be starting her adult life. She would be laughing with friends, studying, dating, dreaming about her future. Instead she is forever frozen at 9, her blood and her innocence stolen by animals who still walk this earth under the protection of a government that pretends White farm murders are just โcrime.โ
Ten years later and the ANC still denies the pattern. Ten years later and the world still looks away. Ten years later and another generation of White South African children grow up knowing that a sandwich on the counter can be the last normal thing they ever see.
Kayla Meyer should be 19.
She is not.
Today, 22 August, people around the world commemorate victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief.
This international day was established seven years ago by the UN because of continuing violence and acts of terrorism targeting individuals, including persons belonging to religious minorities, based on or in the name of religion or belief. Christians are no strangers to this experience of suffering.
In Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and elsewhere, followers of Christ have been left bereaved, injured, displaced and traumatised by the hate-filled violence that opposes their faith.
Learn more about Christian victims of violence and how we can stand with them through prayer: https://t.co/tWpnurVCo6
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