Elderly farmer murdered and his wife seriously wounded by four armed intruders,on their farm in the Baltimore district,Limpopo Province in yet another farm murder that is plagueing SA.
American hunters,staying in another house,narrowly escape this farm murder,witnessing the intruders escaping from the main residence after the murder was committed.
Johannesburg - A 65-year-old woman who was shot three times in a farm attack in which her husband was killed, is fighting for her life in a Polokwane hospital.
Beeld reported that doctors said Gloudien van Rensburg would probably be paralysed if she survived.
She was shot as she lay sleeping next to her husband, Johan van Rensburg, 77, on their game farm Cosmopolite near the Botswana border.
Her husband was shot dead by the four men who cut the electric fence and bent back burglar bars in the bathroom to get into the house.
The couple were attacked early on Wednesday morning. American tourists, who had come to hunt on the farm, were woken up by the shots and raised the alarm.
The Americans were apparently too shocked to talk to reporters.
Firearms were stolen from the house but the couple’s cellphones had not been taken.
They celebrated their 43rd wedding anniversary in January.
Johannesburg - An elderly farmer's wife has been left paralysed after a farm attack in which her husband was murdered in Tolwe, Limpopo, Beeld reported on Saturday.
Doctors have told the family of Gloudien van Rensburg, 65, that she has been left a paraplegic without any feeling in her body from her chest to her legs.
On Wednesday, Van Rensburg's husband, Johan, 77, was shot and killed while he lay sleeping in bed next to her at home on their farm. She was shot three times.
"She looks better than Wednesday. She is calmer and is fighting hard...but she is very critical," her son-in-law, Francois Drotskie, told the newspaper.
Drotskie said she tried to speak with her two daughters on Thursday but could not.
Doctors had to drain blood from Van Rensburg's lungs. She remains at a Polokwane hospital.
She is still under anaesthetic and has had to undergo a number of blood transfusions.
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American hunters narrowly escape SA farm murder
Johan van Rensburg, 77, who was killed in a farm attack in Limpopo, is pictured with his son Hanno and his grandson, also Hanno. (Beeld)
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