Farm attacks | Police in hot water over slow response to killings

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POLOKWANE – Limpopo police officers could be in trouble.
It’s alleged they only attended the crime scene where two women were killed, and their bodies fed to pigs, three days after the incident.
This despite being alerted to the killings by a survivor, minutes after they happened.
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Mabutho Ncube, his wife Kudzai Ndlovu and her friend were shot at a farm, on Saturday 17 August.
But police only went to the crime scene on Tuesday, 20 August three days later.
Limpopo SAPS spokesperson Hlulani Mashaba said, “Yes I can say that we went after some two days, immediately after it was reported, because we went to several farms there. But I know in that farm, police tried to get into that farm of course we couldn’t get entrance into the farm.”
Mashaba says Ncube, the sole survivor couldn’t help the police who attended to him at the Sebayeng police station, just after the shooting incident.
“The information that we received at the time was that the victim could not give us the precise location, but be that as it may, you’re giving me all these facts, let me say these are allegations and we take them very seriously, if there was any wrongdoing from the side of the police, we’re definitely going to investigate and will take decisive action in this regard,” Mashaba said,
Ncube, who says he was taken to the police station by a Dr Mothiba who found him on the roadside, tells a different version.
He said, “Me, I was able to talk. Even Dr Mothiba managed to tell them what happened, because I heard her talking to them. Even the paramedic, because Dr Mothiba asked the paramedic to go to that place to take my wife and her friend to the hospital.”
Ncube insists he was still able to talk to police officers who followed him to the hospital.
“About one hour later, there came two policemen, with just a rough paper, I don’t know because at that time I was in pain. They asked where was my wife, I told them, then they left,” he recounted.
Mashaba wouldn’t explain why police officers did not ask Dr Mothiba to take them to the crime scene, immediately after they became aware of the incident.