Malema on Wednesday morning tweeted that “all ground forces and peace-loving South Africans will be in attendance, in defence of our democracy and property”. His tweet comes a day after a SAPS police van was set alight by irate protesters in Senekal on Tuesday following a commotion between them and SAPS members. 

Malema, in his tweet, further accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of being “extremely scared to respond decisively".  

On Tuesday, Police Minister Bheki Cele and Justice Minister Ronald Lamola condemned the burning of a police van and the damage to court property by angry protesters who stormed the premises in pursuit of the two suspected murderers.

On Tuesday, in an interview with the Civil Rights Organisation AfriForum’s Ernest Roets, he said the farmers have had enough of farm murders and the slacking of government's efforts to quell these murders across the country. He told OFM News the people are angry and very sad at the same time because they regard what happened to the slain 21-year-old farm manager, Horner, as something that might happen to them.

Sekwetje Mahlamba (32) and Sekola Matlaletsa (44), accused of Horner’s murder, will on October 16 appear at the Paul Roux Magistrate's Court in the district where the crime was committed. The two appeared in the Senekal Magistrate's Court because the 48-hour time frame set for their court appearance was due to lapse.

Farmers as far as KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape, North West, and the Northern Cape came in support of the protests on Tuesday. They criticised the government for failing to intervene and farmers argue that the police aren’t doing enough to curb farm murders.  

OFM News previously reported that Horner's body was found at an open space on a farm and that his body was discovered with injuries to his head and face. He had been tied up with a rope around his neck. Police received a call from other farmers reporting the attack at the De Rots Farm and while police were on the scene they seized a knife. Horner's Toyota Hilux was later found with bloodstains, abandoned near the Duikfontein Farm.

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