South Africa Farm Attacks in May and June 

 

Eleven farm attacks in South Africa resulted in four deaths in May 2024.

 

 

• 76-year-old Christo Morrison and his 73-year-old wife Christa were killed during a farm attack near Glen in Free State province.

Christo’s body was found about 900 feet from the farmhouse with severe wounds to his upper body, while Christa’s body was discovered in a septic tank.

A concerned neighbor contacted the police when he couldn’t reach the couple on their cell phones, police said.

Upon arrival at the farm, police found the house doors open, covered in blood, and ransacked.

Tools and electronic equipment were stolen from the house, and the killers fled in the couple’s Toyota Land Cruiser, which was later found burnt out in the town of Winnie Mandela, formerly known as Brandfort.

No arrests have been made.

Elderly couple brutally murdered in Free State – identified

• The body of 69-year-old Russell Lexton Cromhout was found two weeks after he was reported missing. He was discovered in a sugarcane field close to where he lived.

 

 

Cromhout’s farmhouse had been ransacked prompting his family to search for the missing man frantically.

The suspects were found in possession of items stolen from Cromhout’s home. They were charged with murder, housebreaking and theft, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition as well as the possession of the suspected stolen property.

Missing elderly man’s body found

• A 77-year-old man was killed at a farm in Vredenburg Western Cape province in South Africa.

• A man and woman, ages 66 and 65 respectively, suffered head injuries after being assaulted during a farm attack in Ladybrand, Eastern Cape province.

• Two farm workers were held at gunpoint in Eastern Cape province. Seven sheep were stolen.

• A woman was severely assaulted at a farm near Rustenburg, North West province. Several household items were reported stolen.

• A man and woman managed to avert a farm attack in Groblersdal, Limpopo province.

• One of two male victims was shot in his left leg during a farm attack near Tzaneen, Limpopo province.

• A male and two females, one of whom was the man’s daughter, were victims of a farm attack in Groblersdal, Limpopo province.

• A man and woman fell victim to a farm attack in Westonaria, Gauteng province. Stolen were keys, handbags, and cell phones. A Toyota was also taken.

• Two men were severely assaulted at a farm near Middelburg, Mpumalanga province. Taken were cell phones, solar panels, and cash.

 

[11 Farm attacks, 4 farm murders in South Africa, May 2024]