Two Limpopo farm attack: specialised rural safety units required

Democratic Alliance (DA) has promised it will keep in touch with the Provincial Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nneke Ledwaba, reiterating its call to capacitate rural safety within South African Police Service (SAPS) with sufficient manpower and resources.

In a statement on Friday, DA Limpopo Provincial Leader Jacques Smalle said his party calls on the police to make all resources…

SOUTH AFRICAN LEGEND, 83 YR OLD JAN HETTEMA, WAS KILLED DURING A FARM ATTACK

South African Legend, the eighty-three-year-old Jan Hettema, has died after he sustained a gunshot wound on a farm on Boschkop road near the R515 in Boschkop, Gauteng. Reports from the scene indicate that the Mr Hettema was shot during a robbery on the farm. Athlenda Mathe, Netcare 911 media liaison, said that when paramedics arrived on scene they found that Hettema had passed away prior to their…