The families of the two women who were shot at a farm in Sebayeng outside Polokwane last week, will find out details about their deaths when post-mortem results are released later today.
South Africans on social media reacted with shock when their decomposed bodies were discovered in a pigsty at the farm, days after the women were reported missing.
On Friday, the suspects linked to the gruesome murders appeared in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court and were remanded in custody.
They were arrested after police discovered the decomposed remains of Maria Makgato and Locadia Ndlhovhu. Their remains, partly eaten by pigs, were found inside the pigsty after a man who was also shot and injured, alerted the police.
Following their appearance, the case against the three suspects, Zacharia Olivier, 60, William Musora, 40, and 19-year-old Rudolf de Wit, was postponed for profiling and bail applications.
According to media reports, the police initially arrested Olivier, who owns the farm, and De Wit, who is the farm employee, on Tuesday. The third suspect, Musora, who is a foreign national, was arrested on Wednesday.
On August 17, Makgato, Zimbabwean national Lucia Ndlovu, and her husband, reportedly went to Onvervaght farm to harvest rotten products dumped by a dairy merchant.
According to preliminary reports, the victims were killed with their remains dumped inside the pig stalls.
The mother of one of the victims, who spoke to Newzroom Afrika on Monday, said, “My daughter was killed like a dog and fed to pigs. I am deeply hurt and troubled by this murder. As things stand, I do not know how am I going to bury my daughter as I am poor and have no one to help me.”
Memory Mushayabasa, a relative of one of the women, said they spent most of last week searching for their daughter, who could not be found.
“We kept on asking about her whereabouts; on Tuesday she was found dead with gunshot wounds inside a pig enclosure. Her remains were kept with the pigs, so this is so painful to us, she left four children, it hurts, we have never seen something like this,” she told ‘SABC’.
The media has been instructed not to show the images of the suspects as investigations are still continuing.
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