Another shooting on farm as illegal miners fight over land -- 28 August 2013 City Press - Two black men were shot dead and one was wounded on the Fochville land belonging to a farmer who allegedly shot and killed two men in the presence of police two days ago. The latest shooting took place yesterday close to the area where the first occurred, Beeld reported.Lt-Col Hennie Maass, commander of the Fochville police station, said the violence on the farmer’s land could be attributed to illegal miners fighting over land.Maass said l22 people had been arrested and deported last week.
“They fight back and forth and there’s a lot of violence and crime, but it is not reported,” he said.The farmer, on whose land the violence took place, was arrested on Monday after he allegedly shot and killed two tenants and wounded a third in the presence of police.He allegedly opened fire after people began stoning him and his workers.The previous weekend, in an unrelated incident, a man was found murdered on the land, and on the Sunday, there were protests on his property.
Maass said about 2000 people, mostly miners, were tenants on his land.
http://www.citypress.co.za/news/another-shooting-on-farm-as-illegal-miners-fight-over-land/
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WHAT IS GOING ON IN FOCHVILLE AND CARLETONVILLE: SUMMARY OF EVENTS:
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Woman found with eyes gouged out in muti-killing: More deaths in Carletonville 'Vuka Search' squatter camp:
Daily Sun August 27 2013 - After a woman's body was found with her eyes gouged out and her lips cut off, violent clashes were the result in Carletonville. By last night three people were killed, three and another was missing.
The mutilated body of a young woman, naked except for a bra, was found a few metres from a tavern in Vuka Search squatter camp in Carletonville on the West Rand on Sunday morning. As word spread, angry residents, mostly women, gathered and marched to the tavern. They said the fact that her face had been mutilated indicated a muthi killing and said the tavern was a danger to women in the area. They demanded that it should be closed.
When the owner wouldn't come outside to talk to the people, windows were broken and bottles smashed against the walls. Then the people went home.
But, according to residents, the tavern owner and the mlungu owner of the plot on which the tavern is situated, went out yesterday morning hunting down a resident whom they accused of planning the "tavern riot".
Community member Lebohang Matisa (36) said they took the man back to the tavern. "They attacked him with pangas inside the tavern," Stokie Modise (37) said. Word spread about the attack and about 60 residents marched to the tavern. By now cops had arrived.
"Cops went inside and fetched the man who had been attacked with pangas. He was taken to the hospital," said a witness. But before cops could leave the scene, the plot owner who was inside the tavern allegedly fired shots.
"People began to run in all directions," said the witness. Two people lay dead and three were injured. One of the wounded, Mohau Matisa (39), who was hit in the left arm, told Daily Sun from his hospital bed he was just walking by.
"I heard the shots and the next thing I was bleeding," he said. "I ran to the main road and waited for paramedics. I am glad to be alive."
Sidwell Kebane (20), another wounded resident, said: "I was visiting my brother. I saw the crowd and went to ask what was going on." He was hit in the right arm. "I'm in shock. I hope this plot owner goes to jail for what he did," said Kebane. One of the dead has been identified as Remakete Kebane (30). The second victim was not identified at the time of going to print. Speaking to Daily Sun, ward committee member Stokie said the people were angered by the way the woman, known only as Dikomo, was killed. "The shooting is a result of the tavern being vandalised," said Stokie.Some of the men are said to have joined the protest that ended with the tavern being vandalised. Cop spokeswoman Constable Elsie Tshonte said the plot owner is in police custody. "He will be charged with two counts of murder and attempted murder," she said.
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page72308?oid=400849&sn=Marketingweb+detail&pid=90389
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Sept 27 2012: Fochville also: mineworkers threaten to kill all the whites in Fochville
http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/373
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Sept 28 2012: Afrikaner mom, daughter 74 and 38, critically injured on Losberg Fochville farm: day after mineworkers threaten to kill all the whites in Fochville: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/458
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March 3 2013: Mrs Mettie Botha dies a year later from gunshot injuries on Dec 4 2012 terrorist-style farm attack http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/959
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Aug 7 2013: Xenophobic violence targets foreign shop owers, cops and ANC-councillors' houses petrolbombed: Fochville, Carletonville: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1364
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Aug 9 2013: Fochville illegal miners squatters: "We will make this place ungovernable' http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1373
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Aug 25 2013: squatter-camp residents targeted by unknown gunmen: two people killed, and one other injured: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/290
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Aug 27 2013: Two black miners shot dead, one injured on Fochville Moolman farm: farmer arrested for self-defence shooting during stone throwing riots:
http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1479
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Dec 1 2012: Empoverished Afrikaner Willie Craggs murdered in Fochville for his bicycle: http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/560
http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/458
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QUESTION -- since these are all illegal gold-miners who hack the ore from the rockface and melt it down into nuggets inside their own townships: is Mr Moolman's farm used to do this as well?
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