Limpopo farm double murder: Brother of deceased would be 'heartbroken' if accused granted bail

JOHANNESBURG - The brother of one of the women whose remains were discovered on a farm in Limpopo said it would break his heart if the men accused of killing his sister and feeding her remains to pigs got bail.

Thirty-four-year-old Kudzai Ndlovu and 47-year-old Mariah Makgatho’s decomposing bodies were found in a pigsty on the farm in August.

It’s believed they were caught trespassing while looking for "reportedly expired" food dumped there.

Three people have since been arrested and charged with their murders, and with the attempted murder of Ndlovu’s partner, Mabutho Ncube, who was with them at the time and was also shot but survived.

They’re set to make their third appearance in the Mankweng Magistrates Court on Tuesday, when a bail application for two of them is expected to be heard.

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Farm owner Zachariah Olivier and two of his staffers, Adriaan De Wet and William Musora, are in the dock.

Over and above murder and attempted murder, they’re also facing charges of defeating the administration of justice and Musora, a Zimbabwean national, of contravening the Immigration Act.

De Wet and Musora are expected to apply for bail in court, but whether or not an application for Olivier will go ahead remains to be seen, with the State on the last occasion having indicated it planned on appealing a ruling giving him access to a statement he made to police after his arrest for purposes of bail.

In the interim, Caiphus Ndlovu, Kudzai’s brother, has expressed his hopes that the accused will remain locked up.

“If we see them out, we will be hurt and heartbroken. If the accused thought they did something wrong, they should have handed them over to police. Feeding them to the pigs was inhumane.”

Asked what his message to the accused was, meanwhile, Ndlovu said he had nothing to say to them.