Josef Puleng Makua

Josef Makua (19 – 2014)

Brief overview:

Belfast. Josef Puleng Makua, an employee of the well-known Elandskloof Trout Farm was stabbed and subsequently bludgeoned to death on the farm on Saturday 30 August. Officers from the nearby Belfast SAPS only responded to the scene four hours later and no investigation was done because it was “too dark” by that time. An investigation only began the next day. Later on the same day, numerous sightings of the suspect on and around the farm were reported to the SAPS, but went un-attended as the duty police officer answering the phone said that the police were “too scared” to come out to the farm and arrest the man – despite the suspect having further threatened the lives of not only other workers, but the lives of the farm owners as well.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

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Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/DSZMK