Employee Attacks [Pt3] : Murdered, Tortured, Robbed or Raped by their Employees

POTGIETERS: Attie (40), Wilna (36), Willemientjie (3); Lindley Farm, OFS; 01 December 2010

POTGIETER: Attie, beaten to death with panga and garden fork; Wilna & Willemien executed with bullets to the back of the head; by 6 attackers, 3 of them farm workers.

2010-12-02 23:10
Jana van der Merwe en MJ Lourens, Beeld

Lindley, OFS: Farm attackers took a three year old little girl to an outside room where they shot her in cold blood -- presumably for fear she would identify them.

They then took her little corpse -- still with a pink ribbon in her red hair -- and dumped it next to the corpse of her mother in the main bedroom of the farm.

As far as can be deduced, both small Willemien Potgieter and her mother, Wilna (36) were executed in bullets to the back of the head.

Willemientjie's father, Mr. Attie Potgieter (40) corpse was found outside in the garden next to a hedge, near the backdoor of the house.

It is presumed he was attacked there with a sharp object, presumably a panga to the back of his head, and he was presumably also stabbed with a garden fork.

When the murderers left they wrote the following message in Sotho on a carton box, and stuck it on the gate of the farm Twee-fontein: “We murdered them. We will be back.”

Three farm workers were arrested yesterday for the three murders, and later in the day two more, including a 17-year old, was arrested in the township. Another accused is being sought.

Five of the accused: L-R: Tshololo Tello Mischach Letala (18), Tapa Mopontola Mofokeng (23), Paulus Samson Vusimuzi Khumalo (22), Telleko Sex Seekoei (19) en Stemmer Boy Mofokeng (22). The sixth accused is under aged. Khumalo and the two Mofokengs were farmworkers on Tweefontein.

The Potgieter family would have celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary this week. Allegedly Mr. Potgieter withdrew R7,000 cash yesterday to pay workers wages.

Allegedly the three accused who live in the townships, paid the farm workers each approximately R500 for information on the families movements.

» » » » [Beeld: 'We Will be Back']
» » [Rapport: Murdered little girl wanted to become a singer]
» » [Beeld: Willemientjie - Accused remain behind bars]
» » [Beeld: It was a race crime]
» » [IOL: Potgieter suspects denied bail]
» » [IOL: Potgieter family to be buried]

Read more »