Crime 1 November 2026, 09:14 via IOL

Police make breakthrough in brutal attack where farmer’s ears were cut off – two arrested

Two suspects have been arrested after a 50-year-old farmer was shot and had his ears cut off during a violent farm robbery in Syferfontein, Ventersdorp, North West.

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