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A witness has revealed that the Limpopo farmer accused of killing two women and throwing them into a pigsty shot them as he was “fed up” with people stealing the expired food dumped at the farm by a Clover truck and meant for his pigs.
According to Adrian Rudolf de Wet, who was also charged with the murders and is now a state witness, pig farmer Zacharia Olivier tossed the women’s bodies into a pigsty after the shooting to conceal the crime.
“We put the bodies in the pigsty because the intention was to dispose of them and conceal any evidence.”
“We knew that pigs would eat anything when they are hungry. On Tuesday the bodies had missing parts, and I think they were eaten by pigs,” de Wet testified at the Polokwane high court.
Maria Makgatho, 45, and Lucadia Ndlovu, 34, were among a group of people who regularly rummaged for dairy products that were dumped for the pigs on the farm.
On the night of August 17 last year, the group had not even started rummaging through the dumped dairy products when they were shot at, allegedly by de Wet and Olivier. De Wet testified that an armed Olivier had given him a gun and said, “Let’s go down to the farm to check if there are people who usually come there to steal the dairy products on weekends.”
He said when they arrived at where the food is dumped, there was no one, and they hid in the dark and waited for them. When they approached, gunshots went off, and both Makgatho and Ndlovu were shot. Other people managed to escape. — Sowetan
