Farm used in movie 'Treurgrond' about the farm-murders in South Africa attacked by six-member armed black gang:
It was reported on February 15 2015 from Tarlton west of Johannesburg that the farm belonging to 76-year-old Piet Schutte, who lives on his farm Churisuél, was attacked by six black gunmen who held his son-in-law Markus schenker, 52 at gunpoint.
Since Schutte's cattle is being rustled at such a high rate and his farm has been attacked at least eight times - the previous time he had chased off a gang of gunmen in November -- that he doesn't bother to run cattle any more, Schutte and partner Markus Schenker 52 now run a nots-and-bolts store on the farm and deliver them to customers. Schenker is Schutte's son-in-law and and the store headquarters- which sells and delivers bolts and nuts - was attacked and Schutte was held at gunpoint.
Schenker said luckily Mr Schutte wasn't there when the store was attacked. "I had driven in and went to the store to upload another order om my bakkie and there they were in the house, tossing around contents from cupboards and so on.
That's why I didn't see them when I drove in. I was looking into the barrels of revolvers and pistols and certainly couldn't remember the faces staring at me.'
The six gunmen pulled off Mr Schenker's shoes, tied up his hands and feet and dragged him to the homestead.
They had been busy carving the company's safe with a grinder from the wall, said Schenker.
They stole the keys to his bakkie, his watch and some R3000 in cash and then tossed him down underneath a pile of blankets.
The bakkie wasn't 'robbed'- it was abandoned after they used it to transport the safe to their own vehicle.
Schutte said if he'd been there he would have been dead, because back in November last year he personally drove off a large gang from his farm.
He's walking barefoot all the time and next to his shorts he has a 9mm pistol strapped to his side.
"Last time they only stole my computer but this time they wanted me, that's why there were more of them. You know I'm not as calm as Markus.
I would have kicked one of them in the goolies or something. Then he would most certainly have shot me.'
He no longer farms with livestock. 'Too much of my cattle and sheep have already been rustled here'.
Chrisuél has already been used eight times in advertisements and movies: Scenes from the Afrikaans movie 'The ballad of Robbie de Wee" were also filmed there.
Treurgrond's reportedly gruesome opening scenes were fiomed at his farm: the film, released in May this year, sets to theme of the story by showing
the bodies - or rather the body parts - of an elderly Afrikaner farm couple strewn inside the homestead after the farmers were murdered.
The leading roles are played by well-known Afrikaans singer/actor Steve Hofmeyr and actress Jana Strydom plays the role of a detective who is investigating the murder.
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