‘Died a Painful Death’: Farmer Reportedly Murdered Two Black Women and Fed Their Remains to Pigs to Hide the Evidence

A South African farmer and his employees face severe charges for allegedly murdering two Black women and feeding their bodies to his pigs in an attempt to destroy evidence. Maria Makgatho and Locadia Ndlovu were reportedly shot to death in August after trespassing on a pig farm belonging to 60-year-old Zachariah Johannes Olivier in the northern province of Limpopo. According to the BBC, a dairy company dumped some potentially expired goods on Olivier’s farm, so 45-year-old Makgatho and 34-year-old Ndlovu trespassed to try to scavenge for dairy products. They were shot after being found on the property and their bodies were fed to pigs. Ndlovu’s husband accompanied both women to the farm and was also shot, but he was able to crawl away to escape the carnage to call for help. After he reported the incident to local police, authorities found the women’s bodies in a pigsty several days after they were killed. Makgatho’s brother told BBC he was with the officers when the bodies were found and saw his sister’s body had been partly eaten. Now Olivier, his farm supervisor Andrian Rudolph de Wet, and agricultural worker William Musora face two charges of premeditated murder, one of attempted murder...